Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-03-31

2021-03-31

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 18-19 Mar: Mukunda out.
• 26 Mar->2 Apr: Dancy out
• 29 Mar: US staff with reqs

• 01-02 Apr: Dancy out; Dan too!
• 02-05 Apr: Lars out (Easter; public holiday)
• 5 Apr: Antoine (Easter)
• 9 Apr: US staff with reqs
• 12 Apr: US staff with reqs
• 14-16 Apr: Brennen out (no network)
• 22 Apr: Earth Day -- US staff with reqs
• 23 Apr: dancy out

• 08-29 May: Dan out for a few weeks of paternity leave
• 13 May: Antoine (Ascension day) (probably take May 14th off as well)
• 24 May: Antoine (Pentecost)

• I made this: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

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

• 15 Mar - wmf.35 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 22 Mar - wmf.36 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 29 Mar - wmf.37 - Mukunda + Antoine (Monday is a holiday)
• 5 Apr - wmf.38 - Dan + Mukunda
• 12 Apr - wmf.39 - Jeena + Dan
• 19 Apr - wmf.40 - Lars + Jeena
• 26 Apr - wmf.41 - Brennen + Lars
• 3 May - wmf.?? - Ahmon + Brennen

Status

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

SoS

• 2021-02-24: Thcipriani
• 2021-03-24: James
• 2021-03-31: Thcipriani
• 2021-04-07: …

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank Yous
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 phab:T278343
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 phab:T278344
    • This week: 1.37.0-wmf.1 phab:T278345

Team Business

• M8s IC meeting happened this week
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/MediaWiki_on_Kubernetes/Meeting_notes/2021-03-24

Incoming/Needs attention

Train Go/No Go: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GXC_Bf9iAvme58euBLQSMMxl1_ojbr32bjcHH6q1wKE/edit#

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 15th Mar 1st: Lars -- David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD)
    • http://git.liw.fi/wmf-talks/tree/gtd.md
  • March 22nd: Jeena Suggestion: Falling Down: A guide
  • Soon™ Accelerate Tyler Cipriani

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Mar '21 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• PipelineLib fully working on releases-jenkins.wikimedia.org
• Credentials added to pipelinelib
• S&F contractors underway with production GitLab configuration
• Terrible script for finding status of production errors on logstash dashboard
• Ability to deploy phatality updates

Standup!

Ahmon

• Updates:
• Blocked by:
• Blocking:

Antoine

• Updates:
  • Ran train last week
  • 2 errors that were clear rollbacks due to people not being able to save article
  • Promoted wmf.36 -> Group1 Monday
• Blocked by:
• Blocking:

Brennen

• Blocked by:
  • Nothing
• Blocking:
  • Probably.
• Updates:
  • GitLab yaks
  • Train docs
    • Stubbing out portal and such under this namespace: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Release_Engineering/Drafts
  • Running a deployment training
  • Ranting into surveys (Effective & Responsible Communication)

Dan

• Blocked by:
  • Nada!
• Blocking:
  • Nada!
• Updates:
  • Working with Jeena on getting private settings into multiversion images
  • Thinking about how to best automate MW image builds
    • Automate MediaWiki wmf branch image builds

Jeena

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/cli/+/673560
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/cli/+/655103/16
• Updates:
  • Working copying privateSettings and patches to mediawiki image w/Dan and Ahmon
  • PET expedition
  • review for mw-cli
  • writing tests for mw-cli

Lars

• Blocked by:
  • everything
• Blocking:
  • keine
• Updates:
  • Waiting for reviews of "scap apply-patches".
    • T269153
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/674871
  • Bitdefender :(

Mukunda

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Phatality deployment was problematic again but at the end I was able to deploy and roll back so I think I'm unblocked at least.
  • Still not on group0 but unblocked as of a moment before this meeting.
  • Train. Fairly uneventful so far.

Tyler

• Blocked by:
  • Nothing
• Blocking:
  • ???
• Updates:
  • Talking to WMCS about GitLab runners, "local" dev
  • Deployment training continuing this week -- 2 windows
    • TODO: broader announcement