Scrum of scrums/2021-05-12

2021-05-12

Callouts

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Fundraising-Tech => Releng

• a little help from releng to push through an update to our CivCRM CI job would be hugely appreciated! Patch is here https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/688350/

Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback

No updates

CommTech, AHT, Editing, Growth, iOS, Android, Parsing, Language, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • future of the synchronous meeting

Product

Web

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • Belated thanks to Sam Reed for submitting the Voice & Tone issues, e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277955
• Updates:
  • Prep for the language switcher treatment A/B test
  • Started work on the new user links (personal tools) treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266536
  • QA'ing/analysing data from the search autocomplete widget treatment A/B test

Product Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
  • Need input from Language Team on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277059#6976371
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • No significant updates, continuing to make improvements to MediaSearch and to work on the image recommendations testing tool

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None.
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • We finished Phase δ (delta) this week; hurrah.
  • Now working on Phase ε (epsilon) – wiring up user-written code to the evaluator: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
  • Security & Performance reviews scheduled to end this Phase; our thanks to them!

Inuka

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383
  • Improving Wikipedia Preview gallery feature: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269787

Library

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • The Wikipedia Library Extension is now live on Beta!
  • Finished work on making tags translatable, we just need to add extra configuration on TranslateWiki
  • Finished setting up Matomo
  • Starting work on the Library homepage redesign

Vue.js

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Rethinking the Icon component in WVUI (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282625)
  • Working on a Radio component and introducing the composition API plugin to WVUI (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281186)

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
  • a little help from releng to push through an update to our CivCRM CI job would be hugely appreciated! Patch is here https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/688350/
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Deployed new email preferences center wiki
  • Started integration work for backup processor's new API

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Blog post by John Bolorinos - Improvements to Email QA https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/239/improvements_to_email_qa/

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Web: Upgrading or dropping the legacy Ruby selenium jobs in MinervaNeue blocks the CI-wide upgrade from stretch to buster. T280901
  • Wikibase: Upgrading or dropping the legacy Ruby selenium jobs in Wikibase blocks the CI-wide upgrade from stretch to buster. T280491
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • Thank you to C. Scott for his support and patience waiting for T271863 to be resolved!
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.37.0-wmf.4 phab:T281145
    • This week: 1.37.0-wmf.5 phab:T281146
    • Next week: 1.37.0-wmf.6 phab:T281147

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Data missing from WCQS - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280022
  • Get baseline measurements/expectations for splitting lexemes from Wikidata graph - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275068

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • work on getting mw in k8s picking up, shellbox soon to be deployed.

WMDE Technical Wishes

• Blocked by:
  • by a failing reportupdater query, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273748#7051951
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Reference Previews deployment in some wikis was successful: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206
  • Suggested Values feature (TemplateData) enabled everywhere: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273857
  • Currently working on template search improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271802

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 known.
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • REL1_36 release process:
    • 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only a small handful of bugs found so far, all now fixed. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
  • CI tools:
    • mediawiki-codesniffer v36 upgrade going slowly (lots of manual fixes); 67% of repos updated so far.
    • CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
  • PHP 8.0:
    • No changes this week.
    • Our target is REL1_35 (and thus also REL1_36), as well as master.
    • Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
    • Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; thank you to everyone working on fixing them.