Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-01-27

2020-01-27

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 15 Jan: Wikipedia’s Birthday
• 18 Jan: Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- US staff with reqs
• 20 Jan: Dan Out

• 15 Feb: Presidents' Day -- US staff with reqs

• 29 Mar: US staff with reqs

• 12 Apr: US staff with reqs
• 22 Apr: Earth Day -- US staff with reqs

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

• 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
• 23 Nov - wmf.19 - No Train - 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 - wmf.23 - No Train
• 28 Dec - wmf.24 - No Train
• 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars Antoine
  • NB: Lars is only back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7
• 11 Jan - wmf.26 - Lars + Jeena
• 18 Jan - wmf.27 - Brennen + Lars (Monday is a holiday)
• 25 Jan - wmf.28 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 1 Feb - wmf.29 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 8 Feb - wmf.30 - Mukunda + Antoine
• 15 Feb - wmf.31 - Dan + Mukunda (Monday is a holiday)

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
• 2020-11-25: Brennen
• 2020-12-02: Ahmon
• 2020-12-09: Tyler
• 2020-12-16: Antoine
• 2021-01-06: Tyler
• 2021-01-13: Text only update
• 2021-01-20: Mukunda
• 2021-01-27: Text only update

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.27 phab:T271341
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.28 phab:T271342
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.29 phab:T271342

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• Everything from this doc should be in betterworks: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxPYTb6mGjC0z3kEuFFWxV9YcOipvs4wSMkk3wPEl7s/edit#
  • Check it please

• Observability is moving Icinga to victorops. I mentioned that it might be good to have a training with them where we can ask questions (like the dumb question I asked: Are you talking about nagios? I get nagios alerts, is that affected? No.)
  • Interested? Put you name here (If you get alerts you ought to go -- Mukunda, Antoine(?)):

• Train practices and policy
  • Who uses deploy-promote?
  • Who uses logspam-watch?
  • How useful is the train log triage meeting?
  • Who uses the mw-error-log dashboard outside of the triage meeting?
  • Should we block the train:
    • More frequently; even for smaller issues
    • Less frequently; only for huge issues
    • I don't care as long as it's unambiguous

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
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
  • Feb 1st: Zeljko -- Cal Newport's Deep Work
  • Feb 15th: Lars -- David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD)

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Jan '21 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• Update dev images to split apache and php containers for local dev

Standup!

Ahmon

• Blocked by:
  • Train blocked by https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273006
• Blocking:
  • ?
• Updates:
  • No train progress so far.

   Code reviews. 
   k8s + MW prototyping

Antoine

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • Java 11 upgrades
• Updates:
  • Random goals / development stuff paperwork to do

Brennen

• Blocked by:
  • Nothing
• Blocking:
  • Nothing I know about
• Updates:
  • PHP/Apache split in Mediawiki Docker merged yesterday
    • Closed out a grab bag of other requests for dev images
  • a little train backup work here and there
  • talking over runnable runbooks with Mukunda
  • planning to update dev-images to buster and clean up some no-longer-used stuff

Dan

• Blocked by:
  • Was blocked by a nasty Jenkins Groovy CPS issue. Resolved. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/658745
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Getting a simple pipelinelib based job running on releases-jenkins. Unblocked by the aforementioned CPS issue.

Jeena

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • many changes to local-dev needing review
• Updates:
  • Wolfgang looking for volunteers to help with docker/kubernetes workshops
  • Adding targeting releases (ex: buster-backpots) to Blubber https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/blubber/+/658432
  • Adding Privatesettings secrets to mediawiki chart
  • Plan to work on adding credentials to pipelinelib

Lars

• Blocked by:
  • nada?
• Blocking:
  • nada?
• Updates:
  • mild illness happening; lack of sleep; unproductivity galore

Mukunda

• Blocked by:
  • n/a
• Blocking:
  • n/a
• Updates:
  • Working on a few phabricator tasks
    • New project metrics
    • Security policies
  • Playing with rundoc a bit (with Brennen and Tyler, woo)
  • Apparently the machine shop tour was a big hit, may need to do it a 3rd time?

Tyler

• Blocked by:
  • Tuning session
• Blocking:
  • Development plans
• Updates:
  • Got the go-ahead on the contract with speed and function for initial GitLab provisioning