[Wikitech-l] 2018-07-25 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-07-25 = 2018-07-25= == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * SREs! Reading Infra need advice on backporting a package (mapnik 3.0.20) to Debian Stretch (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200284 ) * 1.32.0-wmf.14 train blocked on [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200346 Failed executing job: ThumbnailRender] * EventLogging sanitization updated to work on Hive databases as well, [ https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging/Data_ret… read all about it and the new unified Whitelist] * Need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199252 - Google has bad cache for a bunch of pages on it.m.wikipedia.org, need someone who has Google Webmaster Tools access for wikipedia.org domain to help address this. == Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **Still wrapping up 6.0 release ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/) ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **Wrapping up navigation prototypes for user testing. ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: ** New service request: chromium-render/deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748 *** We're not blocked but we are ready to help and eager to close out the epic * Blocking: * Updates: ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Page issues UI and instrumentation T191528 T197932 T197931 *** Other fixes and hygiene T193172 T188261 T199066 T197133 T190549 ** Product and design at Wikimania ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: Need advice from SREs on backporting a package (see callouts) * Blocking: n/a? * Updates: ** Maps: *** Working on migrating test servers to Cloud VPS *** Working with SRE (Gehel) on migrating all servers to Debian Stretch *** Various grooming/triage and bug fixes ** MCS/PCS: *** Working with Services to deploy mobile-html endpoints, add language variant support to all endpoints *** Working with Services, Reading Web on designing page previews for Wikidata ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** SDoC: search prototype progressing ** SDoC: backend search patches getting merged ** SDoC: working through implications of (technical and community) discussions from wikimania === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: Security review for TemplateWizard * Blocking: * Updates: ** GlobalPreferences are out, work and ready for you to use ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: None * Blocking: Languages for Content Translator 2 implementation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197075#4447456 ** Updates: improving UI test coverage for VE; fixed VE regressions ** ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: No significant things to report. My laptop is having a problem, not charging, researching issue. ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Audiences Design === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Updated EventLogging sanitization to work with both MariaDB and Hive databases, see docs at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging/Data_ret… ** Filed the hardware request to host a smaller public Data Lake on our cloud ** Follow-up from Kafka outage, testing to reproduce in labs, incident report: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180711-kafka-e… === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Making good progress on the ingress scripts for EventLogging data from banner and landing page impressions ** Experimenting with different ways to let donors from certain countries opt in to emails ** More CiviCRM work to export and expunge donor data ** Responding to "interesting" results of today's full-scale test of card processor's new API === MediaWiki Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** Need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199252 - Google has bad cache for a bunch of pages on it.m.wikipedia.org, need someone who has Google Webmaster Tools access for wikipedia.org domain to help address this. ** Working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200346 === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: ** 1.32.0-wmf.14 train blocked by [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200346 Failed executing job: ThumbnailRender] (in callouts) ** SRE: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199489 helm test in production k8s namespace] * Blocking: * Updates: ** Gerrit upgrade to 2.15.3 soon, will send an email, will want SRE === Research === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Working on recommending missing articles based on translation pageview predictions === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: ** JADE storage discussion is headed back to TechCom with a proper RFC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200297 * Blocking: * Updates: ** Minor frontend improvements to wikilabels *** Using OOUI alert and config instead of alert() and config() === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** - Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198067 - Fixed Polish analyzer, pending reindex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046 - Set up analysis for Malay & Indonesian, pending reindex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196780 - Discussed potential approaches for using NLP in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193070 - Improved prefix URI param handling: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198318 - Working on Esperanto analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200099 - Working on Lexeme fulltext search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196188 - Working on collecting click statistics for Wikidata completion search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196186 - Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Started Apache Traffic server experimentation ** Will start discussions to set the date for the next datacenter switchover ** grafana-admin to be removed. == Wikidata == * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Work on Structured Lexicographical Data continues: improving the editor interface, and adding Senses ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/) ** == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: ** Is there an update on changing the meeting to an earlier time? *** Meeting this week to discuss updates to the template and meeting goals. *** After that, we'll move the meeting to 2 hours earlier.