[Wikitech-l] 2019-03-06 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-03-06 =*2019-03-06*= == Callouts == * Language blocked on RelEng: CI issues/Merge Blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217654 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216689 * SRE informs that we have a Network maintenance (Tuesday 19th 14:00UTC) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187960 ** Will require s2 to be read only (T217441 - we will use that window to upgrade MySQL on the master) ** Will also impact x1 master (which will be read only for a few seconds and cannot be disabled on mediawiki layer) * Search Platform -> RelEng: CI configuration for Blazegraph: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/493340 * Release Engineering: Train blocked: ** Growth - Flow\Exception\WikitextException: ParseEntityRef: no name - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217766 ** Cloud Services - labtestweb2001: Fatal error: unknown class AuthPlugin in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.20/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthenticationPlugin.php on line 21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217692 == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ** ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Performance: CR for avoiding Watchlist DB writes on HTTP GET. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/416198 ** Release Engineering - Flow\Exception\WikitextException: ParseEntityRef: no name - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217766 * Updates: ** ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **Working on 6.2.1 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/) ***bug fixes ***editing enhancements ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Summary: adding some features to QuickSurveys, medium term planning, and continuing the Advanced Mobile Contributions and MobileFrontend Architecture investment projects. ** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Provide mechanism to allow dynamically tag log entries T215675 **** Add X-Analytics tag for AMC webrequests T212961 **** Cannot access user contributions when following red link to user page on mobile T201339 *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** Refactor TalkSectionAddOverlay T217102 **** Refactor ImageOverlay T216198 **** Post-inheritance cleanup T217220 **** Limit mobile.startup's mw.config variables T216848 **** Refactor TalkOverlay T215370 **** Refactor LanguageOverlay T215657 *** Update list styles T150377 *** Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T216628 *** QuickSurveys **** Consultation with Research **** Support sampling by country T213847 **** Support sampling by edits T139317 **** Support sampling by page T213696 **** QuickSurveys are hidden on pages without infoboxes and with table of contents T210646 ** Desktop website (Vector, Popups) *** Vector **** Vector should replace rendering from PHP with Mustache T217172 *** Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews **** WMDE reference previews review and support T67114 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews ** Medium-term planning. ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: Security on WikimediaEditorTasks review (they know, it was assigned yesterday) * Blocking: * Updates: ** WikimediaEditorTasks extension security review in progress ** Reminder: summary 1.4.0 endpoint change: titles in the content_urls properties are encoded now (T216739) ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: Release Engineering - labtestweb2001: Fatal error: unknown class AuthPlugin in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.20/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthenticationPlugin.php on line 21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217692 * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Reviewing audit code for main card processor to make sure we're catching everything https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217582 ** Fixing CentralNotice sanitization over-strictness https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216150 ** Better fraud attempt queries for CiviCRM https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199268 ** Tweaks to Thank You mail https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207674 ** Building notification stream for changes to active CentralNotice banners and included bits https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208511 ** Working on recording opt-in choices even when payment attempt fails https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216293 ** Still trying to coordinate timing of payments-wiki upgrade to PHP7 & MW 1.31 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184460 === Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Documentation Portal product plan draft ** Tech writer hiring ** PEG rule parameters ** Kask to K8S (logging, readiness) ** Engineering manager hiring last mile ** === Performance === * Blocked by: ** Parsing Team: CR for Parser save timing optimisation. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/294774/ ** Growth Team: CR for avoiding Watchlist DB writes on HTTP GET. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/416198 * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** Aaron made database messages to Logstash nicer and less verbose. ** New Fresnel release (per-patch MW perf tester), scenarios now have names. ** Working on sampling profiler instrastructure for PHP 7, to match HHVM/Xenon flame graphs. === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: Train blocked: ** Growth - Flow\Exception\WikitextException: ParseEntityRef: no name - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217766 ** Cloud Services - labtestweb2001: Fatal error: unknown class AuthPlugin in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.20/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthenticationPlugin.php on line 21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217692 * Blocking: ** Language: CI issues/Merge Blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217654 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216689 ** Search Platform: CI configuration for Blazegraph: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/493340 * Updates: ** Choosing tools for continuous integration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/148/choosing_tools_for_co… ** Projects, Forms and Subtypes oh my! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/147/projects_forms_and_su… ** Train Health: *** Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.19 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206673 **** Still one blocker left - TranslateRenderJob: Cannot render translation page for Wikimania/pa-guru! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217380 *** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.20 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206674 **** We have two blockers: ***** Flow\Exception\WikitextException: ParseEntityRef: no name - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217766 ***** labtestweb2001: Fatal error: unknown class AuthPlugin in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.20/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthenticationPlugin.php on line 21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217692 *** Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.21 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206675 === Research === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Ran the reader demographics survey: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217080 ** Google summer of code preparation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217655 ** Collected new set of data for the CitationUsage schema for quality assurance: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969 ** Improving article-recommender scripts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211981 === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: RelEng: CI configuration for Blazegraph: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/493340 * Blocking: * Updates: ** WikibaseCirrusSearch deployed tested on Beta cluster, works fine, testwikidata next: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215684 ** Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282 ** Working on language-specific lowercasing in search indexing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217602 ** Updated extensions to use new phan (thanks Legoktm, bugs found!) ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 ** Working on moving CirrusSearch code out of Wikibase to a separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022 === Security === * Blocked by:None * Blocking:None * Updates: **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289: ass*igned 03/05 **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215048: assigned 03/05 **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216692: TBD **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163827: complete by end of week **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419: will start this week **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211489: complete by end of week **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201492: TBD **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011: TBD **https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207990: will start this week === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Network maintenance (Tuesday 19th 14:00UTC) T187960 *** Will require s2 to be read only (T217441 - we will use that window to upgrade MySQL on the master) *** ill also impact x1 master (which will be read only for a few seconds and cannot be disabled on mediawiki layer) == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **