[Wikitech-l] 2017-07-05 Scrum of Scrums notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-07-05 *= **2017-07-05** =* contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering == Callouts == * codfw row B switch upgrade on July 12th https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169345 * Beta thumbnail issues persist (pinging people at random on IRC but if you can help, please do): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169114 * HTML5 sections need your review, also make sure your team is prepared to them: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 * Scoring Platform ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167910 - We need to know in which direction to go with our MW preferences pane. ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169247 - How should we keep our labs and production boxes up-to-date? == Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: Released 5.5.0, 5.5.1 (minor bug fixes) releasing today (7/5), Continuing work on 5.6 (on this day, UI themes) ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: n/a * Blocking: n/a * Updates: (all ongoing) ** reading list syncing UI work is nearly done; on deck: ZIM support ** Stephen working on cross-platform CSS/JS consolidation ** engineer interviews in progress ==== Reading Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Multimedia ==== * Blocked by: Beta thumbnail issues persist (pinging people at random on IRC but if you can help, please do): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169114 * Blocking: N/A * Updates: ==== Discovery ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Community Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Work on HTML5 section IDs ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 ) is close to conclusion - please review/comment ** Plans to roll out CodeMirror to testwiki this Wednesday === Contributors === ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: None known. * Updates: ==== Parsing ==== * Nothing from us this week ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: Working to support dump refactoring involving Flow * Updates: ** Various improvements and fixes for RCFilters, mostly user-facing (e.g. moving legend and UI fixes). ** Initial version of Article Reminder featured merged. This is an Outreachy feature to allow requesting an Echo reminder about a particular page. This is in progress and disabled by default behind a feature flag. ** Improved UI for the feature that allows blacklisting Echo notifications from particular users. ** Minor additional UI fix to Echo ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: ** Security: review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/363156/ would be nice. Context https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169295 * Blocking: ** None known * Updates: ** Working with visual editor people to determine how to integrate it as a surface for CX2 ==== Contributors Design ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== UI Standardization ==== * Updates: ** This week: Further aligning OOjs UI with WikimediaUI Base ** No OOjs UI release last two weeks, upcoming week v0.22.3 will take place from current planning. Changes in v0.22.2: ** WikimediaUI theme: Use icon instead of indicator in Tag-/CapsuleItemWidget ** WikimediaUI: Strengthen Radio*Widget's `:checked` state ** Rewrite all styling for "outline controls" (Bartosz Dziewoński) ** OOjs UI demos: Allow linking to specific widgets (Bartosz Dziewoński) == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: Kaldari's team with ACTRIAL data issues in eventbus * Updates: * Still working on eventlogging purging of data, troubleshooting issues with database to be able to run purging in bulk * FYI, We will be short two people this quarter, paternity leave * Working with kaldari in fixing some issues with data for ACTRIAL for autoconfirmed users, both in data lake and eventbus * Waiting on final vetting of project-family unique devices. That is unqiue devices on *.wikipedia.org for example, overall deduplicated * Work for provisioning new kafka cluster on pause due to vacation * work continues on wikistats 2.0 UI === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Updates: ** Third-party mailer integration with CRM almost ready for prime time ** deploying some big-ish changes to payment notification listener and job runner ** just about done with the preliminaries for using our card processor's new API, starting on the real work === MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Performance === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167910 - We need to know in which direction to go with our MW preferences pane. ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169247 - How should we keep our labs and production boxes up-to-date? * Blocking: ** Collaboration may want to take over the MW UI pieces of our extension, but first we need to formally define the features we care about. * Updates: ** Thank you to Ops, who got our new service boxes set up faster than we were able to keep track of. === Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** "Explore similar" A/B test ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149809) ** Continuing work on ML-assisted search ranking (load tests are ok: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169002) ** Working on Japanese analyzers ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166731) ** Wikidata search code merged, proceeding to tuning the profiles ** Working on the fix for phrase search without Cirrus ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167798) - currently broken but we have potential fix === Security === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Reviewing redaction on public labs (cloud?) views https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169665 + some other bugs. ** Review of Security review of Ex:JsonConfig/Ex:Kartographer interaction upcoming https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163827 ** Some discussion about new captchas https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125132 === Services === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** working on container based dev env: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-containers === Technical Operations === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** partial ganeti outage https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170629-ganeti ** labstore outage after kernel upgrade https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170629-Labstor… ** codfw row B switch upgrade on July 12th https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169345 == Wikidata == * No blockers. * Continuing on the Lexeme extension. * Almost ready to migrate from Constraints defined via templates (on property talk pages) to statements (on properties): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102759 == German Technical Wishlist == * No blockers. * Voting phase is over. Currently collecting devs/PM/community managers input on the top 10. * Be aware we are changing the wikidiff2 PHP extension (written in C++) the Wikimedia cluster is using for all diffing. Moved paragraphs will be shown as edited (including inline changes) instead of removed and newly added paragraphs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146781