Scrum of scrums/2018-12-12

2018-12-12

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• Dec 24th and Dec 31st are freeze weeks.
• Goal planning in progress. If you have requests from SRE, now is the time to do so.
  • Session Service RFC is heading to last call ending Wednesday December 12th 1pm PST https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010
• Release Engineering: No Train weeks of December 24th and December 31st

Audiences

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Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Growth

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Language

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Readers

iOS native app

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Android native app

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  • Released minor update to production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.7.268-r-2018-12-07

Readers Web

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  • Summary: mostly MobileFrontend architecture project tasks and some advanced mobile contributions planning.

• • 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
      • MobileFrontend should not have a global event emitter T156186
      • Collapse mobile.search* ResourceLoader modules into mobile.startup T210207
      • Reduce View inheritance and improve composition support T209007
      • Add tests for Drawer and CtaDrawer T208920
      • Webpackify watchstar T208921

• • • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Investigate opt-in audience and instrumentation T211195
      • Team planning

• • • Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
      • Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349
      • Split pageIssues.js into smaller functions T211257
      • Planning deployment to all wikis except enwiki on December 17th T210553

• • Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
    • Maintenance T209314

• • PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
    • Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084

Readers Infrastructure

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Multimedia

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UI Standardization

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  • No OOUI release this week, work on scheduled last release of the year next Tuesday ongoing.

Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • Campaign going well so far
  • FR-tech supporting the rest of the team with processor switching & investigation
  • CentralNotice tweaks such as reducing log spam for protection
  • CiviCRM performance optimizations
  • Getting new hire oriented
  • Minor upgrades for CiviCRM components
  • Still working on a form variant for payments-wiki

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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  • Train Health:
    • Last week: No train due to the Release Engineering Offsite
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.8 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206662
      • T211774 Full table scans on oldimage table - Anomie and Ladsgroup probably fixed it, will move train forward after SoS and see
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.9 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206663
    • No Train weeks of December 24th and December 31st

Research

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  • Working on building a 'morelike' API for article recommendations:
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201192 and subtasks
  • Working on setting up a production pipeline for generating article recommendations and importing them into the database:
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844
  • Research: Eliciting new editor interests:
    • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests#Second_Online_Experiment
    • We had to delay sending out emails last week. We're sending them out this week.

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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  • Wikidata autocompletion A/B done, results positive, slight improvement in click positions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193701
  • Fixed failed jobs when trying to index invalid titles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208932
  • Set up news servers in codfw: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210265
  • Refactored “second try” search code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204255
  • Working on data corruption issues in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210901
  • Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
  • Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
  • Working on “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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  • T144467: Security review for Google MT for Content Translation - completed by Security Team
  • T207990: Security review for TheWikipediaLibrary extension - Analyst will start soon
  • T202143: Security review for Guzzle 6.3.3 - completed by Security Team

Site Reliability Engineering

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  • Nothing really

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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