Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020603
NEW RULE: Write your standups in pentameter.
2020-06-03
Thcipriani: I'm attending a budget meeting today because I find budgets fascinating -- Lars will run the meeting today!
Vacations/Important dates
- 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs
- 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
- 14 August (fill-in): US staff with reqs
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
- 1 Jun - wmf.35 - James + Jeena
- 8 Jun - wmf.36 - Jeena + Lars
- 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
- 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
- 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
- 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
- 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
= Status
SoS
- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
SoS going async for now. 🎻
Outgoing
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Train branch cut time is changing:
- Starting with 1.35.0-wmf.37 on June 16th the wmf MediaWiki branch cut will happen at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday..
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - phab:T253022
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - phab:T253023
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173
- Train branch cut time is changing:
Callouts
- Release Engineering
- [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
- "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
- Branch cut automation starts in 2 weeks with 1.35.0-wmf.37[0]! Branches will be cut at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday starting June 16th. Please yell if that's an issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
Team Business
Incoming/Needs attention
- REMINDER: File your wellness benefits by June 15th: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Wellness_Program
- See also related office hours in staff calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester_(WMF)/MW-in-Containers_thoughts
- Please review for pipeline meeting on 2020-06-10
- Tyler: Is this a meeting I (James) should be in? Happy to skip if not; happy to present if so.
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/DevEd
- Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!
- Skill Matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
- Thcipriani: Please update as you have time -- should be quick, get it out of the way :)
Book club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- Add any recommendations
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Scap plugins will move from mediawiki-config to scap git repository with the next release.
- Deployment script added to deployment-charts for deploying to k8s
- MediaWiki branch cuts are going to be fully automated, at last.
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!
Antoine
- Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Puppet cleanup!
- Worst thing
- time() is hard
What's on your workboard
Brennen
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
- America.
What's on your workboard
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
James
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Flying to London next week.
- Worst thing
- Flying to London next week.
What's on your workboard
Jeena
- Current COVID19 status: 25 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
Lars
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Found a place we like (now waiting to hear if we get it) (didn't get it)
- Worst thing
- The United States of America, with exceptions
What's on your workboard
Mukunda
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
Tyler
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
Zeljko
- Current COVID19 status: -40 hours/week
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing