Scrum of scrums/2021-03-31

2021-03-31

Callouts

• RelEng: 1.36.0-wmf.37 blockers:
  • Constructing RevisionRecord for a page that can't exist
  • new edits are being marked as quality instead of "accepted"
• RelEng: Dev satisfaction survey closes TODAY!!

Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback

No updates

Language, Library,

No notes provided

Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Inuka, Cloud Services, FR Tech, Platform, Quality & Test, Search PF, Security,

Product

Community Tech

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• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • We'll be announcing today the end of our work on WS-Export and officially marking the wish/project as completed

Anti-Harassment Tools

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• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Wrapping up known work on SecurePoll. May have further things to do here which will take priority over other tasks.
  • New Engineering Manager joined, completing the team. Hurrah!

Growth

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
  • Continuing to work on on-wiki configuration
  • Continuing design of mentor dashboard https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Mentor_dashboard

iOS native app

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• Thank yous:
• Updates: Putting finishing touches on next major release of app (including drastically better support for Chinese language variants), should be in beta within the week.

Android native app

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• Blocking:
• Thank yous: PET for all their collaboration.
• Updates: Working w/ PET on image recommendation API.

Web

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • Timo Tijhof for his work on the (currently Vector-specific) "pref diff" instrument: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261842
• Updates:
  • Onboarding new hires!
  • Virtual offsite 29th March through 1st April
  • The WVUI search treatment A/B test is complete. All users opted in to Vector V2 will now get the treatment
  • Clarifying feature responsibilities in ResourceLoaderSkinModule: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269877

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
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• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • On April 1st, Special:MediaSearch will become the default search UI on Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None.
• Blocking:
  • None.
• Thank yous:
  • Margeigh and the whole Design team for their flexibility!
• Updates:
  • Closing on end of Phase γ: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases

Language

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • No major updates this week.

Vue.js

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • WVUI: updating Storybook to use the new controls add-on instead of knobs
  • Design inventory (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047 )
  • Beginning the technical desicion-making process for adding an automated build step for front-end assets

Technology

Analytics

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• Thank yous:
  • SRE ServiceOps for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
• Updates:

Engineering Productivity

Performance

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• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • DC Ops for looking into device lab hosting feasibility
  • ITS for doing the same
• Updates:

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • See wmf.37 train blockers.
• Blocking:
  • ???
• Thank yous
  • Legoktm for all kinds of assistance, on mw-on-k8s
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.36 phab:T274940
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 phab:T278343
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 phab:T278344

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • No updates

WMDE Technical Wishes

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• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Kartographer exploration led to a straightforward, potential solution for fixing the incompatibility with FlaggedRevs wikis.
  • Beginning user research interviews for next year’s Geoinformation focus.
  • Curious whether anyone else sees a need for mw-core anonymous user “settings” management, currently done differently in many extensions.

Cross-cutting

• Blocked by:
  • [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142 (or at least 6.7)
• Blocking:
• None.
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • PHP 8.0 work
    • Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
    • Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; tank you to everyone working on fixing them.
  • Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
  • CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master