Scrum of scrums/2021-02-10

2021-02-10

Callouts

• RelEng: Trying to be a bit more strict about log messages, see Greg's email: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-February/094250.html
• RelEng: Blocked on serviceops: docker-pkg: "certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate" for docker-registry.discovery.wmnet when publishing dev-images from contint2001

No updates

Community Tech, Anti-Harassment, Parsing, Language, Library

No notes provided

Editing, Growth, iOS, Android, Product Infrastructure, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Quality & Test

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • from retro ideas to try:
    • Bolding items to read allowed +JF +TC
    • relaxing the start time
    • Template
      • Adding a section where teams can add Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests to request reviews or feedback. +GG +TC
      • Perhaps add a contact point (email, url, office hours, whatever) for easy reaching out to teams when a bullet point seems interesting. +GG +JF +TC
      • Adding a "thanks" section +GG +JF +TC+AP

Product

Web

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Security review of WVUI component library is back with Security for discussion
  • Logging Vue.js component errors to the error intake system (again): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249826
  • Language button treatment and associated A/B test:
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260738
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268241
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268504

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • MediaSearch: working on supporting complex queries, instrumenting events, improving the CSS-only grid
  • Image recommendations: using machine learning to improve mediasearch (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271803), translating data analysis from Research team into an elastic search profile and query builder (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271799)
  • Continuing SDAW architecture discussions

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Working on phase gamma of development plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
    • Creation of Functions coming soon; will need a code editor Vue UX component.
    • First route for back-end executor service is landing soon.
    • Also making WikiLambda changes as recommended by Platform; thanks again.
  • Special thanks to Dave Pifke from Performance for their support and advice this & last week.
  • Community suggestions for the logo concept for Wikifunctions continues: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_concept#Gallery

Vue.js

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Nearly done with updates to MediaWiki's JS minifier

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Fixing truncated order IDs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274301
  • Fixing another error handling case for nightly recurring charge job https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274361
  • Prepping for CIviCRM db encoding update https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273704
  • More refinements to docker images for fundraising development https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262975 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273894

Engineering Productivity

Performance

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • FOSDEM hasn't published our devroom videos yet, but here they are: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OIp-3XUdtgWykK7sOxw8-k3icv8BWDcY?usp=sharing

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Serviceops: docker-pkg: "certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate" for docker-registry.discovery.wmnet when publishing dev-images from contint2001
    • Have checked the obvious stuff, but not really sure how to proceed.
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Jessie-based node 6 / npm 3 CI jobs have been dropped (original deadline was April 2019). Specifically, this means that 3d2png and Maps no longer have CI; any relevant teams may wish to fix.
  • Train:
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.29 phab:T271342 was abandoned.
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.30 phab:T271343 underway.
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.31 phab:T271344

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • No one
• Updates:
  • Blazegraph journal for wcqs is too big - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273636
  • Deleted item still gets shown in WDQS query results - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272120
  • Programmatically categorize WDQS queries by potential alternative solution -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266022
  • wikimedia-event-utilities should provide tools for JVM based apps producing directly to kafka -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270371
  • Reboot wdqs hosts for kernel upgrade - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274213

Security

• Blocked by:
  • none
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Updated SOP for Security Reviews: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security/SOP/Security_Readiness_Reviews
  • Current queue and reviews in progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/secscrum/

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Working with PI to get linkrecommendation updated in a structured fashion
  • maps architectural discussions ongoing

Cross-cutting

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • It's quiet.
  • No major progress on PHP 8.0 work.
  • CI tools' upgrade status is mostly stable: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master