Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200205
2020-02-05
Vacations/Important dates
- [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
- 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs
- 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): Staff with reqs
- 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
- 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
- 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
- 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs
- 1 May (May Day): Lars
- 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
- 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Europe, somewhere) - Everyone
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): 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
- 20 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
- 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)
- 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
- 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
- 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
- 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
- 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
- 9 Mar - wmf.23 - No Train or any other deploys (Data center switchover)
- 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan
- 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
- 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
- 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars
- 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
SoS
- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Team Business
Incoming/Needs attention
For 2/12:
- Jenkins plugins security advisory - 2012-02-12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244582
From 2/5
- API testing in core decisions (James mostly dealing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236680
Done ACTION: Tyler to e-mail CPT, CCing James, JR, Željko
- Gerrit branch cleanup/scap clean cleanup https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244368
- puppet hasn't run in beta for...a while (4291 minutes ago, ~3 days)
- Mukunda to take a look, see what's going on (if more than just differing puppet versions)
Book club
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - February '20 edition
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
Scrum of Scrums for next week
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
Incoming from last week (aka this morning)
- Blocked by:
- Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210271
- (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
- Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
- Train Health
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
- (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
- Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
Callouts
- Release Engineering
- Train blocked
- (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
- Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
- The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
- Train blocked
Outgoing next week
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868
- Train Health
Callouts
Train status and happenings
WMF.18 blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233866
- phab:T244019 Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia
- appears to be minor enough to move forward unless things break more than is currently evident.
- Will move forward with the train (cautiously) and reassess that situation later.
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 (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/query/assigned/?order=priority
Antoine
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
Brennen
Last week
- Best thing
- Hanging out with y'all.
- Worst thing
- Sitting in rooms.
What's on your workboard
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
Last week
- Best thing
- Seeing all y'all
- Inventing Jimbo™️ ("Yo, Jimbo") over beers with Maryana/JR/Brennen/Zeljko/Greg and co
- Further work to come...
- Worst thing
- Not getting enough sleep following All Hands
What's on your workboard
Greg
Last week
- Best thing
- Seeing ya'll
- Worst thing
- I is a tired
What's on your workboard
James
Last week
- Best thing
- All Hands was lovely, as always.
- Worst thing
- All Hands was draining, as always (and not everyone has left yet).
What's on your workboard
Jeena
Last week
- Best thing
- all hands was a bit fun
- Worst thing
- :( Snaily
What's on your workboard
Lars
Last week
- Best thing
- Meeting people in person at All Hands
- Worst thing
- Airplanes
- Airports
- Flights
- Travel
- Jet lag
- More jet lag
- Forever jet lag
- There's no hope of a Zeppelin
What's on your workboard
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority
- Board and tasks up to date
- Nothing much has happened on tasks, due to Jet Hands and All lag
- Not entirely well, not very productive this week
- Is anyone else interested in a threat modelling exercise with the security team?
Mukunda
Last week
- Best thing
- Almost certainly the talent show at all hands. The rest of you are cool and all but damn... wikimedia's got talent.
- Ž: please suggest Wikimedia's got talent as an idea for next year talent show format 😉
- Almost certainly the talent show at all hands. The rest of you are cool and all but damn... wikimedia's got talent.
- Worst thing
- my bad attempt at OKR humor: https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/msg/foundation-optional/7WQHTPBGJUw/PxJ030I1AwAJ
What's on your workboard
Tyler
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
Zeljko
Last week
- Best thing
- World Championship of Ping Pong 🏓
- Worst thing
- "Travelling east by six to nine time zones causes the biggest problems" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_lag#Management_after_travelling_east 🥱