[Wikitech-l] 2017-03-01 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-03-01

= 2017-03-01 =

== Call outs == * If you have something that you would like participants to take back to their teams (examples: requests fo code review, Phab tickets to comment on), please put it in this section in addition to your update * Collation version numbering patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272419/(blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 ) * Language: Still Blocked on mysterious and random Qunit test failures: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 (Who can help?), Schema changes review needed from DBA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146450 (TechOps)

== Product == === Reading === ====Android==== * Last week: ** v2.5.190 production released containing Wikidata description editing for Catalan, Hebrew, and Russian Wikipedias ** UI updates to main bottom toolbar ** Library and tooling upgrades: T144252 (Gradle build system), Fresco image library ** Consolidation of Android and iOS JavaScript code started T152991 ** App language now changes chrome independent of system language T142019 ** New saved page cache implementation in progress T156917 * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ): ** Continue improving the offline experience

==== iOS ==== * Last Week ** Continued work on 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/ *** Dynamic text size for Places *** Integrated design feedback to Places *** Continued work on login and 2FA (two-factor authentication) * This week ** Continue work on 5.4 *** Ship to external Beta *** VoiceOver audit for Places *** Other bug fixes & enhancements

==== Web ==== * Last week ** Update related pages schema to allow for current A/B test - T157375 ** Deploy new mobile header to Catalan and Italian wikipedias - T156794 ** Bug fixes related to the new branding work * This week ** Mostly tech debt and bugfixes

====Reading Infrastructure==== * working on TemplateStyles, ORES ** about to wrap up TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813 ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:css-sanitizer * not blocking/blocked * MCS: finished OnThisDay for the first four languages. Working on expanding TFA (today's featured article) to more languages.

====Community Tech==== * No blockers * Discussing best approach for Range Contributions, got DBA feedback https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318 * Still testing cookie blocks, hoping for a enwiki deploy this or next week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152952 * Popular pages report bot nearing completion, enwiki BRFA approved https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141154 * CopyPatrol now supports permalinks to specific record https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154811 * Notifications for unsuccessful login attempts ** Enabled preferences on loginwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158871 ** Testing LoginNotify extension on beta cluster https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158878 * Security fixes to Wikisource's IA Upload tool https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157784 * Extend length of edit summaries for non-Latin languages, may be handled with with the ArchCom multi-content revision work https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153333 * Various fixes to PageAssessments: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158245 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157654 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154216

=== Editing === ==== Language ==== * Work continue on OOjs UI migration for ContentTranslation.

==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked - None * Blocking - None * Updates ** Flow *** Import dump: support importing a board that exists on another Wikimedia wiki (cherry-picked and deployed earlier) *** Styling changes *** Front-end fixes ** RCFilters *** Allow users to add custom highlighting depending on which filters apply *** Many front-end fixes ** ORES *** (Ladsgroup) Make wording of filters in Special:Contribs as the same as ChangesLists * Echo *** Minor backend fixes and cleanup

==== UI Standardization ==== * This week ** MediaWiki Theme: Replace the down, up, next, previous indicators with chevrons https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111550 ** Further research on provide WikimediaUI Base's base.less in MW core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359 ** Some OOjs UI accessibility task work planned https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/697/query/.o5Hlts6Hi1e/ * Updates ** OOjs UI: *** 0.19.4 release with 6 different visual patches, also all widgets in MediaWiki theme are now featuring solely colors from the WikimediaUI color palette *** ContentTranslation: Сontribution's dropdown menu https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157217 – done

==== Multimedia ==== * No blockers/blocking, thanks to everyone who helped the past few weeks * Releasing Extension:3D to Beta this week or next, then moving on to prod deployment. Heads up, we will be carefully watching load on thumbnailing and usage patterns. * Note: May enable chunked uploads on cross-wiki upload dialog. Could move to change UploadWizard to core upload library after that. Stay tuned.

=== Discovery === * No blockers * Working on ES5 upgrade & wikidata search * ICU Folding is now effective on all English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis. Other wikis can be added on request. ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155515) * New contentmodel search keyword is now operational on commons ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156371) * Fixed portal issue with bad caching which resulted in blank page ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158782). * Article statistics were updated for wikipedia.org, wikiquote.org and wikiversity.org * Wikidata Query Service upgraded to Blazegraph 2.1.5RC, various bugs fixed, POST requests are enabled. * Seeking nomination for SPARQL federation endpoints: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_federation_input

== Infrastructure ==

=== Analytics === * Hadoop cluster is being upgraded to CDH 5.10, everything going ok except some problems with Oozie, sorting out now, lots of improvements with this upgrade * lots of Piwik improvements get rid of errors t * datasets.wikimedia.org is being migrated to analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets. We will do this slowly making sure we get in touch with data owners. We'll post on the analytics mailing list with details * thank you to Chad and Reedy for help with Dashiki extension deploy, dashiki configs are now like https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Config:Dashiki:VitalSigns * evaluating Vue.js to build Wikistats 2.0, with standard mediawiki theme as developed by UI Standardization ** Note from Wikidata: We are evaluating Vue.js too.

=== Security === * Security reviews this week: * StopForumSpam * mobile anniverseries endpoint * CollaborationKit

=== Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** Completely switched to new storage model for mobile content ** Preparing to switch to the new version of kafka driver ** Not much more, annual planning and vacations

=== Fundraising Tech === * No blockers * DonationInterface ** deployed a streamlined way to redirect donors returning from credit card processor forms https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153972 ** first use of new Ingenico API almost ready to deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128692 * CiviCRM: recurring payment timing tweaks (28 days hath February) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159298 * CentralNotice: Looked at slow saves, was due to an underlying message cache issue https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158084 * Filling out PCI paperwork * Callouts ** Thanks to Reedy for pointing out that we can deprecate / remove a vestigal part of the DonationInterface extension

== German Technical Wishlist == * No blockers. * Continued to work on the search form prototype: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TMg/advancedSearch ** Run into "prefix:" search parameter eating other parameters after: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159321

== Wikidata == * No blockers. * Backend work for custom entity support (for Wiktionary) is making good progress. * Blocking ourself on a full labs setup to finally test the new Interwiki extension. Callout to Adam.

== RelEng == * Blocking ** none * Blocked ** None * New version of scap just went out. Let us know in #wikimedia-releng if you notice any problems.