Scrum of scrums/2017-01-18

Product

Reading

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/
• Working on:
  • Clicking on references is broken (Broken in the Android app; a Parsoid change caused this) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155070
  • Improving regression testing

Android

• Last week:
  • Dev summit and all hands
  • Start on improving offline support quarterly goal
  • New account creation broken in API 25 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155535
  • Investigate reverted edit notifications failure
• Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
  • Work towards release of Wikidata description editing
  • Continue on improved offline experience

iOS native app

• Last Week
  • Dev summit, All hands, released 5.3.4 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2396/
  • Continued work on 5.4 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
• This week
  • Continue work on 5.4 - Places, Login enhancements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/

Web

• Last week:
  • Dev summit and all hands
  • Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-89-%F0%9F%8E%82/
• Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2426/
  • Deploy Wikidata description and Related Articles on enwiki mobile

Editing

Collaboration

• Blocked -
• Blocking -
• Updates
  • Main patch for RecentChanges page UI finished and merged (Adding new interface for review filters to RecentChanges).
  • Add userExpLevel filter in the RCFilters UI
  • Continuing related work to this, including backend.
  • Some meetings at Dev Summit about ReviewStream (part of Edit Review Improvements) and WikiLabels admin interface
  • Flow consistency fixes

UI Standardization

• Last week
  • Dev summit, All hands
• This week
  • UI Standardization offsite with focus on style guide work, see also WMF UI Std Offsite 2017-01 column on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wmf-design/
• Updates
  • core/mediawiki.UI: Remove deprecated `.mw-ui-constructive` modifier class for anchors & text – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155203
  • OOjs UI: Remove form PanelLayout's 3D box-shadow and harmonize inner padding – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155335
  • OOjs UI: ButtonWidgets should use `box-sizing: border-box` – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146962
  • OOjs UI: Unify spatial visual appearance of dropdown menus, dialogs, toolbars – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119591
  • Outlining path forward on Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747
    feedback from core devs gathered
• Blocked -
• Blocking - Research on incorporating custom web fonts into style guide - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155128

Technology

Analytics

Updates:

• Continuing with the work to replace front end and backend of http://stats.wikimedia.org : Wikistats 2.0, a major development is that we will be able to import the edit history from labs rather than prod dbs, huge advantage as this data is redacted and already public.*
• Working on launching RCStream replacement, review stream plus several other real time streams. Will start working with collaboration on augmented ORES recent changes stream.
• Started work on processing user_agent field on eventlogging tables, it will be a JSON string like {"OS_Family": "Windows", "Browser_family":"Chrome"....}
• Found issue with Heap on cluster, set up alarms, will be solved with update to cloudera's newest
• Still waiting for hardware for pageview API, getting closer

Release Engineering

• Bocked
  • None
• Blocking
  • None?
• Updates
  • Deployment is back to normal, train is on schedule: https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
  • Scap 3.5 release eminent, changelog will be sent, check on beta please

Services

• Blockers: none
• Updates:
  • Node 6 upgrade is coming: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149331
    • RESTBase updated, great improvement in memory consumption
    • Parsoid today
    • SCB tomorrow
    • MCS, CXServer, EventStreams - if you have something to deploy - do it TODAY!

Discovery

• No blockers
• Continuing work on crosswiki searches
• Special:Search refactoring merged in
• Started work on improving wikidata search
• Started preparing for upgrade to ElasticSearch 5
• Added app links to portal homepage

German Technical Wishlist

• Collecting what we learned at the Dev Summit
• Decided to not render URLs in the Electron PDF export any more https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152393
• Can we help investigating why Kartographer does not work with flagged revs, to support German Wikipedia? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151665

Wikidata

• Slow week, key people are still in the US
• Currently focusing on backend services for federation ("Wikidata on Commons") https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007

Fundraising Tech

• CentralNotice banner impressions in pivot: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#banner-impressions-hourly
• More work to prevent unintended duplicate donations
• More CiviCRM customization moved to a real Civi extension
• Easing import of employer matching gifts
• Examining contractor fileshare change
• Casey training on ops-y stuff with Jeff and preparing to announce a job opening