2017-10-04

Callouts

Language: Need help to debug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173801 further
3D deployed to testwiki, feel free to upload STL files to test it out
Mobile web disabling OCG [cc Operations] ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150871 )
Need Ops review of patches for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146381#3447319

Blocked by: none
Blocking: none
Updates:
- 5.6.1 release went well ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ ) - crash rate is low, 5 star rating
- Continuing work on 5.7.0 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Onboarding updates, Improved analytics, iOS 11 support, iPhone X support. Public beta this week.

Blocked by: Reading List API/service
Blocking: none
Updates:
- Preparing for maintenance release with design updates / bug fixes for language variant issues.
- This is planned to be the last release that supports earlier Android versions than KitKat (<4.4).

3D deployed to testwiki, feel free to upload STL files to test it out
Next up: Work on MediaInfo, an extension for Wikibase, which will be central to our work on SDoC
- Adding API module to shortcut wbgetentities via filenames (instead of querying for the page ID, then the entity)
- Adding page_props entries for uploaded files to point to the relevant MediaInfo entity

- Fixing release practices - Preparing to update versions in production

Blocked by Design: `font` specifics upstream to WikimediaUI Base https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175877
Updates (last week update was missing, due to meeting conflict, including important here):
- TransparencyReport made fully accessible – https://transparency.wikimedia.org/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173629
- OOUI v0.23.2 (last week) & v0.23.3 released, among changes:
  - UI design
    - WikimediaUI theme: 10+ changes on toolbar code & design, most importantly unifying positioning and sizing of tools, toolgroups and menus (Volker E.)
      - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176106 & https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177234
    - Apex theme: Begin killing `constructive` flag & streamline demo (James D. Forrester) – https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/
  - Accessibility
    - WindowManager: Set `aria-hidden` by default and change toggleAriaIsolation behavior (Prateek Saxena)
Ongoing:
- OOUI icons: Work on icon set to be more harmonious and align to WikimediaUI Style Guide's guidelines

Releasing RCFilters as default experience to all wikis (except some FlaggedRevs ones) probably tomorrow (Oct 5)
We (WMF) need to get serious about Wikidata-triggered watchlist problems (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171027 ), Roan is going to dive into that and propose action

Blocked: See callout (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173801 )
Blocking: None, but https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107914 is holding due to infrequent cxserver updates.
Updates:
- CX-VE: Template adaptation, publishing and error handling work in progress

New kafka cluster (kafka-jumbo) is using prometheus for metrics.
Working on Druid configuration so we have 2 clusters: public data and private data cluster. The public one will serve the wikistats 2.0 backend.
Issues with disk space on databases (db1002), trying to free up, have moved some tables to Hadoop, more info here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging#Hadoop._Archived_Data
Working with legal to perserve data for litigation purposes.
Finished auditing of users and data access, carrying goals for next quarter: purging of eventlogging data and wikistats 2.0 alpha release
Gave talk at Strata about analytics in wikipedia in conjunction with Druid folks. Slides: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1WwwytWLvbfq5Hq-qyN5FlC7innRf9iCatKB6qBrWz1o/edit?usp%3Ddrive_web&sa=D&ust=1507050585421000&usg=AFQjCNHcAjhuM3xLIgBEfQMrc6OA9zV3wA

Blocked by:
Blocking:
- About to unblock the new ORES cluster. Need one more iteration of stress testing.
Updates:
- Created a list of c. 50 community stakeholders, and will use that to communicate and get feedback on initial work on JADE:
  - https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Keegan_(WMF)/sandbox
  - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JADE
- Preparing a new major version release for revscoring 2.0, which we hope is seamless but may involve some turbulence for ORES consumers. The thresholds API has a breaking change. Planned deployment date is c. Oct 18th.

Blocked by: none
Blocking: none
Updates:
Added more namespaces to default searches, per community requests (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473)
Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS
Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5
Working on indexing Wikidata descriptions

Looking into possible issues with Kafkatee not getting us all the web logs we need: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177331
dealing with Safari's new privacy settings
Adding lots of metrics to https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/fundraising-overview?refresh=1m&orgId=1
Fixing issues with CiviCRM's de-duplication UI
Dealing with outgoing mail issue caused by PHPMailer security fix

Blocked by: none
Blocking: none
Updates:
- Goals completed: Streamline Service Delivery / Remove salt from our infrastructure / Prepare for puppet 4 / Improve database backups' coverage
- Asia DC unblocked, moving along with procurement

Blocking
Blocked
- Need Ops review of patches for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146381#3447319
Updates
- Mukunda taking over for 1.31.0-wmf.2 for the rest of this week