Scrum of scrums/2019-06-12

2019-06-12

Callouts

• Release Engineering: NO TRAIN OR ANY OTHER DEPLOYS due to SRE Off-site
• Search Platform: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224324 - need help from Ops on LB setup for cloudelastic

Audiences

Contributors

Editing

• Updates:
  • Testing changes to link editing on mobile on our prototype server, will be deployed in next release. (T204733)
  • Preparing a rollout plan for VE-as-default-on-mobile (A/B test, target wikis) (T221195)
  • Improvements to VE<>wikitext switching on mobile and desktop (T221905, T222312)
  • Wikitext normalisation issues on office handed off to Parsoid and resolved by them (T225217)
  • Red links now open in the preferred editor, instead of always wikitext. Looking into metrics implications (recording more VE loads now) (T223793)
  • Regression fixes:
    • Drag and drop broke (T224042)
    • Scrolling when using find/replace tool (T222247)

Growth

• Updates:
  • git #24ef5fe3 - Remove reference to non-existent module (task T217105) by Kosta Harlan
  • git #8059ea82 - Send mentor's username to Growthexperiments-homepage-mentorship-header message (task T224843) by Martin Urbanec
  • git #43f93ae9 - Fix wording for enabling preference on Special:Homepage (task T220831) by Kosta Harlan
  • git #f362b719 - QuestionPoster: Correctly set timestamp when question is posted (task T223338) by Kosta Harlan
  • git #02f222a3 - Log error code with action_data on submit-failure (task T224039) by Kosta Harlan
  • git #fe3fb2f3 - Prevent parsing of GEHelpPanelHelpDeskTitle from accessing the session (task T224224) by Stephane Bisson

Language

• Updates:
  • ContentTranslation work continue.

Readers

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Wrapping up development on v6.3 - in beta testing with external users
    • 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
    • Media wizard in Editor - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209398

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Completed development of editing structured Commons image captions - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223128
  • Proceeding with testing/QA.

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: same as last week: planning for desktop refresh, Wikimania, and next year's technical projects; continuing ongoing development for the advanced mobile contributions project.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Add wikidata item link to AMC overflow menu T222630
      • PageActions Menu should use Builder pattern and reuse existing Menu elements T221792
      • Update icons in AMC T222228
      • AMC Navigation - user menu T214540
      • History page filter revisions cannot be expanded on Minerva skin T223204
      • Fix Special:RecentChanges dropdown widget on mobile T225499
      • Cleanup Special:RecentChanges filters appearance on Minerva (mobile) T223363
      • [SPIKE] Allow recent changes to display list items in AMC mode T224432
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Planning for next year
    • Browser tests
      • Daily Minerva Selenium test job failing T224947
    • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T222834 T225279 T221628
  • QuickSurveys support
  • Planning
    • Desktop refresh design and planning
    • Wikimania proposal planning

Readers Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Released wikimedia-page-library 7.0.0, with beginning of an abstraction layer for PCS

Multimedia

• Updates:
  • qualifiers for depicts ready for deployment, at long last (but not deployed because of SRE offsite)
  • other statements shuold get to test last week of June

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Investigations and fixes for CiviCRM third-party bulk mailer integration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170972, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225544, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223935
  • Initial work on accepting payments in India: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211155, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224514
  • More improvements to contact de-duplication in CiviCRM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217903, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204878
  • CentralNotice: massaging banner preview code written by contractor to make it production-ready: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225101
  • Better error handling for main credit card processor integration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218120
  • Work on asking one-time donors to upgrade to recurring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216562, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216560
  • Offsite next week (17 Jun - 22 Jun)

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.
• Updates:
  • Offsite next week (17 Jun - 22 Jun)
  • New parameter validation in Action, REST API in MediaWiki
  • Parsoid/PHP API MediaWiki extension
  • Deployment of Kask to production
  • RESTBase split going to completion

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.
  • SRE:
    • Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
    • Scap 3.10.0: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224915
  • Wikidata: We need to update wikiba.se tests to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224905
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.8 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220733
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.9 - NO TRAIN OR ANY OTHER DEPLOYS due to SRE Off-site
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.10 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220735

Research

• Updates:
  • Added freeform text to internal QuickSurveys: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225042 (Thanks, Readers Web, for support)
  • Citation Usage: worked on data anonymization
  • Hiring, GSoC, Outreachy
  • Reader Demographics: Compiling privacy policy translations for upload
  • Section Recommendation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225136

Scoring Platform

• Updates:
  • Ping Growth: Deployment of updated and new models scheduled for Monday, June 17th -- updates needed.
    • See the parent tasks of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224484 -- jawiki and zhwiki need new filters. nlwiki and srwiki need updated filters.

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Wikidata: RDF for Structured Data on Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/507910 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447 (fixes in the making)
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224324 - need help from Ops on LB setup for cloudelastic
• Updates:
  • Added haslabel:* syntax (waiting for train): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224611
  • Improved CirrusSearch unit tests performance by randomizing some test sets: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225184
  • Fixed Cirrus job errors when Elastic is down: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222921
  • Created WDQS restart cookbook: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221832
  • Finished patch for upgrading WDQS to Sesame 2.8.11: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200612 (deploying next week)
  • Working on creating RDF export for SDC/MediaInfo: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221917
  • Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625
  • Working on CirrusSearch query dispatcher: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216429
  • Working on Slovak diacritics folding: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223787

Security

• Updates:
  • Backlog
    • Brian still performing code review, this is a tracking ticket for follow-ups for library/vendor code, not started - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223307
    • Exploring outsourced reviews for OIT things, rewrites, JB to follow up after new vendor budgets set 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
    • Waiting on update from Yurik/Vega folks (upstream) to proceed stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222806
    • Scott to verify risk Google sheet, comment on task about trusa risk ownership, close task in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221719
    • Leaving open for feedback, meeting w/ Subbu this week in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221907
    • Basic analysis performed, Scott to dig a little deeper then resolve, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219831
    • Planet wikimedia - assigned to Michal Anna, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207246
    • Wikisource ext, starting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289
    • FormWizard extension, Brian to write response, tag releng stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201492
  • Waiting
    • Wikibase Termbox, completed for now, John to follow up with Raz re: risk ownership, 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

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
  • Release Engineering - Scap 3.10.0: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224915
  • Wikidata: termbox SSR service deployment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220402 (to be fair, it is mostly blocked due to SRE offsite this week)
  • Search Platform - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224324 - need help from Ops on LB setup for cloudelastic

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • Site Reliability Engineering: termbox SSR service deployment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220402 (to be fair, it is mostly blocked due to SRE offsite this week)
• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: RDF for Structured Data on Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/507910 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447 (fixes in the making)
  • Release Engineering: We need to update wikiba.se tests to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224905
• Updates:
  • Migration of Wikidata secondary storage (wb_terms) to a better designed tables to start next week
  • Work on the mobile termbox editing progresses

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • Expectations section is refreshed. Feedback and edits are welcome! :) https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=3262769&oldid=3176123&title=Scrum_of_scrums/Template&type=revision&diffmode=source