[Wikitech-l] 2017-09-06 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-09-06 = 2017-09-06 = contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering <!-- can't believe we're still using H1 elements --> == callouts == * RelEng could use comments/help [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129149 discovery/analytics move to scap3] * Grace to share proposal for redesign of this meeting - == Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Releasing 5.6.1 with minor bug fixes ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ ) ** Next up is 5.7.0 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Onboarding updates, Improved analytics ==== Web ==== * Team is focusing on removing OCG from stack. A lot of us are currently getting up to speed with the stack there to support existing work by Baha and Gergo. ==== Multimedia ==== * 3D is pretty much working like a charm on beta, except for the puppet patch being cherry-picked and not deployed correctly. Testwiki ETA 2 weeks assuming no problems. ( https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Crystal-NEW.stl#/media/File…) * Team is nearly staffed up and ready to roll, we'll be doing some ramping-up and prioritization over the next few weeks. ====Reading Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: Security for the ReadingLists review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174126 * Updates: ** ReadingLists MediaWiki extension merged, working on RESTBase half ** Updates to On-this-day endpoint going to be deployed on Wednesday ** Working on structured references API === Community Tech === * Subnet contributions patch merged, will ride the train next week * Preparing ArticleCreationWorkflow for deployment === Contributors === ==== Parsing ==== * Nothing for this week. We are coming off vacation. ==== UI Standardization ==== * Updates: ** OOUI: v0.23.0 released, among changes: *** icons: Removed obsolete icons and moved icons from alerts pack so it's leniant & more performant *** ButtonInputWidget: Fix Safari-specific intrinsic `margin` (Volker E.) *** WikimediaUI theme: Fix frameless indicator combination buttons' appearance (Volker E.) * Ongoing: ** Continuation on WikimediaUI Style Guide work, starting with updating imagery on color section https://wikimedia.github.io/WikimediaUI-Style-Guide/visual-style_colors.html ** Remaining work (get patches merged) on aligning arbitrary, historically grown colors to WikimediaUI color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148708 ** Align TransparencyReport to WikimediaUI color palette and make it fully accessible ==== Global Collaboration ==== ===== Language ===== * Blocked: cxserver deployment with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173038 is WIP. * CX-VE work continue. * CX dashboard improvements. ===== Collaboration ===== * Updates ** RCFilters - Mostly improving appearances and messages, some fine-tuning and bug fixes *** {{git|2b7fec67}} - <nowiki>WLFilters: convert 'edit watchlist' button to new UX</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T172030}}) *** {{git|94497cbd}} - <nowiki>WLFilters: reword watchlist-details slightly</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T172030}}) *** {{git|3ec69e79}} - <nowiki>WLFilters: fix msg keys to comply with standard</nowiki> *** {{git|8e099f54}} - <nowiki>RCFilters: Minimize vertical spacing; get rid of legend and <br>s</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T174121}}) *** {{git|ffb5387c}} - <nowiki>WLFilters: wrap Watchlist-details in a div instead of a p</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T172030}}) *** {{git|8148d908}} - <nowiki>WLFilters: adapt to customized watchlist-details</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T172030}}) *** {{git|467fbef0}} - <nowiki>WLFilters: fix server-side tag filtering</nowiki> *** {{git|3bf41380}} - <nowiki>RCFilters: Make top links in RecentChanges expand to full-width</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T174617}}) *** {{git|61696a0b}} - <nowiki>WLFilters: describe how unseen changes should look</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T172030}}) *** {{git|5e8ba53a}} - <nowiki>RCFilters: Include invert param when reading default saved query</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T174506}}) *** {{git|0a823840}} - <nowiki>RCFilters: rephrase the feedback link text</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T174411}}) *** {{git|ba86bd1d}} - <nowiki>WLFilters: Use displaysOnUnstructuredUi instead of isVisible</nowiki> ({{phabricator|T171134}}) === Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Continuing work on ML-assisted ranking ** Preparing upgrade to Elastic 5.5 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174662 ) ** Developing strategy for porting CirrusSearch tests to nodejs ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174103 ) ** Excellent blog post by Trey on search with wrong keyboard: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/28/wikipedia-search-phonetic-keyboards/ ** Search relevance A/B test analyzed: https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Adhoc-SurveyMVP/ ** Explore similar A/B test analyzed: https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Test-ExploreSimilar/ ** Per-IP rate limits introduced on maps: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169175 ** Fixed load spikes on some Elastic backend servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169498 === Scoring Platform === *Blocked by: nothing. *Blocking: ** We need to run our stress tests again before ops can move us to the dedicated cluster. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174402. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169246 * Updates: ** Wikilabels incident https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/69/wikilabels_incident_re… ** svwiki, eswikibooks, filter support comming soon for RC Filter == Wikidata == * Blocked by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/357985 RewriteRule patch not being merged * Franziska Heine is new head of software department (was Abraham Taherivand before): https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/09/01/franziska-heine-ist-neue-leiterin-der-… * Published the WikidataCon program: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program * Entity serialization will change and include all snak hashes (on main, qualifier, and reference snaks): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174692 * Did several releases of PHP libraries with MediaWiki integration removed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173936 * Investigating ways to do the same with JavaScript ResourceLoader libraries: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174922 * List of monolingual value languages grows to a point that makes people uncomfortable why core doesn't support these: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/374052 == German Technical Wishlist == * Preparing for WikiCon (annual German community conference) * Another Wikidiff2 change needs review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319866 === Fundraising Tech === * No blocker/blocking * Trying to optimize things for December (db writes, fs access, etc) * More PayPal Express Checkout tweaks * More CiviCRM contact de-duplication work === Security === * No blockers * Updates: ** Looking into improving password blacklists ** re-review of CentralNotice ** review of vue.js up next === Services === * No blockers * Updates: ** restbase1010 disk failure, now fixed ** Cassandra 3 cluster almost set up, continue work on new storage implementation ** node 8 - if you can start testing your services with it ** All time record on REST API usage - 10k req/s === RelEng === * Blocking ** None? * Blocked ** Could use comments/help [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129149 discovery/analytics move to scap3] * Updates ** 1.30.0-wmf.17 going out this week === Technical Operations === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** All video scalers now running jessie, this completes the migration of mw* servers ** tin deploy server has bad disk, pending replacement https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174452