Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200902

2020-09-02

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
• 1 Sep: Lars day off
• 1 Sep: Antoine kids heading back to school
• 3-4 Sep: Brennen camping
• 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs

• 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day

• 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
• 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
• 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): 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

• 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 - Brennen + Ahmon
• 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Antoine

Status

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

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: 1.36.0-wmf.6 - phab:T257974
    • This week: No Train
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.7 - phab:T257976

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)
    • 3.15.0 has the sync-world subcommand
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Team Business

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
  • PHP for the Reluctant by Brennen Bearnes 2020-09-14
    • TODO: thcipriani update calendar invite and wikipage

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Aug '20 edition

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments

Add as you have them!

• Reduced the number of non-failure FAILURE messages in CI
• After 9 months, Aphlict is finally back.
• Scap version 3.15.0 released (in git, if not as .deb yet)

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Sep '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!
  • 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 (2020-04 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!

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4845/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Ahmon

Last week

• Best thing
  • scap sync working in train-dev
• Worst thing
  • MW l10n

What's on your workboard =

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing
  • Finally updated CI jobs for git v2 / checking out in a local branch and fetch all tags

• Worst thing
  • PHP proc_close() doesn't quite terminate the spawned backgrounded process :D

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
  • So far GitLab is easy to configure
  • Pandoc for slide decks is pretty neat: `pandoc --self-contained -t slidy ./foo.md > slides.html`
• Worst thing
  • The endless doomscroll

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

Last week

• Best thing
  • The prospect of much more space.
• Worst thing
  • Not there yet.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

Last week

• Best thing
  • Peach
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• Best thing
  • Had fun while on vacation: hack hacky hack. New project is excit... wait, not talking about new project. Cake! I had cake!
• Worst thing
  • The blinding light is an oncoming train. And not in a good way.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
  • Made parts on my CNC mill finally. Also matrix seems cool.
• Worst thing
  • Difficulty getting consensus on how to implement "cycle time" metric in phabricator. Discussions ongoing in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148805 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261493

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
  • Done. Moving.
  • GitLab consultation starting to move...today's the day...
  • Archiving a bunch of GitHub repos
• Worst thing
  • Lots of things hinge on the GitLab consultation... :)

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

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/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn