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2024-10-30

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📋 Agenda

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  • Old TODOs
  • Wins/anti-wins
  • Important dates
  • Train
  • Discussions
    • Offsite agenda, roughly
      • What do subteam time?
    • Triage

Old TODOs

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🏆 Wins/winterrogation

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Oct 2024

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2024
https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2025
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

Before next time we meet

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  • Fri 2024 Nov 1 OOO Bryan
  • Fri 2024 Nov 1 OOO Jaime, regional holiday (All Saints' Day)
  • Fri 2024 Nov 1 OOO Antoine, regional holiday (All Saints' Day)
  • Oct 01-11: Jeena
  • Oct 01–02: Dan
  • Oct 03-07: Bryan, Tyler @ WikiConNA
  • Oct 03-06: WikiCon North America (Indianapolis)
  • Oct 06: Dancy
  • Oct 08 (Tue; only first half of UTC day): Andre
  • Sept 9-Oct 11 Jeena
  • Oct 11: Bryan
  • Oct 14: Indigenous Peoples' Day (also Columbus Day) US Staff w/reqs
  • Oct 18: Bryan
  • Oct 18: Jaime
  • Oct 24: Dan (out latter half of the day due to eye procedure)
  • Oct 25: Bryan
  • Oct 28: Andre public holiday
  • Nov: Likely three weeks for Andre once he has sorted out eviction dates and a new flat
  • Nov 1: Bryan, Jaime (regional holiday), Antoine (All-Saints)
  • Nov 4-5: Andre
  • Nov 7: Andre
  • Nov 8: Bryan, Jeena, Andre
  • Nov 11-15 (and many more vacation days to use, sigh): Andre
  • Nov 11 (Mon): Veteran's Day, US staff with reqs, Antoine (WW1 Holiday)
  • Nov 15: Bryan
  • Nov 22: Bryan
  • Nov 25–29: Tyler, Thanksgiving → KC
  • Nov 28–29 (Thu, Fri): Thanksgiving holiday, US staff with reqs
  • Dec 5-6: Bryan
  • Dec 9-13: Offsite
  • Dec 16-31: Jaime
  • Dec 23: Andre, Jeena
  • Dec 24–31 (Tue–Tue): End of Year Holiday, Global Holiday


Future

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🔥🚂 Train

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https://versions.toolforge.org/
https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

Rotation

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PAST

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  • 05 Aug (05-09) – 1.43.0-wmf.17 – Jaime + Brennen (Dan out, Global holiday Friday)
  • 12 Aug (12–16) – 1.43.0-wmf.18 – Jeena + Jaime (Ahmon out, Antoine out)
  • 19 Aug (19–23) – 1.43.0-wmf.19 – Andre + Jeena (Antoine out)
  • 26 Aug (26–30) – 1.43.0-wmf.20 – Antoine + Andre (Brennen out)
  • 02 Sep (02–06) – 1.43.0-wmf.21 – Ahmon + Antoine (US holiday Monday, Brennen out Tues)
    • Group0 rollback due to warnings and errors
    • Antoine backported fixes earlier + one going out now
  • 09 Sep (09–13) – 1.43.0-wmf.22 – Dan + Ahmon
  • 16 Sep (16–20) – 1.43.0-wmf.23 – Jaime + Dan (Brennen out)
  • 23 Sep (23–27) – 1.43.0-wmf.24 – Brennen + Jaime (andre out)
  • 30 Sep (30–Oct 4) – 1.43.0-wmf.25 – Antoine, Brennen (Out: Jeena, Dan, Andre (Tue), Ahmon (Fri), Bryan, Tyler)
  • 07 Oct (07–11) – 1.43.0-wmf.26 – Andre, Antoine (Out: Jeena, Bryan (Fri))
  • 14 Oct (14–18) – 1.43.0-wmf.27 – Jeena, Andre (Holiday: Mon (US only), Out: Bryan (Fri), Jaime (Fri))
  • 21 Oct (21–25) – 1.43.0-wmf.28 – Ahmon, Jeena (Out: Bryan (Fri))

NOW and NEXT

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  • 28 Oct (28–Nov 1) – 1.44.0-wmf.1 – Dan, Ahmon
  • 04 Nov (04–08) – 1.44.0-wmf.2 – Jaime, Dan
  • 11 Nov (11–15) – 1.44.0-wmf.3 – Brennen, Jaime (Holiday: Mon (US only), Andre out)
  • 18 Nov (18–22) – 1.44.0-wmf.4 – Andre, Brennen
  • 25 Nov (25–29) – 1.44.0-wmf.5 – Antoine, Andre (Out: <>, Holiday: Thu, Fri (US only), Tyler out)
  • 02 Dec (02–06) – 1.44.0-wmf.6 –
  • 09 Dec (09–13) – 1.44.0-wmf.7 – NO TRAIN (offsite)
  • 16 Dec (16–20) – 1.44.0-wmf.8 –
  • 23 Dec (23–27) – 1.44.0-wmf.9 – NO TRAIN (Holiday: Tue–Fri (Global))
  • 30 Dec (30–Jan 03) – 1.44.0-wmf.10 – (oh noes) NO TRAIN (Holiday: Tue–Fri (Global))
  • 06 Jan (06–10) – 1.44.0-wmf.11 –

Team Discussions

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Reminders

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Offsite

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Monday, December 9 Morning: Full plenary + exercises + activities together Afternoon: Social activities outside venue (sub team basis or mixed) Evening: Self-organized dinner Tuesday, December 10 Morning: DX + MWE group time Afternoon: Sub team time Evening: Sub team dinner Wednesday, December 11 Morning: Full plenary + exercises + activities together Afternoon: Unconference (or engineering sub-team) + Product function team time Evening: Self-organized dinners, product function dinner Thursday, December 12 Morning: Kick off in full plenary; breakouts on a variety of planned topics Afternoon: Planned social time (indoors, outdoors) Evening: Dine around (sign up for what you like) Friday, December 13 Morning: Kick off in group plenary, connect dots, exercise Morning/afternoon: Unconference Late afternoon: Full plenary, wrap up

Subteam discussion we need to have

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  • elephants
  • deep tech stuffs
    • Other things that would benefit from a white board
  • decisions

Ideas

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  • Speeding up gate + submit
    • Cache results? Cache key for mw/extensions/skins/vendor
    • Fanning out at a higher level
    • Moar 'puter
  • What do we think is still scary about continuous deployment?
    • What needs to be true to have computers deploy vs. humans
    • Anomoly detection in error rates and where does that go in a continuous future?
  • Hackin' time
  • TODO: Tyler mail around a doc

Developer Satisfaction Survey (DSS) starting up

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🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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


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