Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201007

2020-10-07

I (thcipriani) can't be here today, asking Brennen to run things in my stead.

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 2 Oct: Lars out
• 2 Oct: car service thcipriani
• 5-6 Oct: Dan out
• 12 Oct (Indigenous People's Day): US staff with reqs
• 16 Oct: Lars out
• 26-30 Oct: Offsite:
  • https://wudele.toolforge.org/1yMqruitkbYO62xV
  • Week of 26th October (see cal invite from Greg, and email from Greg)

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

• 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
  • 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out

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.20
• 7 Dec - wmf.21
• 14 Dec - wmf.22
• 21 Dec - ???
• 28 Dec - No Train
• 4 Jan - wmf.25

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.11 - phab:T263177
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.12 - phab:T263178 (maybe...not likely at this point)
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.13 - phab:T263179

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

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

Add ideas for our offsite (week of 2020-10-26): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_PxdoMi06cQbhNAf46RI9_ay_5R_tfYB4q7GIyBX364/edit

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

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Oct '20 edition

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

Add as you have them!

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
• Better air quality, train-dev almost "done" (awaiting review from Lars)
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard =

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

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing

• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
  • #looptober
  • GitLab consultation input period is finished
• Worst thing
  • ...which means we have to make decisions

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
  • Boxes are slowly going away.
• Worst thing
  • My Internet connection has been down for 4 days. :(

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
  • Trebuchets throwing flaming pianos
    • Not my secret new hobby project
• Worst thing
  • Blisters

What's on your workboard

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

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
  • Off-grid progress:

   10 kilowatt hours of batteries
   7 kilowatts solar panels
   4 kilowatts of inverters

• Worst thing
  • multiple train derailment last week.

What's on your workboard

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

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
  • Writing club is happening ✍️ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263660
• Worst thing
  • Slight pain in a foot just a few days before the marathon 😱

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