Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200923

2020-09-23

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
• 15 Sep: Thcipriani out
• 18 Sep: Brennen out, Dancy out for a few hours around noon Pacific
• 21-25: Antoine barely there in his evenings

• 12 Oct (Indigenous People's Day): US staff with reqs
• Offsite?
  • https://wudele.toolforge.org/1yMqruitkbYO62xV

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

• 6 Dec (Finnish independence day): Lars away
• 24-31 Dec (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
  • 24th is Thursday -- what do with train? + Pause for banners -- 2 weeks no train resume 4 Jan

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 - Ahmon + Mukunda
• 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Mukunda + Antoine
• 5 Oct - wmf.12 - Antoine + Dan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178
• 12 Oct - wmf.13 - Dan + Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263179
• 19 Oct - wmf. 14 - Jeena + Lars https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263180
• 26 Oct - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263181
• 2 Nov - wmf.16 - Brennen + Ahmon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263182
• 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
• 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Antoine + Mukunda https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263184
• 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
• 30 Nov - wmf.XX
• 7 Dec - wmf.XX
• 14 Dec - wmf.XX
• 21 Dec - ???
• 28 Dec - No Train

• Will the above schedule be affected by offsite week? bah. yes :)

Status

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

SoS

• 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
• 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async

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.9 - phab:T257977
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.10 - phab:T257978
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.11 - phab:T263177

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
  • GitLab Consultation! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation Closes on September 30th.

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation
• CTO <> Release Engineering Team 2020-09-23 (Today)

Individual tuning sessions

• Target week of 2020-10-12
• Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

Q2 Planning

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/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 - Sep '20 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• Scap 3.15.0 was deployed to all servers
• We have trained another person to conduct the train
• New phabricator metrics / stats in the project reports (currently deployed to cloud, prod coming soon)
• image promotion in CI
  • Blog post about this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/208/ci_now_updates_your_deployment-charts/
• Tiny incremental improvements to logspam-watch (it now shows seconds)
• GitLab consultation well underway
  • Released Quibble 0.0.45 https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html

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

train-dev:

* deploy-promote almost runs completely to the end w/o error.
* Bringing a MW server online.

• Best thing
  • First week of train conductor duty
    • Our condolences
• Worst thing
  • l10n files obesity

What's on your workboard =

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

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing
  • Released Quibble 0.0.45 https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html
  • Some train-dev things, will eventually look at making it faster to provision.

• Worst thing
  • Yak shaved the aftermath with Parsoid, mediawiki-phan-config unreleased patch, phan tripping on php-ast and fun. Greatly supported by Daimona \O/

What's on your workboard

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

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
  • No shortage of GitLab opinions
• Worst thing
  • Etherpad

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
  • Went up the California coast for the weekend. 'twas niiiice.
• Worst thing
  • Not getting an Internet connection at the new place until next Wednesday. :/
  • Also short on childcare this next (possibly two) week(s) due to our nanny having a family emergency, so I might be working fewer hours.

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
  • Train-dev progress.
  • Super secret side project that I'm not telling anyone about.
  • Automated testing of most kinds.
  • Forest walks in sunny not-cold autumn weather.
  • Bright light lamp on my desk.
• Worst thing
  • Trying to stay upbeat and positive, but it's difficult.
  • The Darkness is almost upon me.
  • Having trouble not adding things to bulleted lists.

What's on your workboard

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

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
  • Got phabricator metrics report code deployed to teh cloud test instance:
    • Example: https://phab.wmflabs.org/project/reports/5/
• Worst thing
  • No complaints

What's on your workboard

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

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
  • GitLab consultation
• Worst thing
  • GitLab consultation

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
  • A sports doctor (if that's a thing) said I'm healthy enough to run a marathon. 👩‍⚕️
• Worst thing
  • The marathon I've trained for has been cancelled. I'll have to run it alone. 🏃‍♂️

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