[Wikitech-l] 2018-10-24 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-20-24 =2018-10-24= == Callouts == * Technical Engagement ** Google Code In <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in> starts on Tuesday 2018-10-23 and runs until 2018-12-13. GCI is a contest to encourage and inspire pre-university students to begin participating in open source development. More mentors and tasks are needed! Read mentor instructions on mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors> or contact Andre Klapper to get involved. * Release Engineering ** revision-create event date format has changed (we think) -- new format example "2018-10-24T00:28:24.162300+00:00" -- if you know anything chime in on task please https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817 ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus/+/468482 is likely the culprit == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: - TemplateWizard was released as a beta feature to all wikis ** ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: - Releasing Partial Blocks to beta. Some tests failed on gate-and-submit CI process (specifically with postgres), we're dealing with those. - Discovered an inconsistency with the database layer, patch pending on that: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/469324/ ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: Growth team on cross collaboration instrumentation ** Updates: ** Added VisualEditorFeatureUse schema ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: **We need security review of the GrowthExperiments extension https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207798 **RelEng figuring out how to unblock and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/468171 **Editing on cross collaboration instrumentation * Blocking: * Updates: **Copyvio bot logging trial concluded on enwiki should be live on Thursday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EranBot_3 **PageViews schema is on meta wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:PageViews and we will start testing in beta this week or early next week https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents/+/464… ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** ContentTranslation v2 work continue. ** Work on mediawiki-html-sanitizer library: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-html-sanitizer === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** 6.1 with wikidata description editing & revert notifications in beta ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/) ** 6.1.1 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1.1-narwhal-on-a-magic-pum…) will be a bug fix & tech debt release ** mobile editing research ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== 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… **** Complete webpack migration of mobile.startup T206169 **** Collapse mobile.search.util into mobile.startup T206027 **** Migrate PageGateway tests to node-qunit T206226 **** Use NPM for Hogan v2.0.0 T205128 *** Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues **** A/B test will conclude soon T200792 *** Maintenance and bug fixes T207423 T207480 *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Design and product continuing special pages work in Minerva ** PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality *** Remaining work tracked in T186748 *** Rewrite Queue to Promises T204055 *** Upgrade Puppeteer to v1.9.0 T207416 ** SEO: *** Add Schema.org Article JSON-LD to main namespace pages T198946 *** Server side split test T206868 ** Product and management in Portland. ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** Hiring continues ** SDoC - some progress on beta cluster deployment ** SDoC - discussion on data modelling continues ** SDoC - usability study on multi-lingual captions ** SDoC - 'depicts' upload wizard ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: No one * Blocking: Hopefully no one :-) * Updates: **"Untidy" parser output is being deprecated **Most system messages are being tidied in this week's train (and next week) **If you see unexpected UI changes (probably extra whitespace) let us know **HTML DOM structure might change as well (if you are doing screen scraping) ***https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:deprecate-wgtidy ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Dealing with some odd PayPal behavior regarding legacy subscriptions ** Working out county-specific issues with card processor in Latin America campaign ** Deployed new batch-mode payment spreadsheet importer ** Preparing 3 proposals for contractor work on CentralNotice - live banner previews, campaign fallback and sub-national targeting, and calendar display. === MediaWiki Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: ** Train is blocked on group0 *** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817 WDQS] problems *** revision-create event date format has changed (we think) -- new format example "2018-10-24T00:28:24.162300+00:00" -- if you know anything chime in on task please *** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/EventBus/+/468482 is likely the culprit * Blocking: **Growth needs support on how to unblock and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/468171 * Updates: ** === Research === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Writing a paper that researches Wikipedia section alignments across languages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Expanding_Wikipedia_articles_acros… ** Working on taking the Recommendation API to production: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/services/recommendation-api/+/… ** Stopping data collection for citation usage schemas on 10/25: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/465418/ === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Redis task tracker is live now, ores responses is now cut to half ** More work on upgrading to celery 4 is ongoing === Search Platform === * Blocked by: breakage in the updater ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207817) being handled * Blocking: * Updates: ** ** WDQS Updater incident: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20181024-WDQS - working on it ** Fixed issue with Lexeme data not being properly updated in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207673 ** Fixed search satisfaction browser tests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206232 ** Working on “wrong keyboard layout” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958 ** Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282 ** Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: T207798 Security review for GrowthExperiments extension opened 10/23 * Updates: ** === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **