Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-08-25

2021-08-25

🏆 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
• Merged GitLab upstream MR for session_duration config in omnibus packages
• Node 14 patch updated
• Emacs installed on releasesXXXX servers
• Mukunda learned how to extend datasette with ddd/phab functionality
• Access to downtime alerts in Icinga
• GitLab runner profile in ops/puppet

✨Values✨

🧪Pop Quiz, hotshot—behaviors edition!

• Developer focused
  • Stay out of the way and make things efficient
  • Limit our noise (increase signal:noise)
  • Take care of bugs quickly
• Freedom and open source
  • Contributing to upstream projects
  • Being a good open source citizen
  • Good upstream to others
• Integrity
  • Communicating with each other productively
• Teamwork and collaboration
  • Working together
• Quality
  • Documentation
  • finishing touches

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

• Somewhere vaguely around US Labor Day weekend: Brennen camping
• 3 Sept: Day out in the morning.
• 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)

November

• 2 Nov: Election day (US Staff with reqs)
• 11 Nov: Veterans day (US Staff with reqs)
• 25-26 Nov: Thanksgiving (US Staff with reqs)

December

• 24-31 December: End of Year Holiday (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

• May usurp the next edition for an ERC conversation
  • See Will's email to tech-all@
  • Read it, please! <3
  • Next steps:
    • read the action items, think about top priorities (3)
    • Volunteers to do work on priorities in Oct — might be a time commitment

🌠 The More You RelEng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know

• 🌠 Did you know you can add yourself as a reviewer to file or repo changes automatically? Register https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Reviewers 🌠
  • Filed: Investigate whether we can/should integrate Git/Reviewers with GitLab - neat

= 💡Week of the Yak Alternative Names

• Yak Shaving Day 2: The Yakkening Electric yakkaloo
• Yak Fast Yak Furious
  • 2Yak 2Furious?
• Yak to the Future

🧐 Details

• Sep 06th is the week of the yak: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5319/
• Add things ☝️ workboard
• Earn Internet STORY points
  • EVERYTHING SHOULD HAVE POINTS!!! (cf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Qnd5vnpN0 )

🔥🚂 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 - Mukunda + Ahmon
• 6 Sep - wmf.22 - Deep Work Week
• 13 Sep - wmf.23 - DC Switchover Antoine + Mukunda
• 20 Sep - wmf.1 - Dan + Antoine
• 27 Sep - wmf.2 - Jeena + Dan
• 4 Oct - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jeena
• 11 Oct - wmf.4 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
• 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
• 8 Nov - wmf.8 - Jeena + Dan
• 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Brennen + Jeena
• 22 Nov - wmf.10 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Mukunda + Antoine
• 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Dan + Mukunda
• 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
• 27 Dec - wmf.17 - NO TRAIN
• 3 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan

📤 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 :( </3
  •  Done https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NRXMF6GLQPFCBCC53D74K4YQONBBCYS3/
• 2021-08-20/23: Jeena <3
• 2021-08-27/30: Mukunda <3

✨ Standup! ✨

Ahmon

• Updates:
  • Train duty. Many low-volume production errors/warnings. 6 related phab tasks filed/already-filed.
  • Fixed puppet problems on integration-agent-pkgbuilder-1001 and integration-agent-pkgbuilder-1002.
    • Maybe file a task if you have time
  • Working on testing mediawiki-multiversion image before publishing.
• Blocked by:
  • Pulling image docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/restricted/mediawiki-multiversion:2021-08-23-184619-publish is not completing on kubestage1002.eqiad.wmnet.
• Blocking:
  • nil

Antoine

out

Brennen

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Some low-key train backup activity
  • Pairing discussions & meetings:
    • Dan: GitLab runners
    • Jeena:
      • k8s in train-dev?
      • Experimented with kind, which seems kind of neat: https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/ (adorable docs)
    • Hiring panel: Stuff about interview questions
  • [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/merge_requests/5558

Add support for gitlab 'omniauth_cas3' settings]

• • • Though I'm not really sure if this is the issue - see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288757#7304585
    • Further debugging needed
  • Figuring out whether changing up GitLab logins to shell names is worth the lift

Dan

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Not much. Just getting reoriented after parental leave (again)
  • Taking a shot at implementing a GitLab pipeline for Blubber

Jeena

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

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

• 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 (In progress)

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

Mukunda

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • https://datasette.io/ integrated with ddd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette#/media/File:Commodore-Datasette-C2N-Mk1-Front.jpg
    • Gives ddd tooling a gui and helps exploring the data
    • Train email generator utilizes datasette as well for formatting / editing the email
    • This could also work really well for dashboards

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:
      • 432 applications
      • 116 left to review (how!!!???)
      • 6 recruiter screen
      • 8 in hiring manager screen (2/5 so far, more tomorrow and Monday)
      • shutting down application END OF WEEK!!!

• • ✅ TODOs
  •  Done Schedule hiring panel kick-off
  •  Done Meeting this week about "change failure rate" re:Annual Planning
  •  Done Thinking about areas in need of project management
  •  Done Code reviews
  •  Done Purchase "Correct Joho Index Cards"
  • GKE Budget
  • Résumé review (Goal Candidates == 0)
  • Talk more with Miriam about change failure: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289567
  • Find out if we can continuously deliver (Mediawiki)
    • Attempted, but failed
  • More shared team vision work for ~Sept
  • Add always empty review queue to dashboard