Scrum of scrums/2018-11-28
Appearance
2018-11-28
[edit]Callouts
[edit]- Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
- Please avoid significant updates to any systems used by Fundraising (Geolocation, core facilities used by CentralNotice). Pls. ping on #wikimedia-fundraising by saying 'fr-tech' if you have quesitons. Thanks!!!
- Release Engineering
- Train Health:
- Last week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
- This week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660
- Wikidata rolled back to 1.33.0-wmf.4, all other group1 and all group0 on 1.33.0-wmf.6 see https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- T210608 (EventBus, Analytics) EventBus::createEvent Call to a member function format() on a non-object (boolean)
- T210610 (ORES - Ladsgroup) PHP Fatal Error: Argument 2 passed to ORES\Hooks\ApiHooksHandler::addScoresForAPI() must be an instance of array, null given
- T210617 (Wikidata, Maps - hoo)BadMethodCallException on Wikidata item pages containing coordinates with non-Earth globes
- T210618 (Wikidata, CirrusSearch) Wikidata entity search sometimes case-sensitive, uses wb_terms instead of CirrusSearch
- Next week: No train due to the Release Engineering team offsite
- Train Health:
Audiences
[edit]Contributors
[edit]Community Tech
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Anti-Harassment Tools
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Editing
[edit]- Blocked by: **Working with Reading/Web to discuss loading overlay improvements
- Blocking: **Language - working with them to prioritize adding inspector functionality to VE read mode
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- Improved unit testing of ve.ce T206138
Growth
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Language
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Readers
[edit]iOS native app
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- 6.1.2 released last week (crash fixes)
- Working on 6.2 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/) - large release that contains editing (syntax highlighting, editing tools). Planning to release to beta before holiday break
Android native app
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Readers Web
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- Summary: SEO A/B test staged rollout is complete, we're continuing the MobileFrontend architecture project, and planning for advanced mobile contributions.
- 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
- Reduce View inheritance and improve composition support T209007 T209647
- Replace mobile.startup/user with mw.user T204866
- Webpackify references T207805
- Webpackify watchstar T208921
- 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
- Standardize parsing T206177
- Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349
- Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
- Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
- Design added a few more pages to the prototype and some mocks for enable / disabling https://mobile-contributions.firebaseapp.com/nav4.html https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/share/RNO2HHBPK7M#/screens/331909359_Enabling-Disabling
- Started team planning
- Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
- Maintenance and bug fixes T86210 T205008 T208808 T210191 T193505
- Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
- Reproduce Popups memory leak T208634
- Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
- Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084
- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
Readers Infrastructure
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- English Wiki fundraising on apps starting Nov 29 (T209801).
Multimedia
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- SDoC - still working on beta release, have made progress but not there yet
- Also work continues on the next release (statements/depicts)
Parsing
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UI Standardization
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- Preparing v0.29.6 release of OOUI
- a11y measurments on portals finished
Technology
[edit]Analytics
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Cloud Services
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Fundraising Tech
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- Blocking: Please avoid significant updates to any systems used by Fundraising (Geolocation, core facilities used by CentralNotice). Thanks!!!
- Updates:
- Year-end fundraising campaigns in English-speaking countries started yesterday (2018-11-27). E-mail campaign ongoing.
- Currently facing payment processor issues and sophisticated credit-card fraud attempts. Donations are pouring in, nonetheless.
- Various minor improvements to CiviCRM (donor database), payment processors.
- Follow-ups from CentralNotice security and permissions improvements.
MediaWiki Core Platform
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- Finishing up review of TechConf materials by end of week. Then starting to clean up for publication on wiki.
- Revised Session Service RFC, getting ready for final call. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010)
- Met with Security to review potential PE Security projects for Q3/Q4 - refining list and getting ready to reach out potential contractors.
- Excimer will be done before end of year, which is the primary blocker on our team for PHP7.
- Continuing to work on extension blockers to PHP7.
Performance
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Release Engineering
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- Scoring Platform: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210260 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210267
- Updates:
- Blog post Incident Documentation: An Unexpected Journey https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/128
- Željko will be contacting several teams about creating the first Selenium test for some repositories (Editing, Language engineering, Contributors, Growth, Fundraising tech, Reading and WMDE)
- Train Health:
- Last week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
- This week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660
- Wikidata rolled back to 1.33.0-wmf.4, all other group1 and all group0 on 1.33.0-wmf.6
- T210608 (EventBus, Analytics) EventBus::createEvent Call to a member function format() on a non-object (boolean)
- T210610 (ORES - Ladsgroup) PHP Fatal Error: Argument 2 passed to ORES\Hooks\ApiHooksHandler::addScoresForAPI() must be an instance of array, null given
- T210617 (Wikidata, Maps - hoo)BadMethodCallException on Wikidata item pages containing coordinates with non-Earth globes
- T210618 (Wikidata, CirrusSearch) Wikidata entity search sometimes case-sensitive, uses wb_terms instead of CirrusSearch
- Next week: No train due to the Release Engineering team offsite
- Blog post Incident Documentation: An Unexpected Journey https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/128
Research
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- Updates:
- Deploying the Reader Trust survey via QuickSurveys: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882
- Working with SRE to import recommendation API data to MySQL: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622
Scoring Platform
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- RelEng on train blocker. The patch is waiting for review and will get merged soon
- Updates:
- Picking up blubber and Sentinel (releng & SRE support needed)
- Releng for UTF8 support (blubber)
- SRE for another redis node (sentinel)
- Jade RFC on track to pass TechCom review, only minor changes remaining.
- Picking up blubber and Sentinel (releng & SRE support needed)
Search Platform
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Security
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- Updates: Analysts are on track to complete Review by deadlines.
Services
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Site Reliability Engineering
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- no updates
Wikidata
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- wb_terms table should not be used for search.
German Technical Wishlist
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Multi-Content Revisions
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- AbuseFilter testing by multimedia team going well
- Initial MCR SlotRoleHandler work should be completed by end of week which will enable part of the UI support needed for SDC
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
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