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

How to do it

• 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs
• 21 August Mukunda day off
• 31 August Lars day off
• tbd: Brennen camping at some point

• 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
• 1 Sep: Lars day off
• 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs

• 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day

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 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
• 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
• 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
  • Group2 on Wednesday US
• 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
• 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
• 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
• 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
• 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
• 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
  • Group2 on Wednesday US
• 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
• 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
• 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
• 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
• 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
• 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Brennen + Ahmon
• 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Antoine

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

• 2019年08月14日 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

SoS going async for now. 🎻

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.3 - phab:T257971
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.4 - phab:T257972
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.5 - phab:T257973

• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

The Wikimedia Foundation is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member organization. For the upcoming KubeCon EU 2020 event (2020年08月17日 through 2020年08月20日), the CNCF has decided to give all member organizations unlimited event tickets. This is the first ever virtual KubeCon, so I can't vouch for the value of the event, but past KubeCon events have been enjoyed by many Foundation Engineering staff who are interested in Kubernetes, distributed tracing, monitoring, alerting, and similar devops/SRE topics.

• Conference information:

<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/>

• Registration:

<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/register/>

<3

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
  • 2020年08月17日: Quibble with Antoine Musso

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

Add as you have them!

• Reduced the number of non-failure FAILURE messages in CI
• After 9 months, Aphlict is finally back.

• Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Bug_triage

• Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
• Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
• Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
  • "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Status: Working on train-dev with Lars. Cultural orientation meetings this week (overlapping with releng meetings)

• Best thing
  • Chocolate ice cream
• Worst thing
  • Long test cycles

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

• Best thing
  • Dishing out backlog of tasks. Otherwise train going fine

• Worst thing

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

• Best thing
  • Relatively calm trains
• Worst thing
  • Aluminum rain gutters

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

• Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

• Best thing
  • We are house hunting.
• Worst thing
  • We are house hunting in the SF Bay Area.

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

• Current COVID19 status: 27 hours/week (sick)

• Best thing
  • Monitor works again
• Worst thing
  • RIP fishy

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority
• Some reviews in my inbox waiting for me

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

• Best thing
  • Train-dev development is making progress
  • Cat guest
• Worst thing
  • My Scap tests started failing because I made a small change to the testing tool and it was too hard to debug (fixed now)
  • Cat guest

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority
  • My tasks are not entirely up to date, but I try to not be overwhelmed by them

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

• Best thing
  • Aphlict is really working now
• Worst thing
  • I think our team has the dubious honor of longest, ugliest and maybe even most confusing phabricator tag:
    • Release-Engineering-Team-TODO (Release-Engineering-Team-TODO (2020年07月01日 to 2020年09月30日 (Q1)))

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

• Best thing
  • Tuning conversations: useful, I think!
  • Aphlict back!
• Worst thing
  • Houses are so. much. work.

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

• Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn

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