Scrum of scrums/2021-01-06

2021-01-06

Callouts

• (SRE) In the event that you need to urgently reach SRE for an outage or other emergency (shell account compromise, etc), well, now there's an app for that: https://klaxon.wikimedia.org/
  • FAQ at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klaxon#FAQ
• (RelEng) Code deploy office hours for deployment questions are still happening Mondays 18:00UTC (see staff calendar)

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Editing, Web, Product Infrastructure, Structured Data, Language, Inuka, OKAPI, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality and Test, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates: Will keep retro form open until 2021-01-14

Product

Community Tech

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• Updates: No updates

Anti-Harassment Tools

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• Updates: No updates

Growth

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• Updates:
  • continuing work on link recommendations: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link

iOS native app

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates: Right-sizing scope of next experiment, development starting.

Android native app

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates: Happy to have Jazmin on board! Development work underway on next version, including watchlist work.

Abstract Wikipedia

• Updates:
  • Getting back in the saddle after the break.
  • Last Monday was the first day of our new engineering team member, Cory Massaro; general announcement coming later today.
  • Process for a community contest to select the logo concept for Wikifunctions will start shortly.
  • Huge thanks to the Security team for their support, meeting with us and the Architecture team.

Parsing

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• Updates: no updates

Library

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  • Working on Wikilink user list filtering
  • Setting up to work on an Echo notification so that users get notified if they are eligible for bundle access in the Wikipedia Library

Technology

Fundraising Tech

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• Updates:
  • Working on eoy donation summary email send which needed updates for new calendar year
  • Close to final approval on CentralNotice CampaignTypes feature with new user preferences
  • Will review other outstanding CN patches this sprint

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

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  • ???
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 -- office hours for deployments are still happening Mondays 1800UTC
  • Train Health <https://versions.toolforge.org/>
    • Last weekyear: 1.36.0-wmf.22 phab:T267417
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 phab:T267418
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 phab:T267419

Search Platform

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• Updates:
  • Migrate WDQS to Debian Buster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244753
  • wdqs1005: disk space critical on /srv/ - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270236
  • wdqs-categories prometheus exporter failing on select wdqs instances -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269872
  • Some wdqs metrics changed when switching to python3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269204
  • Service implementation on wdqs101[1-3].eqiad.wmnet - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246345
  • The saneitizer is a lot slower than when running in codfw (oct 27 2020 codfw -> eqiad switchover) -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266762
  • Deepcategory returns only very few results - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246568
  • Examine cases where Blazegraph generates results that timeout and don’t make it back to the user -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264447
  • Spike: Can/should Swift be used as Flink checkpoint backend? - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246004
• Stuff no one else cares about:
  • Call to a member function getResults() on null - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268164

Site Reliability Engineering

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• Updates:
  • the past two weeks were thankfully quiet :)

Cross-cutting

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• Updates:
  • LibraryUpgrader now handles security and linting upgrades in non-master release branches (currently configured for REL1_35 and REL1_31).
  • PHP 8.0 compatibility work continues.