[Wikitech-l] 2018-12-12 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-12-12 =*2018-12-12*= == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * Dec 24th and Dec 31st are freeze weeks. * Goal planning in progress. If you have requests from SRE, now is the time to do so. ** Session Service RFC is heading to last call ending Wednesday December 12th 1pm PST https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010 * Release Engineering: No Train weeks of December 24th and December 31st == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ** ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: None. Thanks to Editing for updates on Blocket tasks. * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Released minor update to production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.7.268-… ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Summary: mostly MobileFrontend architecture project tasks and some advanced mobile contributions planning. ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** MobileFrontend should not have a global event emitter T156186 **** Collapse mobile.search* ResourceLoader modules into mobile.startup T210207 **** Reduce View inheritance and improve composition support T209007 **** Add tests for Drawer and CtaDrawer T208920 **** Webpackify watchstar T208921 *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Investigate opt-in audience and instrumentation T211195 **** Team planning *** Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues **** Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349 **** Split pageIssues.js into smaller functions T211257 **** Planning deployment to all wikis except enwiki on December 17th T210553 ** Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews *** Maintenance T209314 ** PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality *** Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084 ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * no updates this week ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** No OOUI release this week, work on scheduled last release of the year next Tuesday ongoing. == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Campaign going well so far ** FR-tech supporting the rest of the team with processor switching & investigation ** CentralNotice tweaks such as reducing log spam for protection ** CiviCRM performance optimizations ** Getting new hire oriented ** Minor upgrades for CiviCRM components ** Still working on a form variant for payments-wiki === MediaWiki Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Train Health: *** Last week: No train due to the Release Engineering Offsite *** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.8 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206662 **** T211774 Full table scans on oldimage table - Anomie and Ladsgroup probably fixed it, will move train forward after SoS and see *** Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.9 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206663 *** No Train weeks of December 24th and December 31st === Research === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Working on building a 'morelike' API for article recommendations: *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201192 and subtasks ** Working on setting up a production pipeline for generating article recommendations and importing them into the database: *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622 *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844 ** Research: Eliciting new editor interests: *** https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work… *** We had to delay sending out emails last week. We're sending them out this week. === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Wikidata autocompletion A/B done, results positive, slight improvement in click positions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193701 ** Fixed failed jobs when trying to index invalid titles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208932 ** Set up news servers in codfw: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210265 ** Refactored “second try” search code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204255 ** Working on data corruption issues in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210901 ** Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282 ** Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654 ** Working on “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 === Security === * Blocked by:None * Blocking:None I am aware of * Updates: **T144467: Security review for Google MT for Content Translation - completed by Security Team **T207990: Security review for TheWikipediaLibrary extension - Analyst will start soon **T202143: Security review for Guzzle 6.3.3 - completed by Security Team === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Nothing really == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **