Scrum of scrums/2018-12-19

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• OOUI v0.30.0 going to be released today, all widgets fully accessible. Rollout begin of 2019.
• Release Engineering
  • Train Health:
  • Train blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212217 ErrorException from line 317 of /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.9/extensions/ExtensionDistributor/includes/specials/SpecialBaseDistributor.php: PHP Notice: Undefined variable: downloadImg
  • No Train (nor other deploys) weeks of December 24th and December 31st

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

• Blocked by: Cloud services - Install librsvg 2.40.18 on Jessie for K8s webservice - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151656 (patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/docker-images/toollabs-images/+/480159/)
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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Growth

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• Updates: Help Panel schema is close to being finalized, and initial implementation code has been merged in GrowthExperiments

Language

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  • ContentTranslation v2 work continue.
  • cxserver getting rate-limiter feature soon.

Readers

iOS native app

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  • working on an editing prototype (using CodeMirror) (board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/)
  • hiring screens in progress (team interviews will start after the break) (job ad: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1456243?gh_src=b908e1631)

Android native app

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Readers Web

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  • Summary: lots of MobileFrontend architecture project tasks and planning, making spikes for the advanced mobile contributions project, and page issues deployment \o/. Also, check out Jan's cool Popups UI development environment https://zen-pasteur-e92b1e.netlify.com/
  • Responsive 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
      • Webpackify search T210207
      • Webpackify mobile.toggle T210208
      • Identify views that mix responsibilities T206036
      • Pass View properties in the constructor instead of the prototype T211828
      • Enable Views to easily add children T209647
      • Investigate code splitting for mobile.languages.structured T210210
    • 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
      • Deployment to all wikis except enwiki on December 17th \o/ T210553
      • Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349
      • Split pageIssues.js into smaller functions T211257
    • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T210191 T200927 T211963 T211743 T210390 T211903
  • Desktop website (Vector, Popups)
    • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • Generate all possible combinations of page previews with Storybook T205989 https://zen-pasteur-e92b1e.netlify.com/
      • Upgrade Popups dependencies T209314
      • Replicate Popups memory leak without other extensions T208634
    • Vector https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector
      • Improve language icon discoverability in mobile by using icon in desktop T211985
  • PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
    • Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084
    • Passing ownership to Readers Infrastructure T210652

Readers Infrastructure

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Multimedia

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Parsing

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• Updates: Organizing for PHP porting process, gathering a few extra team members for the next quarter porting push.

UI Standardization

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  • OOUI v0.30.0 to be released later today, will be on 1st train 2019
    • All widgets are completely accessible with this release, following native elements where possible in the screen reader output or WAI ARIA best practices
      • `invisibleLabel` feature for icon-only buttons has already been added in v0.29.3
      • This release includes improvements to Dropdown-, ComboboxWidget and LookupElement
    • Breaking change: Make non-continuous StackLayouts non-scrollable, all code occurrences in Wikimedia-deployed extensions have already been cleared https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208644
    • Deprecation: `iconTitle`/`indicatorTitle` get deprecated, use unified `title` config instead https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76638

Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • CentralNotice
    • Trying another tack to stop protection log duplication https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210983
    • Sorting out an unintended consequence of permission tightening: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209873
  • CiviCRM
    • updates to manually-sent TY letter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211797
    • Performance issue with activity listings: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204908
  • More cleanup from PayPal's messing with recurring donation IDs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209294
  • Looking into currency mismatch issues with main card processor's new API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211024
  • Geolocating donors who come into a specific part of the pipeline without country on the URL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211454

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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  • SRE patch (re)review
    • jenkins agent on releases-jenkins
    • install docker on releases-jenkins
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  • Train Health:
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.8 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206662
      • Finished on time, no major problems
      • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20181212-Train-1.33.0-wmf.8
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.9 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206663
      • blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212217 ErrorException from line 317 of /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.9/extensions/ExtensionDistributor/includes/specials/SpecialBaseDistributor.php: PHP Notice: Undefined variable: downloadImg
      • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20181218-train-1.33.0-wmf.9
    • Next week: No train, holidays!
    • No Train (nor other deploys) weeks of December 24th and December 31st
  • Code Health:
    • Code Health Newsletter - Issue 2 Volume 1 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health/newsletters/Issue02Volume01

Research

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Scoring Platform

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  • Moving towards JSON and away from pickle
  • Improved ORES performance by solving a precaching issue
  • We have developed a damage detection model for Translatewiki. Deployment could happen this week or the week immediately after the holiday deployment freeze.

Search Platform

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  • Started discussion: do we need rare character index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Any_use_for_a_%22rare_character%22_index?
  • Configured LVS endpoints for new ES clusters: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207195
  • Fixed WDQS problem with stale reads: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210901
  • Working on data corruption issues in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044
  • 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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• Updates:Analyists are working on tasks

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • blubber/blubberoid deployed in production kubernetes. Thanks Releng!

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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