Scrum of scrums/2020-05-27

2020-05-27

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: phab:T250302

Product

Growth

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - [Low priority] Growth team: Fix Flow DB errors from phpunit tests – phab:T249839, blocking phab:T246358

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • 6.6 release (mobile-html) released yesterday in scaled rollout -

phab:project/view/4273

• • Working on bug fix 6.6.1 release

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Mobile-html integration and Commons Image Tagging in production
  • Working on minor update to address user feedback and small bugs.

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: collapsible sidebar UI and persistence continues for Desktop Improvements Project (DIP), scaffolding Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Deprecate the `.menu` class
    • Update the method Wikibase uses to inject edit language links into the language portal
    • Rename mediawiki.toc.styles ResourceLoader module
    • Drop support for SkinTemplateToolboxEnd in Vector, finding suitable replacement
    • Regression: Option add links in other languages has disappeared
    • [Dev] DRY up the menu templating code
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Deprecate the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Standardize `.mw-ui-icon` to overhauled icon canvas size 20x20
    • [Spike 8hrs] Make collapsible sidebar persistent across sessions for logged-in users, for sessions for logged-out users
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • [Spike] Prototype a single component for new Vue.js search project
      • [Spike] Build and deploy a Vue.js search prototype to labs
      • Name the Vue.js component library
      • [Spike] Build step, ResourceLoader, or both for Vue.js search?
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Don't count startup script resourceloader.exception events in WebClientError error counting
    • Implement Tap to show for lazy loaded images without MutationObserver - Scrolling on a Kai OS mobile device can be slow on articles with lazy loading
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
    • [EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page
    • Avoid SEO performance and user experience penalties by addressing our handling of lazy loaded images using IntersectionObserver

Product Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
  • SRE service-ops on deploying chromium-render, mobileapps in kubernetes, working on it.

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • vue.js port of computer-aided-tagging on beta
  • had SDAW (structured data across wikipedias) offsite last week

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Updated payments-wiki to stop making direct DB calls to backend
  • Building CiviCRM extension to sync info about employer's matching gift policies to our db
  • Updating CiviCRM to latest point release
  • Adding feature to email donors automatically on failed recurring payment
  • getting ready to release CentralNotice features that require schema changes

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • [Low priority] SRE Service Ops: Provide our special component/php72 in buster-wikimedia — phab:T250515
  • [Low priority] Wikibase team: Fix WikibaseLexeme DB errors from phpunit tests – phab:T249838, blocking phab:T246358
  • [Low priority] Growth team: Fix Flow DB errors from phpunit tests – phab:T249839, blocking phab:T246358
• Updates:
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: phab:T250302
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.33 - No train (EngProd virtual off-site)
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - phab:T253022
      • Call to a member function getUser() on boolean ( CoreParserFunctions::revisionuser ?) phab:T253725
      • Fatal: Class 'MessageIndexException' not found phab:T253748
      • No localisation cache found for English. Please run maintenance/rebuildLocalisationCache.php. in production when running populateSitesTable for aawikibooks with foreachwikiindblist phab:T253756
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - phab:T253023

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Research on deploying recomnendation-api to kubernetes
  • Product infrastructure on deploying chromium-render, mobileapps
  • Release Engineering - [Low priority] SRE Service Ops: Provide our special component/php72 in buster-wikimedia — phab:T250515

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - [Low priority] Wikibase team: Fix WikibaseLexeme DB errors from phpunit tests – phab:T249838, blocking phab:T246358