Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-01-13

2020-01-13

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 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

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

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

SoS

• 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
• 2021-01-13: Text only update
• 2021-01-20: Mukunda

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 phab:T267418
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 phab:T267419
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.27 phab:T267419

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• ITC: 15 January 2021: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations
  • 2020-01-11 -- 2020-01-15

• Q3 Planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxPYTb6mGjC0z3kEuFFWxV9YcOipvs4wSMkk3wPEl7s/edit#
  • ^ Please post these to betterworks/work on wording

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• 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
  • Feb 1st: Zeljko -- Cal Newport's Deep Work

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Jan '21 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• Update dev images to split apache and php containers for local dev

Standup!

Ahmon

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None, AFIAK
• Updates:
  • Hacking on containerized multiversion MW. Met with ServiceOps today. Looks like we're all on the same page. Joe pointed me to some images that I can use.

Antoine

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • MediaWiki jobs from Stretch to Buster https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252434 (have to write announcement)
  • doc1001.eqiad.wmnet upgrade to Buster ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247653 ) E_OUT_OF_TIME
• Updates:
  • Gerrit out of memory issue being addressed
  • Progress on Jenkins upgrade to Java 11

Common Logging Schema, stuff related to logstash. Presentation by Cole White (today 01/13 - 21:00 UTC I think) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HYHCPvuz93nAYXQSEReUN07HQTQUF_nvltag5H_YZq4/edit#heading=h.vpanev2oq14b https://meet.google.com/ukm-buat-ukg

Brennen

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • A nebulous sense that I am probably blocking somebody
• Updates:
  • Merged and published: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/dev-images/+/640567
    • dev-images: Move xdebug build & php entrypoint to stretch; xdebug 3.0.1
  • Merging soon: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/630988
    • mw/core: [docker] split php-fpm and apache containers
  • Next thing: code review on mw cli stuff, then back to GitLab k8s

Dan

• Blocked by:
  • SRE: Docker on releases-jenkins
• Blocking:
  • Nada?
• Updates:
  • Been messing with releases-jenkins to get pipelinelib working there
  • Primary tasks for Q3 MW-on-K8s goals now in phab
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271448
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271274
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271472

Jeena

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/blubber/+/650266 ??
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/649445
• Updates:
  • Train
  • Working on and reviewing a lot of local-dev changes
  • So many meetings

Lars

• Blocked by:
  • Brain.
  • Snow.
• Blocking:
  • Myself?
• Updates:
  • Train this week.

Mukunda

• Blocked by:
  • 🤷
• Blocking:
  • 🤷
• Updates:
  • Discussed some minor updates for the phabricator project reporting with Naïké.
    • The changes are minor and I've already got the code changes almost finished.
  • Very busy week with 10+ meetings yay
  • I probably need to take a look at phatality

Tyler

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • Everything all the time
• Updates:
  • GitLab consultat update
    • New req#s for misc services
  • Deployment training: back to thinking about that next week
  • Many slides to write in the interim