Scrum of scrums/2020-02-12

2020-02-12

Callouts

• SRE for Release engineering on Looking for scap reviewers for syslog support gerrit:563468
• Parsing - Project retrospective of how Parsoid was ported to PHP: phab:phame/post/view/189/parsoid_in_php_or_there_and_back_again

Product

Community Tech

• Updates:
  • We anticipate new database table will be created this week (Watchlist Expiry).

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - [Regression 1.35.0-wmf.19] i/p/IndexPager.php:* PHP Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed phab:T244937. This is part of adding more functionality (multicolumn sort).

Editing

• Updates:
  • Deploying Reply v1.0 for talk pages next week
  • For Reply v2.0, refining the approach to autcomplete @-mentions (phab:T232601) and developing a technical approach to editing comments (phab:T242562)

Growth

• Updates:
  • Newcomer tasks 1.1 (topic matching): building the infrastructe to upgrade the topics to use the ORES models instead of our initial "morelike" algorithm. Big thanks to the Search and Scoring teams for their ongoing support.
  • Newcomer tasks 1.2 (guidance): We are also beginning engineering work on this part of the newcomer tasks workflow (phab:T244431)

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Continuing development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration) phab:project/view/4273

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Finishing up conversion logic from old caching to new offline database scheme. (relating to mobile-html migration)
  • Iterating on design refinements of Image Tagging interface.

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: continuing desktop improvements (DIP). Digging into logo handling, conventions, feature management, and legacy version preferences.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Separate out logo handling into square image logos and long text/wordmark banner logos
    • [SPIKE 16hrs] Add coding convention for new commits to Vector
    • Add a Vector skin version preference
    • It should be possible to customise the implementation of mw.util.addPortletLink function on a skin basis
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Replace all possible, non-product specific icons in MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue with WikimediaUI/OOUI ones
    • [Regression, Production] user contributions icon missing on AMC mode
    • [EPIC] None of our View's should exhibit 2 levels of inheritance
    • [EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page
    • Setup storybook from Minerva
    • [Technical] The LoadingOverlay and src/mobile.startup/rlModuleLoader.js pattern should be removed - it results in overlay flashes during switches
    • Better expose table of contents to assistive technology by using role=navigation

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Push notifications technical planning in process

Structured Data

• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • no update from last week - finishing off SDC (input types, constraints, novalue/somevalue)

Parsing

• Updates:
  • Project retrospective of how Parsoid was ported to PHP: phab:phame/post/view/189/parsoid_in_php_or_there_and_back_again
  • Working on a parsoid extension api using Parsoid's Cite implementation as a guinea pig.

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • OOUI v0.36.5 on the way, all icon related changes, added MF/MN icons
  • Started OpenDesignKit integration discussions into design.wikimedia.org
  • WikiEditor 2010 toolbar design aligned to standard components (thanks, Ed Sanders)

Technology

Analytics

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) phab:T210271

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Re-evaluating failure modes on paymentswiki - when we get networking errors making API calls donors often donate twice due to unclear errors. - phab:T243873
  • More work towards recurring donations with backup card processor - phab:T243334,
  • Updating translated thank you letters and adding a button in the CiviCRM UI to send the multilingual versions - phab:T243098
  • Better aligning our use of a few CiviCRM concepts with core - phab:T244326
  • Upstreaming or discarding more local CiviCRM performance hacks - phab:T194313, phab:T217600
  • More work to finish CentralNotice sub-national geotargeting - phab:T243011

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • German Technical Wishlist (Release Engineering/SRE/Core Platform (?)) - Issues with logging into beta wikipedia cause failures of daily selenium tests of TwoColEditConflct extension: phab:T243123
  • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • API gateway plan in technical planning stages Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/API_Gateway
  • Search enhancement epic starting Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/Core_REST_API_in_MediaWiki#Epic_1.5:_Search_enhancement

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Updates:
  • Started with series of internal testing strategy presentations. First in series - CheckUser.

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) phab:T210271
  • Anti-Harassment Tools - [Regression 1.35.0-wmf.19] i/p/IndexPager.php:* PHP Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed phab:T244937
• Blocking:
  • SRE on Looking for scap reviewers for syslog support gerrit:563468
  • German Technical Wishlist (Release Engineering/SRE (?)) - Issues with logging into beta wikipedia cause failures of daily selenium tests of TwoColEditConflct extension: phab:T243123
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
      • Anti-Harassment Tools - [Regression 1.35.0-wmf.19] i/p/IndexPager.php:* PHP Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed phab:T244937
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868

Scoring Platform

• Updates:
  • Rolled back ORES deploy for memory issues. New deploy out on Monday. phab:T242705
    • Memory opened up but issues still persist when doing logrotate.
  • Coloring OOJSui icons using the WMF standard color palette. Is there a good way to do this?

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Load ORES articletopic data into ElasticSearch via the weekly bulk update phab:T240556

Security

• Updates:
  • phab:T242124 - EventStreamConfig Security Review = done
  • phab:T240010 - Wikipedia Previews = stalled on one or two questions for requesters
  • phab:T242134 - Talk Pages/Discussion Tools review = started
  • phab:T243007 - KaiOS review = waiting for code freeze or commit specification

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Release engineering on Looking for scap reviewers for syslog support gerrit:563468
• Blocking:
  • German Technical Wishlist (Release Engineering/SRE/Core Platform (?)) - Issues with logging into beta wikipedia cause failures of daily selenium tests of TwoColEditConflct extension: phab:T243123

Wikimedia DE

German Technical Wishlist

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering/SRE/Core Platform (?): Issues with logging into beta wikipedia cause failures of daily selenium tests of TwoColEditConflct extension: phab:T243123