Scrum of scrums/2019-07-24

Callouts

• SRE informs that:
  • M3 (phabricator) db master switchover scheduled for Thursday 25th (read-only will be required) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228243
  • S8 (wikidata) primary db master switchover scheduled for Tuesday 30th (read-only will be required) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227062
  • We will be recreating kubernetes codfw + eqiad clusters state from code stored in deployment-charts with helmfile [MIGHT CAUSE DOWNTIME] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228837, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228836. If you have a service in that cluster, keep that in mind. We will be doing our best of course to not cause any downtime
• Scoring blocked on Growth: ORES filters updates (FYI: getting pings) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227094
  • Ping from community member here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223273#5357309
• Wikidata/WMDE would appreciate help with finding a responsbile team for the Graphoid service
  • There are issues with graphs in the Wikidata Query Service caused by the Graphoid service (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226250) and it is not clear what team is responsible for it. See also the code stewardship request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211881

Product

Contributors

Community Tech

• Updates:
  • Doing a lot for PageTriage/NPP
  • Will start working on the WhoWroteThat browser extension

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Blocked by:
  • Need review, probably by Brad/Gergo: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth/+/518087
• Updates:
  • Continuing to make fixes related to partial blocks

Editing

• Updates:
  • Mobile VE load time improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227897 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215717
  • V2 of edit cards on mobile VE will be deployed next week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221247
  • Beginning work on mobile VE toolbar refresh: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211255

Growth

• Updates:
  • Working on features to aid discovery of the newcomers home page:
    • Redirect from email confirmation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222848
    • Button on empty contributions page: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225328
    • GuidedTour after account creation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222852

Readers

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Working on 6.3.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3.1_lobster-on-an-orv/
    • bug fixes
    • talk pages enhancements

Android native app

• Updates:
  • We are actively testing and fixing issues related to suggested edits - image captions in beta
  • In active development phase for integrating with the page mobile-html end-point https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4123/

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: continuing development of the advanced mobile contributions.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Advanced mobile contributions:
      • AMC - mark AMC setting as "new"
      • [EPIC] AMC Navigation - user menu
      • [AMC] Reduce margin below Article/Discussion tabs
      • Update notifications & search icons (AMC & non-AMC)
      • Decommision MobileWebMainMenuClickTracking
      • Disable grouped results on RecentChanges page on mobile
      • Create new MobileWebUIActionsTracking schema
      • Use a clearly intended height on MinervaNeue header
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture:
      • Tasking
      • MFA: Drawers and Overlays should not auto-append it self to the body element
      • Add Redux to MobileFrontend
      • mobile.init should not be loaded on desktop Minerva
      • BetaOptInPanel should use ES6 classes NOT mfExtend
      • Remove Page's View functionality
    • Miscellaneous:
      • Multimedia viewer does not open for Minerva desktop images
      • Mobile talk overlay not updating with new threads
      • JS Cannot read property 'find' of undefined on Beta cluster
      • Three clicks required to exit talk overlay
      • Bug: Order of some paragraphs is flipped on mobile
      • Edits lost when clicking back from talk overlay
      • BUG: Notifications tray (mobile) - margins and borders
      • Remove the lazy load references beta feature
      • Every Drawer has a shield for catching clicks
      • [Regression] Menu panel has black background when another drawer is first opened
      • [GOAL] Lazy load references in mobile skin
  • Planning
    • Desktop refresh planning

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • expecting to deploy the capability to add/edit aritbrary statements to files on Wed next week ... mostly polishing that atm
  • next will be structured data support for campaigns

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • OOUI v0.33.4 released
    • core CSS reduction by 4% by going back to v0.32.0 approach as follow-up to ProcessDialog improvements and use of framed buttons
    • addition/update of icons for AMC mobile header overhaul (search, bellOutline, userOutline)
  • Design Style Guide
    • Components: Amending and re-structure buttons in OOUI (frameless following components overview, hover treatment and inner distances; primary and normal button separation in overview template)

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Working on backend processes for converting one-time donations to recurring https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227051, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227048
  • Looking at more ways to improve fraud detection and alerting
  • Building another donor data import https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228714
  • Fixing CentralNotice bug related to ResourceLoader updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227711
  • Reviewing and improving on CentralNotice features built by a contractor
    • Preview unsaved banners https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225101
    • Region-level geotargeting
    • Campaign fallback https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226344

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • RelEng: MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
  • Wikidata: There are issues with graphs in the Wikidata Query Service caused by the Graphoid service (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226250) and it is not clear what team is responsible for it. See also the code stewardship request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211881
• Updates:
  • Analysis for MainStash replacement storage
  • Integration testing for Action API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219873

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Updates:
  • No updates this time.

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform Team: MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
• Blocking:
  • —
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.14 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220739 – blocked a few times but fully deployed on Monday
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.15 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220740 – currently on group1 as scheduled; no known blockers yet
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.16 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220741
  • Code Health
    • MediaWiki code (core/extensions/skins) to be tested in PHP 7.3 as "voting" from later today https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204884
    • Looking forward to more migration from integration to unit tests.
  • Log Health

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Growth: ORES filters updates (FYI: getting pings) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227094
    • Ping from community member here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223273#5357309
• Updates:
  • Working with Community relations to improve outreach around ORES UIs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217232
  • Working on Jade API

Search Platform

• Updates:
  • WDQS servers reloaded: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228122
    • Fixed resource problem in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213210
  • Wikidata reindex completed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227136
  • Haswbstatement search in Wikidata is now case insensitive: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206613
  • haslabel:* now works: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224611
  • Wikidata RDF dumps no longer have BETA marker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226153
  • Fixed continuation support for MWAPI in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209034
  • Fixed unexpected response error in GeoData: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220637
  • Working on improving Slovak stemmer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223787
  • Working on creating RDF export for SDC/MediaInfo: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221917
  • Working on getting glent suggestions into Elastic indexes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227364
  • Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625
  • Working on CirrusSearch query dispatcher: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216429

Security

• Updates:
  • Doublewiki (old), will likely complete this week - started - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199
  • PageForms review from a long time ago, closure note posted, frozen - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149869

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None?
• Updates:
  • M3 (phabricator) db master switchover scheduled for Thursday 25th (read-only will be required) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228243
  • S8 (wikidata) primary db master switchover scheduled for Tuesday 30th (read-only will be required) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227062
  • We will be recreating kubernetes codfw + eqiad clusters state from code stored in deployment-charts with helmfile [MIGHT CAUSE DOWNTIME] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228837, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228836. If you have a service in that cluster, keep that in mind. We will be doing our best of course to not cause any

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • Not sure who, Core Platform? - There are issues with graphs in the Wikidata Query Service caused by the Graphoid service (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226250) and it is not clear what team is responsible for it. See also the code stewardship request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211881
• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: RDF export of MEdiaInfo entities
• Updates:
  • wbEntity JS variable is no longer served on Wikidata item/property page load: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85499

German Technical Wishlist

• Blocked by:
  • RelEng: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199116 Need some review of patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/quibble/+/510709/ in order to move this forward and start experimenting with per-repo browser test setup.