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 ====
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==== Anti-Harassment Tools ====
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==== Editing ====
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==== Growth ====
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==== Language ====
* Blocked by: None. Thanks to Editing for updates on Blocket tasks.
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=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
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==== Android native app ====
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** Released minor update to production:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.7.268-…
==== Readers Web ====
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** 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 ====
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==== Parsing ====
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==== UI Standardization ====
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** No OOUI release this week, work on scheduled last release of the year
next Tuesday ongoing.
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
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=== Cloud Services ===
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=== Fundraising Tech ===
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** 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
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=== Performance ===
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=== Release Engineering ===
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** 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 ===
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* Updates:
** Working on building a 'morelike' API for article recommendations:
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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201192 and subtasks
** Working on setting up a production pipeline for generating article
recommendations and importing them into the database:
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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622
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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844
** Research: Eliciting new editor interests:
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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 ===
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=== Search Platform ===
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** 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 ===
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* 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 ===
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** Nothing really
== Wikidata ==
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== German Technical Wishlist ==
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== Multi-Content Revisions ==
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== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
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