Scrum of scrums/2018-04-18
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2018-04-18
[edit]Callouts
[edit]- Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar - Netherlands 2018-04-03 through 2018-05-01
- Analytics: we added trash folder to hadoop to “aid” in case of accidental deletions of data in cluster.
- Need help from RelEng with WDQS GUI build automation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189811
- Research: In the next two/three weeks we'll be collecting citation usage data via EventLogging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191086 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:CitationUsage. cc Reading Infrastructure, Adam Baso, Security, Legal, Analytics.
- Phabricator: Create tasks with a Deadline date/time which is displayed on workboards: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/37/
Audiences
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[edit]iOS native app
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Android native app
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- Reading lists at 10% production, full rollout pending regression tests and finalizing marketing materials.
Readers Web
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Readers Infrastructure
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Maps
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Multimedia
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Contributors
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- GlobalPreferences, CodeMirror, TemplateWizard
Anti-Harassment Tools
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- Improving block notices on mobile
- Adding cookie blocking for anonymous users
Editing
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Parsing
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Collaboration
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Language
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Audiences Design
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UI Std
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- OOUI – v0.26.4 released: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.26.4
- One hotfix, that has already made it to MW1.31 before, one keyboard accessibility improvement
- Continued work on icon/size unification aftermath in different products (Notifications, Flow, RevisionSlider)
- Style Guide technical and contents improvements ongoing with 2 open PRs currently
- Transforming core/extensions to use OOUI, 6 extensions accomplished last week, build on strong volunteer support
- OOUI – v0.26.4 released: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.26.4
Technology
[edit]Analytics
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- Monitoring the launch of the page previews, currently working on the aggregation job. - Done with updates to jupyter notebooks for now - Issues with pageviews from Opera Mini not geo locating correctly in Africa are now resolved. - Fnishing new geowiki infrastructure before we turn off the old jobs that calculated this data (editors per country). - Google Summer of Code, plenty Code Reviews for contributions to Wikistats UI: http://stats.wikimedia.org/v2
Cloud Services
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Fundraising Tech
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- Working on new recurring contribution API for main card processor
- Debugging CN patch deploy to add CSP headers on banner preview
- CiviCRM: Work on exports, fixing custom fields, new fraud-hunter's report
- Working on getting landing page and banner impression EventLogging data into payments cluster DBs
MediaWiki Platform
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Performance
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- Moving our apps/etc out of puppet, to scap deploy
- Blog post on Singapore DC should be up shortly, been working on that with Traffic
- Lots of CRs
- working with RelEng/Platform on a few changes to CI and to MW Core
- mcrouter is now deployed in deployment-prep, next steps are to configure, and working with SRE to figure out how to do cross-DC correctly.
- Trying out Digital Ocean for WebPageTest (got free credits from them)
Release Engineering
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- Deadlines in phabricator are now visible on workboards.
Research
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- In the next two/three weeks we'll be collecting citation usage data via EventLogging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191086 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:CitationUsage. cc Reading Infrastructure, Adam Baso, Security, Legal, Analytics.
Scoring Platform
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- Waiting on the scap deployment to unblock us from git-lfs--it works on beta :) (Almost there! Thanks Releng!)*
- Virtualenv is now cached with deployments (so that we can quickly rollback)
- This is relevant for anyone who is deploying a python service with virualenvs as they might want to follow our lead
- New, dynamic table with ORES support status.
Search Platform
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- Need help with WDQS GUI build automation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189811
- Selenium Wikibase tests still broken: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189762
- Job queue issues fix merged: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191024 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190958
- Lexeme completion search merged: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190970 Continuing work on Forms support
- Evaluating feature generation by `query_explorer` functionality of LTR plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187148
- Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
Security
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Services
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- search with CirrusSearch job JSON serialization T191024 (Not any more according to Stas :)
- language with Translate job JSON serialization T192111
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- There was an issue with wikidata recent changes job, resolved no
- EventBus (and kafka job queue) going to private wikis this week
- Cassandra 3.11.2 evaluation
Site Reliability Engineering
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- ICU57 migration completed on all wikis
- Work started on upgrading all mediawiki application servers to Debian Stretch
- The image scalers have been decommissioned (thumbor provides fully that fuctionality now)
- mcrouter is being tested and are going to post an architecture proposal for review
- Discussions on establishing a timeline for deprecation of non-forward-secret ciphers and TLSv1.0 started
- Proton discussions came to a result on hosting this on 2 ganeti VMs per datacenter, will be resolved this week
- helm charts repo published https://releases.wikimedia.org/charts
Wikidata
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- Send thanks to John and the security team for the quick response they gave us for our security review for our coming release
- Lexeme will be released on May 23rd
- wb_terms fire fighting is stopping, strategy work starts now how to get ourselves out of the situation properly and in a way we can scale
German Technical Wishlist
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- MediaWiki CodeSniffer performance improvements already released as version 18, thanks Lego!
- Backported a fix in a 10 year old File export/import util, please watch for positive/negative consequences if this sounds familiar: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/426959
- Final 2 sprints working on MoveFilesToCommons: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/move-files-to-commons/
- DeepCategory integration in AdvancedSearch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170533
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
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