Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020617

2020-06-17

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs
• 22 June to 3 July: Lars is away (moving house; Telegram reaches, in emergencies)

• 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
• Early July: Brennen likely traveling home for a bit

• 14 August (fill-in): US staff with reqs

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

• 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
• 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
• 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
• 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
• 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
• 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars

= Status

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

• Train has reached its terminus. The next train will start on Tuesday from the same platform.

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: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - phab:T254174
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - phab:T254175

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
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• ANNOUNCE: We have a new person starting June 29th!
  • Onboarding doc updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253350
    • Point them at Telegram group? +1 Didn't we deprecate that? Still used, at least once a week.
  • All: Please tag some things with "Good first task" for them https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/169/

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/DevEd
  • Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!

• Skill Matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
  • Jeena and Antoine, please update ^

• Train blocker risky change email: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-risky-change-email
  • LGTM. +1

• Dan's CI metrics died when people1001 was replaced by people1002, as the crontab isn't puppetised. Oops.
  • Move to doc1001, maybe?
  • File a task please - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255701

• Future of James.
  • Don't leave us James.

James we need your wit and expertise May James have a long future!

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
• Scheduled the first Lunch and learn 2020-07-06 ~Advanced Phab Usage

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• Scap plugins will move from mediawiki-config to scap git repository with the next release.
• Deployment script added to deployment-charts for deploying to k8s
• MediaWiki branch cuts are fully automated, at last!!!!
• TMH job runner works in MediaWiki-Docker
• Interactive logspam-watch

Q1 Planning

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
• If we've had 1:1s this week, we've talked about it
• Get draft key results/sub objectives in the sheet this week
• Ratified at team meeting next week

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/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Antoine

• Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Reviews, reviews, reviews
• Worst thing
  • James moving!

What's on your workboard

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

Brennen

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Responses to Tyler's mail reaching out to other orgs re: GitLab CE
• Worst thing
  • James. Well, not James specifically. Future absence of James.

What's on your workboard

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

Dan

• Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

James

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Lockdown in London is lockdown in *London*.
• Worst thing
  • Lockdown in London is *lockdown* in London.
  • New gerrit shows a calendar icon rather than the status, so no emoji fun. :-(

What's on your workboard

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

Jeena

• Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Our baby pony Neptune is so cute and fun to watch running around
• Worst thing
  • Bye James

What's on your workboard

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

Lars

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Good progress on moving house
• Worst thing
  • I'm moving house

What's on your workboard

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

Mukunda

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Found good screencasting software: https://obsproject.com/
• Worst thing
  • Running operations/puppet outside of production is fraught

What's on your workboard

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

Tyler

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • I'm at the team meeting
• Worst thing
  • https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/547-Pratt-St-Longmont-CO-80501/13202518_zpid/
  • James :'(

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

• Current COVID19 status: lizard hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • not running for two weeks
• Worst thing
  • not running for two weeks
  • James 👋😢

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