[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café - Sat 28 March 2020...

[Pine W]

Hello,

I'm forwarding an invitation to the Wikimedia Café meetup for this month.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


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From: Lane Rasberry 
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 10:43 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café - Sat 28 March 2020...
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


>
> Hello,

I am writing to invite anyone to join the next online meeting of Wikimedia
Café on Saturday 28 March 2020 4:30 PM UTC. Details for joining are at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café
> (video room open at that time) https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt

The agenda for this month includes discussing COVID-19 and Wikipedia and
how Wikimedia community members feel about WMF/community relations.

Wikimedia Café is a modest, one-hour, monthly online meeting which for the
past few months has had fewer than 10 attendees. At these meetings anyone
can propose to discuss any topic of broad Wikimedia community interest, as
if we all were able to meet in person over coffee. The meetings themselves
are an experiment in small group Wikimedia community conversation with
video chat, phone access options, and online shared notetaking. Please see
WikiProject Remote Event Participation for more information about this
general style of online event.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation

   - Anyone interested in joining may do so.
   - Anyone interested in reading notes of past meetings can find them on
   the meta page.
   - If there is anyone who wants to get their ideas published in the wiki
   world, consider looking at how this Café works, because voice chat with
   notetaking could be a way to organize your own wiki community.

Thanks Pine for performing as host in this and thanks to anyone who submits
topics for discussion or who is able to join.

--
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
206.801.0814
l...@bluerasberry.com
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[Wikitech-l] Thank you for the reliability and performance of WMF technical infrastructure

[Pine W]

Hello,

This is a brief and very unofficial note to say thanks for what
appears to be good reliability and performance of WMF's technical
infrastructure during the current global public health environment and
the swarms of contributing and reading activity on ENWP and elsewhere.

My guess is that there are many dashboards that show how site
performance and reliability are doing. At a convenient time, perhaps
for the upcoming issue of The Signpost, I'd be interested in seeing a
report regarding how the infrastructure is handling the situation.

Ever onward,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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[Wikitech-l] COVID-19 Deployment Guidance

[Tyler Cipriani]

Hi all!

In response to COVID-19, we are putting in place stricter guidelines around
deployments with an emphasis on site reliability.

To support this change, we have the following guidelines for software
development:


   -

   While we are not going to go into full emergency or holiday mode (i.e., no
   releases), we do think it is necessary to de-risk the deployment train by
   adding some additional scrutiny into the process. Our ask is that you take
   extra precautions as outlined in our deployment guidelines below. Most
   importantly, if you know you have limited availability to support a
   deployment, don’t put your code on the train. When in doubt, ask.


   -

   Please review the COVID-19 deployment guidelines at
   https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
   -

   SWAT (emergency hot-fix) deploys will continue as is


   -

   We are limiting the frequency of onsite data center work to help
   minimize the exposure of our team members who travel in and out of our data
   center facilities. This will result in the general delay of hardware
   installations and repairs, though we will continue being immediately
   available for emergencies associated with uptime and critical
   redundancies.  We are still finalizing what this means and will provide
   additional guidance when we have it.


Please err on the side of caution with the changes you merge.

Considerations (from the wikitech page)


   -

   Can you roll back this change without lasting impact?
   -

  A recovery plan is required as this will help identify our capacity
  for recovering from the failure
  -

  THIS IS A KEY QUESTION, if you  can’t answer it, you shouldn’t deploy
  -

   Is specialized knowledge required to support this change in production?
   -

  Are there multiple people with this knowledge?
  -

   Is there a way to increase confidence about the correctness of this
   change?
   -

  Reviews (Design, Code, etc)
  -

  Testing coverage (unit tests, integration tests)
  -

  Manual testing (e.g. Beta, vagrant, docker)


We’re hosting office hours on Mondays at 17:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office
where you can ask questions regarding what is a good choice vs not.

Thank you all in advance for your understanding and empathy over the next
few weeks.

<3

-- Your Local (Internet) Neighborhood Release Engineers
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