Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020624

2020-06-24

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 22 June to 3 July: Lars is away (moving house; Telegram reaches, in emergencies)
• June 26th - Mukunda taking friday off

• 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
• 6-9 July: Brennen in Nebraska, working half time.
• 10 July: Brennen out.
• 13ish or 20th ish thcipriani out for a bit
• July 11th - 26th: Antoine out

• 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs

• 7 Sep (Labor day): 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
  • Group2 on Wednesday US
• 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
• 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
• 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
• 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
• 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Antoine + Ahmon?

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: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - phab:T254174
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - phab:T254175
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - phab:T254176

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
  • Gerrit upgrade on Saturday, 27th of June <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-June/093526.html>
  • "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
  • All: Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!

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

• Željko needs help (from Mukunda) on T255761 Error in pushing code to Gerrit for the phab-deployment repository
  • TODO: Mukunda to look at T255761

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
  • Željko: do you mind opening it up for engprod? thcipriani: I can add folks from engprod

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: XX hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

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
  • going to travel soon
• Worst thing
  • localisation (l10n) / LiquidThreads

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
  • My quarantine is over, and now I'm back to just regular COVID lockdown.
• Worst thing
  • The heat isn't fun.

What's on your workboard

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

Jeena

• Current COVID19 status: 27 hours/week (Holiday Fri)

Last week

• Best thing
  • My sunflowers are sprouting
• Worst thing
  • The slugs eat them :(

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority
• Will need review on this after I make one update https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/cli/+/598101

Lars

• Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

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
  • Progress on puppet in vm
• Worst thing
  • Deployment server is still running stretch
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/tools/train-dev/+/607395/

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
  • GitLab progress this week
• Worst thing
  • Code deploy office hours

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

• Current COVID19 status: -40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • long weekend
• Worst thing
  • covid picking up in Croatia again

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