Scrum of scrums/2021-03-03

2021-03-03

Callouts

• SRE ServiceOps pinging:
  • Language
  • Product Infrastructure
  • Platform
  • WMDE
  • Analytics

for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 . Please review list of images in task, issue a commit for the ones you own to create a new version and deploy it, so that latest blubber improvements are passed to the deployed images. Many thanks!

• [serviceops] PHP restart sudo rules for docroot deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/666309

Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback

No updates

CommTech, Editing, iOS, Android,Library

No notes provided

Parsing, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • from retro ideas to try:
    • Bolding items to read aloud +JF +TC
    • relaxing the start time
    • Template
      • 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

Product

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • Thank you James Forrester and Martin Urbanec for your ongoing help!
• Updates:
  • No updates

Growth

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • SRE for their help with the link recommendation service
• Updates:
  • Work on Add Link continues https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
  • Working on exposing more configuration settings to wiki admins T274520 T274031
  • Sending newcomer questions to mentors instead of help desks T275908
  • Enabling Growth features on dawiki T256126

Web

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • Ed Sanders for the neat rewrite of the mobile site's lead paragraph hoisting code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262093
• Updates:
  • WVUI search autocomplete widget A/B test is deployed and in QA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249297

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Prioritizing tasks that are blockers for making MediaSearch the default search UI on Commons
  • Working on new search profile based on image search signal results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271799)

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None.
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
  • Vue team for on-going discussions around Vue2/Vue3 migration and its impact on our work.
• Updates:
  • Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
  • On-boarding Vue-specialist contractor.
  • The Wikifunctions logo concept vote is live: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_concept/Vote

Language

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • SRE ServiceOps on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
• Thank yous:
  • Martin Urbanec & Kunal Mehta for help with deploying Section translation hotfixes.
• Updates:
  • Released the section translation tool on Bengali Wikipedia last week. You can learn more about it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Section_translation
  • Just an FYI: Hotfix deployed for Section Translation got reverted when deploy1002 server was switched due to our module update not being synced

Vue.js

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Continuing to plan Vue 2 -> Vue 3 migration (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251974 for details)
  • Scaffolding an experimental library to update WVUI to Vue 3 and work on consolidating existing WMF components
  • Thinking through various technological decisions: local development features, Sass or Less variables vs. design tokens, code reuse via the new Vue 3 Composition API...
  • Developing criteria for evaluating existing UI libraries, to be posted to Phabricator soon

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Preparing for fundraising campaign in Latin America (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275812, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274319, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199733)
  • More nightly reconciliation file parsing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272105, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545
  • Email preferences forms: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510
  • Update our repos to use Composer 2 and new version of composer-merge-plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267881

Engineering Productivity

Performance

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • Luca Toscano for debugging and fixing the ASO ranking breakage caused by the Hive update in early February
• Updates:
  • Helped Global Data & Insights team with performance inequality data per country
  • Helped vue.js team with code review
  • Helped Nicholas Ray with setting up vue.js search performance dashboards
  • Helped fundraising and fr-tech understand the potential implications of the Google May 2021 update to search ranking. Nicholas Perry (Strategic Partnerships) will talk to Google about it.
  • All seats for the frontend web perf training April session filled
  • Converted WebPageTest performance alerts to AlertManager

Quality and Test Engineering

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Eventlogging journey by Elena Tonkovidova https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/230/eventlogging_journey/
  • Evaluation of Microsoft Playwright by Harriet Ayugi https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/231/evaluation_of_microsoft_playwright/

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • [serviceops] PHP restart sudo rules for docroot deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/666309
• Blocking:
  • ???
• Thanks:
  • Cole White and O11y for all the help with the Phatality kibana extension!
  • Martin Urbanec for ongoing backport window support
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Blocked:
      • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276316
      • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276353
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.32 phab:T274936
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.33 phab:T274937
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.34 phab:T274938

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • relforge: open up access to relforge100[3,4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274314
  • Consume new event from the AddLink feature - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262226
  • Implement CirrusSearch keyword for drafttopic - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268272
  • Null or inconsistent search results using Khmer script - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185721
  • Add the IDSM/Sachem Wikidata endpoint to the list of federated endpoints -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275196

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Language https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
  • Product Infrastructure https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
  • Platform https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
  • WMDE https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
  • Analytics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
• Blocking:
  • None
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Gitlab VMs being created and access granted.

WMDE Technical Wishes

• Updates:
  • Preparing to deploy Reference Previews to pilot wikis (March 17th). Any user with “page previews” enabled will also see reference previews. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206
  • Still getting great support from Analytics—still flooding their inboxes with more small reviews. (Not blocked)

Cross-cutting

• Blocked by:
  • Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • No significant changes.