Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200226

2020-02-26

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• [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?
  • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club/What_nobody_tells_you_about_documentation

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
  • New framework: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Level_Framework

Scrum of Scrums for next week

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

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

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

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

Standup!

• Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Bug_triage

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

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

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

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

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

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

Last week

• Best thing
  • "I'm doing the train this week"
• Worst thing
  • see above

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• Best thing
  • etherpad2git
• Worst thing
  • the light in the tunnel is an oncoming train

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
  • Pairing with Brennen made significant progress on phabricator search context highlighting
    • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/phabricator-search
• 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

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

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 🦠

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/

What's on no-one's workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn