Scrum of scrums/2020-07-22

2020-07-22

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 (and also, explain why you're using it)
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; phab:T217924

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • Update the wiki page instead of the etherpad page (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums)

Product

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: deploying Desktop Improvements Project (DIP) to select wikis, starting WVUI Vector integration and network client.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • TypeError: $.collapsibleTabs.getSettings(...) is undefined from Vector skin
    • [Bug] Max-Width Layout: Sidebar overlaps footer when its height is longer than the content height
    • Make collapsible sidebar persistent for logged-in users
    • Current checkbox hack doesn't provide <Enter> or <Space> as toggle action
    • Deploy new version of vector skin to all wikis as a user preference
    • Switch test wikis to new version of vector by default
    • Fix the printable versions of modern Vector
    • Move the existing search to the header in preparation for Vue.js search development
    • Limit content width, and refine alignment & styling of relevant elements
    • Deprecate and remove printable version mode
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • ext.uls.interface should set targets and explicitly not target the Minerva skin
    • Fix the most common "Module not loadable on target mobile" warnings (Oct 2019)
    • [Technical debt payoff] Drop MFSpecialCaseMainPage, from MobileFrontend
    • Final warning: Mobile main page special casing will be disabled July
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
    • [EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page
  • Standardization
    • Standardise `.mw-infobox` by relying on `.warningbox`
  • Portals
    • [Recurring Task] Update Wikipedia and sister projects portals statistics
  • QuickSurveys
    • Run baseline quicksurvey on test wikis
  • Miscellaneous
    • Replace jsduck with JSDoc3 across all Wikimedia code bases

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • working on adding schema.org licensing data to article pages
  • ongoing work on mediasearch

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Investigating American Express card failures in India
  • Fixing how we set up one-time card donations to make them possible to convert to monthly recurring
  • Refining sync process for employer matching gift policies
  • Investigating seemingly unintended duplicate donations
  • Updating custom CiviCRM report used to track fraud.

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - phab:T256669
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - phab:T257969
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - phab:T257970

Site Reliability Engineering

• Updates:
  • mobileapps traffic is being migrated to kubernetes.