Scrum of scrums/2018-09-12

2018-09-12

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar

• Release Engineering:
  • Log Health: Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000 times/day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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  • Improve mobile dialogs, selections, and edit interfaces

Growth

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Language

• Blocked by: RelEng to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450508
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  • CX: Performance improvements being worked on along with other continuous work.
  • Global Preferences now supports changing UI languages when enabled.

Readers

iOS native app

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  • 6.0.1 released (minor bug fixes) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0.1-walrus-on-a-golf-cart/)
  • working on 6.1 (wikidata description editing) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
  • investigating visual editing capabilities of the iOS SDK

Android native app

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  • Completing navigation updates based on user testing.
  • Should release Echo notifications to beta by end of week.

Readers Web

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  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Transitioning several well-used files to Webpack T203100
      • Enable headless QUnit tests compatible with Special:JavascriptTest T199452
      • Remove remaining white flicker from image overlay load T197110
      • Client side error reporting for Minerva+MobileFrontend follow-ups T202026
      • Maintenance and bug fixes T203490 T202701
    • Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
      • Bug fixes (thanks Tilman!): T203386 T203725 T203050 T202349 T203449
      • New / old treatment A/B test can be seen here https://readers-web-master.wmflabs.org/wiki/Pharmacovigilance?mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile
    • Design and product are iterating on advanced mobile contributions nav prototypes T203480 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
  • Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
    • Fix failing isTranslatedTitleBlacklistedTest T203522
  • Supporting Readers Infrastructure, Multimedia, and QA hiring processes

Readers Infrastructure

• Blocked by: None
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  • MCS, PCS: Nothing particularly exciting.
  • Maps:
    • Upgrade to stretch on production starting next week after DC switch T198622
    • Investigating tilerator crash on eqiad, the service needed a forced restart T204047
    • New Grafana Dashboard for the beta cluster T202639
    • Kartographer bug changed maplink behavior (fixed) T203427

Multimedia

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  • File page with multi-lingual captions in review
  • MCR work begins this week
  • Artwork/editing wikidata design continue
  • Restore revisions in progress
  • hiring!

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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  • OOUI v0.28.2 released yesterday and addendum release of v0.28.1 last week. Highlights:
    • NumberInputWidget: Rethink 'step' semantics (Bartosz Dziewoński)
    • 15 new icons added: 'camera', 'beaker', 'globe', 'helpNotics' 'hieroglyph', 'mathematics' & 3 'mathematicsDisplay*', 'chart', 'musicalScore', 'zoomIn' & 'zoomOut'
    • Special icon treatment for Arabic language on 'info'
    • docs and tests improvements
  • Special:Preferences OOUI rollout is prepared and coming. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538 Last technical blocker on Special:GlobalPreferences is on the way to be fixed.

Technology

Analytics

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  • old geowiki jobs and datasets have been turned off and deleted in favor of the geoeditors data pipeline, accessible from Superset
  • upgraded two more services to Stretch
  • mediawiki history data quality checks have been automated, makes releasing new snapshots easier
  • continuing work on Presto, project family metrics, cummulative metrics, a tinier EL module, annotations in Wikistats, helping with privacy hiring, Schema Registry RFC

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • CentralNotice: Working on slowness and DB abuse when saving banners with translatable messages. Thanks to language team and db ops for help with the investigation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203925
  • CiviCRM: Making some progress on speed of importing donations, fixing bugs in donor data export / delete tool
  • New card processor API: more bug fixing, deploying script to resolve pending transactions
  • Working on hiring

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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  • DBA (in support of Reedy): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174802 (EducationProgram db dump in prep of removing the extension)
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  • Language RelEng to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450508
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  • Train:
    • we had a UBN! backport needed on Thursday ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203566 )
    • This has been thoroughly documented in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156541 and it is a regularly recurring problem which causes production breakage every time the structure of a class is changed in an incompatible way. We can do better!
  • Log Health:
    • Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000 times/day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149

Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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  • Switched communication between ElasticSearch and Analytics cluster to Kafka: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198490
  • Enabled loading categories from daily diffs everywhere: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201217
  • Fixed searching for strings starting with #: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182452
  • Fixed bug in displaying results counts in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71382
  • Upgraded disk space on WDQS servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196485
  • Working on improving Korean analyzers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178925
  • Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
  • Working on searching for statement values without additional keywords: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163642
  • Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197960

Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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  • Reading-web with T177765 (Sorry for delay)

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  • Work on phan-taint-check continues. Voting on lots of WM deployed extensions now (Thanks Legoktm)
  • Chromium-render review this week (sorry for delay)

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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Wikidata

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  • Finishing up Senses support in Lexicographical Data: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/

German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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