Scrum of scrums/2020-12-09

2020-12-09

Callouts

• If you know anyone who might have something web performance related to talk about (including outside of the Foundation), please point them to our FOSDEM devroom CfP. Deadline is Dec 16: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/FOSDEM_2021_Call_for_Participation Thanks!
• RelEng: 1.36.0-wmf.22 is the last train of the year. Next week is the last deployment week of the year.

No updates: Tech Comm, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Inuka, UI Standardization, OKAPI, Analytics, Cloud Services, Quality and Test Engineering, Machine Learning Platform, Research, Search Platform, Security, SRE, Wikidata, German Technical Wishlist

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
• asynchronous retrospective on value of this experiment.
• adding new section to notes template for cross-cutting work

Product

Community Tech

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  • We've now moved to the voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey. We've accepted 270 proposal and at the time of writting there are 2571 supporting votes ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Tracking )

Growth

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  • Working on various bits and pieces (frontend, backend, ops) of https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link

iOS native app

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  • Recent release even more stable than last.
  • Working on language variants and other bug fixes.

Android native app

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  • Working on watchlist feature, which was well-scoped to be a well-sized feature while between Product Managers.

Web

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• Updates:
  • WVUI-Vector integration
    • Preparing for Security Readiness Review: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257579
    • Product metrics and performance instrumentation
    • Client-side error logging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249826
  • Designs for language switching re-design(s) in Desktop Improvements Program
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268514

Structured Data

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  • Working on Commons Special:MediaSearch
  • Released a tool to assess quality of media search image results: https://media-search-signal-test.toolforge.org/ (warning: you may see NSFW images)

Abstract Wikipedia

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  • Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
  • Helping our Outreachy interns get started doing data anaylsis of template/module usage.
  • Great modelling conversations with SRE Service Ops and Architecture; thank you.

Language

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  • Apertium is now migrated to `deployment-pipeline` and available as a service. Thanks Alexandros Kosiaris (SRE) for helping in the process!

Library

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  • Wrapping up work on Wikilinks (we hope to get a PR merged this week)

Technology

Fundraising Tech

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  • Readying a CentralNotice feature for logged-in users to filter out of banner types in user preferences, hoping to deploy very soon after current fundraiser ends. Will be asking core team for feedback on user preference UI change. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268646, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/604279,
  • fixing some session timeout bugs in the synchronization of data from our bulk mail sender to CiviCRM
  • form tweaks to help when we switch over from raising money for the annual fund to raising money for the endowment
  • More work on dockerized dev environment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262975

Platform

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  • API Portal bug unblocking (next week soft launch)
  • ParserCache work (some bugs occuring from use of ParserOutput)
  • Shellbox (MediaWiki on Kubernetes)
  • Sockpuppet Detection API
  • Task recommendations API

Engineering Productivity

Performance

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  • Blog post: https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2020/human-performance-metrics/
  • Another one from Timo about Excimer will be published there in a few days.

Release Engineering

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  • Thanks to Andrew and Arturo for their help with nest VM support on WMCS instances
  • Deployments
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 phab:T263186
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 phab:T263187
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.22 phab:T263188
    • Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments (nothing!)