Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-05-10
2023-05-10
[edit]🏆 Wins
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Apr '23 edition
- Mr. Widget doesn't seem to have broken again.
- Job to test train branch cut on a daily basis
- Successfully debugged an obscure buildkitd -> registry interaction
- Multi-arch image support pre-req!
- Still need access to logs for future debugging/troubleshooting. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322579
- A plan exists for Phorge migration
- Abstract Wikipedia showed up asking for help with a GitLab migration
- Jelto deployed the privileged buildkitd commit
- Moving scap backport tests, win in progress
- Aphlict on a new box---nothing exploded, nobody yelling
- Jenkins releases configuration fully automated
- scap train
- May '23 edition
- draft hypotheses are drafted
- Andre on team (nascently)
- Local working phorge install—legalpad is the only area of divergance
- Killing the dockerfile in blubber—adding functional tests
- Some work under Migrate mediawiki/ namespace from Gerrit to GitLab
- Updates to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Hosting_a_project_on_GitLab and a script for importing users to groups for GitLab
- Gerrit security update
🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions
[edit]😶 Let's keep this empty
[edit]📅 Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2023
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
May 2023
[edit]* 01 Mon: Antoine, labour day
- 01 Mon–05 Fri: 🎉 Offsite week—Add topics/activities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#
- 08 Mon: Antoine, WW2 armistice
- 08-12: Dancy - school outdoor ed trip
- 15-25: Dan - vacation
- 15-22: Chad - vacation + Hackathon in Athens
- 29 Mon: Memorial Day, US staff with reqs
June 2023
[edit]- 7 Wed–9 Fri: Jaime
- 8 Thu–9 Fri: Brennen → Apogaea
- 19 Mon: Juneteenth, US staff with reqs
- 23 Fri–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia
July 2023
[edit]- 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia
- 03 Mon: U.S. July Holiday, US staff with reqs
- 06 Wed–11 Tue: Dancy out (wedding, not mine)
- 28 Fri: Brennen out for RockyGrass
August 2023
[edit]- 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia
- 09 Wed: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, US staff with reqs
- 04 Fri: Brennen → NYC (probable half day)
- 11 Fri: Brennen out for Folks Fest
- 27 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
September 2023
[edit]- 26 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
- 13 Weds–17 Sun: Brennen → KS (approximate)
🔥🚂 Train
[edit]- https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
- 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
- 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
- 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
- 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
- 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
- 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan
- 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
- 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
- 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
- 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
- 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad Dan + Ahmon
- 3 Apr – wmf.3 – Antoine + Dan
- 10 Apr – wmf.4 – Chad + Antoine
- 17 Apr – wmf.5 – Jaime + Chad
- 24 Apr – wmf.6 – Jeena + Jaime
- 1 May – wmf.7 – Brennen + Jeena
- 8 May – wmf.8 – Antoine + Brennen (Ahmon out + Antoine Out 8th)
- 15 May – wmf.9 – Ahmon + Antoine (Dan out + Chad out)
- 22 May – wmf.10 – Chad + Ahmon (Dan out + Jeena out 26th)
- 29 May – wmf.11 – Dan + Chad (Memorial Day 29th)
- 5 Jun – wmf.12 – Jaime + Dan
- 12 Jun – wmf.13
- 26 Jun – wmf.14
- 3 Jul – wmf.15
Team discussions
[edit]Notes from SRE sync:
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/serviceops-releng-sync
- Jelto has a hackathon session about GitLab, if anybody has useful input here, anything they want him to surface
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Connect
- Session: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336266 - State of GitLab CI and migration party
- Rough Phorge timeline:
- Migration should be testable on https://phab.wmflabs.org/ yet this week
- Mostly Brennen needs to sort out LegalPad conflicts first
- Hope to test against copy of prod db next week, and schedule prod migration based on whether all seems fine there
- Migration should be testable on https://phab.wmflabs.org/ yet this week
Workboard time!!! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
- GitLab private repo policy [DRAFT]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R1DQDFuL_Z2W5BpnClLiUg5fvujGXGJ4Wgjmbr3n2jU/edit#heading=h.o8t0rl91n9fx
- Jeena knowledge transfer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rRRCEFDau-NXzitffjYNSJwXnJ27yU2o6S-QciD4BrA/edit#gid=0
- When you think, "oh, I should ask jeena" add whatever you're thinking about to this ticket
- K8s CKE training signup— https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M6PYrZMv5rVjuSpOM092L6BIjZwSwLvZJvDgfJFbLvg/edit#gid=0
- Migrate pipeline repos
- Seems to have a few takers—abstract wiki + discovery search
- Prioritize helping these folks use the neat stuff we've built
- TODO: start WikiHunger slack channel