Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-07-21

2021-07-21

• We're talking about values: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eY_y9V5FgImpooergLfWj2ZBurjwvTidir-1BDH0C4k/edit#slide=id.g1616b7b70b_0_88

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

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

July

• 5-9 July: Special Holiday
• 13 July: deploy1002 → deploy2002 switchover (tentative): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285820
• 14 July: 👫🔥🏰🔪🤴🇫🇷 (Antoine)
• 23 July: Brennen likely out early for music
• 📅 26 July: OKRs due in betterworks
• 📅 30 July: ITCs due in betterworks

August

• 9 Aug: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
• 12-13 Aug: Jeena - 🐎 Neptune's first horse show :D 🐎
• 9-20 Aug: Dan out for additional parental leave

September

• 6 Sept: Labor day (US Staff with reqs)
• 13 Sept: Services Monday, Sept 13th 14:00 UTC
• 13 Sept: Traffic Monday, Sept 13th 15:00 UTC
• 14 Sept: MediaWiki Tuesday, Sept 14th 14:00 UTC
• 13-17 Sept (whole week): Brennen → KS 🪕🎻

October

• 11 Oct: Mon Indigenous Peoples' Day (US Staff with reqs)

📚 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#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn

🏆 Wins

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

July '21 edition

🔥🚂Train

https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/

https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/

• 7 Jun - wmf.9 - Jeena + Mukunda
• 14 Jun - No train (WMF All-Hands)
• 21 Jun - wmf.11 - Dan + Jeena
• 28 Jun - wmf.12 - Brennen + Dan
• 5 Jul - No train (WMF holiday)
• 12 Jul - wmf.14 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 19 Jul - wmf.15 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 26 Jul - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
• 2 Aug - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
• 9 Aug - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda
• 16 Aug - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
• 23 Aug - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 30 Aug - wmf.21 - …
• 6 Sep - wmf.22 - …
• 13 Sep - wmf.23 - …
• 20 Sep - wmf.1 - …
• 27 Sep - wmf.2 - …

📤 Train update email

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email

https://wheelofnames.com/#

• 2021-05-17: Jeena
• 2021-05-24: Brennen
• 2021-06-09: Brennen for real this time
• 2021-07-14: Dan <3

Offsite followup

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Satisfaction_Survey/2021

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16aAIlhMsWlV27mMINCg9g3Rl7cjpz4fGokE9m92eGfQ/edit

https://jamboard.google.com/d/15JmfJ1VfOMVj6caPh3oi4q5hM6rSyqqG-IqAFs1kFhc/viewer?f=0

• OKR Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XkAwT8s5ZoUP3fJmOJc79Ce8K0amOpmvNn3XGaN8n4g/edit

✨ Standup! ✨

Ahmon

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Antoine

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Brennen

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Dan

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Jeena

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Mukunda

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  • WIP patch for ddd workboard metrics https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/ddd/+/708319/
    • Generates the data needed to build fancy reports.
    • Needs code cleanup but it's in pretty good shape with a CLI interface with a few options.

Tyler

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