[Wikitech-l] 2018-09-12 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-09-12 *=2018-09-12=* == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * Release Engineering: ** Log Health: Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000 times/day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149 == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ** Improve mobile dialogs, selections, and edit interfaces ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: RelEng to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450508 * Blocking: * Updates: ** CX: Performance improvements being worked on along with other continuous work. ** Global Preferences now supports changing UI languages when enabled. === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **6.0.1 released (minor bug fixes) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0.1-walrus-on-a-golf-cart/) ** working on 6.1 (wikidata description editing) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/) ** investigating visual editing capabilities of the iOS SDK ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Completing navigation updates based on user testing. ** Should release Echo notifications to beta by end of week. ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** Transitioning several well-used files to Webpack T203100 **** Enable headless QUnit tests compatible with Special:JavascriptTest T199452 **** Remove remaining white flicker from image overlay load T197110 **** Client side error reporting for Minerva+MobileFrontend follow-ups T202026 **** Maintenance and bug fixes T203490 T202701 *** Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues **** Bug fixes (thanks Tilman!): T203386 T203725 T203050 T202349 T203449 **** New / old treatment A/B test can be seen here https://readers-web-master.wmflabs.org/wiki/Pharmacovigilance?mobileaction=… *** Design and product are iterating on advanced mobile contributions nav prototypes T203480 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions ** Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews *** Fix failing isTranslatedTitleBlacklistedTest T203522 ** Supporting Readers Infrastructure, Multimedia, and QA hiring processes ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** MCS, PCS: Nothing particularly exciting. ** Maps: *** Upgrade to stretch on production starting next week after DC switch T198622 *** Investigating tilerator crash on eqiad, the service needed a forced restart T204047 *** New Grafana Dashboard for the beta cluster T202639 *** Kartographer bug changed maplink behavior (fixed) T203427 ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** File page with multi-lingual captions in review ** MCR work begins this week ** Artwork/editing wikidata design continue ** Restore revisions in progress ** hiring! ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** OOUI v0.28.2 released yesterday and addendum release of v0.28.1 last week. Highlights: *** NumberInputWidget: Rethink 'step' semantics (Bartosz Dziewoński) *** 15 new icons added: 'camera', 'beaker', 'globe', 'helpNotics' 'hieroglyph','mathematics' & 3 'mathematicsDisplay*', 'chart', 'musicalScore', 'zoomIn' &'zoomOut' *** Special icon treatment for Arabic language on 'info' *** docs and tests improvements ** Special:Preferences OOUI rollout is prepared and coming. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538 Last technical blocker on Special:GlobalPreferences is on the way to be fixed. == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** old geowiki jobs and datasets have been turned off and deleted in favor of the geoeditors data pipeline, accessible from Superset ** upgraded two more services to Stretch ** mediawiki history data quality checks have been automated, makes releasing new snapshots easier ** continuing work on Presto, project family metrics, cummulative metrics, a tinier EL module, annotations in Wikistats, helping with privacy hiring, Schema Registry RFC === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** CentralNotice: Working on slowness and DB abuse when saving banners with translatable messages. Thanks to language team and db ops for help with the investigation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203925 ** CiviCRM: Making some progress on speed of importing donations, fixing bugs in donor data export / delete tool ** New card processor API: more bug fixing, deploying script to resolve pending transactions ** Working on hiring === MediaWiki Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: ** DBA (in support of Reedy): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174802(EducationProgram db dump in prep of removing the extension) * Blocking: ** Language RelEng to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450508 * Updates: ** Train: *** we had a UBN! backport needed on Thursday ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203566 ) *** This has been thoroughly documented in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156541 and it is a regularly recurring problem which causes production breakage every time the structure of a class is changed in an incompatible way. We can do better! ** Log Health: *** Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000 times/day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149 === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Switched communication between ElasticSearch and Analytics cluster toKafka: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198490 ** Enabled loading categories from daily diffs everywhere: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201217 ** Fixed searching for strings starting with #: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182452 ** Fixed bug in displaying results counts in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71382 ** Upgraded disk space on WDQS servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196485 ** Working on improving Korean analyzers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178925 ** Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654 ** Working on searching for statement values without additional keywords: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163642 ** Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197960 Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Reading-web with T177765 (Sorry for delay) * Updates: ** Work on phan-taint-check continues. Voting on lots of WM deployed extensions now (Thanks Legoktm) **Chromium-render review this week (sorry for delay) === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Finishing up Senses support in Lexicographical Data: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/ == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **