Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200826

2020-08-26

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• 21 August Mukunda day off
• 28 August Thcipriani moving some more :(
• 28 August Jeena off
• 31 August Lars day off

• 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
• 1 Sep: Lars day off
• 1 Sep: Antoine kids heading back to school
• 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs

• 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day

• 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
• 11 Nov (Veterens day): US staff with reqs
• 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs

Rotating positions

Train

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Important_dates

• 20 Jul -  wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
• 27 Jul -  wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
•   3 Aug -  wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
• 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
  • Group2 on Wednesday US
• 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
• 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
• 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
• 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
• 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
• 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Brennen + Ahmon
• 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Antoine

Status

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

SoS

• 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
  • Deb is in charge now.

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes

SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
  •  
• Blocking:
• Updates: 
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.5 - phab:T257973
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.6 - phab:T257974
    • Next week: No Train

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• Offsite?
  • End of Sept.-ish?
  • No vehement kdsaljf opposition

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Aug '20 edition

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments

Add as you have them!

• Reduced the number of non-failure FAILURE messages in CI
• After 9 months, Aphlict is finally back.
• Scap version 3.15.0 released (in git, if not as .deb yet)

Standup!

• Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Bug_triage

Our Workboards

• Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
• Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
• Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
  • "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority

TODO Triage!

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4845/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Ahmon

Last week

• Best thing
  •   New desk
• Worst thing
  • Smoke

What's on your workboard =

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing
  • Work on Quibble resuming with Kosta and Adam Wight

• Worst thing
  • turns out I am not familiar with doc.wikimedia.org docroot PHP app ;D

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
  • Probably just the flu
• Worst thing
  • The flu
• Other:
  • I guess this seems a bit less silly? https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/dev-images/+/622575
  • dev-images is still pretty silly.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

Last week

• Best thing
  • My daughter running around holding her toy drill gun above her head yelling "dada dada dada!"
• Worst thing
  • The air.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• Best thing
  • Finally got Scap release tagged
• Worst thing
  • It took months to test new Scap release

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
  • Met with Erika, had good discussion. I learned that Erika is planning organize some sort of "agile practices" working group. As I understand it, this will will hopefully standardize some best practices and workflows around agile planning practices on wikimedia teams. I intend to contribute my phabricator knowledge and learn some things which will inform my work on improving Phabricator.
• Worst thing
  • The best thing was way too many words.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
  • sooo cloose to automating that darn deployment calendar (very exciting technical problems)
• Worst thing
  • MoooOoVinG/physical exhaustion :(((

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
  • 3 weeks of vacation 🏝
• Worst thing
  • somebody (my age) died after the race I ran this Sunday 💀 https://www.jutarnji.hr/life/zivotne-price/istrcao-polumaraton-usao-u-cilj-i-preminuo-zivio-je-100-na-sat-plivao-s-morskim-psima-15015178

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/

What's on no-one's workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn