Scrum of scrums/2019-07-31

2019-07-31

Callouts

• Wikipedia.org portal weekly update blocked on: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213806
• Moving pages on wiki results in lowered article counts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212706
• Growth for ORES filters threshold/deployment update stuck in triage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227094

Product

Contributors

Community Tech

• Updates:
  • Need to meet with Security regarding the upcoming Password Reset wish that we'll be working on.
  • WhoWroteThat browser extension/gadget work has begun.
  • New Page Patrol work is progressing well.

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Updates:
  • Launched Adiministrator Confidence Survey on ITWP.
  • Partial Blocks is likely coming soon to all wikis.
  • Work on Interaction Timeline coming up next.

Readers

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • 6.3.1 in beta testing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3.1_lobster-on-an-orv/
    • bug fixes
    • talk pages enhancements
  • 6.4 exploratory phase https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.4-seamonkey-on-a-hoverboard/
  • History & Diffs
  • iOS13 / iPadOS updates

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Released updated Beta, continuing regression testing.
  • Starting to look towards Suggested Edits v3.
  • Continuining work on integration with mobile-html

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: wrapping up advanced mobile contributions. Deployment to all Wikipedias planned for August 7th. \o/
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Advanced mobile contributions:
      • AMC Outreach - Modal
      • [EPIC] AMC Navigation - user menu
      • [EPIC] Cleanup AMC after release
      • Improve list styles on mobile Special:RecentChanges
      • Add recent changes link into main menu for AMC
      • GrowthExperiments shouldn't be setting the AMC mode
      • [Bug] All mobile options reverted when desktop preferences saved
      • Update notifications & search icons (AMC & non-AMC)
      • Move skin "subtitle" markup that contains redirect and breadcrumbs
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture:
      • Add Redux to MobileFrontend
      • mobile.init should not be loaded on desktop Minerva
    • Miscellaneous:
      • Multimedia viewer does not open for Minerva desktop images
      • Watch/unwatch url is incorrect for non-js users
      • Flaky wdio test: MinervaNeue/history_steps "Page diff Added and removed content"
      • [BUG] Drawer does not appear for block messages on mobile
      • [Bug] Visiting a talk section flashes page content
      • Edits lost when writing replies on talk page before leaving the page
      • [GOAL] Lazy load references in mobile skin
      • Remove the lazy load references beta feature
      • BUG: Notifications tray (mobile) - margins and borders
      • Split up reset.css rules to specific element selectors only where needed and remove file altogether

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • mobile-html:
    • doesn't load images by default anymore. Use pagelib.c1.Page.setup() with loadImages: true
    • doesn't show edit buttons by default. Use pagelib.c1.Page.setEditButtons(true, false).
    • Other pagelib changes: https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-page-library/blob/master/changelog.md
    • adding new endpoint to get mobile-html output for edit previews in the apps (POST Parsoid HTML to transform/html/to/mobile-html)
    • Working around Parsoid not handling language variants in zhwiki by compiling a page from action=mobileview.

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • "other statements" finally released - users can add arbitrary wikidata-style statements on File pages and in UploadWizard
  • expecting to be mostly supporting the release this week

Parsing

• Updates:
  • As of Tuesday morning, Parsoid/PHP parsertests are about ~95% green; wt2wt mode is 1 test away from green
  • Working with SRE, Security, RelEng to deploy Parsoid/PHP to scandium for mass round trip testing ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228069 )
  • We have filed tasks against client services (VE, CX, Flow, MCS/PCS) to start thinking about the Parsoid/PHP switch. Please do take a look.
  • All of these are subtasks of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229015
    • PHP 7.2 seg fault bug (heads up) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228346
    • maybe related to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224491#5361755
    • Need releng input on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/vendor/+/526262#message-53d7d95822b4bb887abccee55a041f5d665ece1b
    • The associated ticket is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213494 and Scott has proposed some other ideas there

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • Design Style Guide: Working on first patch for release of Components section
    • Updated Components images
    • Adding minimal font size to Typography section and fixing connected accessibility bug on portals https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227789
  • No OOUI release this week

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • CentralNotice
    • sending some small fixes out on the train https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227711
    • still following up on contractor-written features: On-wiki preview of unsaved banners, Campaign fallback, finer geotargeting
  • CiviCRM
    • Updating recurring charge logic to handle new 'convert to recurring' flow https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227048
    • Diagnosing deadlock related to new stats fields added last week
    • Exporting more donation stats to email campaign manager https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228241
  • Donation forms
    • following up on feedback after some internal tests with India cardholders
    • form tweaks, asking processor for fixes to parts of the flow out of our control

Core Platform

• Updates:
  • Kask (new session storage) going live on testwiki tonight
  • First work on new API integration tests
  • Minimizing work on MainStash replacement
  • Refocusing on Parsoid PHP API

Engineering Productivity

Performance

• Blocked by:
  • WMDE/Wikidata: DeferredUpdates enqueue-on-failure patch (figure out why it fails wikibase tests); https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/497537/
  • SRE: Improve the filtering of obsolete domains in GTIDs to avoid timeouts on GTID_WAIT; https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/517830/
• Updates:
  • Continued CR work on reenabling AbuseFilterCaching Parser https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156095
  • fresnel: Improve paint timing thresholds. Release, package and deploy Fresnel 0.4.0. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227004

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.15 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220740 – Deployed on schedule
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.16 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220741 – No longer blocked. We plan to deploy 1.34.0-wmf.16 to both group0 and group1 today.
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.17 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220742

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Blocked on Growth for ORES filters threshold/deployment update https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227094
• Updates:
  • Implementing semver for model repos: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228215
  • New ORES deploy
    • Fix for ChangeProp "topic" field https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228689
    • Improved huwiki model https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228078
    • Template:Sfn support for enwiki article quality https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227153
    • (maybe) Fix ref count issue in wikidata model https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229029
  • Jade API spec and schema https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217904

Search Platform

• Updates:
  • Removed indexes for zerowiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227718
  • CirrusSearch query dispatcher work merged: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216429
  • Fixed mediainfo indexes to use description fields: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226722
  • Finished evaluating DYM metrics available in current search satisfaction logging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228226
  • Fixed CI breakage in WikibaseLexemeCirrusSearch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229215
  • Implemented ChronologyProtection support for WDQS Updater: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212550
  • Refactored Label Service in WDQS to support more kinds of queries: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175840
  • 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 WDQS Updater performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212826

Security

• Updates:
  • Parsoid-PHP, moved to active, assigned to Scott for now, Scott & Sam status meeting w/ Subbu today, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227209
  • Security review of preact 8.4.2, Scott did a very simple assessment, unassigned, stalled https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227726
  • Concept Review for the machine vision, unassigned, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227591
  • Doublewiki (old), Scott to wrap up loose ends and resolve, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199
  • CentralNotice Code Review request, resolved - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226963
  • (informal) Security Concept Review For LibUp 2.0, resolved https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227820

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • CPT on restrouter deployment
  • Improve the filtering of obsolete domains in GTIDs to avoid timeouts on GTID_WAIT; https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/517830/
• Updates:
  • Resumed restrouter deployment

TechCom

• Updates:
  • "Heredoc" arguments for templates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114432 last call ending Aug 7th
  • Abstract schemas and schema changes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191231 last call ending Aug 7th

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Performance: DeferredUpdates enqueue-on-failure patch (figure out why it fails wikibase tests); https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/497537/
  • (still) Search Platform: RDF export of MediaInfo entities
• Updates:
  • Significant reduction in size of Wikibase-related ResourceLoader modules loaded on every page view on Wikibase Clients (Wikipedias) expected to go live tomorrow: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203696