Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-11-15
2023-11-15
[edit]🏆 Wins
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Nov 23
- PoC for zuul delegating to GitLab pipelines works better than expected, surfacing in the UI works better than expected
- More catalyst changes: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/qte/catalyst
- Diffusion repository exploration is done!
- Leaked pod cleanup script—pods leak when restarts or updates of runners happen
- Jaime's first Catalyst patch! Spins up k3s + MediaWiki + Vector
- Less noisy docpub alerts
- Cindy's patches to Catalyst
- Zuul's gating functions alongside GitLab-ci.yml files (no gitlab clone, instead rsync from executor)
- Jeena helm chart templating
- Pod anti-afinity for buildkitd pods + increased buildkit volume size: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/291 and https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/295
- Script to modify persistant volume claims: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/294
- Deployed gitlab-pod-cleaner: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/297
- Zuul upstream commit is moving along: https://review.opendev.org/c/zuul/zuul/+/899425
- Catalyst builds and exposes
- Phabricator deploy yesterday
- Zuul running in dev-tools! Blubberized upstream docker files! https://zuul-devtools.wmcloud.org/tenants
- 0 open patches in differential
- puppet catalog compiler better integration with Gerrit: https://people.wikimedia.org/~hashar/gerrit-pcc.webm
Team Discussions
[edit]- Nov 15 TODAY: is the Last day for US Open Enrollment for 2024, see Namely to make changes
- Nov 17 Friday: Review documentation proposal for GitLab https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LYSf1upsqwlU3pLdqeqsWWL-jWb8xgY_gEkxdara3kI/edit
- Dan, Ahmon, Brennen, anyone else interested
- Are these proposals (a) Reasonable? Do we have time to do the work requested? (b) Match your intuition about what needs to be done?
- Releng-secrets repo
- Last two things: docker-registry pass :\ + wtf ssh key?
- Nov 30 (two weeks): Deadline is closing on Dec 1–Jan 15th vacations in namely
- Sandeep starts on the 27th!
- Onboarding tasks:
- Very scap-heavy: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5631/
- Missing:
- Phabricator
- See 23min videos on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help ;)
- GitLab (including blubber, kokkuri, deployment pipeline)
- Zuul
- CI config
- Phabricator
- What about:
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335156 Blubber seems confused when copying to a folder that is a symlink
- Onboarding tasks:
🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions
[edit]😶 Let's keep these empty
[edit]Code review
[edit]Gerrit Access requests
[edit]Private repo requests
[edit]https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/E7t2_WXX01bB/#R
Gerrit repo requests
[edit]GitLab Access requests
[edit]- Account Approval
- Accounts and auth
- GitLab access requests
- Look up username in LDAP ( https://ldap.toolforge.org/ )
- Look for contributions on Gerrit or Phab
High priority tasks
[edit]- UBN! + High: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/PkxR1BXrbbU4/#R
- New in inbox: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/7vRDrcVnt8OI/#R
📅 Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 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
Nov 2023
[edit]- 1 Nov: Antoine, Jaime (all-saints holiday)
- 10 Nov: US Staff with reqs
- 16 Nov: Jaime
- 17 Nov: Andre (public CZ holiday)
- 20 Nov and probably more days: Andre (too many vacation days left)
- 20–24: dancy taking thanksgiving week off
- 20-24: Dan out for US Thanksgiving as well
- 22 Nov: Brennen (Thanksgiving travel)
- 23, 24: US holiday staff with reqs
- more random Mondays or Fridays: andre
Dec 2023
[edit]- Dec11-15; Dec22: Andre
- 22 Dec: Brennen
- 25–Jan 1: End of year global holiday
- 11 Dec - 14 Jan: Jaime (Vacation + Home move)
Future
[edit]- 15Jan - 15Mar: Andre
- 31 Jan - 2 Feb: Brennen
🔥🚂 Train
[edit]- 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 – Jeena + Dan (Brennen out, Jaime out)
- 12 Jun – wmf.13 – Jaime + Jeena
- 19 Jun – wmf.15 – Cancelled for offsite
- 26 Jun – wmf.16 – Brennen + Jaime (Jeena out)
- 3 Jul – wmf.17 – Antoine + Brennen (3rd + 4th holidays)
- 10 Jul – wmf.18 – Dan + Antoine (Ahmon out)
- 17 Jul – wmf.19 – Ahmon+Dan (Brennen out Friday)
- 24 Jul – wmf.20 – Jaime+Ahmon
- 31 Jul – wmf.21 – Ahmon+Jaime (Jeena out, Antoine out) (Ahmon volunteered)
- 7 Aug – wmf. 22 – No train
- 14 Aug - wmf.23 – Ahmon+Jaime (Jeena out, Antoine out)
- 21 Aug - wmf.24 – Dan(brennen out, Jeena out, Antoine out)
- 28 Aug – wmf.25 – Jeena+Dan
- 04 Sep – wmf.26 – Antoine+Jeena
- 11 Sep – wmf.27 – Jaime+Antoine+Andre as lurker!
- 18 Sep – wmf.28 – Brennen+Jaime
- Logspam-watch needs some attention
- Every deploy is rebuilding l10n
- 25 Sep – 1.42.0-wmf.1 – Dan + Brennen
- 2 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.2 – Jeena + Dan (Jaime Out)
- 9 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.3 – Antoine + Jeena (Jaime Out)
- Vector skin issue, backport this morning!
- 16 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.4 – Brennen + Antoine
- 23 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.5 – Ahmon + Brennen
- 30 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.3 – Dan + Ahmon
- 06 Nov – 1.42.0-wmf.4 – Jaime + Dan
- 13 Nov – 1.42.0-wmf.5 – Jeena + Jaime
- 20 Nov – 1.42.0-wmf.6 – No Train
- 27 Nov – 1.42.0-wmf.7 – Antoine + Jeena
- 3 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.8 – No Train offsite
- 11 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.9 – Brennen + Antoine (Jaime out)
- 18 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.10 – Ahmon + Brennen (Jaime out)
- 25 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.11 – No Train
- 1 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.12 – Dan + Ahmon (Jaime out)
- 8 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.13 – Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
- 15 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.14 – Jaime + Jeena