Tier 2 workshop-like session about the Train.
Purpose: to provide a near "hands-on" exposure to the train. Allowing participants to understand in more detail the actual steps in deploying code the WMF production environment, the monitoring for errors/issues, and how to resolve the issues that surface.
One approach to this could be simply doing a live stream of the train on a regular basis vs a scheduled "workshop".
@thcipriani do you think this is something that someone on the RelEng team could build out and possibly host?
Triaging the task from our workboard, feel free to adjust as needed.
See also T249151: The Train - an overview
On topic: a while back I ran some backport sessions over Google Meet. I think I done those when I have introduced the European slots for backport. It was well received by the few people that attended, definitely had cheers from Sam Smith. I am claiming that helped demystify how to deploy a code and show up that despite the super long documentation, the process itself is just a few commands and a lot of monitoring.
I am guessing running the train would be the same, we could surely have one of the experimented people from releng to run the train with a couple of people from product/technology and train them up. I am assuming it is relatively easy to nerd snipe people by just announcing:
Hi, come join me as I run the train at <some google meet url>
Assigned to @thcipriani cause that seems suitable for The Management ™
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