Scrum of scrums/2018-10-17
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2018-10-17
[edit]Callouts
[edit]- Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
- Release Engineering
- Train blocked: (MediaWiki-General-or-Unknown) T207288 Text in the Sidebar does no longer show the message text, only the message name
Audiences
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Anti-Harassment Tools
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- Waiting for "Execute the schema change for Partial Blocks" to release Partial Blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204006
Editing
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Growth
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- Copyvio logging is in progress on enwiki, so users of Special:NewPagesFeed?copyvio=1 can see drafts and articles which potentially have copyvio
Language
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Readers
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- 6.1 with wikidata description editing & revert notifications in beta (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
- 6.1.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1.1-narwhal-on-a-magic-pumpkin/) will be a bug fix & tech debt release
Android native app
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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
- Webpackify Skins and Overlay management T205593
- Count production JavaScript client Errors in statsv T205582
- Remove ESLint from Grunt tasks T206069
- Fix QUnit appendChild bug with Browser.test.js T203818
- Port PageGateway tests to node-qunit T206226
- Use NPM for Hogan v2.0.0 T205128
- Add code coverage testing and increase test coverage for some existing mobile.startup files T203818
- 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
- A/B test will conclude soon T200792
- Remove page issues A/B instrumentation T206178
- Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
- Add share button T181195
- Make the watchlist accessible to non-JavaScript browsers T196893
- Maintenance and bug fixes T204835
- Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
- Design continuing special pages work in Minerva
- Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
- Remaining work tracked in T186748
- Rewrite Queue to Promises T204055
- Rollback Puppeteer to v1.5.0
- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
- SEO:
- Add Schema.org Article JSON-LD to main namespace pages T198946 (thanks for all the help cscott!)
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- Management supporting Multimedia hiring processes
- Product continuing 3-5 year planning.
Readers Infrastructure
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- At offsite this week (not attending).
Multimedia
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- Hiring continues
- SDoC - ready to go to beta once James F comes back from his offsite
- SDoC - discussion on data modelling continues
- SDoC - usability study on multi-lingual captions
- SDoC - ... other stuff to do with allowing users to add/search on 'depicts' statements
Parsing
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- Updates: Nothing significant to report to SOS
UI Standardization
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Technology
[edit]Analytics
[edit]- Blocked by: someone to finish reviewing a very simple extension change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Dashiki/+/464469/
- will post on the Parsoid IRC channel, hopefully Cscott or Subbu will review and +2 (Shannon commenting here) (Request submitted to parsoid IRC)
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- EventLogging - To - Druid automatic ingester now uses a whitelist instead of a blacklist. It's smoother and accepting more kinds of data, come talk to us if you're interested
- Various Wikistats 2 UI bug fixes, will focus on this all quarter to prepare it for a Beta release by the end of the year
- Progress on importing XML dumps, automatic job will be deployed soon and we'll start working on processing the content
- Working on the quality of Mediawiki History data in the Data Lake, addressing edge cases that we left for later
- Prototyping node Event Intake service for the Modern Event Platform
- EventLogging javascript client lost debug validation by default, and will soon no longer need Schema ResourceLoader modules, see migration info: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205744
Cloud Services
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Fundraising Tech
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- CRM tests still regularly failing due to full mysql partition on integration hosts. Possible fix noted by Eileen on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205950
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- Email campaigns have been underway for a couple weeks now, seeing a decent amount of traffic
- Fixing some payments-wiki card processor error handling
- Refactoring CiviCRM imports to use drupal batch API
- Still finishing up new code to import and aggregate banner and landing page stats to mysql on the FR cluster
- Dusting off the internal donations dashboard for the Big English campaign
MediaWiki Core Platform
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Performance
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Release Engineering
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- (MediaWiki-General-or-Unknown) T207288 Text in the Sidebar does no longer show the message text, only the message name
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- Fundraising Tech: CRM tests still regularly failing due to full mysql partition on integration hosts. Possible fix noted by Eileen on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205950
- Updates:
- Interviewing on-going for our Developer Productivity position: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1225258?gh_src=f15731e11
- Train Health:
- Last week: no train, datacenter switchover T191071 1.32.0-wmf.25 deployment blockers
- This week: the last 1.32 release T191072 1.32.0-wmf.26 deployment blockers
- Still open/blocking: T207288 Text in the Sidebar does no longer show the message text, only the message name (MediaWiki-General-or-Unknown)
- Resolved: T207220 AFComputedVariable.php: Argument to getLinksFromDB() must be an instance of Article - the cause has been identified and reverted.
- Next week: 1.33 starts the next week - T191072 1.32.0-wmf.26 deployment blockers
- Log Health:
- T204871 Deployments of MediaWiki with scap cause a spam of "web request took longer than 60 seconds and timed out"
- Code Health:
- Metrics group meets weekly
- T207046 Code health metrics spike
Research
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Scoring Platform
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- Need DBA review of a proposed link table and indexes for Extension:JADE, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/JADE/+/456078/
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- ORES cluster CPU usage has been slowly climbing, from 5% to almost 100%. This seems to be caused by a bug in mwparserfromhell, we're going to upgrade soon. No downtime so far, we have new alerts in place and will be sending out an update to wikitech-l soon. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206654
- We're switching some of our task tracking from Celery to Redis, which will help us with an upgrade to Celery 4, and reduces load on Redis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152012
Search Platform
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- Finished evaluating Korean analyzers, positive result but waiting for ES 6.4 migration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178925
- Standardize autocomplete preferences interface: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205991
- Lexemes are now supported in WDQS: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata//2018-October/012545.html
- Created auto-deployment testing server for WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197187
- Started work on “wrong keyboard layout” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
- Working on calculating examination probabilities for completion queries: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205348
- Working on improving data and creating models from autocompletion click data: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205111
- Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
- Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
Security
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- Updates:https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200279 is moving forward to Beta
Services
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Site Reliability Engineering
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- Switchback completed successfully
- S8 (wikidata) eqiad missing data due to replication issues still being fully fixed
- Blubber 0.6.0 packaged and uploaded
- Apache puppet restructuring ongoing to support php7
Wikidata
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German Technical Wishlist
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Multi-Content Revisions
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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
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- Agreement to change meeting start time to 35 mins past the hour