Scrum of scrums/2018-09-19
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2018-09-19
[edit]Callouts
[edit]- UI Standardization: Rolled-out OOUI Special:Preferences with user-experience improvements to Beta-Cluster yesterday, on normal train next week.
- Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Preferences …and provide feedback for any issues – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538
- Performance: Prepped documentation on how to respond to performance alerts, aimed at engineering teams that are not Perf in order to speed up cycle time: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Regressions
- Feedback requested on advanced mobile contributions prototype https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Navigation_prototype_feedback [Readers Web]
- Release Engineering: please help us to resolve train blockers, the train is not moving forward until they are resolved
- T204758 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: csrftoken"
- T204797 [Regression 1.32.0-wmf.22] ParserOutput::getLanguageLinks returns invalid values (Undefined index from ApiParse and LinksUpdate)
- T204826 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: query"
Audiences
[edit]Contributors
[edit]Community Tech
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Anti-Harassment Tools
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- Finishing up work on Partial Blocks
- Waiting for schema changes to be executed on production https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204006
Editing
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- Moved MobileFrontend's VisualEditor styles back to MobileFrontend
- Fixed scrolling OOUI dialogs on iOS
Growth
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Language
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- Various fixes for Content Translation v2 to be deployed with this week's train.
Readers
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- Still working on 6.1 (wikidata description editing, echo notifications) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
Android native app
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- Wrapping up navigation design updates/refinements.
Readers Web
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- Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
- Feedback requested on advanced mobile contributions prototype https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Navigation_prototype_feedback
- Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
- Transition View, utils, and other files to Webpack T203100
- CategoryOverlay refactor T191987
- Remove unused dev scripts from MobileFrontend T202743
- Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
- Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
- Limited A/B test imminent T204609
- ReadingDepth sometimes initialises before PageIssues T204144
- Safari sendBeacon issues T204143
- Add red link logging T204073
- QA https://people.wikimedia.org/~jdrewniak/more_ambox/ https://people.wikimedia.org/~jdrewniak/page_issues_inventory/en.index.html
- New / old treatment A/B test can be seen here https://readers-web-master.wmflabs.org/wiki/Pharmacovigilance?mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile
- Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
- Fix Edit schema EventLogging T204584 T203615
- Maintenance and bug fixes T197884 T199066
- Design and product auditing special pages in Minerva
- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
- Remaining work tracked in T186748
- Working with Services on a Grafana dashboard T201158
- Miscellaneous maintenance and bug fixes
- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
- Supporting Readers hiring processes
Readers Infrastructure
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- MCS, PCS: Nothing particularly exciting.
- Maps:
- Prod upgrade to stretch in progress
- Beta testing of tilerator resource change events for purging map tiles is in progress
- Need change-propagation deployed for the next step
Multimedia
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- File page with multi-lingual captions in review
- MCR work has begun
- Artwork/editing wikidata design continue
- Looking into restore old revisions
- Refining structured data search prototype
- hiring!
Parsing
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Patches needing review from other teams https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/460032 - Deprecate Preprocessor_Hash (Mediawiki Platform) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/460200 - Preprocessor dependency in wikibase (WMDE) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/458898 / https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/458899 - Remex on translatewiki (Language Team / Niklas) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/446766 - BCP47 in Babel extension (Language Team / Niklas)
UI Standardization
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- UI Standardization: Rolled-out OOUI Special:Preferences with user-experience improvements to Beta-Cluster yesterday, on normal train next week.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Improve_Special_Preferences_user_experience_and_convert_to_OOUI Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Preferences …and provide feedback for any issues – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538
Technology
[edit]Analytics
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Cloud Services
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Fundraising Tech
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- Trying to rescue data scrambled by a payments-wiki bug last Thursday
- Fixing bugs in latest CiviCRM point release
- Supporting Amazon Alexa donations
- Still working on CentralNotice / translate issues
MediaWiki Core Platform
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- working on session themes for Wikimedia Technical Conference
- actor table and comment table deployment unblocked by DC switch, writing to new schema enabled on test wikis and mediawiki.org
- worked with Reedy to stop deploying symfony polyfills we don't need (gerrit:460464) - 3.5k less lines of code!
Performance
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- Starting perf testing on low-power Android Go phones
- Looking at moving our WebPageTest setup to bare metal - working with SRE to do optimization testing
- Analyzing sitemaps value
- Quieting some of our alerts, so that they don't bother SRE (only us)
- Prepped documentation on how to respond to performance alerts, aimed at engineering teams that are not Perf in order to speed up cycle time: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Regressions
- Helped investigated slowness of the recent changes API
- Major triage of mediawiki-database and wikimedia-prod-errors Phab dashboards
Release Engineering
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- [WMCS] Increased quotas for vcpu and memory in integration project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204373
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- Train Health:
- no train last week due to DC switchover, train continues this week
- Three blockers so far :(
- T204758 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: csrftoken"
- T204797 [Regression 1.32.0-wmf.22] ParserOutput::getLanguageLinks returns invalid values (Undefined index from ApiParse and LinksUpdate)
- T204826 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: query"
- Log Health: No complains. This time.
- Code Health:
- Code Health Metrics Working Group Kickoff last week
- Code Health Metrics Working Group meeting this week - further discuss/define the workgroup's scope and next steps
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Research
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- Re-starting data collection for CitationUsage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191086
- Exploring further improvements on the recommendation API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203041
Scoring Platform
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** PoolCounter for ORES is deployed ** Working on design of secondary tables for JADE and using MCR in JADE
Search Platform
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Security
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Services
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Site Reliability Engineering
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- Goal planning in process
- Switchover went very well, switchback on week of Oct 8th
- Work on Apache traffic server continuing
- PHP7 work continuing, php 7.2 part stalled as no CI+mediawiki test acceptance yet
- Icinga upgrade to stretch ongoing (should be uneventful, but still FYI)
Wikidata
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German Technical Wishlist
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Multi-Content Revisions
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- software development for file caption and statement support in MCR is complete
- deployment is in progress
- switch to "read new" on testwiki this week followed by mediawiki.org after a few days of testing