Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20191106
2019-11-06
Vacations/Important dates
- November 1 (All Saints' Day): Željko, Antoine holiday
- November 8–10: WikiCon North America (James)
- November 11 (Veterans' Day): US Staff
- November 12–15: TechConf19
- November 16–20: Offsite
- November 21–30: Jeena
- November 25–29: Dan
- November 28–29 (Thanksgiving): US Staff
- December 1–2: Jeena
- December 6: Lars (Finnish Independence Day)
- December 25–31 (Christmas): US Staff (+ everyone?)
- December 25–26: Lars, Željko, Christmas
- 1 January (New Year's Day): US Staff, Lars, Željko
- 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): US Staff
Rotating positions
Train
- Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
- 14 Oct - wmf.2 - Jeena + Lars
- 21 Oct - wmf.3 - Lars + Brennen
- 28 Oct - wmf.4 - Brennen + Mukunda
- 4 Nov - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 11 Nov - wmf.6 - No Train (Tech conf)
- 18 Nov - wmf.7 - No Train (Off site)
- 25 Nov - wmf.8 - Group0 on Tuesday Brennen + Mukunda (Thanksgiving)
- 2 Dec - wmf.8 part 2 - Wednesday Group1 + Thursday Group2
- 9 Dec - wmf.10 - TBD
- 16 Dec - wmf.11 - TBD
- 23 Dec - wmf.12 - No Train or any other deploys (Winterval)
- 30 Dec - wmf.13 - No Train or any other deploys (Still Winterval)
- 6 Jan - wmf.14 - TBD
- 13 Jan - wmf.15 - TBD
SoS
- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Team Business
Timespent spreadsheet
- For the avoidance of doubt: fill out the sheet week number for the previous week
- spreadsheet for week 44 (2019-10-28) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YS_2eUQWUOnygshMfxgGPu93GKGCO5t00yjUREQ5B-I/edit#gid=288431087
- reminder: your time spent doesn't need to total to 100%
Clinic Duty Proposal
November Offsite/Summit
- TechConf19: November 12–15
- Offsite: November 16–20
- Arrive the 15th
- 16th is our fun day/outing
- 17–20 are working days
- 21st fly home
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/EngProdTeam-Offsite-2019-11-planning
Book club
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - November '19 edition
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- branch.py for cutting the branch for train
- logspam-watch for tailing logfiles
November
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Incoming/Needs attention
- New workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4360/ -- make sure your tasks look right
Scrum of Scrums for next week
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
Incoming from last week (aka this morning)
Outgoing next week
- Blocked:
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.4 - phab:T233852
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.5 - phab:T233853 - last train before two week break
- Next week: no train because of Wikimedia Technical Conference
- Train Health
Callouts
- Release Engineering
- This week's train (1.35.0-wmf.5 - phab:T233853) is the last train before two week break
- v3 of architecture document for new continuous integration wants review and feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:LarsWirzenius/NewCI
Train status and happenings
Grant Q&A
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly+Grant