Scrum of scrums/2017-01-04

Product

Reading

Web

• Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2405/
  • Allow users who have the NavPopups gadget to use PagePreviews https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151058
  • Start working towards Wikipedia branding on the mobile site https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148514
• Next sprint:
  • MobileFrontend tech debt
  • New readers prototype work - Allow collapsing of sections
  • Wikipedia branding on the mobile site

Android

• Last week:
  • Holiday
• Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
  • Work towards release of Wikidata description editing

Reading Infrastructure

• working on TemplateStyles, tech debt https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133408
• not blocking
• blocked:
  • WMDE on the last API i18n patch before we can move to hard deprecation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321464/

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/
• To be deployed:
  • Add additional information to file and user pages clients can use for rendering https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148118
  • Ordered news link to have "most relevant" article in a news story appear first in list
• Working on:
  • Adding isDisambiguation flag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151241
  • New endpoint for "On This Day" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143408

iOS native app

• Last Week
  • Released 5.3.3
  • Continued work on 5.4
  • Fixed bugs found in 5.3.3
• This week
  • Release 5.3.4
  • Continue work on 5.4 - Nearby, Login enhancements

Community Tech

• Blocking/Blockers: None
• Wikimania scholarships application has been updated and deployed
• Beginning to do investigative work on top 10 from the wishlist this week

(I'll be skipping the meeting today, sorry!)

Editing

Parsing

• Not blocking anyone or no blockers on anyone as far as I know
• Preparing for Dev Summit sessions
• Will soon start work on supporting audio/video in Parsoid
• Work ongoing with language variants ( had to revert a patch in core because of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153761 )

UI Standardization

• Updates
  • Replace deprecated mediawiki.UI Less variables with current ones. All, but one patch on Flow already merged https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154362
  • Echo Notifications Thank You uses outdated PNG icon instead of SVG. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149352
  • Further research on: Improve form layouts in OOjs UI MW core forms for better user experience. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
  • Preparing for Dev Summit and UI Standardization Design offsite
• Blocked
  • OOjs UI's ButtonWidgets should use `box-sizing: border-box` https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146962
  • Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747 – Needs feedback from core developers

Collaboration

• Blocked: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates
  • userExpLevel RecentChanges filter
  • Other than that, mostly bug fixes to Echo and Flow, including Flow DB inconsistency fixes

Technology

Analytics

• Public EventStreams launch (hopefully early) this quarter (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130651)
  • Blocked on ops (they know! :))
  • Need review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/325589/ (Timo?)

Security

• Security Reviews:
  • TwoColConflict (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149808)
  • InterwikiSorting (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149083)
  • Cognate (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149082)

Technical Operations

• Blocked:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • LabsDB goal successful
  • Kubernetes goal successful
  • Ganglia/Prometheus goal successful
  • Work starting on the data center switchover preparation

Performance

• Blocking/blockers: none
• Started work on defining alerts for performance regressions
• Implemented PoolCounter support in Thumbor, undergoing review

Discovery

• No blockers
• Quarterly goals update: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery
• Continuing work on crosswiki searching, refactoring Special:Search
• Merged patch allowing extensions to define query keywords

Wikidata

• Preparing for the Dev Summit in SF. The Wikidata team is looking forward to meet you all!
• Gaining speed again after holiday weeks. Working hard on federation (ground work for structured Commons) as well as Lexemes (for Wiktionary).
• RfC: Drafted an alternative for the deprecated PHPUnit::assertTag: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69122
• Slow progress on phasing out UsageException: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153359 Given that it was deprecated just a few days ago we do not consider this high-priority at the moment.

Fundraising Tech

• Reviewing payment processor performance and fraud rates
• Reviewing banner impressions anomalies (neatly explained by internet.org proxies in Ireland)
• CiviCRM bug fixes and minor version upgrade
• little holiday scramble to deploy phpmailer CVE fixes
  • Does security or releng want to look into using an automated composer.lock version vulnerability checker, e.g. https://security.sensiolabs.org/api ?
    • Darian says ^^^ is already in place for mediawiki core, and he can help us set it up for all the fundraising components.