Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-03-08

2023-03-08

• Last time

🪩 Retro: https://easyretro.io/publicboard/NxFdjWyuqUe7xYeJ6mBHB7Sg1rp1/bc07e385-16b2-44a8-8f4e-9e6be0fd00cf

🏆 Wins

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

Mar '22 edition

• New scap self-install in production
• Learned too much about iptables
• Moved gitlab-cloud-runner Helm stuff to Terraform :)

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

• Some moby/buildkit stuff:

😶 Let's keep this empty

• +1'd gerrit changes
• Gerrit access requests

📅 Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2023

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

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

March 2023

• 13-15 Mon-Wed: Dan (building cabinets)
• 16–21 Thu–Tue: Tyler (running https://www.madmooseevents.com/canyonlands-half-marathon on the 18th 😬)
• 23 & 24 Thu–Fri: Jaime
• 24 Fri: Jeena volunteering

🔥🚂 Train

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

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

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

• 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
• 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
• 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
• 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
• 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
• 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
• 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan
• 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
• 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
• 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
• 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
• 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad + Ahmon

Team discussions

• Chad's chat w/ Selena Push to next week