https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-12-02

== Callouts ==
Pinging Parsoid client teams (Editing, Language, Platform Infrastructure, Growth) onhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 again. Where necessary, this week, we will start submiting patches against your codebases. In that case, we would appreciate prompt reviews and followups as necessary.
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No updates: TechCom, Anti-Harassment Tools , Growth, Product Infrastructure, Language, OKAPI, Analytics, Machine Learning Platform, Research, Security, WMDE, Wikidata, German Technical Wish List


== Product ==

=== Community Tech ===
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    * We are still reviewing wishlist proposals. We have until December 7th before the voting phase starts
    * Watchlist Expiry has been enabled in all production wikis since last night (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry)

=== Editing ===
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    [ reply ] link deployed by default to three wikis (cs, ar, hu) and beta feature on ~250 other Wikipedias. Received support on en.wiki during an RfC; next step is an A/B test on ~30 medium-larges wikis. Can also be enabled globally via user script (ask us how if interested).


=== iOS native app ===
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** Released 6.7.3 into the App Store last week. Turning on Article as a Living Document experiment (in 6.7.3) today.
** In exploratory stage for 6.8 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4862/
*** Chinese variant fixes
*** Initial push notifications
*** Article inspection mode experiment


=== Android native app ===
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    ** Latest release rolled out to public 2 days ago.
    ** Working on designs for bringing watchlist into the app.

=== Web ===
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** RelEng?: Members of Readers Web aren't contributors to the @wikimedia/wvui package on NPM
*** No task as of yet
*** james f will help
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** Continuing to work on WVUI integration with Vector
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264355
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268363
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257698
** IE11 support for WVUI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268703
*** Thanks to James F for the note about the es6-promise polyfill
** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252774 – mediawiki.toc.styles RL module merged into ResourceLoaderSkinModule

=== Structured Data ===
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** Team offsite this week

=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
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** Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
** Excited to welcome Genoveva (Geno) Galarza Heredero, our new software engineer, to the team.

=== Parsing ===
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** Pinging Parsoid client teams (Editing, Language, Platform Infrastructure, Growth) on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 again. Where necessary, this week, we will start submiting patches against your codebases. In that case, we would appreciate prompt reviews and followups as necessary.
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=== Inuka ===
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** More bug fixes and UX improvements to the KaiOS app


=== Library ===
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** A bug that denied eligible users access to the Wikipedia Library Card Bundle is now fixed
** Working on making Wikilinks more stable is still in progress

== Technology ==


=== Cloud Services ===
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** releng train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support ([[phab:T267433]]) <!--https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267443 -->
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=== Fundraising Tech ===
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** The deluge of donations is here! Yesterday was our second-best day ever, and that was without sending any emails out (just banners).
** Lots of discussion on best way forward for dockerized dev environment - discussion of multipurpose image vs app-specific images ongoing at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268685 . Advice welcome from long-term docker users!
** Fixing little bugs as they crop up in the logs
** Updating text for different specialized thank you emails
** Tweaking timing of CiviCRM queue consumers so we can keep up with the generosity of our donors and send them timely acknowledgement.
** Trying to reduce log spam on main CRM box

=== Platform ===
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** Bug fixes for the API portal
** Parsoid cache in MediaWiki
** Sockpuppet API productionising
** Shellbox for MediaWiki on Kubernetes

=== Engineering Productivity ======= Performance ====
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** For 1000+ websites Microsoft now redirects IE users to Edge automatically when they have Edge installed: https://twitter.com/MonsieurPerf/status/1333740793253793796 Currently trying to get in touch with Microsoft to find out if getting Wikimedia sites added to the list would be a possibility. If they confirm that it can be done, we can decide whether we want to be on the list or not.

==== Quality and Test Engineering ====
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** Blog posts at team blog:
** Outreachy, September-November 2020 (by Željko Filipin) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/220
** Exempla Docent - testing UI for Suggested edits module, Part 2 (by Elena Tonkovidova) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/222
** To dream a dream. My Outreachy Journey (by Harriet Ayugi) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/223

==== Release Engineering ====
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** WMCS: train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support ([[phab:T267433]]) <!--https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267443 -->
** SRE ServiceOps: deploy scap  3.16.0-1 [[phab:T268634]]<!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268634 -->
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** Train Health
*** Last week: No Train
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 [[phab:T263186]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263186 -->
*** Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 [[phab:T263187]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263187 -->
*** Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
** PHP 8.0 CI support is coming as an experimental job for MW-land code; already voting for some libraries. Work to do.


=== Search Platform ===
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** Restart cirrus elasticsearch servers for java upgrade - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268770
** Update BAG & BRT SPARQL endpoint in the WDQS whitelist - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264659


=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
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releng: deploy scap  3.16.0-1 [[phab:T268634]]<!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268634 -->
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** Kunal is joining SRE Service Operations!
** Kubernetes infrastructure(s) upgrade policy doc posted at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes/Kubernetes_Infrastructure_upgrade_policy
** Effie and Giuseppe will be presenting in SRECon. See https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon20americas/presentation/mouzeli
** MCR schema change finished https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238966
** https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/11/25/wikimedias-cdn-the-road-to-ats/  2nd ATS blog post is out