Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020429

2020-04-29

ASYNC EDITION!

• Make sure your vacations are up-to-date
• Get in your updates for SoS
• Add to the monthly accomplishments
• Make sure your items on the workboard are up-to-date: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
• 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
  • Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
• 4-13 April (Easter and more): Lars
• 22 April (Not-Easter I): (US?) Staff with reqs
• 23 April (Not-Easter infill): Staff with reqs
• 24 April (Not-Easter II): (US?) Staff with reqs

• 1 May (May Day): Lars celebrates the international communist conspiracy to take over the world
• 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
• 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe Postponed
• 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
• 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
  • time, details, etc TBD
• 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
• 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
• 29-31 May: Brennen (NEVERMIND)

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

• 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
• 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
• 13 Apr - wmf.28 - James + Lars
• 20 Apr - wmf.29 - NO TRAIN (holiday)
• 27 Apr - wmf.30 - Lars + Brennen
• 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
• 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
• 18 May - wmf.?? - Mukunda + Dan (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
• 25 May - wmf.?? - Dan + James
• 1 Jun - wmf.?? - James + Jeena
• 8 Jun - wmf.?? - Jeena + Lars
• 15 Jun - wmf.?? - Lars + Brennen
• 22 Jun - wmf.?? - Brennen + Antoine
• 29 Jun - wmf.?? - Antoine + Mukunda

= Status

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

SoS

• 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes

SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.30 - phab:T249962
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.31 - phab:T249963

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

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
  • Notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club/Bugs_and_priority

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - April '20 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• Docker images published on buster-based contint2001 (as part of general temporary switch-over from contint1001 to 2001 for buster migration)
  • I should patch dev-images, eh?
• Composer is now authenticated with github
• Dropped basic PHP 7.1 testing from CI
• Published Kubernetes migration tutorial
• Phabricator milestone columns can now be moved on workboards

Q4 Planning

• • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

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/

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• Best thing
  • A few days off, which turned out to be very welcome.
• Worst thing
  • News. Politics. People in power. People. Humans. Self-concious, hairless apes.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
  • Closed my company.
• Worst thing
  • Closed my company.

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