Hi Grace,
There seems to be a few blanks in this report. Admittedly I only read it occasionally, but I would be interested in knowing what's happening in Editing and Collaboration. Is there a way to append that information to this report?
Thanks, Pine
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Grace Gellerman ggellerman@wikimedia.org wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-08-17
= 2016-08-17 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== Reading Web ====
- Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2126/
- Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2158/
- Lazy loading images on mobile web is going live very soon
- Heads up, we're looking to release Related Articles on mobile web
potentially in 6-10 weeks. More api.php calls.
- Any ideas on "Various browser tests failing due to login error" (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142600 )?
==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== Not stripping title attributes from links anymore. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/304785/
==== Android native app ====
- Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2142/
- Next sprint:
- Beta release this week with minor feed updates (tab icon update, access
to tabs from the feed, persistent dismissal of cards)
- Nav overhaul work continues apace
- Working with Discovery to get Nearby search going
==== iOS native app ====
- 5.0.6 shipped this week:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v5.0.6-hotfix/
- Current release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1736/ ** Major features are iPad and Find in Page ** Feature Complete and in beta ** Still wrapping up minor tweaks and bug fixes
- Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/
** Started development this week week ** Adding iOS 10 support ** Dropping iOS 8 support ** Major features are Widgets and Feed improvements ** Expected to go to beta in early september
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
=== Security ===
- MediaWiki 1.27.1 release delayed to this week
- Security reviews this week: Html5Depurate, GlobalGroupPermisions,
PerformanceInspector
- Planning for captcha improvements continues
** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125132 ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141490 ** First step will be re-generating images using current script
=== Editing ===
=== Collaboration ===
- Blocked:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
=== Language ===
- Blocked:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
** Security review for Youdao needed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143185 ** Apertium->Jessie packaging work almost done; Few packages left to upload. ** Improvements in Content Translation continue: MT card, templates, DB errors.
=== Multimedia ===
- Blocked:
** Is there an update on thumbor production status? (Performance?) It's still blocking ImageTweaks deployment.
- Blocking:
** None of which we're aware.
- Updates:
** Continuing our work on FileAnnotations; currently pending on a decision on whether we're waiting for structured data or will go early and re-write content after the fact when it goes live.
=== Parsing ===
- Blocked:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
=== VisualEditor ===
- Blocked:
** We (and other teams depending on Phlogiston) remain blocked with Ops/Labs on server issues, with the system either completely broken or impaired continuously since mid-June; this week it's T142742, before that T141796, T142165, T137736 and others from related issues. Is there a better mechanism for getting these kinds of issues fixed more rapdily?
- Blocking:
** Parsing team are still waiting for our response on "native" Parsoid <gallery> implementation. Thalia and Ed will look at it more.
- Updates:
** Major work this week on client-side DOM diffing (for smaller save bandwidth demands), re-orderable transactions (for enhanced IME support and maybe offline editing), and the new wikitext editor (now merged in a feature-flagged state; Beta Feature expected in a month or so).
== Technology ==
=== Release engineering ===
- '''Blocked'''
** ops - need a set of eyes on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/302601/ so we can easily put logs for Java-based applications into Logstash
- '''Blocking'''
** Security - security release of 1.27.1 & co. This week.
- Updates:
** New SWAT window schedule starting Aug 22nd *** See: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_ August_22nd *** And: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys#The_team *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137970
=== Analytics ===
- loading of new AQS (pageview API) cluster ongoing, will switch over to it
when done
- new event bus logging from mw hooks merged, will start being available on
event bus soon
- re-ran massive sqoop of all mediawiki databases, parallelizing most of
the small wikis together, and dbstore1002 doesn't seem impacted
- re-worked some dataset documentation to help people transition from the
old pagecounts-raw: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data
- Joseph and Luca are on vacation for two and one week respectively
=== Services ===
- Blockers: none
- Kafka upgraded to 0.9, now working on replacing the driver in Change-Prop
- Parsoid move to scap3 is in progress
- Puppetisation of the PDF render electron service
=== Research ===
- Substantial update to ORES is live
** CPU usage down by 66% ** Memory usage down by 26% ** Some minor regressions that will be handled in incoming patches.
=== Community Tech ===
- Updating affected abuse filters as the wikis receive the new code for
norm and ccnorm function https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29987
- Working on acceptance tests for InternetArchiveBot (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140386) and releasing some code as a composer package (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140135)
- Migrations to centralauth database for cross-wiki watchlist
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141951 ** Semi-blocker: update on when the watchlist IDs will be added by the TCB team
- Testing numeric sorting on Swedish Wikipedia
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142113
- Helping out with Education Program’s Dashboard tool
- Nearing completion of feature releases for CopyPatrol
=== Discovery ===
- No blockers
- Working on BM25 implementation
- Working on multi-wiki indexes
- Working on integrating Polestar (http://vega.github.io/polestar/) and
WDQS GUI to allow create graphs visually from WDQS results
- Improved suggestions with typos in first characters:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107006
- Analysis of ASCII folding/stemming on enwiki:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/ Re-Ordering_Stemming_and_Ascii-Folding_on_English_Wikipedia ** TLDR: results positive, we should do it
- Summary of Portal changes published:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-August/086312.html
=== Interactive Team ===
- Working on deploying <mapframe> and <maplink> to all non-Wikipedia sites
- Working on replacing GeoHack with <maplink> + info screen on all
Wikipedias
- Working on deploying Tabular data on Commons. Already synced up with
Wikidata.
- In progress of deploying eqiad maps cluster
=== Technical Operations ===
- '''Blocked'''
** None
- '''Blocking'''
** None
- Updates:
** apertium packages for LE reviews ongoing ** thumbor service getting installed this week, no definite ETA yet, but ongoing ** Work ongoing on puppetDB, xkey, varnish4
== Wikidata ==
- Blockers: None.
- Implemented user feedback on ArticlePlaceholder.
- Series of small fixes to make error messages in the UI more actionable.
- Need Ops input on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142944. Performance
and caching considerations when we make ArticlePlaceholder pages visible to search engines.
- Today: ArchCom meeting about proposals for content model storage. First
step towards allowing multiple content objects. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E261
== Fundraising Tech ==
- More queue work
- Running CiviCRM batch de-duplication, fixing issues as they arise
== Architecture == https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status 2016W33: 2016-08-17 (Wednesday)
- ArchCom Planning meeting: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E260
Phab:E260] 20 UTC (1pm PDT) ** Notes: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/ 2016-08-17 Architecture committee/2016-08-17]
- ArchCom-RFC office hour: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E261
Phab:E261] 21 UTC (2pm PDT) ** Agenda: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105652 Revisiting T105652 (content model storage)] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l