Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-01-05
Appearance
Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 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
- 29 Mar: US staff with reqs
- 12 Apr: US staff with reqs
- 22 Apr: Earth 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 (Monday is a holiday)
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
- 2021-01-06: Tyler
Outgoing
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last
weekyear: 1.36.0-wmf.22 phab:T267417 - This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 phab:T267418
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 phab:T267419
- Last
Callouts
[edit]Incoming
[edit]- Need an SRE like *right now*? https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klaxon
- tl;dr: when your laptop is stolen (or similar), use this to shut down your shell access
Team Business
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]- ITC: 15 January 2021: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations
- 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
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Jan '21 edition
[edit]Standup!
[edit]Ahmon
[edit]- Blocked by:
- nada
- Blocking:
- nothing that I know of
- Updates:
- Packaging multiversion MW into containers
- Best thing
- Relaxing holiday
- Worst thing
- N/A
Antoine
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Found *cause* of memory leak in Gerrit
- Lowering session expiry?
- These are stored in the h2 db/cache
- Possibly related to the losing sessions on restart
- TLDR: do restart Gerrit every 4/5 weeks.
- Found *cause* of memory leak in Gerrit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
Brennen
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Nothin'
- Blocking:
- Somebody, probably - need to finish dig through Gerrit / phab mail
- Updates:
- Tried out GitLab helm chart on GKE yesterday: https://gitlab.lostsnail.com/
- ...also on k3s, which didn't work for resource constraint reasons, but probably would
- Best thing
- So much time not computering
- Worst thing
- What was I doing again
Dan
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Nothing at the moment
- Blocking:
- Nothing that I know of
- Updates:
- No updates. Trying to recalibrate after the break.
- Best thing
- Lots of great time with the family and time to work on my workbench.
- Worst thing
Jeena
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train
- Best thing
- Worst thing
Lars
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Worst thing
Mukunda
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Moving slowly after a long break.
- Did some goofing off with kubernetes in 1:1 with Brennen yesterday. We mostly deployed gitlab to k3s but never got it 100% functional.
- Best thing
- Stayed mostly offline for two weeks, yay.
- Worst thing
- Not feeling terribly productive so far this year.
Tyler
[edit]- Blocked by:
- ???
- Blocking:
- ITC Conversations
- Updates:
- Talking about GitLab setup with SRE/serviceops
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thcipriani/Deployments/Patch_type_criteria
- Thanks:
- Work on Q3 planning
- Accepting triage invite!