Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201201
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2020-12-01
[edit]Lars: to run meeting 2020-12-09
Vacations/Important dates
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- 24 Dec-01 Jan (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
- 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out
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
- 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
- 23 Nov - wmf.19 - No Train - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
- 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
- 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
- 21 Dec - wmf.23 - No Train
- 28 Dec - wmf.24 - No Train
- 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars
- NB: Lars is back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7
Deploys through the end of the year from product: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aOkLHM8nDtLTXtroNkXT4mV0Fy5cedrJ70Lfeu4WM4I/edit#gid=0
Status
[edit]SoS
[edit]- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
- 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
- 2020-11-25: Brennen
- 2020-12-02: Ahmon
Outgoing
[edit]- Blocked by:
- WMCS: train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support (phab:T267433)
- ServiceOps: deploy scap 3.16.0-1 phab:T268634
- 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.20 phab:T263186 No Train
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 phab:T263187
- Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
Callouts
[edit]Team Business
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]- ITC Manager feedback -- you should all have it!
- Fun day: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Tech_Department_Fun_Day_2020
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
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
- Next one 2020-12-07: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749 (OAuth 2.0)
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Nov '20 edition
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Gerrit security upgrade
- Gerrit grafana dashboard
- Created pipelinelib-experimental cloud project for working on pipelinelib
- Scap 3.16.0 release (tagged, waiting on SRE now)
- logspam-watch improvements
- apparently scap apply-patches may possibly work in some circumstances
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]- Blocked by:
- train-dev blocked waiting for WMCS nested VM support
- Blocking:
- Nothing as far as I know
- Updates:
- Studying mediawiki helm charts and docker images.
- TODO: experiment with l10n cache settings in MW container
- Best thing
- Food
- Worst thing
- N/A
What's on your workboard =
[edit]Antoine
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- A long tail of patches I have to act on
- gerrit.devtools authentication
- Doesn't paladox have a patch for DEVELOPER_MODE or whatever...?
- Blocking:
- Quibble release that will add support for an external web. Will use supervisord inside Quibble containers to spawn Apache.
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Applying train security patches is now a breeze
- Worst thing
- I have left behind too many patches / uncompleted work bah
- Best thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Brennen
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- fr-tech - dev images patch review
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Feasting
- Worst thing
- Feast participation limited to a single other person
- Best thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Best thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Jeena
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
* Learning about jjb. Working on creating folders using jjb for credentials restriction * Conversation with Brooke about making k8s cluster in horizon
- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Best thing
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Lars
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268634 (Deploy Scap version 3.16.0-1)
- as soon as the current release is out, I'm going to re-format all Scap code with Black, but I don't want to do that until then to avoid unnecessary merge conflicts
- also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248490 waits on new release
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268634 (Deploy Scap version 3.16.0-1)
- Blocking:
- nada?
- Updates:
- Working on testing Scap under train-dev, getting close.
- Best thing
- Wife's movie chosen for third film festival
- Worst thing
- Almost all software
- The Darkness
What's on your workboard
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Mukunda
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Contint-root access - yay
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
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Tyler
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Thanksgiving
- Worst thing
- Xmas
- Best thing