[Wikitech-l] 2020-11-18 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-11-18

*= 2020-11-18 =*

== Callouts == * SRE ** ICU 63 upgrade (has MediaWiki impact) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264991 *** enwiki notification up in VP already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Update_to_I... ** Sporadic and weird issues with Italian ISPs continue. SRE is aware and working on them. contact cdanis@ if you have more debugging data to share * RelEng ** No Train next week ** No deploys next week Wed-Friday

== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates:

== TechCom == * Blocking:

== Product ==

=== Community Tech === * Blocked by: - * Blocking: - * Updates: The Community Wishlist Survey is now live and that's gonna be our main focus for the following 6 weeks

=== Anti-Harassment Tools === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Editing === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Growth === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== iOS native app === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Android native app === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Web === * Blocked by: LangEng: Finishing up some changes to make ULS compatible with desktop improvements ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelec...) * Blocking: n/a * Updates: Main focus is on finishing the work on the Vue search study. A VueTaskForce is meeting this week.

=== Product Infrastructure === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Structured Data === * Blocked by: - * Blocking: - * Updates: ** Commons Media Search: continuing to add features and make UI improvements, exploring some potential methods for using wikidata to improve search results (e.g. traversing entity trees, using aliases) ** Media matching: in discussions with other teams to determine how this project overlaps with others

=== Abstract Wikipedia === * Blocked by: ** — * Blocking: ** — * Updates: **The [[m:Abstract_Wikipedia/Wiki_of_functions_naming_contest|community contest]] for the name of the central wiki of functions has now closed, and the result is being reviewed with Legal and Comms. Our thanks to all who voted. ** Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects. ** Huge thanks to Daimona and DannyS712 for helping with a Phan issue blocking us from merging code T268055

=== Parsing === * Blocked by: ** This is a followup on a SoS update from a few weeks back. We would like Parsoid clients ( VisualEditor, ContentTranslation, StructuredDiscussion, MCS/PCS ) to act onhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 sooner than later. This should likely be a minor tweak in client code. We need confirmation that clients can handle this switch before we can make progress on making that change in Parsoid. Either leave a note on that phab task once you are done, or create a subtask and resolve it. * Blocking: * Updates: ** no updates

=== Language === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Web. Should be unblocked this week. * Updates: ** T264756 Working on technical implementation plan for translatable modules. Will make it public for feedback soon. ** T254481 Doing final tests on "Support sending TechNews using Special:MassMessage" ** T182433 Developing "Strong synchonization" for translatewiki.net which is a prerequisite for fully automated translation exports ** We fixed a bunch of production JavaScript errors in ULS. Fixes are waiting to be deployed. ** Polishing section translation MVP

=== Inuka === * Blocked by: - * Blocking: - * Updates: ** KaiOS app *** Submitted to KaiStore *** Addressing usability study feedback (colours, icons, copy, ...) *** Production errors ** Wikipedia Preview *** Oozie job for data analysis *** Image focus mode *** Multilines caption

=== UI Standardization === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Library === * Blocked by: Waiting to hear back from Cloud Services on question about IDS/IPS for Cloud infrastructure * Blocking: - * Updates: Fixed a bug in Wikipedia Library that denied some users access to the library bundle when they should've had it. Refactoring of Wikilinks UI underway to improve performance.

== Technology ==

=== Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: - Adjustments to allow migration of legacy EventLogging schemas to Event Platform. - Fleshed out plan to migrate cluster to Apache BigTop and Hadoop coord failover. - Performance improvements of webrequest job, reduce CPU time and data relocation. - Fix bug in pageview_complete dumps (replacement of pagecounts).

=== Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** SRE deployed a change to stop iOS app launching for thankyou.wikipedia.org, we need to test ** Quieting down noisy logs in preparation for end of year fundraiser ** Switching dev environment from vagrant to docker

=== Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Code review on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/587494 * Updates: ** Parser cache for Parsoid code riding out this week ** Design work for Sockpuppet Detection API ** Design work for IP Masking

=== Engineering Productivity ===

==== Performance ==== * Blocked by: ** Code review on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/587494 * Blocking: * Updates: ** Perf monitoring services migrated to Python 3

==== Quality and Test Engineering ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

==== Release Engineering ==== * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** Trainsient reports of Gerrit: remote unpack failed: Missing tree / blob ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268119 ) -- hope to fix today * Updates: ** [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 ** Train Health *** Last week: No Train *** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.18 [[phab:T263184]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263184 --> *** Next week: No Train *** Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disru... (two trains in December and that's it for 2020)

=== Machine Learning Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Search Platform === * Blocked by: ** Growth: Consume new event from the AddLink feature - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262226 * Updates: ** "ElasticSearch shard size check" icinga warnings on cloudelastic servers -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265908 ** Redirect loop in pages results in infinite loop in API query - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264534 ** Build integration envirionment for search platform airflow + hadoop + spark integration -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265641

=== Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** Had a networking issue in codfw on Sunday, minimal impact, but keep in mind https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267865 ** Sporadic and weird issues with Italian ISPs continue. SRE is aware and working on them. ** Grafana SSO is live on https://grafana-rw.wikimedia.org. Quality of life improvement(s) being worked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267645

== Wikimedia DE ==

=== Wikidata === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== German Technical Wishlist ===