Scrum of scrums/2018-07-25

2018-07-25

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• SREs! Reading Infra need advice on backporting a package (mapnik 3.0.20) to Debian Stretch (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200284 )
• 1.32.0-wmf.14 train blocked on Failed executing job: ThumbnailRender
• EventLogging sanitization updated to work on Hive databases as well, read all about it and the new unified Whitelist
• Need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199252 - Google has bad cache for a bunch of pages on it.m.wikipedia.org, need someone who has Google Webmaster Tools access for wikipedia.org domain to help address this.

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Still wrapping up 6.0 release (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/)

Android native app

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Wrapping up navigation prototypes for user testing.

Readers Web

• Blocked by:
  • New service request: chromium-render/deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748
    • We're not blocked but we are ready to help and eager to close out the epic
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Page issues UI and instrumentation T191528 T197932 T197931
    • Other fixes and hygiene T193172 T188261 T199066 T197133 T190549
  • Product and design at Wikimania

Readers Infrastructure

• Blocked by: Need advice from SREs on backporting a package (see callouts)
• Blocking: n/a?
• Updates:
  • Maps:
    • Working on migrating test servers to Cloud VPS
    • Working with SRE (Gehel) on migrating all servers to Debian Stretch
    • Various grooming/triage and bug fixes
  • MCS/PCS:
    • Working with Services to deploy mobile-html endpoints, add language variant support to all endpoints
    • Working with Services, Reading Web on designing page previews for Wikidata

Multimedia

• Updates
  • SDoC: search prototype progressing
  • SDoC: backend search patches getting merged
  • SDoC: working through implications of (technical and community) discussions from wikimania

Contributors

Community Tech

• Blocked by: Security review for TemplateWizard
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • GlobalPreferences are out, work and ready for you to use

Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: Languages for Content Translator 2 implementation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197075#4447456
  • Updates: improving UI test coverage for VE; fixed VE regressions

Parsing

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • No significant things to report. My laptop is having a problem, not charging, researching issue.

Growth

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Language

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Audiences Design

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UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • Updated EventLogging sanitization to work with both MariaDB and Hive databases, see docs at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging/Data_retention_and_auto-purging
  • Filed the hardware request to host a smaller public Data Lake on our cloud
  • Follow-up from Kafka outage, testing to reproduce in labs, incident report: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180711-kafka-eqiad

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • Making good progress on the ingress scripts for EventLogging data from banner and landing page impressions
  • Experimenting with different ways to let donors from certain countries opt in to emails
  • More CiviCRM work to export and expunge donor data
  • Responding to "interesting" results of today's full-scale test of card processor's new API

MediaWiki Core Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
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Performance

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199252 - Google has bad cache for a bunch of pages on it.m.wikipedia.org, need someone who has Google Webmaster Tools access for wikipedia.org domain to help address this.
  • Working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200346

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • 1.32.0-wmf.14 train blocked by Failed executing job: ThumbnailRender (in callouts)
  • SRE: helm test in production k8s namespace
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Gerrit upgrade to 2.15.3 soon, will send an email, will want SRE

Research

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Working on recommending missing articles based on translation pageview predictions

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • JADE storage discussion is headed back to TechCom with a proper RFC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200297
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Minor frontend improvements to wikilabels
    • Using OOUI alert and config instead of alert() and config()

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198067
  • Fixed Polish analyzer, pending reindex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046
  • Set up analysis for Malay & Indonesian, pending reindex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196780
  • Discussed potential approaches for using NLP in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193070
  • Improved prefix URI param handling: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198318
  • Working on Esperanto analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200099
  • Working on Lexeme fulltext search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196188
  • Working on collecting click statistics for Wikidata completion search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196186
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Started Apache Traffic server experimentation
  • Will start discussions to set the date for the next datacenter switchover
  • grafana-admin to be removed.

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Work on Structured Lexicographical Data continues: improving the editor interface, and adding Senses (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/)

German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • Is there an update on changing the meeting to an earlier time?
    • Meeting this week to discuss updates to the template and meeting goals.
    • After that, we'll move the meeting to 2 hours earlier.