https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-08-24
= 2016-08-24 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== Android native app ====
* Current sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2142/
* Next sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2178/
* Summary: Navigation UX overhaul work continues
==== Mobile Content Service (MCS)
* no update
==== iOS native app ====
* Current release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1736/
** 5.1 is in regrssion / beta. Due to go to the app store next week
* Next board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/
** 5.2 is in developmentwith expected deployment alongside iOS 10 release
in late September
*** Adding iOS 10 support (with widgets)
*** Dropping iOS 8 support
==== Reading Web ====
* Current sprint:
* Shipped lazy loaded images to all wikipedias
* Diagnosing hovercards EL
* Improving search exp in mobile web
* Improvements to related pages and the footer in mobile web
* Next sprint:
* Related pages improvements
* Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
=== Community Tech ===
* AbuseFilter/AntiSpoof fix (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29987) -
deployed and most filters + titleblacklists updated
* Numeric sorting
** Deployed numeric sorting to Swedish Wikipedia for further testing, seems
to be working
** Will deploy to English Wikipedia next week barring any bug discoveries
* Cross-wiki watchlists - making schema changes to CentralAuth
* No blockers
=== Editing ===
==== Language ====
* Blocked: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Apertium packages for Jessie ready (few waiting for dependencies to be
uploaded to WMF repo).
** CX getting updates on template handling soon.
==== Parsing ====
* Still waiting on a security review of the ParserMigration extension.
* Thinking about going ahead with
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111604 in
the coming months (spliting up parser tests into multiple files). If you
have thoughts / concerns, please comment on the ticket.
* Nothing else significant to report.
==== Collaboration ====
* '''Blocking''':
** Stephane is making progress on the Flow caching rewrite, which is
blocking multi-DC.
* '''Blocked''':
* '''Updates''':
** We have enabled Flow on all user talk pages on kabwiki.
** New feature to allow unwatching Flow boards from an Echo notification.
** Rasterizing Echo icons for email to work around Gmail bug.
** Fixed dot-dot-dot menu on Special:Notifications on mobile
** MediaWiki-Vagrant change to use psysh for Zend, since phpsh is broken
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* AQS (pageview api) cluster is having some performance issues, Luca is
back tomorrow and will take a closer look
* Getting ready to build the Wikistats 2.0 front-end, evaluating js
frameworks, do weigh in if interested
* same ongoing work as last week, loading the new cluster, deploying the
new event bus schemas, vetting the reconstruction of edit history
=== Security ===
* Security reviews this week:
** *ACL configuration for
url-downloader.wikimedia.org
<http://url-downloader.wikimedia.org> allowing
upload.wikimedia.org
<http://upload.wikimedia.org>*
** Catching up on reviews from last week
* Incident handling
* Darian working on hiring tasks with Recruiting
=== Services ===
Blocking: none
Blocked:
* Parsoid move to scap3 blocked by RelEng:
*https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142990*
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142990>
Updates:
* Deployed Change Prop with new kafka driver
=== Discovery ===
* No blockers
* Working on BM25 implementation
* Working on multi-wiki indexes
* Working on integrating Polestar (
http://vega.github.io/polestar/) and
WDQS GUI to allow create graphs visually from WDQS results
* Deployed portal updates & blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/16/wikipedia-portal-update/
* Retro of portal evolution:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Impact_of_Wikipedia.org_Portal_Chan…
* Reordering of stemming/asciifolding deployed, but no changes pending
reindex (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142721 )
* Analysis of asciifolding in French:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Adding_Ascii-Folding…
** TLDR: French more complex than English ;) But positive results.
* Asked for community help to update "showing results from" translation:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143355
* Analysis of portal pageview increase:
https://github.com/wikimedia-research/Discovery-Research-Portal/blob/master…
=== RelEng ===
* Blocking
** Parsoid scap3 deployment:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142990
* Blocked
** (Ops) Contint networking:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140257#2553490
** (Ops/puppet)
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/300092/ ("contint: tidy
Nodepool slaves config history")
** (Ops) Help requested: Upgrade base MW-Vagrant image to Jessie -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429
*** Outline from bd808:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429#2572195
*** Ori suggesting Ops support:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429#2572433
* Updates
** Bugfix release of scap
** European SWAT started Monday!
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* More queue work
* More dedupe work
* Applied security release to payments
* Reacting to GeoIP lookup domain removal (3rd party impact)
=== ArchCom ===
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status
* Last week: 2016W33: 2016-08-17 (Wednesday)
** ArchCom Planning meeting: [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E260
Phab:E260]
*** Notes: [
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-08-17
Architecture
committee/2016-08-17]
** ArchCom-RFC office hour: [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E261
Phab:E261]
*** Agenda: [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105652 Revisiting T105652
(content model storage)]
* This week: 2016W34: 2016-08-24 (Wednesday)
** ArchCom Planning meeting: [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E262
Phab:E262]
*** Notes: [
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-08-24
Architecture
committee/2016-08-24]
** ArchCom-RFC office hour: [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E263
Phab:E263]
*** Agenda: [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69223 Schema change for
page content language]
== Wikidata ==
* Blockers: none.
* Progess on the "structured data for Commons" prototype … (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140760)
* … as well as concept work for automated list generation (
https://twitter.com/simulo/status/766717877047193600).
* We wrote a policy about guarantees we give about our public interfaces
for data access (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy).
* Experimenting with sorting statements (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129244).