2022-09-07

✨Values✨

...what are they again?

#together
Quality
Freedom & Open Source
Integrity
Developer Focus

🏆 Wins

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

Aug '22 edition

Train-blockers toolforge scrapes from phab \o/
Nagged GitLab into updating their FAQ: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/363212#note_1066797431
Clare used scap backport for real
Phabricator (probably) deploys from scap 3
Beta exists still
Chad re-earning t-shirt
Upgraded Gerrit from 3.4.4 to 3.4.5
Scap-backport improvements, seeing increased use
Renewed GitLab relationship!
Moved Gerrit replica server!
Yet another successful train, automatic edition this time!
Team reviews are fast!
Gitlab JWT STUFF MERGEDDDDDD \o/

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

😶 Let's keep this empty

📅 Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2022

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

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

September

2 Sep: Thcipriani
29Aug/2Sep: Antoine is present but kids are back to school
5 Sept: U.S. Labor Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
1-6 Sept: Brennen (🔥)
9-19 Sept: Jaime
~14-18 Sept: Brennen (⛺🪕)

October

10 Oct: Indigenous Peoples' Day (Columbus Day)

November

8 Nov: Election Day (US staff with reqs)
11 Nov: Veteran's Day (US staff with reqs)
24 Nov: Thanksgiving (US staff with reqs)
25 Nov: Day after Thanksgiving (US staff with reqs)

December

23 Dec: Christmas Eve (Observed in lieu) (US staff with reqs)
24 Dec–31 Dec: Global end of year holiday

🔥🚂 Train

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

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

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

22 Aug - wmf.26 - Antoine + Chad
29 Aug - wmf.27 - Dan + Antoine (Brennen out)
5 Sep - wmf. 28 - NOT Jaime ;) — Jeena + Dan (Brennen out 'til Tues)
12 Sep - 1.40.0-wmf.1 – Ahmon + Jeena (Jaime, Brennen Out Wed)
19 Sep - wmf.2 - Jaime + Ahmon
26 Sep - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jaime
3 Oct - wmf.4 - Chad + Brennen
10 Oct - wmf. 5 - Dan + Chad (Monday holiday)
17 Oct - wmf.6 - Antoine + Dan
24 Oct - wmf.7 - Jaime + Antoine
31 Oct - wmf.8 - Jeena + Jaime
7 Nov - No Train (Election Day Tues.; Veteran's Day Fri.)
14 Nov - wmf.10 - Brennen + Jeena
21 Nov - No Train (Thanksgiving Thu–Fri)
28 Nov - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
5 Dec - wmf. 13 - Chad + Ahmon
12 Dec - wmf.14 - Antoine + Chad
19 Dec - No Train
26 Dec - No Train

Workboard Cleanup

https://phab.releng.team
We had: Next, Doing, Priority Backlog → when do we use these? Unclear.

Columns and their use:
- INBOX: default incoming
- Radar: tasks not currently actionable for the team (watching, blocked, done within our team)
- Seen: no plans to work on it, not blocking anyone

Work we plan to do Someday Soon™
- Priority Backlog: we plan to work on this
- Blocking: we have no plan to work on this, but we probably have to: we're blocking others

Work we're doing
- <Current Sprint>: Anything we're doing

Tech Internship opportunity

First cohort Q3 (apparently for six months)
Want to convert these into actual reqs
Proposals due Sept 22nd
Are there projects they could work on?
Questions:
- Timeline? It will be 40hrs a week for four months.

Kick off recruiting in october Make offers in December Cohorts start in February.

- Do we get to pick the human?

Ideas

Logging dashboard -- show only new errors

🍿 Engagement results

We got individual results for our team
We track pretty well with Tech, which was less engaged than the overall org
Won't go over everything, but here are the big places where we diverge:
- 🤗 The good:
  - Performance: 24% better than tech (how your perf is evaluated)
  - Change: 12% better than tech (we like annual planning changes)
- 😟 The bad:
  - Values: 26% worse than the rest of tech (things like: I know what these values mean and how we use them)
    - https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/values/
  - I have access to the things I need to do my job well: 64% worse than the rest of tech
    - sudo :D
    - Maybe we do a session: let's have some dedicated time
    - When we ask for stuff it takes a long time to get it
    - Maybe teams don't need as much permission as us
    - When other teams are well resourced: we have more resources, too
    - Building new debian package, puppet changes, I put off doing these things due to lack of access

Sprinting

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6100/

Total tasks: 26
Still open: 12
Closed: 11
In Progress: 3

Phab

What work remains on our goals?

Phabricator git-ssh is shut down, documentation is up-to-date, and an announcement has been sent
- Announcement to send...TODAY! Thcipriani
Puppet is running without errors on the new machine
- Puppet is running, but there are errors hoping they go away with a deploy
We deploy Phabricator to the new machine
- devtools works as of yesterday
- Today: ask daniel about which target to deploy to
We schedule a maintenance window and all production traffic runs from the new host

Goal: Next Wednesday

Scap Medley

What work remains on our goals?

Scap prep, scap backport and scap sync all use the same locking

Not done (need review on latest changes)

php-fpm restart reports progress to deployers

Done.

MVP deploy container images via scap

Done. Needs the feature flags enabled in /etc/scap.cfg in prod.