Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200226
2020-02-26
Vacations/Important dates
- [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
- any news? train in mid-March?
- 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): (US?) 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): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 1 May (May Day): Lars
- 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
- 15 May: Jeena
- 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion)
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
TODO: thcipriani calendar updates
SoS
- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Team Business
Incoming/Needs attention
From 2019-02-19
Done [James] T245054 Remote call on integration-agent-docker-1001 failed
- Repooling thcipriani
- if not...to the task
- TODO: thcipriani: make runbook
- Done [James] T238224 Landing the Docker in core patch — I think we'll need a formal-ish release announcement when we merge it.
- Done James to draft initial announcement: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/T238224-announcement
- Done Brennen to assert that it's working.
- Done [James] Eurgh Parsoid deploy strategy. Need meeting.
- Done James to make meeting. Tyler/Mukunda/James, Parsing, ?SRE Service Ops.
2020-02-26
- Cache of wmf-config/InitialiseSettings often 1 step behind: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236104
- Needs someone (not thcipriani) to lead -- Lars is it
- Will need some MW changes, then some larger scap changes.
- summary: there is no fire, it's fiiiiiine
- QPlanning for Q4?
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!
- Production releases of Parsoid/PHP now also go through final pre-production tests.
- Scap release 1.13.0. \o/
- Local development MediaWiki docker environment has shipped and been announced. yaay James, Brennen (also mostly Kosta)
- …
Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021
If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again
ACTIONS:
- Everyone tell Tyler in 1:1s what they need from other teams and budgets
- Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning
Leveling
- This week's 1:1s
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:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Scap 3.13.0 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/release/debian/changelog#1
- Train Health
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - phab:T233869
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - phab:T233870
Callouts
Outgoing next week
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - phab:T233869
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - phab:T233870
- Train Health
Callouts
- [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/MW-1.35-release
Train status and happenings
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
- There's a docker-compose.yml in mw/core, nothing has blown up yet.
- Worst thing
- I have been reading the news.
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
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
James
Last week
- Best thing
- Getting docker-compose out of the door is great.
- Also, the wmf.20 train was nice and quiet.
- Worst thing
- I nearly took down prod with an assumption about code being written in a safe way. Oops.
What's on your workboard
Jeena
Last week
- Best thing
- "I'm doing the train this week"
- Worst thing
- see above
What's on your workboard
Lars
Last week
- Best thing
- etherpad2git
- Worst thing
- the light in the tunnel is an oncoming train
What's on your workboard
Mukunda
Last week
- Best thing
- Pairing with Brennen made significant progress on phabricator search context highlighting
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority
- New feature request for the gerrit patch status plugin in phab: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245247
Tyler
Last week
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
Zeljko
Last week
- Best thing
- bookclub! 📚
- software testing anti-patterns office hours 🎙
- carnival! 🤡
- bought tickets for Lisbon for my entire family ✈️
- Worst thing
- sick kids 🦠