https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-06-21
*= 2017-06-21 =*
contact:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering
== Callouts ==
* Could use some input from performance and/or cloud people as to the
efficacy of 3d2png on the beta cluster - currently planning to upload ~1000
STL files at around 400kb each and thumbnail them to see what the load hit
is like.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166699
* Beginning to look at improving HTML summaries for purpose of "page
previews" feature. Likely to need help/input from services
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113094
* CommTech would love feedback on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540
* codfw row A switch upgrade Thurs 29th
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168462
* Thumbor deployed to wikipedias, commons next week
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121388
* restbase2001 is depooled for experiments and it should stay depooled
* some input on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159922 and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166188 would be welcome
* feedback welcome on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133178
== Audiences ==
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Released 5.5 (Places, Explore feed updates) -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
* 5.5.1 (bug fixes & enhancements) -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2789/
* 5.6 (dark mode, on this day) -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2701/
* No blockers
==== Android native app ====
* Still working on reading list syncing UI, not immediately
blocked/blocking as far as we know.
** Board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2763/
* New engineer hiring process is underway.
==== Reading Web ====
* Removed ability for users to disable images. Ops there is a VCL change
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109870
* Beginning to look at improving HTML summaries for purpose of "page
previews" feature. Likely to need help/input from services (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113094
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* read-html endpoint in code review
* upcoming: add scripts to measure payload sizes + lazy loading of
references
* testing OCG replacement candidates
* broke and fixed recentchanges (T167922)
==== Multimedia ====
* Not blocking, not blocked
* Could use some input from performance and/or cloud people as to the
efficacy of 3d2png on the beta cluster - currently planning to upload ~1000
STL files at around 400kb each and thumbnail them to see what the load hit
is like.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166699
==== Discovery ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Work proceeds on style/vector tile schema changes -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153282 and many sub-issues
* Debugging stalled map updates on production -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168241
=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by: Would love feedback on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 regarding HTML5 section IDs
* XTools rewrite (
http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-dev/)
* CodeMirror - soon to be deployed as a Beta Feature on Test Wikipedia
* LoginNotify - Adding notifications for successful logins from an unknown
device
* HTML5 section IDs - stalled
=== Contributors ===
==== Parsing ====
* Blocked by:
**
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350830/ has been stuck in review
queue for a while now (Krinkle last took a look at it)
* Blocking:
* Updates
** Linter extension was reenabled on all wikis.
** Redlink annotations were attempted to be deployed, but canaries alerted
us to some title normalization issues that are being looked into. Should go
out next week (or two, if we need a patch to ride the MediaWiki train)
** Pig Latin merged in core: other work on language variant support to land
soon in Parsoid (and hopefully VE as well)
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates
** RC Filters front-end improvements
*** RCFilters: Add edit tags drop down
*** RCFilters: Always replaceState the URL ({{phabricator|T167919}})
*** RCFilters: Add 'views' concept and a namespace view to RCFilters
({{phabricator|T159942}}, {{phabricator|T163521}}, {{phabricator|T164130}})
*** RCFilters: Make frontend URL follow backend rules and add
'urlversion=2' ({{phabricator|T166907}}, {{phabricator|T166972}},
{{phabricator|T166974}})
*** RCFilters: Send form info even for empty checkboxes
** RC Filters back-end improvements
*** ChangesListSpecialPage: Add urlversion and make urlversion=2 ignore
defaults ({{phabricator|T166906}})
** Other small RC-related changes
** PageTriage - Don't show the 'Possible issues' section in the info flyout
if it is empty ({{phabricator|T147220}})
** Some minor Flow fixes
==== Language ====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** CX OOjsUI work continue.
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Again -- Redundant Announcement: RCStream clients using socket.io will be
deprecated on July 7th, we pinged everyone and offered help to move to
EventStreams, but if anyone knows stragglers point them to us
* Blocked by: --
* Blocking: --
* Ongoing
- ** purging EventLogging data: Performance issues coworked with DBAs
- ** Ongoing work on Webrequest tagging helping functions
- ** wikistats 2.0: Development continues
=== Research ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Reader survey for 14 wikis scheduled for Thursday, 22 June
*** Will run for approximately one week, but may (unlikely) need two
***
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131949#3361478
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Continuing work on ML-assisted search ranking, performance testing
* Fixed breakage in cross-language search due to deploy of sister-wiki
search (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168302)
* Ukrainian, Chinese language analyzers deployed. Swedish got improved
configuration recognizing letters with diacritics as distinct. (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160562)
* Dasboards migrated to puppet setup (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161354)
** This also includes reusable puppet module for creating Shiny server:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-June/088374.html
=== Security ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Reviews:
** psy/psysh use on WMF servers
** Auto-approval of low-risk OAuth applications
** Ex:JsonConfig/Ex:Kartographer
=== Services ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Having troubles with new version of node cassandra driver
*** restbase2001 is depooled for experiments and it should stay depooled
** Electron PDF service failures
*** Some input on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159922 and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166188
** Discussing missing support for RESTBase on
www.wikimedia.org
*** Feedback welcome on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133178
** Red links support in Parsoid HTML and MCS is coming soon
***
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39902 and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133221
=== Technical Operations ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Thumbor deployed to wikipedias, commons next week
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121388
** Minor incident regarding citoid and
nih.gov.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133696#3350683
** WP0 abuse on phabricator
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168142
** codfw row A switch upgrade Thurs 29th
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168462
== Wikidata ==
* No blockers.
* Continued working on the Lexeme UI:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160053