https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-10-31
=2018-10-31=
== Callouts ==
* Fundraising campaigns
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
* Release Engineering: train blocked on T208398 Fatal error on testwiki on
viewing talk pages when blocked and logged in
* Community Tech: The 2019 community wishlist survey has begun! Please
submit proposals and participate in the discussions!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019
== Audiences ==
=== Contributors ===
==== Community Tech ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** The 2019 community wishlist survey has begun!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019
==== Anti-Harassment Tools ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Partial Blocks code is out and rode the train; We're going to enable the
interface on test wiki today or tomorrow.
==== Editing ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
** Updates:
**
==== Growth ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
==== Language ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Continue working on ContentTranslation version 2 improvments. In
details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/V2#October_2018
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**6.1.0 in review, will be released after it's approved
**6.1.0 won't allow editing wikidata descriptions of English articles - it
will be enabled in the next release once English Wikipedia editors are
notified (task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208252)
**6.1.1 will be a bug-fix release (release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1.1-narwhal-on-a-magic-pum…)
==== Android native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**Released all the things to production (new navigation design, Echo
notifications, etc.)
**
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.7.263-…
==== Readers Web ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**At Wikimedia Technical Conference and team offsite
==== Readers Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by: n/a
* Blocking: n/a
* Updates:
** MCS/PCS:
*** Working on fixing performance problems caused by CPU-bound work (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202642 )
*** PCS mobile-html: working on a strategy for handling i18n in shared
mobile page content composed on the server (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205550 )
** Maps:
*** Fixing tilerator crash caused when attempting to access data subject to
a lock in Postgres (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204047 )
*** The Stretch upgrade/data loading on the maps cluster continues (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205462 )
** Admin:
*** New (properly registered) team IRC channel: #wikimedia-infrastructure
==== Multimedia ====
* Updates
** Matthias's baby has arrived, so we're pretty short-staffed atm
** hiring continues
** SDoC: First prototype enabled on beta, being tested
** SDoC: Working on UI/copy feedback, virtual statements, 'depicts' in UW,
metrics
==== Parsing ====
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* Updates:
==== UI Standardization ====
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
**
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Druid cluster upgrade, now Turnilo supports monthly granularity
visualizations
** Fixed vulnerabilities of all our node projects
** Productionized automatic ingestion of NavigationTiming, ReadingDepth and
PageIssues EL schemas into Druid/Turnilo
** As part of migration from stat1005 to stat1007, moved users and home
folders, stat1005 is not to be used any more!
** Working on deprecating the reportcard in favor of Wikistats2
=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
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=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** CiviCRM: follow-on work to distinguish endowment donations
** CiviCRM: expanding donor data export / deletion extension
** CentralNotice backend maintenance work
** Dealing with PayPal's poorly timed recurring payment ID migration
=== MediaWiki Core Platform ===
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* Updates:
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=== Performance ===
* Blocked by:
**
* Blocking:
**
* Updates:
**
=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** train blocked on T208398 Fatal error on testwiki on viewing talk pages
when blocked and logged in
** For fundraising, we need to upgrade composer merge plugin for Donation
interface and mediawiki/vendor@fundraising/RE1_27
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203084
*** Need a sync up with Antoine "hashar" Musso next week.
* Blocking:
** Train Health:
*** Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.1 deployment blockers
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206655
**** Six blockers closed, one opened on friday after conclusion of the train
**** Group1 was delayed until Thursday and Group2 finally happened late
Thursday evening.
**** Otherwise it was a mostly uneventful train. The blockers were perhaps
more worrisome than destructive, no outages occurred.
*** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.2 deployment blockers
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206656
**** T208398 Fatal error on testwiki on viewing talk pages when blocked and
logged in
=== Research ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** Writing papers for the Web Conference
** Working on the 3-5 year plan
** Starting a new online experiement for the "Elicit new editor interest"
research project:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work…
=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocked by: DBAs: Need that DDL reviewed:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EJAD/browse/master/sql/
* Blocking: None (hopefully)
* Updates:
** Logstash fixes going live today
** Upgrade to celery 4 will gets deployed today
** upgrading flask to 0.12.4 will go live soon
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Security ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: T207798Security review for GrowthExperiments extension
* Updates:T207798Security review for GrowthExperiments extension is in
progress
**
=== Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Updates:
** Auditing all varnish fronted services for lack of TLS by SRE traffic
team, you could be pinged.
== Wikidata ==
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
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== German Technical Wishlist ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
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== Multi-Content Revisions ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
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== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
**
We'll be shuffling the VMs that host the Quarry service over to a
new corner of the cloud today. During the move the service will be
unavailable and/or behave erratically.
I don't expect the move to take more than an hour. I'll send a
further notice when things are done.
-Andrew + the WMCS team
Can anyone point me to a starting point for learning about how to tune CirrusSearch (or examples)? I found the CirrusSearchScoreBuilder page [1], which implies it is possible to modify how search results are ranked. But, the documentation page hasn't been created yet. Thank you!
[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/CirrusSearchScoreBuilder
Hello all,
Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting:
* Following up on the Technical Conference in Portland (aka TechConf aka
WMTC18). Some outcomes:
-- We discussed the idea of sharding the revision table, with the big question
being what key to shard on. Options include page ID and timestamp. Tim wants to
look into this next fiscal.
-- People were generally happy with the proposed Architecture Principles. Daniel
put some of the feedback we got on the talk page, for discussion:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/MediaWiki…>
-- More results of WMTC to follow over the next few weeks.
* TechCom is moving to alternating times for their meetings. The public RFC
discussions will alternate between the old time (Wednesday 2pm PST, 23:00 CET)
and a new time (Wednesday 11pm PST, Thursday 08:00 CET). Times were chosen to
allow people from the US, Europe and Australia to participate. Times may shift
again as we get feedback on the new arrangement.
* On Friday or Monday we’ll have PHP 7 working on the debug servers. Still
figuring out how to select using the browser extension. (Giuseppe)
* RFC accepted after last call: Spec for representing multiple content objects
per revision (MCR) in XML dumps <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199121>.
During the last call, an issue with the representation of content hashes was
addressed. For the new XML schema, see
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Schema_update_for_multi…>.
Ariel and Daniel to follow up.
* RFC accepted after last call: Release notes automation
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200392>. Kunal to follow up.
* No public RFC discussion next week.
* Upcoming RFC discussion (probably on November 14): Session storage service
interface <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010>.
* Upcoming RFC discussion (probably on November 21): Introduce a new namespace
for collaborative judgments about wiki entities (JADE)
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200297>.
You can also find our meeting minutes at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes>
See also the TechCom RFC board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>.
If you prefer you can subscribe to our newsletter here:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:TechCom_Radar>
-- daniel
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2018-10): 381
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2018-10): 936
Task authors in (2018-10): 522
Users who have closed tasks in (2018-10): 297
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2018-10): 300
Tasks created in (2018-10): 2667
Tasks closed in (2018-10): 1992
Open and stalled tasks in total: 40067
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 43
Needs Triage: 435
High: 743
Normal: 998
Low: 1331
Lowest: 1275
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
Active Differential users (any activity) in (2018-10): 15
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Thu Nov 1 00:00:18 UTC 2018)