Scrum of scrums/2017-06-14

2017-06-14

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

Call-outs

• Input requested for MediaWiki extension build processes at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158980
• Reading Lists RfC https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

• Finishing up 5.5 (Places, Explore feed updates) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
  • Regression testing & fixing remaining issues
  • Submit to the App Store this week
  • Upgrading to Xcode 9 and other code cleanup

Android native app

• New release is out! Crashes very low.
• Current release board theme: reading list syncing UI
  • Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2763/
• New engineer hiring process underway.

Reading Web

• Your input is requested in `wikitech-l] How does a build process look like for a mediawiki extension repository?` regarding building client side assets(https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158980)
• INFO: Disable images functionality will be removed from MobileFrontend (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109870)

Reading Infrastructure

• Limit video transforms to videos to not affect audio
• read-html endpoint + coming up with plan to lazy load reference information
• Providing support to Reading Web for the OCG replacement work
• Reading Lists RfC happening in a few hours: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164990

Multimedia

• No blockers, not blocking
• 3D work proceeding apace, discussions with community to come - estimated to be pushed out next quarter
• We have an eye on the MP3 discussions, but nothing currently pressing - no current rollout plan that I know of
• Hiring process also continuing

Discovery

• No update.

Community Tech

• Starting work on HTML5 section IDs
• Testing/bugfixes for LoginNotify before wider deployment
• Rewriting XTools
• Preparing CodeMirror for deployment
  • Blocked on design (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165541)

Contributors

Editing

• Blocked by: None.
• Blocking: None known.

Parsing

• Linter will be re-enabled on large wikis this week
• Red link support is now on beta cluster. Now undertaking rt testing to ensure we haven't broken anything + will run visual diff testing later tonight. If nothing broken, will deploy to production next week.
• Final reviews in progress for language variant support in Parsoid
• We are hiring! https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/722082?gh_src=jseinu1#.WUFhljeQw3E -- please spread the word (and please ask them to read the JD and requirements ;-)).

Collaboration

• Blocked by: None.
• Blocking: None known.
• Updates
  • Change to URL handling for RC Filters
  • A lot of in-progress work on RC Filters that's not merged yet

Language

• Blocked: Services to reply on, https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/796
• Updates:
  • ContentTranslation OOjs UI work continue.
  • fra-cat and spa-ita Apertium pairs updated.

Contributors Design

• This week:
  • Cleaning-up WikimediaUI Style Guide workboard
  • Overhauling “Icons” section at style guide https://wikimedia.github.io/WikimediaUI-Style-Guide/visual-style_icons.html
  • Early-on patches for “Components” section
  • Further work on integrating WikimediaUI Base https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/wikimedia-ui-base/ into WikimediaUI theme of OOjs UI

Technology

Analytics

• Redundant Announcement: RCStream clients using socket.io will be deprecated on July 7th, we pinged everyone and offered help to move to EventStreams, but if anyone knows stragglers point them to us
• Ongoing:
  • purging EventLogging data: most schemas done
  • preparing for Kafka upgrade
  • setting up project-wide unique devices for internal access: jobs productionized
  • first version of wikistats 2.0: using Crossfilter as the main data model

Cloud Services

• No update.

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by: Nothing
• Blocking: None we know of
• Deployed Banner Sequence feature to Central Notice Monday, looking good so far
• More CiviCRM <-> 3rd party mailhaus integration
• Moving more stuff from MediaWiki extension to better-organized library
• Better error handling for potential inadvertently duplicated donations

MediaWiki Platform

• No update.

Performance

• No update.

Release Engineering

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None?
• Updates:
  • Chad working on MW 1.29 release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2400/
  • 1.30.0-wmf.5 rolling out this week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167533
  • Phab now has "types" of task. See e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167893

Research

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • New service request filed for Recommendation API
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167664

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • ORES had an intermittent outage on 13 June
    • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170613-ORES

Search Platform

• Formerly known as half of "Discovery"
• Chinese and Hebrew analyzers deployed, waiting for plugin deployment (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167057) and reindex, working on Japanese
• Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.3.2 (perf issues: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167636)
• Cross-wiki search being deployed (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162276)
• Starting load-testing ML-assistend ranking on relforge
• WDQS Mediawiki API service announced - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Mediawiki_API_Service_for_WDQS

Security

• Reviews:
  • psy/psysh use on WMF servers
  • Verification of whitelisted.yaml / graylisted.yaml
  • Auto-approval of low-risk OAuth applications
  • Ex:JsonConfig/Ex:Kartographer

Services

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Working on the minikube setup for container-based development environment
  • Automatic blacklisting in Change-Propagation deployed. Only logging for now

Technical Operations

• Blocked by:
  • No one
• Blocking:
  • No one
• Updates:
  • HHVM 3.18 has been deployed

Wikidata

• No blockers.
• Call for submissions for WikidataCon: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017
• Added a new Lua function: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74815
• Working on the Senses part of the Lexeme UI (using Vue JS including server side rendering): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163723
• More fine tuning on Constraints Reports. Looking for a way to have a version controlled Gadget: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167126
• Wikidata support in enhanced RC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46874
• Populating a new column in our giant wb_terms table: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162533

German Technical Wishlist

• No blockers.
• Preparing the current round of wishes for voting: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche