Scrum of scrums/2019-03-06

2019-03-06

Callouts

• Language blocked on RelEng: CI issues/Merge Blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217654 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216689
• SRE informs that we have a Network maintenance (Tuesday 19th 14:00UTC) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187960
  • Will require s2 to be read only (T217441 - we will use that window to upgrade MySQL on the master)
  • Will also impact x1 master (which will be read only for a few seconds and cannot be disabled on mediawiki layer)
• Search Platform -> RelEng: CI configuration for Blazegraph: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/493340
• Release Engineering: Train blocked:
  • Growth - Flow\Exception\WikitextException: ParseEntityRef: no name - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217766
  • Cloud Services - labtestweb2001: Fatal error: unknown class AuthPlugin in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.20/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthenticationPlugin.php on line 21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217692

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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  • Performance: CR for avoiding Watchlist DB writes on HTTP GET. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/416198
  • Release Engineering - Flow\Exception\WikitextException: ParseEntityRef: no name - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217766
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Language

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Readers

iOS native app

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  • Working on 6.2.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/)
    • bug fixes
    • editing enhancements

Android native app

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Readers Web

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  • Summary: adding some features to QuickSurveys, medium term planning, and continuing the Advanced Mobile Contributions and MobileFrontend Architecture investment projects.

• • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):

• • • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Provide mechanism to allow dynamically tag log entries T215675
      • Add X-Analytics tag for AMC webrequests T212961
      • Cannot access user contributions when following red link to user page on mobile T201339

• • • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Refactor TalkSectionAddOverlay T217102
      • Refactor ImageOverlay T216198
      • Post-inheritance cleanup T217220
      • Limit mobile.startup's mw.config variables T216848
      • Refactor TalkOverlay T215370
      • Refactor LanguageOverlay T215657

• • • Update list styles T150377
    • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T216628

• • • QuickSurveys
      • Consultation with Research
      • Support sampling by country T213847
      • Support sampling by edits T139317
      • Support sampling by page T213696
      • QuickSurveys are hidden on pages without infoboxes and with table of contents T210646

• • Desktop website (Vector, Popups)

• • • Vector
      • Vector should replace rendering from PHP with Mustache T217172

• • • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • WMDE reference previews review and support T67114 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews

• • Medium-term planning.

Readers Infrastructure

• Blocked by: Security on WikimediaEditorTasks review (they know, it was assigned yesterday)
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  • WikimediaEditorTasks extension security review in progress
  • Reminder: summary 1.4.0 endpoint change: titles in the content_urls properties are encoded now (T216739)

Multimedia

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Parsing

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UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Release Engineering - labtestweb2001: Fatal error: unknown class AuthPlugin in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.20/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthenticationPlugin.php on line 21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217692

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Fundraising Tech

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  • Reviewing audit code for main card processor to make sure we're catching everything https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217582
  • Fixing CentralNotice sanitization over-strictness https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216150
  • Better fraud attempt queries for CiviCRM https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199268
  • Tweaks to Thank You mail https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207674
  • Building notification stream for changes to active CentralNotice banners and included bits https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208511
  • Working on recording opt-in choices even when payment attempt fails https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216293
  • Still trying to coordinate timing of payments-wiki upgrade to PHP7 & MW 1.31 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184460

Core Platform

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  • Documentation Portal product plan draft
  • Tech writer hiring
  • PEG rule parameters
  • Kask to K8S (logging, readiness)
  • Engineering manager hiring last mile

Performance

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  • Parsing Team: CR for Parser save timing optimisation. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/294774/
  • Growth Team: CR for avoiding Watchlist DB writes on HTTP GET. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/416198
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  • Aaron made database messages to Logstash nicer and less verbose.
  • New Fresnel release (per-patch MW perf tester), scenarios now have names.
  • Working on sampling profiler instrastructure for PHP 7, to match HHVM/Xenon flame graphs.

Release Engineering

• Blocked by: Train blocked:
  • Growth - Flow\Exception\WikitextException: ParseEntityRef: no name - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217766
  • Cloud Services - labtestweb2001: Fatal error: unknown class AuthPlugin in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.20/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthenticationPlugin.php on line 21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217692
• Blocking:
  • Language: CI issues/Merge Blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217654 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216689
  • Search Platform: CI configuration for Blazegraph: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/493340
• Updates:
  • Choosing tools for continuous integration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/148/choosing_tools_for_continuous_integration/
  • Projects, Forms and Subtypes oh my! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/147/projects_forms_and_subtypes_oh_my/
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.19 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206673
      • Still one blocker left - TranslateRenderJob: Cannot render translation page for Wikimania/pa-guru! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217380
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.20 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206674
      • We have two blockers:
        • Flow\Exception\WikitextException: ParseEntityRef: no name - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217766
        • labtestweb2001: Fatal error: unknown class AuthPlugin in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.20/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthenticationPlugin.php on line 21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217692
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206675

Research

• Blocked by: None
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  • Ran the reader demographics survey: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217080
  • Google summer of code preparation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217655
  • Collected new set of data for the CitationUsage schema for quality assurance: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969
  • Improving article-recommender scripts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211981

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

• Blocked by: RelEng: CI configuration for Blazegraph: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/493340
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  • WikibaseCirrusSearch deployed tested on Beta cluster, works fine, testwikidata next: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215684
  • Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
  • Working on language-specific lowercasing in search indexing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217602
  • Updated extensions to use new phan (thanks Legoktm, bugs found!)
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
  • Working on moving CirrusSearch code out of Wikibase to a separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022

Security

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  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289: ass*igned 03/05
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215048: assigned 03/05
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216692: TBD
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163827: complete by end of week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419: will start this week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211489: complete by end of week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201492: TBD
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011: TBD
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207990: will start this week

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • None
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  • Network maintenance (Tuesday 19th 14:00UTC) T187960
    • Will require s2 to be read only (T217441 - we will use that window to upgrade MySQL on the master)
    • ill also impact x1 master (which will be read only for a few seconds and cannot be disabled on mediawiki layer)

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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