Scrum of scrums/2017-05-10

2017-05-10

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

Call outs:

• Research Recommendation API being ported to node
  • Could use review from Services
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164282
• RelEng: No train next week (we're on our offsite). RelEng probably won't be SWATting anything -- SWATs will be best effort

Reading

Android

• Working on UI and DB updates to accommodate reading list syncing product requirements
• Experimenting with partial XHR content loading in the WebView
• Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/

iOS

• Last Week
  • Released 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/
  • 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
    • TWN localization pluralization support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126493
    • Places bug fixes
• This Week
  • 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
    • Enhanced search visibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130159
    • Update feed design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141767

Reading Infrastructure

• fix handling of video tags in MCS (for Android app); removing mobile-text route; stop stripping some id attributes; work on new HTML route
• finalizing plans for Reading Lists; RfC to follow soon

Web

• Aiming to address various log errors and UI regressions
• RelEng may be interested in our activity in exploring CSS regression testing (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107588 )
  • Added a comment about Parsing team's visual diff testing there. :)

Community Tech

• Rolling out LoginNotify Extension to BetaCluster and TestWiki
• Continuing work on CodeMirror extension for syntax highlighting
• Continuing work on XTools rewrite

No blockers!

Editing

Parsing

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/ is waiting on security review
• Redlink support in Parsoid is now awaiting code review

Collaboration

• Blocked
• Blocking
• Updates
  • RCFilters
    • New filters, including top revision
    • Watchlist filters
    • Saved queries to allow user to easily repeat their search
    • Tour to invite people to use Beta Feature
    • Fix contradictory RC filters
    • Preparatory backend work to allow user to filter for multiple namespaces and tags
  • Bug fixes for RCFilters, ORES, Echo, and Flow

UI Standardization

• This week:
  • Continued work on bringing automatic Sketch export to Wikimedia UI Style Guide to always be up-to-date with design changes
• Updates:
  • OOjs UI:
    • v0.21.3 released with 3 accessibility and 6 UI improvements, among those

German Technical Wishlist

• Deployed TwoColumnConflict resolution extension as Beta feature on all wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162806

Wikidata

• Same as last weeks, focussing on the Lexeme frontend code. Demo wiki not up to date right now: http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org/index.php/Lexeme:L2
• Working on bugs and features for the WikibaseQualityConstraints extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikibase-quality/

Research

• Reader segmentation survey in more languages
  • test happening tomorrow in ja, ro, de, he wikis
  • run all surveys from approx 15-22 May
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131949
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151835
• Recommendation API being ported to node
  • Could use review from Services
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164282

TechOps

• Blocking
  • None?
• Blocked
  • None
• Updates
  • Final stages of hiring for our open spot
  • Mark (slowly) coming back from vacation
  • Datacenter switchover is done :)

RelEng

• Blocking
  • None?
• Blocked
  • None
• Updates
  • Next week team offsite
    • no train
    • SWATs on best volunteer effort

Security

• Reviews
  • TemplateStyles
  • JsonConfig/Kartographer
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/

Fundraising Tech

• New hire is deploying CiviCRM fixes
• About to run more tests of new PayPal integration
• CiviCRM: 3rd party mailer integration
• Ingenico re-build / library-ization work starting
• CentralNotice Banner sequence merged, testing on beta

Discovery

• No blockers
• Logstash/kibana upgraded to latest Elastic version
• Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR)
• Working on Hebrew language analyzer, report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/HebMorph_Analyzer_Analysis
• Talk at R-Ladies SF about analytics work in Discovery: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Data_Science_Workflow_at_Discovery.pdf
• Preparing for ES upgrade to 5.3.2