Scrum of scrums/2020-04-01

2020-04-01

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • 6.6 release out on public beta (mobile-html integration) - phab:project/view/4273
    • bug fixing and working towards code freeze on that

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Beta candidate with mobile-html and Suggested Edits V4 features is being tested for a shortly coming release.
  • Actively working on tech debt on Android and some analytics work for the release candidatesCurrent board P: phab:project/view/4645/

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: Vue.js iterations planning and continuing desktop improvements project (DIP).
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Provide basic FeatureManagement in Vector codebase
    • Build opt-out link for logged-in users with new vector on
    • Document Skin API and their stability, if any (including Vector)
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • Vue.js iterations planning.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Regression: MediaWiki:Minerva.css is being loaded on mobile site
    • Replace $wgMobileFrontendLogo with $wgLogos
    • Regression: MobileFrontend overrides non-existent user page handling in desktop view
    • Phan warning in "includes/specials/SpecialMobileDiff.php" - working around by disabling
    • Long edit summary/titles/user breaking AMC special pages
  • Miscellaneous
    • WebInstallerOutput should more elegantly load Vector stylesheet rather than hardcoding a reference
    • RFC: Reconsider how we run QUnit unit tests

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • /page/summary endpoint: updating the list of api_urls endpoints. Removing references to removed endpoints. Is anyone even using this? phab:T247991
  • upcoming OSM data re-import in codfw phab:T243609
  • Wikimedia Push Notification Service RFC published: phab:T249065

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • minor updates to MachineVision
  • failed attempt to get wikibase constraints deployed to production commons :/
  • experimenting with Vue.js on frontend
  • media search prototype

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Fixes to backup payment processor NL bank transfer integration phab:T247885, phab:T248712
  • Code cleanup and PHP7 updates for payment library
  • Looking for alternatives to 3rd party cookies for hiding CentralNotice banners across projects
  • Determining how to get 'drush' on debian buster - might have to bug releng for repo reset
  • Reviewing contractor work on CentralNotice
  • Improving email CC, BCC handling in core CiviCRM
  • CiviCRM contact deduplication fixes: phab:T247377
  • Testing migrating recurring card donations from main processor's old API to new API
  • Starting work on matching gifts database sync: phab:T247878

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • API gateway designs
  • Finished Core REST API MVP epic phab:T229662
  • New backwards-compatible hooks interface coming

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - phab:T233873
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.26 - phab:T247773
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.27 - phab:T247774

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Data for events from wdqs needs to be deleted after 90 days and/or sanitized phab:T247034
• Stuff no one else cares about:

Site Reliability Engineering

• Updates:
  • TLS 1.3 support being rolled out gradually to cache-upload.
  • After some routing changes, traffic to codfw will be routed more consistently and geographically correct.