Scrum of scrums/2017-05-17

2017-05-17

Call outs:

• Please comment on the Reading team's Reading List service RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990
• Please update extensions you maintain to add a compatibility policy!
  • see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-May/088190.html
  • if you are not sure, just go with 'rel'

Reading

Web

• Dealing with fallout from Parser element update.
• Some wikiove: Thank to RelEng for your assistance and SWAT deploys to return things to normal <3
• Some prevalent log errors fixed.
• Investigating EventLogging duplication bugs with a view to looping in Analytics.
• Upcoming: We'll be deploying some print styles to the mobile site for offline use cases; We will be setting up a TextExtracts HTML service ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165017 ) on REST.

Reading Infrastructure

• Reading List service RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990
• doc day: compatibility policy field for mw.org {{Extension }} template
  • see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-May/088190.html
  • please update your extensions pages! (if you are not sure just go with 'rel' )
• Page Content Service planning

Android

• Breakage related to parser output change appears all clear.
• CSS/JS cross-platform integration work continues.
• Beta release planned for next week.
• Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/

iOS

• Last 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
• This Week
  • 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
    • Analytics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164801
    • Update `In the news` feed logic and design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148739
    • Other bug fixes & enhancements

Editing

Parsing

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/333997/ will be merged next week (minor breaking change in preprocessor -- announcement in tech news 2 weeks + editors have been fixing up affected pages)
• Linter fixes necessary to redeploy it on large wikis not yet complete -- expecting to have them done end of week
• This update is a repetition of what has already been mentioned on the relevant gerrit patches and phab tickets. Parsoid can now handle the mw-parser-output <div> core change -- by requesting the api to not wrap output of action=parse. The ParsoidBatchAPI change to do this is part of 1.30.0-wmf.2 and needs to ride the m/w train with the corresponding core patch.
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/354059/ <-- heads up to Flow, CX, VE, MCS folks; require a +1 from you all

Language

• No blockers.
• ContentTranslation OOjs UI migration continue.
• CX API end point migration work in progress in services team.

Research

• Reader segmentation test survey went out on 15 May
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131949

German Technical Wishlist

• Preparing for the Vienna Hackathon.
• RevisionSlider is now a default feature on all wikis.

Wikidata

• Preparing for the Vienna Hackathon.
• Had to work around a Travis/HHVM bug: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/353872
• Cleaning up user-facing messages in the constraint checks API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164354
• Moving forward with the "forms of a lexeme entity" UI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160052

Fundraising Tech

• Looking at disabling TLS1.0 - PCI has deprecated it for a while now
  • What is the plan for the main cluster?
• Updating thank you letters and sending code
• Fixing currency display in Civi
• Library-ization work
• Preparing for a decent-sized CentralNotice deploy

Technical Operations

• Blocking
  • None
• Blocked
  • No one
• Updates
  • Work ongoing on goals (Kubernetes, SE Asia caching PoP, Swift)
  • SMW has been removed from wikitech
  • Preliminary support for Debian Stretch in labs (on a per project basis)
  • HHVM 3.18 rolled out in production