Scrum of scrums/2016-10-26

2016-10-26

Grace will be OOO, and Greg is unable to fill in. Please self-organize facilitation if no one from TPG is able to attend. Thanks!

Product

Reading

iOS native app

Current Board (5.3 is in Beta): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2220/ Since we last met:

• Notifications released to beta today (10/25)
• Alternate Table of Contents style for UX research complete (phab:T147214)
• Analyzed and fixed crashes & other regressions based on Beta feedback

Before we meet again:

• Converge toward release of 5.3
• Release specialized Alpha app version for UX research
• Start work on Accessibility sprint - Dynamic Text Size (app font size changes with system font setting)

No blockers

Android native app

• Current sprint (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2319/):
  • Wikipedia Zero system notifications almost ready (phab:T135450)
  • Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
  • Beta coming next week or so
  • CI screenshot regression testing, lots of new tests written and old tests revised, lots of tech debt chores
  • Lots of volunteer contributions
  • Minimum Android API level increased to Android v4.1 (phab:T147010)
  • Improved Chinese variant detection
• Next sprint:
  • More Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• Improving blacklisting of page titles from the most-read endpoint

Reading Web

• Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-84-zero-minutes-left/
  • A few tasks related to the New Readers initiative;
  • MobileFrontend tech debt;
  • Setting up a Trending-edits git repo;
  • Getting rid of Flash of Unstyled Content from section collapsing in MF;
  • Hovercards instrumentation related tasks.
• Next sprint:
  • Mostly Hovercards

Reading Infrastructure

• Blocked on WMDE reviewing a WatchedItemQueryService patch - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/315521/
• Not blocking
• Waiting on reviews for ORES API integration: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+topic:ores-api
• Brad is starting to look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47843: i18n for API warnings and errors. Use that task for discussion.
• Working on pageviews API - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144865

Community Tech

• No blockers
• Not blocked
• Several new wikis switched to numeric collation this week: bswiki, hrwiki and ukwiki
• CopyPatrol nearly ready to be used by more languages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145436
• Patch for sending a cookie with each block to prevent vandalism is nearly done: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/48029/ (could use some reviews)
• Working on some new features for Programs Dashboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148796
• Starting to work on throttling account creation per browser: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106930
• Script for backfilling data in CA tables needs a review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/316375/
• Pageviews tool undergoing a UI overhaul: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews-test

Discovery

• No blockers
• Working on multiwiki indexes
• Bm25 is being reindexed for top languages
• BM25 test for ja, zh and th coming up
• FIle properties search should be enabled on most wikis except commons, still waiting to reindex commons, should be done this week
  • Enabled by temp fix for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147957, still would like DBA attention to make it permanent

Maps

• Enabled static maps at test - https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapframe
• Tabular enabled on labs cluster - https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Data:Sample.tab
• RFC: link & fullscreen caption text in <maplink>: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148706

Editing

Language

• Not blocking.
• Not blocked.
• Updates:
  • ContentTranslation will (most probably this week) get template support soon.
  • Last week was team offsite.

Parsing

• Team was away at two back to back offsites in Seattle.
• Linter extension work ongoing (Kunal & Arlo) to expose Parsoid linter "errors" to editors to fix up pages (see wikitech-l thread).
• Arlo working with releng to fix some edge case issues in scap deploys of Parsoid code.

Technology

Analytics

No blockers

• Edit history reconstruction/wikistats, working on performance of reconstructing history for enwiki
• Public event streams ongoing will use server side events rather than socket io
• We soon be able to count pageviews for all wikis, like outreach
• iOs pageviews dropping, going forward iOS needs to own changes to user agent: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148663
• Pivot is available http://pivot.wikimedia.org to look at pageview data, devops straightening up usage of LDAP groups.
• Please read https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_access_guidelines

Architecture / ArchCom

• ArchCom-RFC Meeting (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E325)
  • Topic: SVG Validation using the Sanitizer <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-October/086861.html>

Release Engineering

• Blocking
  • None?
• Blocked
  • None.
• Updates
  • Migrating Zuul/Jenkins on Nov 1st, there will be downtine
  • REL1_28 branched, rc.0 on Nov 2nd

Research

• Need code review for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146560
• Generally we're struggling to get review in the ORES extension (see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/ORES+status:open )

Security

• Sam Reed starts as a contractor on Oct. 31st
• Security Reviews:
  • Electron Render Service - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148576
  • ElectronPdfService - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149080

Services

• Blocked: nothing
• Blocking: nothing
• Updates:
  • RESTBase feed endpoint enhancements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139481
  • PDF rendering service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142226

Technical Operations

• Blocked
  • None
• Blocking
  • None
• Updates
  • LabsDBs getting new hardware, setup, and so on. It's a Goal to have the entire infrastructure revamped.
  • Varnish 4 migration of the text cluster ongoing
  • kernel upgrades everywhere, ops is quite busy rebooting machines
  • Globalsign outage remediation fix to be reverted after Globalsign prompts everyone to do so
  • Icinga migrated to new hosts and software versions
  • kibana is now behind LVS

Performance

• Blocked:
  • Ops review for Thumbor production deployment (mtail and rewrite.py changes) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/316543/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/315648/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/317522/
• Not blocking:
  • Second attempt to make ResourceLoader load cached modules async
  • mw.Map deprecation, to use native maps when available in the future
  • Work on reducing replication lag on DB continues

Wikidata

• No blockers.
• Wikidata birthday week approaching. We will announce a birthday present every day. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday
• Making progress on our bigger stories:
  • A list=wbsubscribers API module to query entity usage information: phab:T145880
  • A new parser function for rich, formatted statements: phab:T142940

Unrelated: Is the VisualEditor team aware that the Commons community virtually disabled the VisualEditor upload feature? Only Commons experts can use it now, which I believe is the opposite of the audience the feature was build for. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/153 Yes, they are, as this was widely discussed: phabricator:T120867.

Fundraising Tech

• CentralNotice: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952 partially fixed
  • got a core fix deployed ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/317074 ) but it's still happening sometimes
• Donation forms: tweaking error messages and email typo detection feedback
• Still fixing a few bugs shaken out by queue overhaul
• Cleaning up now-unused ActiveMQ code
• Investigating uptick in premature session timeouts on payments-wiki
• Mailing list tweaks