Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201014
2020-10-14
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 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:
- 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
[edit]Train
[edit]- 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 - ??? - Final train for year
- 21 Dec - ???
- 28 Dec - No Train
- 4 Jan - wmf.25
Status
[edit]SoS
[edit]- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
- 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
Outgoing
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: No train
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.13 - phab:T263179
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.14 - phab:T263180
Callouts
[edit]- 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
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]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
[edit]- ITSHAPPENING.gif
- Get finished writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions
Q2 Planning
[edit]- Please make sure betterworks is up-to-date
Book club/Lunch and Learn
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
- Next L&L cancelled for offsite
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Oct '20 edition
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
Standup!
[edit]- Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
Our Workboards
[edit]- 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!
[edit]Ahmon
[edit]Last week
[edit]Studying how l10n is handled by scap and MW
- Best thing
- Cake
- Worst thing
- Thinking about l10n over 3 day weekend
What's on your workboard =
[edit]Antoine
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Train in other hands (thanks Dan / Tyler)
- Worst thing
- nothing really
What's on your workboard
[edit]Brennen
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Breathable air.
- Worst thing
- Fascists, mice.
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Reading "fascists, mice" +1
- Worst thing
- Having to rig up 802.1x spoofing to have a reliable network through AT&T.
What's on your workboard
[edit]Jeena
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Lars
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Scap finds its plugins again
- Bright light treatment works, feeling better than usual this time of the year
- Worst thing
- My home office is having electrical problems, my big machine is not usable right now
- I may have too little in terms of OKRs for Q2
- Nobody wants to hear about train-dev at offsite
What's on your workboard
[edit]Mukunda
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- I'm the proud owner of a surface grinder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_grinding)
- Worst thing
- no idea where to put my new surface grinder. it's big and heavy.
- Aphlict's websocket has been blocked, once again, by some changes that sre made to envoy.
- No idea how to overcome this latest roadblock.
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Tyler
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- looking forward to offsite based on doc :)
- Worst thing
- ITC + Quarter in Review + Betterworks Deadlines + Tuning decks: oh my
- runner up: wind
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Zeljko
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- I've survived a marathon. 🏃♂️
- I've also survived the first 43 years of my life. 🎂
- Worst thing
- You don't want to run a marathon. For more running tips follow my blog. 😜