Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020701
Appearance
2020-07-01
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
- 6-10 July: Brennen in Nebraska, working half time
- 6-8 July: Ahmon 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
[edit]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
- 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
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SoS
[edit]- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
[edit]SoS going async for now. 🎻
Outgoing
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Product Infrastructure - to review codehealth pipeline for push notifications https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/push-notifications/+/604830
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - phab:T254175
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - phab:T254176
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - phab:T256668
Callouts
[edit]- 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
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]- ANNOUNCE:
We have a new person starting June 29th!Welcome Ahmon Dancy!- I asked Ahmon to prepare a "user manual" by way of introduction focused around answering these questions:
- Times/hours I like to work
- 1400-2300UTC
- Conditions I like to work in (quiet, collaborative, outside, etc)
- Best ways to communicate with me (IRC, video call, asynchronous)
- IRC/Slack and email
- How I like to receive feedback (written, face-to-face, quarterly, I don’t, whatever)
- What I’m looking forward to working here
- Times/hours I like to work
- I asked Ahmon to prepare a "user manual" by way of introduction focused around answering these questions:
- Željko needs help from Mukunda:
- Error in pushing code to Gerrit for the phab-deployment repository https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255761
- Create QTE Phabricator blog https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245251
- Done!
Individual Tuning Sessions
[edit]Get started writing:https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions
Book club/Lunch and Learn
[edit]- 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
- Done Željko: do you mind opening it up for engprod? thcipriani: I can add folks from engprod
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition
[edit]- 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
- Gerrit 3.2.2
(July, don't copy-paste to June)
[edit]- CI now supports REL1_35 branches (and ignores REL1_33).
Q1 Planning
[edit]- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
- Due July 10th
- Thcipriani to add top-level
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]- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 40+ hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- GIT PROTOCOL VERSION TWO OH MY GOD BBQ!!!11!!11!1
- Please review/amend the draft blog about it https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/199/
- If you push to a topic use: refs/for/master%topic=something
- refs/for/master/something has been deprecated in Gerrit 2.16 and dropped in 3.2. So we never had warning issued to client
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/git-protocol-v2/
- GIT PROTOCOL VERSION TWO OH MY GOD BBQ!!!11!!11!1
- Next thing
- Welcome Ahmon :]
What's on your workboard
[edit]Brennen
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 16 hours/week
- (not COVID per se, but I'm taking some PTO Mon 6th - Fri 10th)
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Hey we have a GitLab decision...
- Worst thing
- ...hey we have a GitLab decision, yelling commences.
- Uncomfortably proximate electrostatic discharge
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
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James
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week (but…)
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- New team. New, fun challenges. Just ran `git init`!
- Worst thing
- Leaving RelEng. Old, fun challenges are still there.
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority
Jeena
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week
- (Sick Fri)
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Lars
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
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Mukunda
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 40+ hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Actual best thing: had a fun/fruitful brainstorm with Brennen yesterday with awesome results TBA
- Less nebulous: finally got cloud-init working correctly
- Worst thing
- Wasted a lot of time debugging cloud-init without making much progress because I had the config in the wrong file.
What's on your workboard
[edit]Tyler
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- We have no open positions!
- Gerrit upgrade went well https://www.gerritcodereview.com/kudos.html
- Cochinita Pibil https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/05/cochinita-pibil-yucatan-barbecue-mexican-smoked-pork-recipe.html
- Worst thing
- So many things due at the end of the quarter/fiscal
What's on your workboard
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Zeljko
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 39,999999999 hours/week
- Antoine nitpick: strictly that or are you intending to represent an infinite serie of 9. In this case a shorthand is 40
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- the first month of gsoc intership has ended, two more months 👩💻👨💻
- Worst thing
- I should have been on vacation this week, thanks covid 😷