[Engineering] Additional European-appropriate MediaWiki train window starting week of July 9th (also SWAT change)

Tue Jul 10 10:09:19 UTC 2018

Hello Greg,

I think this is a great initiative and will surely ease work for all people
working on the positive spectrum of UTC :)

One question/clarification, though: deployment windows have traditionally
been pinned to SF time (wrt DST changes, concretely), but in your email you
list them in CEST/UTC. Does that imply that these slots are pinned to
Europe's DST, UTC or will they stay pinned to pacific DST?

Cheers,
Marko

Marko Obrovac, PhD
Senior Services Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation

On 9 July 2018 at 20:28, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Reminder that this is starting this week (tomorrow).
>
> <quote name="Greg Grossmeier" date="2018-07-02" time="11:21:53 -0700">
> > Hello,
> >
> > The Release Engineering team will be expanding the set of people
> > responsible for the weekly MediaWiki train deployments[0] to include
> > people working normal European hours. Unfortunately, the current MW
> > train deployment window is too late in the day for them.
> >
> > To address this we are adding a European-focused timeslot for the MW
> > train (and moving the current "EU SWAT window" 2 hours earlier to
> > accommodate).
> >
> > The first planned use of the new window will be next week, the week of
> > July 9th.
> >
> > For the avoidance of doubt: the normal MW train windows will not go
> > away, these EU-timezone ones are in addition to them and only used
> > during weeks that the train is conducted by someone in Europe. But, the
> > EU SWAT window will indeed be permanently moved for simplicity (IOW: not
> > dependent upon who's doing the train).
> >
> > == European train window and changes ==
> > This would affect Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
> >
> > * 1300-1400 CEST (1100-1200 UTC) - EU SWAT window (2 hours earlier)
> > * 1400-1500 CEST (1200-1300 UTC) - Break
> > * 1500-1700 CEST (1300-1500 UTC) - EU Train window
> > * 1700-1800 CEST (1500-1600 UTC) - Break
> > * 1800-1900 CEST (1600-1700 UTC) - PuppetSWAT (Tue/Thu only, no change)
> >
> >
> > Also, at the same time we'll be moving the Wednesday morning (SF time)
> > SWAT window on hour earlier to 9am Pacific. This is to alleviate a
> > contention with the weekly Scrum of Scrums meeting.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap
> >
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>
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