Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201216
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2020-12-16
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 23 Dec: Tyler out
- 23 Dec: No team meeting
- 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out
- 21-23 Dec Jeena, Dan
- 24 Dec-01 Jan (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
- 6 Jan: All Tech monthly meeting
- 7 Jan: All Staff monthly meeting
- 15 Jan: Wikipedia’s Birthday
- 18 Jan: Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- US staff with reqs
- 20 Jan: Dan Out
- 15 Feb: Presidents' Day -- US staff with reqs
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 Antoine
- NB: Lars is only back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7
- 11 Jan - wmf.26 - Lars + Jeena
- 18 Jan - wmf.27 - Brennen + Lars (Monday is a holiday)
- 25 Jan - wmf.28 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 1 Feb - wmf.29 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 8 Feb - wmf.30 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 15 Feb - wmf.31 - Dan + Mukunda
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
- 2020-12-09: Tyler
- 2020-12-16: Antoine
Outgoing
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 phab:T263187
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.22 phab:T263188
- Next week: No Train and no deploys!
- Rest of the year: No Train and no deploys!
Callouts
[edit]Final deploy week of the year!
Team Business
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]- CTO Office hours today 2000-2100UTC: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Technology_Mission,_Values_%26_Vision
- ITC: 15 January 2021: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations
- 1 full work week from now to write (2020-01-04 -- 2020-01-08)
- 1 full work week to have the conversation (2020-01-11 -- 2020-01-15)
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
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Dec '20 edition
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Scap 3.16.0 released and deployed
- Dropped scap plugins from mw-config
- unconditional restart on deploy for opcache corruption deployed
- https://doc-stage.wmcloud.org/ , staging area for doc.wikimedia.org. Next prod then update related docs.
- Scap source formatted with Black now
- Runnable runbook blog
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:
- Need review from Brennen on: 644935: Add php7.2-dba to stretch-php72 package list | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/dev-images/+/644935
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- k8s l10n CDB build prototyped and working
- Best thing
- Commits being merged. Also mandatory fun day was fun.
- Worst thing
- N/A
What's on your workboard =
[edit]Antoine
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Best thing
- https://doc-stage.wmcloud.org/ , staging area for doc.wikimedia.org. Next prod then update related docs.
- Worst thing
- COVID really
- Best thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Brennen
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Ahmon review
- Updates:
- Accumulate background on GitLab k8s deployment, do some experiments
- XDebug publish images
- Best thing
- Video meetings with non-humans
- Worst 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:
- Nothing
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train
- PipelineLib updates
- Copying files as builder requirements from other variants!
- Best thing
- Progress on my workbench. Also, a new Blubber feature! (longhand builder.requirements config)
- Worst thing
- Decision fatigue on what species of wood to use for the top.
- birch!
- walnut! (would be pretty but too $$$ i think)
- Decision fatigue on what species of wood to use for the top.
What's on your workboard
[edit]Jeena
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train backup
- Working on packaging mw-cli
- Reviewing stuff
- Reviewing k8s workshop doc from Wolfgang
- Security training
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267699
- For next quarter
- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Sick :(
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Lars
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- nope
- Blocking:
- no?
- Updates:
- Scap source formatted with Black now
- Working on understanding https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243009
- Best thing
- only a few more days until solstice
- US coup has failed so far
- Worst thing
- am tired all the time and it's dark all the time (read: it's still several days until solstice)
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Mukunda
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- no
- Blocking:
- no
- Updates:
- Apparently SRE is making a common python library to be installed everywhere, I've suggested that we move some scap utility functions out into the shared lib. ( https://doc.wikimedia.org/wmflib/master/ )
- Active wikiversions...maybe
- My runbook blog post https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/217/runnable_runbooks/
- Probably need to deploy Phabricator this week, there are translation updates that are needed for the french translation.
- Best thing
- fun day was fun
- Worst thing
- n/a
- Apparently SRE is making a common python library to be installed everywhere, I've suggested that we move some scap utility functions out into the shared lib. ( https://doc.wikimedia.org/wmflib/master/ )
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Tyler
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Q3 Planning
- Blocking:
- ???
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Fun day was a fun day
- Worst thing
- Too many things to do not enough year to do it
- Best thing