Scrum of scrums/2019-05-08

2010-05-08

Callouts

• RelEng: Changing a WikibaseCirrusSearch config default (to activate its functionality by default when installed) appears to break several browser tests in CI. Guidance requested on what to do about this: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseCirrusSearch/+/507597/
• SRE DBAs inform everyone of Parsercache: second key change scheduled for 14th May https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210725
• VE blocking Core Platform, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222639#5166947
• RelEng: some tests are really long: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222757
• Scrum of scrums
  • looking for 1-2 backup facilitators (facilitator traveling next Wednesday)
  • Meeting notes for the last 3 meetings archived at Scrum of scrums (apologies for the delay)
  • Is this meeting useful? Should it be replaced with an e-mail?
  • Ideas on how to improve the meeting?

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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  • Core Platform, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222639#5166947
• Updates:
  • Summary: More improvements to the mobile experience using visualeditor, with the goal of making default on some wikis by the end of the quarter
    • Fix switching without changes (task T221981)
    • Replace the save button with a save tool (task T163142)
    • Fix diffs in non-section-editing mode (task T222489)

Growth

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  • Planning Mobile version of Newcomer Homepage and iterations the Help Panel
    • Add visible help link for Special:Notifications (task T200184)
    • Convert PresentationModelSection from trait to class
    • Pass viewing user as $3 to email subject messages (for GENDER) (task T219620)
    • Add maintenance script to reserialize revision content (task T209120)
    • Record multiple states for email module (task T219432)
    • Translate Special:Homepage into Vietnamese (task T219284)
    • Translate Special:Impact into Czech
    • Remove now-unneeded override for email subject gender param
    • Flow- Remove unused notification properties
    • RecentChanges updated to use pseudo elements for presentation

Language

• Blocked by:
  • RelEng: Add abi to l10n-watchers group in Gerrit (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222015)
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• Updates:
  • Progress on making ContentTranslation v2 more stable: Dirty wiki markup, reference adaptation and MT thresolds.

Readers

iOS native app

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• Updates:
  • v6.2.3 in app review
    • Send CSFR token on logout - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221856
    • Keyboard editor fix - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221605
  • Continuing work on v6.3
    • Talk page MCS endpoint - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221148
    • Talk page native work - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215928
    • Link wizard in Editor - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213979

Android native app

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• Updates:
  • Updated to handle the new Logout API (with token), should release to Beta this week. - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221856
  • Continuing implementing navigation improvements and next steps in Suggested Edits. - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222056 / https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218201

Readers Web

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Readers Infrastructure

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• Updates:
  • A patch is rolling out this week that adds new hasdescription & haslabel search keywords to WikibaseCirrusSearch, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:WikibaseCirrusSearch for docs

Multimedia

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  • released depicts statements for UploadWizard this week
  • qualifiers for depicts statements coming soon
  • preparing for release of other statements

Parsing

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  • Overall: Over 60% of the porting complete.
  • HTML -> WT: About 60% of the work done (and partially tested and verified). Waiting for all the pices to be ported before it can all be tested together.
  • WT -> HTML: About 75% of the work done (and largely tested and verified) Starting to plan porting of the last big chunk of unported code here which is the "async" transformers that involve interaction with MediaWiki API (on the JS side). Likely to start on them this week.

UI Standardization

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• Updates:
  • OOUI v0.31.6 released with 3 fixes, improved error message styling
  • Collaborating on remaining AMC work for MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue
  • Changing MinervaNeue to use a normalize.css inspired approach over reset.css
  • Continuation on “Components” section work for Design Style Guide

Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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• Updates:
  • Upgraded more machines across payments cluster, dealing with some bugs that shook out
  • Improving manual contact de-duplication workflow in CiviCRM
  • Improving email opt-in UI and backend
  • more work decoupling front-end forms from backend db
  • might bug language team for help improving Thank You email translation workflow

Core Platform

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  • VE, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222639#5166947
  • Site Reliability Engineering: CPT on kask, working on it
• Blocking:
  • Performance, CR for ExternalStorage Access refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ - is blocking https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/ to make it easier to reason about in terms of maintenance.
  • Reminder from Release Engineering (not blocked): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking removal of CodeReview
• Updates:
  • Remove section editing API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216636
  • MediaWiki REST Routing pre-RFC
  • Moving jobs to PHP7 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219148
  • Development of Phester

Performance

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  • Ops: mcrouter misconfigured (multi-dc broadcasts should be async, not sync) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/492948/
  • Core Platform: CR for ExternalStorage Access refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ - is blocking https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/ to make it easier to reason about in terms of maintenance.
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Upgraded perf services to python-kafka 1.4.6.
  • Enabled Feature Policy Reporting origin trial
  • MediaWiki::getUrlDomainDistance optimization based on xhgui data
  • localisation cache: Run benchmarks for proposed LCStore default for MW 1.34. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218207
  • visualeditor: Perf fix landed for Msg->Exists() issue. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/504788/

Release Engineering

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  • Callouts: Changing a WikibaseCirrusSearch config default (to activate its functionality by default when installed) appears to break several browser tests in CI. Guidance requested on what to do about this: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseCirrusSearch/+/507597/
  • Callouts: some tests are really long: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222757
  • Language: Add abi to l10n-watchers group in Gerrit (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222015)
• Updates:
  • We still exist. Sorry we weren't here recently.
  • Reminder to SRE Traffic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking removal of WikipediaZero (and others?)
  • Reminder to CPT: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking removal of CodeReview
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220728
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.4 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220729
      • All good
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220730

Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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• Updates:
  • Fixed job error while indexing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219234
  • WDQS performance improvements deployed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217897
  • Working on supporting Eastern Arabic numerals for search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117217
  • Working on ES cluster capacity planning: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221121
  • Working on cleaning up deprecations after ES6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218994
  • Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625
  • Working on creating RDF export for SDC/MediaInfo: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221917
  • Working on WDQS bugs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153353
  • Working on supporting ChronologyProtector in WDQS Updater: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212550

Security

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
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Backlog

• • Exploring outsourced reviews for OIT things, rewrites, JB to follow up, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155537, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156960, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148246, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187846
  • DoubleWiki, Brian to deploy as sec release, then push through gerrit, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199

Active

• • Leaving open for feedback, will monitor, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221907
  • Recruiting org SMEs, will start on basic analysis, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219831
  • A few more follow-up questions for requester, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221719
  • Planet wikimedia - assigned to Michal Anna, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207246
  • Wikisource ext, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289
  • FormWizard extension, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201492

Waiting

• • Wikibase Termbox, completed for now, possible follow-ups needed, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419
  • Labs db/sanitarium and maintain-views.yaml audits, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169097, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011
  • Audiences user-testing concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220043
  • Audiences growth team emails concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220242

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • None
• Blocking:
  • Wikidata on termbox SSR, working on it
  • CPT on kask, working on it
  • Performance: mcrouter misconfigured (multi-dc broadcasts should be async, not sync) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/492948/
  • Reminder from Release Engineering (not blocked) to SRE Traffic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking removal of WikipediaZero (and others?)
• Updates:
  • Parsercache: second key change scheduled for 14th May T210725

TechComm

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  • Wikimedia Engineering Architecture Principles approved: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Architecture_Principles

Wikidata

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  • Site Reliability Engineering: Wikidata on termbox SSR, working on it
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German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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  • Looking for 1-2 backup facilitators (facilitator traveling next Wednesday)
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Meeting notes for the last 3 meetings archived at Scrum of scrums (apologies for the delay)
  • Is this meeting useful? Should it be replaced with an e-mail?
  • Ideas on how to improve the meeting?