Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201104
2020-11-04
Vacations/Important dates
- 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
- 6 Nov: Mukunda vacation day
- 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
- 11-13 Nov: extra holiday for everyone
- 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs, and also Lars
- 24-31 Dec (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
- 24th is Thursday -- what do with train? + Pause for banners -- 2 weeks no train resume 4 Jan
- 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out
Rotating positions
Train
- Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Important_dates
- 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
- 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
- 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
- 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
- Group2 on Wednesday US
- 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
- 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
- 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
- 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
- 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
- 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Ahmon + Mukunda
- 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 5 Oct - wmf.12 - Antoine + Dan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178
- 12 Oct - wmf.13 - Dan + Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263179
- 19 Oct - wmf. 14 - Jeena + Lars https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263180
- 26 Oct - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263181
- 2 Nov - wmf.16 - Brennen + Ahmon
- Wednesday, Thursday, Monday
- 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
- extra holiday? affects train? Yes :(
- 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
- 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
- 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
- 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
- 21 Dec - ???
- 28 Dec - No Train
- 4 Jan - wmf.25
Status
SoS
- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
- 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
Outgoing
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: No Train
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.16 - phab:T263182
- Wed, 04 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group0
- Thu, 05 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group1
- Mon, 09 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group2
- Next week: No Train
- Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
Callouts
Team Business
Incoming/Needs attention
- Open Enrollment Reminder: If you need to make changes or enroll in a pre-tax account, open enrollment will take place from Monday, November 9 - Friday, November 20.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member
organization. For the upcoming KubeCon NA 2020 event (2020-11-17 through 2020-11-20), the CNCF has decided to give all member organizations unlimited event tickets
Book club/Lunch and Learn
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
- Next L&L cancelled for offsite
- Might just start picking papers for Book Club. These have all been on my list a while:
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14-paper-yuan.pdf
- https://azaidman.github.io/publications/gousiosICSE2015.pdf
- https://people.csail.mit.edu/hunkim/images/3/37/Papers_kim_2007_bugcache.pdf
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MSR-2015-Source-Code-Ownership-IEEE_camera-ready.pdf
- https://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/proceedings/P125.pdf
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Oct '20 edition
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Deployed: Phabricator project metrics reporting features
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Nov '20 edition
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
Standup!
- Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
Our Workboards
- Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
- Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
- Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority
TODO Triage!
Ahmon
Last week
- Working with WMCS to get a hypervisor with nested VM support. Need to contact Andrew Bogott to ask some questions. +1!
- mw-on-k8s: learning, thinking, experimenting.
- scap sync* --force work (Guiseppe has merged some related commits)
- Best thing
- Virtual offsite, hacking and games.
- Worst thing
- US politics
What's on your workboard =
Antoine
Last week
- Best thing
- Finally found the CI Docker slowness: WMCS moved instances to Ceph and have disk IO throttling applied for iops / bytes/s ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266777 )
- Do subscribe to low traffic WMCS announce list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce
- Among Us
- Worst thing
- Wasted two weeks figuring out the slowness
- confinment again!
What's on your workboard
Brennen
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
- [screaming into void]
What's on your workboard
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
Last week
- Best thing
- Brisket success and Git core contribution (not to be confused with the git+brisket subprotocol)
- there's a brisket subprotocol?
- Brisket success and Git core contribution (not to be confused with the git+brisket subprotocol)
- Worst thing
- US 2020 election dread
What's on your workboard
Jeena
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
Lars
Last week
- Best thing
- Accidental sofa
- Worst thing
- US elections and the future of everything
- Entirely quite there today, I am not
What's on your workboard
Mukunda
Last week
- Worst thing
- Nothing really
- Best thing
- Enjoyed the team offsite.
- Other
- Sat in on multiple meetings with the fundraising team. Phabricator consulations are going well.
What's on your workboard
Tyler
Last week
- Best thing
- Offsite last week was great
- Worst thing
- Election
- Time off makes for a stressful time on
What's on your workboard
Zeljko
Last week
- Best thing
- 5-day-weekend 🏖
- 9 applications for 1 open Outreachy internship 🎓
- Finally some progress with Docker 📦
- +1 for great offsite 🎮
- Worst thing
- son broke little finger playing basketball on last day of the vacation 🏀
What's on your workboard
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/
- Should I still come to this meeting? 🤷♂️