Scrum of scrums/2019-01-09

2019-01-09

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• Language blocked by RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/482766/
• Security: if there are notes from the Proton security review, they would be useful for the handover from Reading Web to Reading Infrastructure. See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177765#4822198
• Growth: Who do I (mdholloway) talk to about/add for review on changes to Extension:GettingStarted?
• Readers Web and Performance, in case you notice performance hits on the mobile site: #Research ran reader trust survey from 01/07 till 01/09: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882
• Core Platform (from Analytics) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202781#4865947 (same for MediaWiki history reconstruction).
• Release Engineering: January 28 - wmf.15 - No Train (due to All Hands week)

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Growth

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  • Deploying Help Panel this week https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Focus_on_help_desk

Language

• Blocked by: CI/RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/482766/
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Google Translate available for ContentTranslation now! https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/09/you-can-now-use-google-translate-to-translate-articles-on-wikipedia/

Readers

iOS native app

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• Updates:
  • completed user testing of the Editing prototype - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211152
  • will be conducting user testing of the Editing prototype among internal users this week
  • still working on/refining editing tools and syntax highlighting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/

Android native app

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Readers Web

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• • Summary: starting Advanced Mobile Contributions work and Webpackifying the remaining MobileFrontend modules. Say hello to our new test engineer, Edward Tadros!

• • 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
      • Webpackify mobile.languages.structured and mobile.mediaViewer asynchronous ResourceLoader modules T210210 T210209
      • Drawers and Overlays should not auto-append themselves T209129 T211691
      • Replace inheritance with composition T205592

• • • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Build AMC opt-in toggle T211197 T212516
      • Team planning

• • • Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
      • Deploy to enwiki and all remaining projects on January 14th T210554

• • • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T212518 T211724 T212970

• • 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/
      • WMDE reference previews are in progress https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews

• • PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
    • Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084
    • Passing ownership to Readers Infrastructure pending security follow-up T210652

Readers Infrastructure

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  • Security: if there are notes from the Proton security review, they would be useful for the handover. See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177765#4822198
  • Growth: Who do I (mdholloway) talk to about changes to Extension:GettingStarted?
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• Updates:
  • Building new APIs to support the App Editor Tasks initiative ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212793 )
    • Counts of edits meeting specific criteria: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212795
    • Suggested entities/articles for adding descriptions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504
  • Maps:
    • Test Kartotherian/Tilerator with node 10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209990
    • Stretch Upgrade:
      • Tile generation report published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/Tile_generation_report
      • Ready to move on with whole cluster upgrade and data replication

Multimedia

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Parsing

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• Updates:
  • This patch needs VE folks to take a look and validate that they can work with this change
    • • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/parsoid/+/456520 -- Add support for server side mgmt of edited <ref>s

UI Standardization

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  • OOUI v0.30.1 in preparation, featuring one deprecating change
    • `iconTitle`/`indicatorTitle` options are replaced by `title`, same goes for `setIconTitle`/`setIndicatorTitle`, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76638 & https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212977
    • From above, all widgets where it makes sense to provide a `title` attribute will support them out-of-box
  • Working on roadmap for OOUI v1.0.0 - feedback welcome
  • Special:AllMessages now standardized
  • Setting up project page for system font stack for MinervaNeue

Technology

Analytics

• Callouts: Core Platform https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202781#4865947 (same for MeiaWiki history reconstruction).
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  • Presto cluster online and usable with test data pushed from analytics prod infrastructure accessible by Cloud (labs) users https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204951
  • Productionized HiveToDruid with transform functions (allow for any EventLogging data set to be loaded with handy transforms: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210099
  • Decomission older Hadoop worker nodes and add newer ones: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209929

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • CiviCRM:
    • new point upgrade
    • fixing regression in manual merge code
    • reviewing core team member's work on allowing read-only DB connections.
  • CentralNotice:
    • deploying patches held during big English on next week's train
    • duplicate entries in protection log should hopefully be fixed by a core patch to go out next week too https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210983
  • Payments-wiki
    • upgrading to 1.31 in the next week or two https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184460
    • charging recurring donations in native currency for card processor's new API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211024

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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  • Language blocked by RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/482766/
• Updates:
  • Željko has contacted a few teams (Editing, Language engineering, Contributors, Growth, Fundraising tech, Reading, WMDE) about creating Selenium tests for a few repositories. Please respond. Thank you. :)
  • SonarQube and Code Health Metrics at 5 Minute Demo this week https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/5_Minute_Demo
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: No train, hope it was a good holiday!
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206666
      • No blockers! :D
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.13 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206667
    • January 28 - wmf.15 - No Train (All Hands)

Research

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Ran reader trust survey from 01/07 till 01/09: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882
  • Working on deploying the recommendation API improvements:
    • Support for more database connections
    • Additional languages: en, es, fa, and uz
    • Misc improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213222

Scoring Platform

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  • A recent model for translatewiki.net has run into the dreaded production-to-non-production API call limitation. Anyone else support a renewed push to bring TWN onto WMF hardware? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213131
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  • Deployment yesterday adds new models for translatewiki, jawiki, itwiki, glwiki, and dewiki. (cc. Collaboration Team)
  • We have CIDR whitelisting now, so consumers can ask us for exceptions in order to run short, highly parallel jobs.
  • Writing an Oozie job for ORES, getting lots of great support from Analytics. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209732

Search Platform

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Security

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• Blocking:Proton just learned, will follow up
• Updates: Analysts are working Phab tasks

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • None
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  • Start of quarter!

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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