Scrum of scrums/2019-03-20

2019-03-20

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• From RI, to RelEng(?): Does anyone know definitively whether enabling an extension in the Beta Cluster requires in practice that the extension submodule be present in all MW branches currently running in production? See discussion on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/496577/ .
• Parsing Team requesting SRE to take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213493
• If your project is using RemexHtml, please update to the latest version (2.0.2). HTML parsing and DOM building is now 7x faster on large DOMs.
• Analytics: Research is starting data collection for CitationUsage schemas on enwiki on 03/21: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969
• Performance, Readers Web: Research is running reader trust survey on enwiki during 03/18-03/21: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217576
• Release Engineering: train blocked, branch is cut but it's not even on group 0 yet, might be at groups 0 and 1 later today, depending on problems
• RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/497600 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/496843
• From Performance to Security: Possible privacy issue in Chrome 73 on Android https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218618

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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Language

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Readers

iOS native app

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• Updates:
  • 6.2.1 is in beta https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/
    • Find & Replace
    • Editing onboarding
    • Other bug fixes & editing enhancements

Android native app

• Blocked by:Android is ready with the ‘Suggested Edits’ for a beta release. Blocked by API production release.
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Ready for enhanced search feature in ‘My Lists’. Waiting for an upstream fix.
  • Minor enhancement on Tablet.

Readers Web

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  • Summary: deploying advanced mobile contributions, planning for next year, and continuing the MobileFrontend architecture investment project.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Deploy to Arabic, Indonesian, and Spanish Wikipedias
      • Tag Thanks actions with AMC tag T215477
      • 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 ImageOverlay T216198
      • Refactor NotificationOverlay T217296
      • Refactor TalkSectionAddOverlay T217102
    • QuickSurveys
      • Consultation and support for Research
    • ExternalGuidance extension review and support
    • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T218069 T218731 T198534 T218173
  • Desktop website (Popups)
    • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • WMDE reference previews review and support T67114 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
      • Bugfix for double pokey on some page previews T204627
  • Planning
    • RFC: Section headings should have a clickable anchor T18691
    • RFC: Add a frontend build step to skins/extensions to our deploy process T199004
    • RFC: Let's stop using QUnit as a mechanism for integration tests T212521
    • MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year

Readers Infrastructure

• Blocked by: enabling the WikimediaEditorTasks extension in production is blocked on performance review (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218087 )
• Blocking: Android Suggested Edits feature final testing & rollout blocked on WikimediaEditorTasks APIs being available in production (see "Blocked By")
• Updates:
  • WikimediaEditorTasks
    • The extension is code-complete for launch but is blocked on a performance review requested as an outcome of security review

Multimedia

• Updates
  • adding 'depicts' statements almost ready - expecting to get onto testcommons next week
  • next release under way too - new Search UI for depicts statements
  • working on qunit tests for MediaInfo extension

Parsing

• Blocked by:
  • Parsing Team requesting SRE to take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213493
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• Updates:
  • If your project is using RemexHtml, please update to the latest version (2.0.2). HTML parsing and DOM building is now 7x faster on large DOMs.

UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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  • EventGate deployed and working, first part of Modern Event Platform to come online
  • Dealing with a couple of outages around EventLogging ingestion and validation, no data loss
  • Adjusting for the comment/actor refactor in mediawiki databases is complete
  • Mediawiki History process should be 5 days faster next month, pulling from our new cloud replica
  • Ongoing work on testing TLS and Kerberos in our test Hadoop cluster
  • Lots of work on data quality and metrics computation for parity with Wikistats 1, important now that Erik is no longer releasing reports
  • Wikistats 2 UI work, metric groups and browse metrics page

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • Have a date for payments-wiki upgrade: March 25th
  • Deployed a core fix for page restrictions caching bad values for a day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217649
    • Doesn't seem to have had bad effects, but let us know if you see anything that might be related
  • Fixed an issue truncating non-latin names and breaking json_encode for main CC processor's new API
  • CiviCRM: merge features, performance tweaks, and third-party mailer integration features (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217603)
  • Work towards making front-end payments forms not depend on backend db: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215453, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215463
  • Email opt-in: capture opt-ins when a payment attempt fails (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217710) and pretty up the dedicated opt-in page (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218240)

Core Platform

• Blocked by:
  • RelEng on T216089 (Undeploy UserMerge Extension from WMF production) for T214317 (Phase out deprecated Title::isValidMoveTarget)
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  • Q4 Goals
  • Product plan for new extension interface
  • Program for EMWCon
  • T214317 (Phase out deprecated Title::isValidMoveTarget)
  • T211125 (Move service-runner to new logging infrastructure)
  • Request ID, log filtering in Kask
  • PHP Backend for WikiPEG
  • Session storage deployment prep

Performance

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  • Firefox 66 and Chrome 73 rolled out in our testing and soon to our users (Firefox seems to give users faster onLoad). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218786
  • Chrome 73 on Android has potential privacy issues see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218618 but we have the possibility to turn off the feature but needs active decision.

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering: train blocked, branch is cut but it's not even on group 0 yet, might be at groups 0 and 1 later today, depending on problems
• Blocking:
  • From RI: Does anyone know definitively whether enabling an extension in the Beta Cluster requires in practice that the extension submodule be present in all MW branches currently running in production? See discussion on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/496577/ .
  • CPT on T216089 (Undeploy UserMerge Extension from WMF production) for T214317 (Phase out deprecated Title::isValidMoveTarget)
  • Search Platform: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/497600 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/496843
• Updates:
  • Help my CI job fails with exit status -11 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/152/help_my_ci_job_fails_with_exit_status_-11/
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206675
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.22 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206676
      • `scap clean` failure https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218783
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206677
      • back to US time

Research

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  • Continuing work towards "Productionize article recommender systems" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214074
  • Running reader trust survey on enwiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217576
  • Starting data collection for CitationUsage schemas on enwiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

• Blocked by: RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/497600 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/496843
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  • Started writing out design for CirrusSearch query extensibility: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/Query_Construction
  • Added debugging API to CirrusSearch to dump profiles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218682
  • Fixed indexing table tags in wiki texts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218001
  • Improved alerting for mjolnir daemons: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214494
  • New Blazegraph version released, tested OK, upgrading WDQS on Monday
  • Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
  • 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
  • Working on moving out search parts of Lexeme extension to separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216206

Security

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Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • Parsing Team requesting SRE to take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213493
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TechCom

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  • IRC Meetings Today
    • RFC: Add a frontend build step to skins/extensions to our deploy process https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004 March 20 2pm PST (21:00 UTC, 22:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office
    • RFC: Let's stop using QUnit as a mechanism for integration tests https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212521 March 20 2:45pm PST (21:45 UTC, 21:45 CET) in #wikimedia-office
  • Last Calls Ending Today
    • The Great Namespaceization and Reorg https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166010 ending March 20 1pm PST (20:00 UTC, 21:00 CET)
    • RfC: Standards for external services in the Wikimedia infrastructure.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208524 ending March 20 1pm PST (March 20 20:00 UTC, 21:00 CET)
  • RFCs recently under discussion
    • Remove .m. subdomain, serve mobile and desktop variants through the same URL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214998
    • RFC: Skin templating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158

Wikidata

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  • none (we are aware of)
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  • Work continues on new responsive term view on items and property pages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3620/
  • Work continues on Schema functionality (defining the "schema" Wikidata items of particular kind should follow): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3789/
  • Next stab on improvement to Wikidata/Wikibase storage layer starts next week

German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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