Scrum of scrums/2017-05-24

2017-05-24

Call outs:

• Analytics is working on a script for purging EventLogging Mysql (for those of you who don't expect that, please talk to us :).

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

Reading

iOS

• Last 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
• This Week
  • 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
    • Places search updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159733
    • Update `Top Read` feed design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165510
    • Places accessibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159733
    • Other bug fixes & enhancements

Android

• Dmitry, Rita at the hackathon. Mostly a testing and tech debt paydown week.
• Beta release planned for late this week.
• Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/

Wikimedia Deutschland

• Very slow week. Many attended the Hackathon in Vienna, many still in Vienna for WikiCite. This Thursday is a public holiday, Friday typically a day off.
• Wikidata team makes progress on the Lexeme UI.

Analytics

• Missed past 2 weeks - Apologies.
• Last week we were in offsite + hackathon (2) - Yearly and preliminary quarterly goals have been discussed/agreed.
• Ongoing: EventLogging to Hive code is in code review, we should have some tests soon.
• Vetting Last_access_uniques for global sites (*.wikimedia.org) is taking us long time because of unexpected data issues.
• We just deployed Event Logging with better bot detection (bot events are not stored in Mysql anymore).
• Reportcards updated to mark notable data events.
• Pageview data in Druid is now updated hourly (less than 2 hours late).
• Pivot (data visualisation for Druid) is not Opensource anymore, we need to find a replacement.
• We are working on a script for purging EventLogging Mysql (for those of you who don't expect that, please talk to us :).
• Druid and pivot currently not working due to upgrade.

Technical Operations

• Blocking: none
• Blockers: none
• Updates:
  • BBR rollout https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147569
  • Progress on asia DC continues

Services

• Blockers: none
• NOT ATTENDING. nothing to report due to hackathon and vacations

Fundraising Tech

• More code cleanup and de-duplication as we move stuff from mediawiki extension to libraries
• Fixing behavior of fraud filters on connection failure
• CentralNotice deployment delayed on oojs-core library dependency, Andrew Green is talking to editing about a bugfix release
• More Civi integration with third party email house

Editing

Language

• No blockers/blocking.
• Work on ContentTranslation migration to OOjs UI continue.

Parsing

• The preprocessor patch that tweaks language variant handling got merged and is riding the train this week ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups )
• We are ready to pursue using CSS to style Parsoid cite output without wiki messages (that are used currently for the Cite extension) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156351 )
• Linter fixes probably done this week ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350958/ ), and if all goes well, we mght be able to reenable Linter on large wikis within the next 2 weeks.
• Once this week's train rolls out everywhere, we will be ready to merge and test Parsoid's red link (and redirect and disambig) support -- if all goes well, this might land within the next 2 weeks.

Collaboration

Blocking

• Coordinating with Ops about a Flow dump issue

Updates

• Continued work on RC Filters UX, especially regarding namespace filters
• Work on Echo patches at the hackathon
  • Notification blacklist to block certain senders from notifying you. This won't be in production (other than testwiki) anytime soon, but we're working on getting it ready to test
  • Improvements to edit-user-talk notification, to also notify for subpages

Discovery

• No blockers
• Recovering from Hackaton/offsite/travel
• Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.3
• Working on ML-enabled search ranking infrastructure

CommTech

• Rolling out LoginNotify to Test Wiki (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LoginNotify)
• Fixed bugs in PageTriage extension at Hackathon
• Polishing CodeMirror and getting community feedback (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror)
• No blockers