Scrum of scrums/2019-04-03

2019-04-03

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes)
• Performance is blocked on input from Core Platform Team/Tim on sampling profiler for PHP 7: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916#5064425
• UI Standardization: New sans-serif font stack for improved mobile reading (MinervaNeue) has been rolled-out: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175877
• Wikimetrics is deprecated, requests redirect now to https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/ We have worked with community Tech team to add couple features to event-metrics that were needed

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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• Updates:
  • EventMetrics has been demoed to users and is officially available. We are cleaning up some bugs now.

Anti-Harassment Tools

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• Updates:
  • More details about our refactor of Blocks here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219441

Editing

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• Updates:
  • Mobile section editing A/B test running on most wikis

Growth

• Blocked by: Security Concept and Design Review of our Newcomer Homepage
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• Updates:
  • The team is currently coding the start module for the newcomer homepage, and designing the mobile version of the homepage

Language

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• Updates:
  • ContentTranslation version 2 is default from now unless user has draft already in version 1.
  • Cron script to purge old unpublished drafts deployed and running at every 15 days to purge drafts older than 455 days.

Readers

iOS native app

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• Updates:
  • 6.2.1 release coming up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/
    • Find & Replace
    • Editing onboarding
    • Other bug fixes & editing enhancements
  • 6.3 planning begins (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3-lobster-on-a-motorcycle/)
    • Talk pages
    • Link wizard
    • Citation wizard
    • "Open here to edit" analytics

Android native app

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Readers Web

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• Updates:
  • Summary: technical planning for next year, continuing advanced mobile contributions features and the MobileFrontend architecture investment project.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Allow easier access to user modes T218625
      • Upgrade MobileWebMainMenuClickTracking to have an AMC field T218627
      • Skin Contributions and History pages in Minerva for consistency with their mobile replacements T219349
      • Jon working with Volker to improve special pages
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Refactoring Nearby: Remove messageBox template partial inside Nearby T218813
      • Refactor NotificationsOverlay T219036
      • Refactor BetaOptinPanel T217298
    • ExternalGuidance extension review and support
    • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T214549 T198534 T218731 T219920
  • Quick Surveys
    • Allow quicksurveys to target based on registration date T218304
  • Desktop website (Popups)
    • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • Bugfix for double pokey on some page previews T204627
  • Planning
    • MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year

Readers Infrastructure

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• Updates:
  • Suggested Edits APIs are launched in production (Wikidata)
  • PCS/MCS/Maps: Nothing particularly interesting

Multimedia

• Updates
  • Still working towards 2nd release of SDoC (depicts statements), pretty much code complete but many speedbumps along the way
    • Turned on wikidata federation on live commons, and it broke various things. All since patched, working on some integration tests before we try it again (just in case)
  • Work continues for subsequent releases

Parsing

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• Updates: Porting continues, about 33% done

UI Standardization

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  • Collaboration with Jon Robson last full week on AMC work, bringing
    • HistoryAction to OOUI and
    • preparing Special:Contributions for the same https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117736, including
    • a dozen merged patches for full skinnability on mobile, improved UX and using DateInputWidget for type=>date HTMLForm elements
  • New sans-serif font stack for improved mobile reading (MinervaNeue) has been rolled-out: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175877 / https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Projects/Improve_mobile_reading_experience
  • No OOUI release this week, but ongoing work following up AMC work like DropdownInputWidget cross-browser improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194523

Technology

Analytics

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  • Kafka total jumbo outage for like 1 hour (this had never happened before) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219842
• Updates:
  • Scooping data for mediawiki reconstruction from new analytics labs replica on the beginning of the month.
  • Launched small tweak to wikistats UI to better explain wikistats1 users where to find things on Wikistats2, take a look: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/metrics/all-projects [wiki, email]
  • Reenabling EventGate in prod and working on changes to be able to persist two streams of data in the new format: api requests and search requests.

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • Had to rollback payments wiki cluster php7 and mw upgrade mid week due to problems with our newly introduced Content Security Policy
    • the CSP updates were blocking 3rd party 3dSecure iframe content for countries with 3dSecure enabled.
  • tech-ops working on a plan to handle the termination of debian jessie backporting (still using some jessie in prod)

Core Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes)
  • Performance is blocked on input from Core Platform Team/Tim on sampling profiler for PHP 7: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916#5064425
• Updates:
  • Organizing Q4 work on 2-week sprint schedule
  • Hired and welcomed Will Doran, Engineering Manager
  • Enterprise MediaWiki conference
  • Finish WikiPEG and tokenization
  • T198341 (remove usages of some db fields for MCR Schema migration)
  • T213893 (maintenance options bug affecting Semantic Mediawiki users)

Performance

• Blocked by:
  • Sampling profiler for PHP 7: Blocked on input from CPT/Tim. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916#5064425
• Blocking:
  • SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes)
• Updates:
  • Working with npm support and RelEng to unblock the upgrade of CI jobs from Node 6 to Node 10 (EOL in late April for Node 6): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215562
  • We will switch the WebPageTest agent to use a Docker version on the coming Monday (the 8th) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192050
  • Error handler on mwdebug servers not working. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217846
  • CR for Avoid double parsing during save. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/470099/
  • CR for Graph extension multi-dc caching. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Graph/+/493628/

Release Engineering

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  • Scoring Platform blocked on releng for the creation of a new repo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212180
• Updates:
  • Gerrit going to 2.15.12 (again)
  • Quibble in summer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/118/quibble_in_summer/
  • Quibble hibernated, it is time to flourish https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/155/quibble_hibernated_it_is_time_to_flourish/
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206677
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.24 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206678
      • No problemo! 🎉
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.25 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206679

Research

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  • Mid-term and annual planning.
  • Research is participating in Google Summer of Code and Outreachy.
  • Improvements to the section recommendation API. Talking with the Language team about use cases: https://secrec.wmflabs.org/
  • Finished up coding an Oozie job for article recommender: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/analytics/refinery/+/496885

Scoring Platform

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  • Blocked on releng for the creation of a new repo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212180
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• Updates:
  • Fixing bugs in ORES extension
    • • Special Contributions/OOJSUI in ORES extenions being worked on by Jon Robson

Search Platform

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• Updates:
  • Migration of Wikibase search to separate extension finished, cleanup in progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022
  • Commons still not configured properly for search, fixes pending: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218954
  • ES 6 upgrade finalized: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
  • Cleaning up deprecation warnings from ES6: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218994
  • Setting up CloudElastic servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214921
  • Working on fixing highlighting in Commons inlabel/incaption keywords: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217809
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
  • Working on WDQS performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217897

Security

• Blocked by:None
• Blocking: Growth : waiting on Security Concept and Design Review of our Newcomer Homepage
• Updates:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219289: concept review, SOP in progress
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419: in progress
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289: TBD
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216692: discussions with client
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207990: will be completed this week

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • SRE service operations would like input/help from Core Platform Team/Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 (Some pages will become completely unreachable after PHP7 update due to Unicode changes)
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • New quarter, new goals

TechCom

• Updates
  • IRC meeting RFC: Skin templating https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158 April 3rd at 2pm PST (22:00 UTC, 23:00 CET) in #wikimedia-office

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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