Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201104

2020-11-04

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
• 6 Nov: Mukunda vacation day
• 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
• 11-13 Nov: extra holiday for everyone
• 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs, and also Lars

• 24-31 Dec (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
  • 24th is Thursday -- what do with train? + Pause for banners -- 2 weeks no train resume 4 Jan
  • 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out

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 - Ahmon + Mukunda
• 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Mukunda + Antoine
• 5 Oct - wmf.12 - Antoine + Dan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178
• 12 Oct - wmf.13 - Dan + Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263179
• 19 Oct - wmf. 14 - Jeena + Lars https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263180
• 26 Oct - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263181
• 2 Nov - wmf.16 - Brennen + Ahmon
  • Wednesday, Thursday, Monday

• 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
  • extra holiday? affects train? Yes :(
• 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
• 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
• 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
• 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
• 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
• 21 Dec - ???
• 28 Dec - No Train
• 4 Jan - wmf.25

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: No Train
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.16 - phab:T263182
      • Wed, 04 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group0
      • Thu, 05 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group1
      • Mon, 09 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group2
    • Next week: No Train
    • Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• Reply to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260401

• Open Enrollment Reminder: If you need to make changes or enroll in a pre-tax account, open enrollment will take place from Monday, November 9 - Friday, November 20.

• The Wikimedia Foundation is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member

organization. For the upcoming KubeCon NA 2020 event (2020-11-17 through 2020-11-20), the CNCF has decided to give all member organizations unlimited event tickets

• • https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
  • Next L&L cancelled for offsite
  • Might just start picking papers for Book Club. These have all been on my list a while:
    • https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14-paper-yuan.pdf
    • https://azaidman.github.io/publications/gousiosICSE2015.pdf
    • https://people.csail.mit.edu/hunkim/images/3/37/Papers_kim_2007_bugcache.pdf
    • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MSR-2015-Source-Code-Ownership-IEEE_camera-ready.pdf
    • https://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/proceedings/P125.pdf

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Oct '20 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• Deployed: Phabricator project metrics reporting features
  • Example: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/reports/4104/

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Nov '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/4998/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Ahmon

Last week

• Working with WMCS to get a hypervisor with nested VM support. Need to contact Andrew Bogott to ask some questions. +1!
• mw-on-k8s: learning, thinking, experimenting.
• scap sync* --force work (Guiseppe has merged some related commits)

• Best thing
• Virtual offsite, hacking and games.
• Worst thing
  • US politics

What's on your workboard =

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing
  • Finally found the CI Docker slowness: WMCS moved instances to Ceph and have disk IO throttling applied for iops / bytes/s ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266777 )
  • Do subscribe to low traffic WMCS announce list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce
  • Among Us

• Worst thing
  • Wasted two weeks figuring out the slowness
  • confinment again!

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing
  • [screaming into void]

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

Last week

• Best thing
  • Brisket success and Git core contribution (not to be confused with the git+brisket subprotocol)
    • there's a brisket subprotocol?
• Worst thing
  • US 2020 election dread

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• Best thing
  • Accidental sofa
• Worst thing
  • US elections and the future of everything
  • Entirely quite there today, I am not

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

Last week

• Worst thing
  • Nothing really
• Best thing
  • Enjoyed the team offsite.
• Other
  • Sat in on multiple meetings with the fundraising team. Phabricator consulations are going well.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
  • Offsite last week was great
• Worst thing
  • Election
  • Time off makes for a stressful time on

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
  • 5-day-weekend 🏖
  • 9 applications for 1 open Outreachy internship 🎓
  • Finally some progress with Docker 📦
  • +1 for great offsite 🎮
• Worst thing
  • son broke little finger playing basketball on last day of the vacation 🏀

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/
• Should I still come to this meeting? 🤷‍♂️

What's on no-one's workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn