Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-04-21

2021-04-21

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 01-02 Apr: Dancy out; Dan too!
• 02-05 Apr: Lars out (Easter; public holiday)
• 5 Apr: Antoine (Easter)
• 9 Apr: US staff with reqs
• 12 Apr: US staff with reqs
• 14-16 Apr: Brennen out (no network)
• 22 Apr: Earth Day -- US staff with reqs
• 23 Apr: dancy out; Dan out; Lars out;Jeena out

• 7 May: Dancy out
• 08-29 May: Dan out for a few weeks of paternity leave
• 13 May: Antoine (Ascension day) (probably take May 14th off as well)
• 24 May: Antoine (Pentecost)
• 28 May: US staff with reqs
• 31 May: Memorial day -- US staff with reqs

• 15-17 Jun: All Hands
• 18 Jun: Juneteenth -- US staff with reqs
• 28 Jun: DC Switchover (tentative)

• I made this: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

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 Mar - wmf.35 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 22 Mar - wmf.36 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 29 Mar - wmf.37 - Mukunda + Antoine (Monday is a holiday)
• 5 Apr - wmf.38 - Dan + Mukunda
• 12 Apr - wmf.1 - Jeena + Dan
• 26 Apr - wmf.3 - Lars + Jeena
• 3 May - wmf.4 - Brennen + Lars (Ahmon to handle day of the 4th)
• 10 May - wmf.5 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 17 May - wmf.6 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 24 May - wmf.7 - Mukunda + Antoine (Friday is a holiday)
• 31 May - wmf.8 - Jeena + Mukunda (Monday is a holiday)
• 7 Jun - wmf.9 - Dan + Jeena

Status

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

SoS

• 2021-02-24: Thcipriani
• 2021-03-24: James
• 2021-03-31: Thcipriani
• 2021-04-07: …

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank Yous
  • dancy: James F. for code reviews, helping me get work done.
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • There are two filed blockers to the 1.36 RC.0 release (due yesterday)
  • Train Health
    • Last week: No Train
    • This week: 1.37.0-wmf.3
    • This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4

Callouts

• Deployment training! https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Training

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• Q4 Planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r9smrNgfXC9muEVkCSzKt7o61dWobbve6ynGK09fzag/edit#

• Yak shaving day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5319/
  • 2021-04-30!

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
  • Next week: Counting (no knowledge of mathematics required) by Dom.
  • Soon™ Accelerate Tyler Cipriani

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Apr '21 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• Scap 3.17.1 tagged

Standup!

Ahmon

• Updates:
  • Working on scap 3.17.1 release with Lars & ServiceOps
    • Trying to simplify future releases (fewer manual steps)
  • Working on removing the extra hypervisor layer from train-dev to allow it to be used in more environments (including CI).
• Blocked by:
  • Waiting on pipelinelib mods to allow us to notify the security team when security patch application fails during MW container image build.
• Blocking:

Antoine

• Updates:
  • Out today
• Blocked by:
• Blocking:

Brennen

• Blocked by:
• Nada
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Exists now: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/operations/gitlab-ansible/+/refs/heads/master
  • Jeena helped me look over k8s job runners for GitLab, which seem reasonable
  • Review Speed & Function docs and ansible stuff for GitLab, talk to jbond
  • Discover why Gerrit backups are the way they are
  • Try to catch up on code review. :)
  • Want to chip away at train docs more

Dan

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Submitted patch for blubber to tolerate existing users/groups
    • Nice. :)
    • Should help with Ahmon's changes to mediawiki-config .pipeline/config.yaml (moving security patch application into its own stage with notification to sec team upon failure)
  • Thoughts on having PipelineLib comment job status back to Gerrit with link to console?
    • Consensus: not important for Gerrit
  • Poking at dev env for scap changes related to m8s
  • Doctor told us to be ready as early as this week for the baby. :) (I may be doing none of this.)

Jeena

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Did the train
  • presented to EMWCon
  • Worked with brennen on gitlab runners
  • k8s meetings
  • will do code reviews today

Lars

• Blocked by:
  • Magic
• Blocking:
  • More magic
• Updates:
  • Scap 3.17.1 tagged, discussions with SRE ongoing
  • I see an oncoming train
  • I can prove I'm a person now

Mukunda

• Blocked by:
  • 🤷
• Blocking:
  • 🤷
• Updates:
  • d³
    • Started working on actual metrics
    • Have spent quite a bit of time thinking through options (and reading docs) for storing said metrics
      • grafite/grafana
      • production logstash
      • dedicated elastic stack
  • Have been looking over the dev survey
    • started analysis in gdocs here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ykpCfaIbgS02s1xdPjLuai-XFa9V0QSFi2Up0vpivn8

Tyler

• Blocked by:
  • Nothing
• Blocking:
  • Ugh
• Updates:
  • WMCS
  • Training
  • Workboarding