Scrum of scrums/2017-09-13
Appearance
contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering
callouts
[edit]- Multimedia -> Performance: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166699
- CommTech -> DBAs: range contributions ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163562 ) getting rolled out this week, please let us know if it causes problems
- Services -> Wikidata: very large jobs emitted by wikidata (up to 44Mb of serialized JSON) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175316
- Contributors -> ReleaseTaggerBot has stopped tagging changes since last week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175626
- Wikidata -> RewriteRule needed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/357985
Audiences
[edit]Readers
[edit]iOS native app
[edit]- Blocked by: none
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Still releasing 5.6.1 with minor bug fixes ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ )
- Continuing work on 5.7.0 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Onboarding updates, Improved analytics
Android native app
[edit]- Blocked by: Reading List service completion/deployment
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Continuing to build/refine Offline Library functionality based on initial user research feedback.
- Testing and updating for Android Oreo (8.0)
Reading Web
[edit]- Blocked by: none
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Vector print style improvements
- Justified text and table of contents:
- Working towards resolution of verifying English and German wiki Page Preview Event Logging instrumentation bucketing
- Building Proton (Electron PDF renderer / OCG (Offline Content Generator service) replacement using headless Chrome)
- Assessing and updating Proton instrumentation
- Building out article concatenation for printing books
- Working towards resolution of Proton ownership and planning around OCG retirement
- Private thread: "OCG roadmap update"
- Project Marvin, a single page web app
- Defining short and long-term goals for Marvin; also defining what's needed from the PCS (Page Content Service, a successor to MCS) API
- Fix for Related Articles not displaying on desktop Wikivoyage
- Vector print style improvements
Reading Infrastructure
[edit]- Blocked by: Security (ReadingLists review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174126 )
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- OCG/Collection book concatenation patch ready, deploying for testing
- working on RESTBase proxy for ReadingLists
- Issues with sectioning code on some pages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175305
Multimedia
[edit]- Blocked by: Performance - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166699
- Blocking: N/A
- Updates: 3D work continuing, Structured Data on Commons (SDoC) user stories coming down the pipeline
Discovery
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Running an AB test on the search page this week
- Converting some selenium tests from Ruby to Node
Community Tech
[edit]- Blocked by: none
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Range contributions ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163562 ) getting rolled out this week
- ACTRIAL starts this Thursday
Contributors
[edit]- ReleaseTaggerBot has stopped tagging changes since last week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175626
Editing
[edit]- Blocked by: None known.
- Blocking: We need to work with Parsing to get https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/371074/ merged at the right time.
- Updates:
- Working on undo support in VisualEditor and its source mode https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78550
- Major internal VisualEditor re-work to merge data and meta-data nearing completion https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56299
- Visual diffs work continues, currently doing some more display tweaks.
Parsing
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/364933/ (Reading) -- being reviewed today / soon.
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/295741/ (Editing) -- will update this week
- Updates:
- C.Scott is porting over the html5 section id support into Parsoid (Parsoid had html5 section ids till last year - switched to html4 ids last year to match core -- now updating to html5 with legacy support again)
- Kunal (legoktm) is running a script to lint all pages on all wikis so that linter errors are initialized on all wikis to get baseline information in place
Global Collaboration
[edit]Collaboration
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Mainly RCFilters. We're preparing to have the Beta feature also cover Special:Watchlist on Tuesday. We'll also start giving all Special:RecentChanges users the new functionality Tuesday, first on he.wiki, ca.wiki, fr.wiki. We'll roll out further in later weeks.
- git #c12b2419 - Provide an opt-out preference for New Filters for RecentChanges (task T168376)
- git #b3becd3a - Add <body> class marking whether RCFilters is enabled (task T175062)
- git #55ba740b - RCFilters: Live update: disable peek param (task T173613)
- git #91c2f9a6 - RCFilters: Remove getValue and use FormOptions (task T174725)
- git #5e12ab58 - WLFilters: Respect default values (task T174725)
- git #0725cbe9 - RCFilters: Live Update: download less data (task T173613)
- git #a610aa28 - RCLFilters: Bring back Saved Queries
- git #3863acef - WLFilters: hide watchlist-details during loading of the app (task T172030)
- git #f162e47a - Align "What's this" vertically (task T165627)
- Mainly RCFilters. We're preparing to have the Beta feature also cover Special:Watchlist on Tuesday. We'll also start giving all Special:RecentChanges users the new functionality Tuesday, first on he.wiki, ca.wiki, fr.wiki. We'll roll out further in later weeks.
UI Standardization
[edit]- Updates:
- Added several variables on req to WikimediaUI Base, which is now also available on Gerrit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/projects/wikimedia-ui-base,dashboards/default
- Aligned four further products to overhauled color palette
- Ongoing:
- OOUI:
- icons: Work on icon set to be more harmonious and align to WikimediaUI Style Guide's guidelines
- Preparing for v0.23.1 next week
- Continuation on WikimediaUI Style Guide, continuing updating imagery on color section https://wikimedia.github.io/WikimediaUI-Style-Guide/visual-style_colors.html
- Get remaining two out of 16 patches merged on aligning arbitrary, historically grown colors to WikimediaUI color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148708
- Make TransparencyReport fully accessible – patch still needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/376875/
- OOUI:
Technology
[edit]Analytics
[edit]- Blocked by: Ops (email sent, awaiting answers)
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- We've been missing SoS for 2 weeks (booooooh)
- We're back full-team after two successive parental leaves
- Wikistats 2.0 frontend has made good progress (4 metrics implemented)
- Wikistats 2.0 backend is under heavy development and moves fast (using Druid as backend)
- EventLogging purging is continuing to run.
Fundraising Tech
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Still trying to figure out our database replication lag problems
- Versioning our composer packages, adding phpcs to our CI tests
- Looking into CentralNotice banner tracking gaps on Safari
- various payment processor integration tweaks
Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocked by:
- NEED update on discovery-analytics for trebuchet->scap3 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129149
- NEED someone to help test OCG when we migrate it to scap3
- NEED, Jobrunner should be ready for deployment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148#3582888 (Krinkle? or anyone who can ensure the correct running of jobrunner post-deployment) Aaron?
- Blocking:
- None afaik
- Updates:
- ci has been slow recently due to nodepool overloading openstack
Research
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
Scoring Platform
[edit]- Blocked by: None
- Blocking:
- Working on file handle starvation, which blocks stress tests, which prevent deployment to our new server.
- Updates:
- Trying to integrate the revscoring "thresholds" work with RC filters.
- Random script to measure memory use, not including copy-on-write: https://gist.github.com/Eugeny/04ccfe8accf4bc74b0ca. Is there a better tool?
- Adam and Aaron both gone for some time this week and next.
Search Platform
[edit]- Blocked by: none
- Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129149 ?
- Updates:
- Continuing work on ML-assisted ranking
- Preparing upgrade to Elastic 5.5 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174662 )
- Running second A/B test for human-graded search relevance (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175046 )
- Started dumps of category tree as RDF (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/categoriesrdf/) - more wikis to come soon
- Portal stats & translations updated (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582 )
Services
[edit]- Blocked by: Wikidata: very large jobs emitted by wikidata (up to 44Mb of serialized JSON) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175316
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Started double-processing updateBetaFeaturesUserCounts job trough new EventBus pipeline
- Testing new RESTBase storage
Technical Operations
[edit]- Blocked by: None
- Blocking: None
- Updates:
- New Quarter goals being drafted
- luasandbox 2.0.14 rollout, to be completed this week
Wikidata
[edit]- Same blocker as last week: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/357985
- Back from WikiCon (German community conference)
- New Echo notification are deployed on all wikis
- Working on making (Wiktionary) Lexemes fully persistent: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121274
- Run into a regression highlighting selector values in red: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175525