Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-04-26

2023-04-26

• Last time

🏆 Wins

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

Apr '23 edition

• Mr. Widget doesn't seem to have broken again.
• Job to test train branch cut on a daily basis
• Successfully debugged an obscure buildkitd -> registry interaction
  • Multi-arch image support pre-req!
  • Still need access to logs for future debugging/troubleshooting. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322579
• A plan exists for Phorge migration
• Abstract Wikipedia showed up asking for help with a GitLab migration
• Jelto deployed the privileged buildkitd commit
• Moving scap backport tests, win in progress
• Aphlict on a new box---nothing exploded, nobody yelling
• Jenkins releases configuration fully automated
• scap train

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

😶 Let's keep this empty

• +1'd gerrit changes
• Accounts and auth
• 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

April 2023

• 7-10: German public holiday (Jaime out)
• 21 April Global holiday: Earth Day
• (tentatively) 17–28: Antoine
• 28 Fri: Brennen → KS

May 2023

* 01 Mon: Antoine, labour day

• 01 Mon–05 Fri: 🎉 Offsite week—Add topics/activities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#
• 08 Mon: Antoine, WW2 armistice
• 08-12: Dancy - school outdoor ed trip
• 15-25: Dan - vacation
• 15-22: Chad - vacation + Hackathon in Athens
• 26(?) Jeena
• 29 Mon: Memorial Day, US staff with reqs

June 2023

• 7 Wed–9 Fri: Jaime
• 8 Thu–9 Fri: Brennen → Apogaea
• 19 Mon: Juneteenth, US staff with reqs
• 23 Fri–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia

July 2023

• 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia
• 03 Mon: U.S. July Holiday, US staff with reqs
• 06 Wed–11 Tue: Dancy out (wedding, not mine)
• 28 Fri: Brennen out for RockyGrass

August 2023

• 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia
• 09 Wed: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, US staff with reqs
• 04 Fri: Brennen → NYC (probable half day)
• 11 Fri: Brennen out for Folks Fest
• 27 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)

September 2023

• 26 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
• 13 Weds–17 Sun: Brennen → KS (approximate)

🔥🚂 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 Dan + Ahmon
• 3 Apr – wmf.3 – Antoine + Dan
• 10 Apr – wmf.4 – Chad + Antoine
• 17 Apr – wmf.5 – Jaime + Chad
• 24 Apr – wmf.6 – Jeena + Jaime
• 1 May – wmf.7 – Brennen + Jeena
• 8 May – wmf.8 – Antoine + Brennen (Ahmon out + Antoine Out 8th)
• 15 May – wmf.9 – Ahmon + Antoine (Dan out + Chad out)
• 22 May – wmf.10 – Chad + Ahmon (Dan out + Jeena out 26th)
• 29 May – wmf.11 – Dan + Chad (Memorial Day 29th)
• 5 Jun – wmf.12 – Jaime + Dan
• 12 Jun – wmf.13
• 26 Jun – wmf.14
• 3 Jul – wmf.15

Team discussions

• Offsite: Shifting it back because Annual Planning is...long

• GitLab private repo policy [DRAFT]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R1DQDFuL_Z2W5BpnClLiUg5fvujGXGJ4Wgjmbr3n2jU/edit#heading=h.o8t0rl91n9fx

• Jeena knowledge transfer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rRRCEFDau-NXzitffjYNSJwXnJ27yU2o6S-QciD4BrA/edit#gid=0
  • When you think, "oh, I should ask jeena" add whatever you're thinking about to this ticket

• K8s CKE training signup— https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M6PYrZMv5rVjuSpOM092L6BIjZwSwLvZJvDgfJFbLvg/edit#gid=0

• Migrate pipeline repos
  • Seems to have a few takers—abstract wiki + discovery search
  • Prioritize helping these folks use the neat stuff we've built
• TODO: start WikiHunger slack channel