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.