https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-09-19
*=2018-09-1**9**=* == Callouts == * UI Standardization: Rolled-out OOUI Special:Preferences with user-experience improvements to Beta-Cluster yesterday, on normal train next week. ** Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Preferences …and provide feedback for any issues – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538 * Performance: Prepped documentation on how to respond to performance alerts, aimed at engineering teams that are not Perf in order to speed up cycle time: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Regressions * Feedback requested on advanced mobile contributions prototype https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Nav... [Readers Web]
* Release Engineering: please help us to resolve train blockers, the train is not moving forward until they are resolved ** T204758 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: csrftoken" ** T204797 [Regression 1.32.0-wmf.22] ParserOutput::getLanguageLinks returns invalid values (Undefined index from ApiParse and LinksUpdate) ** T204826 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: query"
== Audiences ==
=== Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Finishing up work on Partial Blocks ** Waiting for schema changes to be executed on production https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204006
==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ** Moved MobileFrontend's VisualEditor styles back to MobileFrontend **Fixed scrolling OOUI dialogs on iOS
==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Various fixes for Content Translation v2 to be deployed with this week's train.
=== Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Still working on 6.1 (wikidata description editing, echo notifications) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Wrapping up navigation design updates/refinements.
==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
*** Feedback requested on advanced mobile contributions prototype https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Nav...
*** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFron... **** Transition View, utils, and other files to Webpack T203100 **** CategoryOverlay refactor T191987 **** Remove unused dev scripts from MobileFrontend T202743
*** Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues **** Limited A/B test imminent T204609 **** ReadingDepth sometimes initialises before PageIssues T204144 **** Safari sendBeacon issues T204143 **** Add red link logging T204073 **** QA https://people.wikimedia.org/~jdrewniak/more_ambox/ https://people.wikimedia.org/~jdrewniak/page_issues_inventory/en.index.html **** New / old treatment A/B test can be seen here https://readers-web-master.wmflabs.org/wiki/Pharmacovigilance?mobileaction=t...
*** Fix Edit schema EventLogging T204584 T203615 *** Maintenance and bug fixes T197884 T199066 *** Design and product auditing special pages in Minerva
** PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality *** Remaining work tracked in T186748 *** Working with Services on a Grafana dashboard T201158 *** Miscellaneous maintenance and bug fixes
** Supporting Readers hiring processes
==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** MCS, PCS: Nothing particularly exciting. ** Maps: *** Prod upgrade to stretch in progress *** Beta testing of tilerator resource change events for purging map tiles is in progress **** Need change-propagation deployed for the next step
==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** File page with multi-lingual captions in review ** MCR work has begun ** Artwork/editing wikidata design continue ** Looking into restore old revisions ** Refining structured data search prototype ** hiring!
==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:
- Patches needing review from other teams
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/460032 - Deprecate Preprocessor_Hash (Mediawiki Platform)
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/460200 - Preprocessor dependency in wikibase (WMDE)
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/458898 / https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/458899 - Remex on translatewiki (Language Team / Niklas)
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/446766 - BCP47 in Babel extension (Language Team / Niklas)
==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** UI Standardization: Rolled-out OOUI Special:Preferences with user-experience improvements to Beta-Cluster yesterday, on normal train next week. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Improve_Special_Preferences_user_experience_a... Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Preferences …and provide feedback for any issues – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538 **
== Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
=== Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
=== Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Trying to rescue data scrambled by a payments-wiki bug last Thursday ** Fixing bugs in latest CiviCRM point release ** Supporting Amazon Alexa donations ** Still working on CentralNotice / translate issues
=== MediaWiki Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** working on session themes for Wikimedia Technical Conference ** actor table and comment table deployment unblocked by DC switch, writing to new schema enabled on test wikis and mediawiki.org ** worked with Reedy to stop deploying symfony polyfills we don't need (gerrit:460464) - 3.5k less lines of code!
=== Performance === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Starting perf testing on low-power Android Go phones ** Looking at moving our WebPageTest setup to bare metal - working with SRE to do optimization testing ** Analyzing sitemaps value ** Quieting some of our alerts, so that they don't bother SRE (only us) ** Prepped documentation on how to respond to performance alerts, aimed at engineering teams that are not Perf in order to speed up cycle time: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Regressions ** Helped investigated slowness of the recent changes API ** Major triage of mediawiki-database and wikimedia-prod-errors Phab dashboards
=== Release Engineering === * Blocked by: ** [WMCS] Increased quotas for vcpu and memory in integration project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204373 * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** Train Health: *** no train last week due to DC switchover, train continues this week *** Three blockers so far :( **** T204758 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: csrftoken" **** T204797 [Regression 1.32.0-wmf.22] ParserOutput::getLanguageLinks returns invalid values (Undefined index from ApiParse and LinksUpdate) **** T204826 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: query" ** Log Health: No complains. This time. ** Code Health: *** Code Health Metrics Working Group Kickoff last week *** Code Health Metrics Working Group meeting this week - further discuss/define the workgroup's scope and next steps
=== Research === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates:
- * Re-starting data collection for CitationUsage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191086
- * Exploring further improvements on the recommendation API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203041
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=== Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** PoolCounter for ORES is deployed ** Working on design of secondary tables for JADE and using MCR in JADE
=== Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
=== Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
=== Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
=== Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Goal planning in process ** Switchover went very well, switchback on week of Oct 8th ** Work on Apache traffic server continuing ** PHP7 work continuing, php 7.2 part stalled as no CI+mediawiki test acceptance yet ** Icinga upgrade to stretch ongoing (should be uneventful, but still FYI)
== Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
== German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **
== Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** software development for file caption and statement support in MCR is complete ** deployment is in progress *** switch to "read new" on testwiki this week followed by mediawiki.org after a few days of testing