Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-08-18

2021-08-18

🏆 Wins

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

August '21 edition

• Started dev-images to buster
• Gerrit 3.3
• Successful php_fpm_always_restart: true test (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266055)
• GitLab soft launch 
• migrated mw-cli to gitlab, got docker-in-docker integration tests working (thanks addshore)
  • https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/releng/cli/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml
• Finished dev-images to buster
• Merged workboard metrics code!
  • Reviewed on GitLab
  • Gitlab code review experience ftw

✨Values✨

🧪Pop Quiz, hotshot!

• Developer focused
• Freedom and open source
• Integrity
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Quality

Let's keep this empty

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/label:Code-review%252B1+-label:Code-review-1+is:open+(parentproject:integration+OR+parentproject:releng+OR+parentproject:blubber-doc+OR+project:integration/pipelinelib+OR+project:blubber+OR+project:mediawiki/tools/release+OR+project:mediawiki/tools/scap)++-label:Verified%253C0+-is:wip+-is:ignored+-ownerin:%2522Release+Engineering%2522 

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

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

August

• 6 Aug: Brennen out a bit early for music
• 9 Aug: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
• 12-13 Aug: Jeena - 🐎 Neptune's first horse show :D 🐎
  • Go Neptune Go
    • Neptune had too much "Go"!
• 9-20 Aug: Dan out for additional parental leave
• 20 Aug: Brennen leaving a bit early to camp
• August: Antoine 

September

• 6 Sept: Labor day (US Staff with reqs)
• 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Services - Monday, Sept 13th 14:00 UTC
• 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Traffic - Monday, Sept 13th 15:00 UTC
• 14 Sept: DC Switchover: MediaWiki - Tuesday, Sept 14th 14:00 UTC
• 13-17 Sept (whole week): Brennen → KS 🪕🎻

October

• 11 Oct: Mon Indigenous Peoples' Day  (US Staff with reqs)

📚 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#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn

🔥🚂Train

https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/

https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/

•   7 Jun - wmf.9 - Jeena + Mukunda
• 14 Jun - No train (WMF All-Hands)
• 21 Jun - wmf.11 - Dan + Jeena
• 28 Jun - wmf.12 - Brennen + Dan
•   5 Jul - No train (WMF holiday)
• 12 Jul - wmf.14 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 19 Jul - wmf.15 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 26 Jul - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
•   2 Aug - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
•   9 Aug - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda
• 16 Aug - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
• 23 Aug - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 30 Aug - wmf.21 - …
•   6 Sep - wmf.22 - …
• 13 Sep - wmf.23 - DC Switchover
• 20 Sep - wmf.1 - …
• 27 Sep - wmf.2 - …

📤 Train update email

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email

https://wheelofnames.com/#

• 2021-05-17: Jeena
• 2021-05-24: Brennen
• 2021-06-09: Brennen for real this time
• 2021-07-14: Dan <3
• 2021-08-06: Mukunda <3
• 2021-08-13/16: Tyler :(
  •  Done https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NRXMF6GLQPFCBCC53D74K4YQONBBCYS3/
• 2021-08-20/23: Jeena <3

✨ Standup! ✨

Ahmon

• Updates: 
  • mediawiki-multiversion image testing
• Blocked by:
  •  
• Blocking:

Antoine

out

Brennen

• Blocked by:
  •  
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Train
  • Dev-images to Buster
  • merge-request upstream for GitLab upstream session timeouts (Yay!! +1)

Dan

Out

Jeena

• Blocked by:
  •  
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Planned work for 8/18-8/31
• Cli Reviews: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/releng/cli/-/merge_requests 
• DEVELOPERS.md update https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288456  (In progress)
• Train Backup (In progress)
• PET expedition

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/682232 

• Preview Env Workflow

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283893  (In progress)

• Preview Env Requirements

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283892  (In progress)

• Add k8s to train env

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287993 

• Mediawiki-Docker logging https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283416  (Done)
• New Node Image https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267888

Mukunda

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • got workboard-metrics branch merged in gitlab
    • This was far more work than I anticipated. 
  • worked on a train email generator using ddd. This is mostly finished. NEAT!

Tyler

• Blocked by:
  • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Blocking:
  • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Updates:
  • 🤝 Hiring updates
    • Hiring task: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kuFAyfCnYRzpTmgaBgCjOcweWt76FDw1V9tlYLsGgYE/edit#
    • Interview panel: Ahmon, Jeena, David Caro
    • Stats:
      • 359 applications
      • 54 left to review
      • 3 recruiter screen
      • 6 in hiring manager screen
      • shutting down application NEXT WEEK!!!

• • ✅ TODOs
  •  Done put values on mw.org
  • Schedule hiring panel kick-off
  • Find out if we can continuously deliver (Mediawiki)
  • Meeting this week about "change failure rate" re:Annual Planning
  • Thinking about areas in need of project management
  • Code reviews
  • More shared team vision work for ~Sept
  • Purchase "Correct Joho Index Cards"
  • Add always empty review queue to dashboard