Scrum of scrums/2019-04-10

2019-04-10

Callouts

• SRE reminds everyone Thursday maintenance on s3 wikis databases: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220080
• We're looking for 1-2 backup facilitators, in case the facilitator can't make it to the meeting

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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• Updates:
  • Event Metrics ends this week. We are polishing bugs now.
  • Working with TechCom on this task about delayed jobs and job queues: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218812
  • Pediapress is committed to helping with PDF generation for Wikisource

Anti-Harassment Tools

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• Updates:
  • Enabled Partial Blocks on French and Polish wikis
  • Refactoring Blocks with the help of TechCom

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 released (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/)
    • find & replace
    • syntax highlighting switch
    • clear formatting
    • bug fixes
  • 6.3 in development (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3-lobster-on-a-motorcycle/)
    • talk pages
    • link insertion wizard
    • media insertion wizard
    • link previews
    • bug fixes

Android native app

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• Updates:
  • Released Beta version of Suggested Edits (automatic suggestions for adding/translating Wikidata descriptions)

Readers Web

• Blocked by: Release Engineering: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199939. We are not blocked right now but will be blocked in a couple of weeks - basically web team needs a way to enable feature flags for browser tests. We write browser tests for features that are not released yet. This works in the Ruby framework but not Node.js.
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Summary: (same as last week) 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
      • It should be possible to view the desktop history page in AMC T219874
      • Skin Contributions and History pages in Minerva for consistency with their mobile replacements T219349
      • AMC Navigation - add new links to main menu with click tracking T216152
      • No way to reach the editable version of a page when viewing the most recent mobile diff T200969
      • Add secondary page actions submenu in AMC mode T216418
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Inline Hogan templates in mobile.startup T219838
      • Replace Nearby inheritance with composition T217814
      • Refactor NotificationsOverlay T219036
      • Refactor TalkSectionAddOverlay T217102
    • CI tests disabled: Steps that require login are disabled and should be restored T219920
    • Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side T190710
    • ExternalGuidance extension review and support
    • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T97891 T159475 T218809 T219846
  • Desktop website (Popups)
    • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • WMDE reference previews review and support
  • Planning
    • MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year

Readers Infrastructure

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• Updates:
  • (mainly interesting for apps and web team):
    • Base CSS output is now decoupled from live ResourceLoader requests. We now only update the CSS on demand.
    • Fixed issue with missing icon for external links.
    • Added Wikibase entity ID for image files (T219667)
  • Maps: OS stretch migration is not stalled anymore, maps2003.codfw is migrated and maps200[1-2] are on their way

Multimedia

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering: jenkins job to run core tests against beta.commons, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220621
• Blocking:
• Updates: still trying to get depicts release out the door :(
  • mostly working on testing this week in advance of releaes

Parsing

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• Updates:
  • Parsoid/PHP port ongoing:
    • Phan now set up on Parsoid/PHP, got repo green on previously ported code, and enabled as a voting job on all patches going forward.
    • We have started porting HTML -> Wikitext parts of Parsoid after focusing on Wikitext -> HTML thus far.
    • Augmenting capabilities of our JS/PHP hybrid testing to splice several other PHP components into the JS pipelines.

UI Standardization

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• Updates:
  • Improved mobile font stack successfully rolled-out 🎉https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Projects/Improve_mobile_reading_experience
  • Continuing collaboration with Jon Robson on AMC work,
    • HistoryAction to OOUI (aftermath addressing community feedback)
    • preparing Special:Contributions for the same https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117736
  • OOUI v0.31.3 was released last week after ScrumofScrums https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.31.3
    • SelectFileInputWidget: Support multiple files to upload
    • Infusion reflow fixes on various widgets
    • DropdownWidget layout consistency fixes across browsers dating back to IE 8

Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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• Updates:
  • Payments-wiki is back on mediawiki 1.31, patch to update tests in review
  • Deployed first version of fancy opt-in page, working on refinements
  • Continuing work on decoupling last direct link between payments-wiki and civi DB
  • Prepping latest CiviCRM point upgrade for deploy
  • Adapting payments forms to make a better experience for donors using 3D Secure authentication

Core Platform

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• Blocking:
  • (Core Platform, Parsing) Undefined index: june in DateFormatter.php (makeIsoMonth) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220563
• Updates:
  • Epic for RESTBase Split https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3918/
  • Updates to RESTBase UI
  • REST API testing spec https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/api-tests-yaml
  • decommissionning some RESTBase Cassandra servers

Performance

• Blocked by:
  • Traffic: X-Wikimedia-Debug fatal hijacked by Varnish https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217846
  • CPT: CR on avoiding double parsing during save https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/470099/
  • CPT: Input from Tim on Excimer config https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176916#5064425
  • CPT: CR on Graph extension multi-DC caching https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Graph/+/493628/
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Fixed issue in upload stash (manifested itself in UploadWizard flickr import, but could be also elsewhere) related to Swift container permissions
  • Blog post about upcoming Element Timing for Images API, very useful metric in the future (currently an Origin Trial in Chrome): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/157/evaluating_element_timing_for_images/

Release Engineering

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  • Readers Web: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199939. (see reading web section for more context)
  • Search Platform: need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220046 (setting up gerrit account)
  • Multimedia: jenkins job to run core tests against beta.commons, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220621
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.24 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206678
      • Finished a few day late (Monday instead of Thursday) but in time for this week's train
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.25 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206679
      • Some problems, not blocked
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.1 - [NEEDS TASK]

Research

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• Updates:
  • Published a blog post on the Citation Needed project: https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/03/can-machine-learning-uncover-wikipedias-missing-citation-needed-tags/
  • Annual and mid-term plan
  • Wikimania and Wikimedia Hackathon planning
  • Ongoing talks about section alignment and ContentTranslation tool integration

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

• Blocked by: RelEng: need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220046 (setting up gerrit account)
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • All relevant extensions & configs migrated to WikibaseCirrusSearch, removing old code next: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022
  • Highlighting with inlabel: fixed, waiting for deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217809
  • Completed review of language identification status on wikis: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Review_of_Language_Identification_in_Production,_with_a_Special_Focus_on_Stupid_Identification_Tricks#Background
    • Subordinate tasks filed in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174116
  • Added icinga checks for ES lags: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219601
  • Fixed some job queue timeouts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219234
  • Fixed job queue error with ElasticaWrite: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124196
  • Working on cleaning up deprecations after ES6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218994
  • Setting up CloudElastic servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214921
  • Preparing for Haystack conference: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220519
  • Working on WDQS performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217897

Security

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  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220242: concept review, in Progress
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220043: concept review, in Progress
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219289: concept review, in Progress
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419: in Progress, to be completed mid-April
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289: TBD
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216692: TBD
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201492: TBD
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011: TBD

Site Reliability Engineering

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  • None
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  • None
• Updates:
• SRE reminds everyone Thursday maintenance on s3 wikis databases: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220080

TechComm

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• Updates:
  • Updates to the draft Architecture Principles have been made based on feedback: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Engineering_Architecture_Principles&type=revision&diff=3162765&oldid=3123406&diffmode=source

Wikidata

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• Updates:
  • Wikibase Schema, a.k.a. Shape Expressions implementation finished, security review pending: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216692
  • Mobile Termbox progresses: implementing editing of existing labels, description and aliases
  • Termbox Server Side Rendering service pending security review: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419
  • wb_terms trailblaze - discussing possible migration plans with DBAs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220230

German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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  • We're looking for 1-2 backup facilitators, in case the facilitator can't make it to the meeting