Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017-03-08 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

Thanks for pushing out these updates, Grace.

I have a question. Is there a list somewhere of who should be contacted with questions about a particular project or team? Some WMF people are very good about responding to emails or talk page inquiries, while other people's inboxes seem to be black holes and they may or may not respond to inquiries on their talk pages.

Thanks,

Pine

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Grace Gellerman ggellerman@wikimedia.org wrote:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-03-08

= 2017-03-08 = Call outs:

• FR-Tech:Andrew Green would like some help with a couple of CentralNotice

issues ** Advice from traffic / Varnish gurus on cache purges: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954 ** Help from core team with message cache update slowness https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158084

• Reading Infrastrucuture needs help with reviewing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:css-sanitizer and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/336963/ .

• Releng looking for some review on [

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/328191/ Selenium tests ported from Ruby → Nodejs]

• Ops: fluorine deprecated in favour of mwlog1001

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123728

== Product == === Reading === ====Android====

• Last week:

** Upgrade to new Mapbox beta merged ** New saved page cache implementation still in progress T156917 ** Reading list UI improvements and several tech debt patches

• Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):

** Continue improving the offline experience

====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 (MediaWiki-independent CSS parser/sanitizer library) could use reviews ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/336963/ (hooks + data attributes for change list items) is a blocker for ORES, could use reviews

• MCS: finished spike to figure out how to expand TFA and other feeds to

more languages. Adding more languages for TFA.

==== Web ====

• We've been working towards making PagePreviews available in production:

fixing bugs, improving the JS stack (T156333) and creaing a dashboard to track the performance in real-time (T157111).

• We'll continue with the above work this week.

==== iOS ====

• Last Week

** 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/ *** VoiceOver support for Places (accessibility) *** Continued work on login and 2FA (two-factor authentication) *** Shipped Beta to external users

• This week

** Continue work on 5.4 *** Bug fixes and polish on Places *** Continue work on login and 2FA (two-factor authentication) *** Other fixes and enhancements

==== Community Tech ====

• No blockers
• Refinements to Popular Pages bot https://phabricator.wikimedia.

org/T159774 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159776

• Almost done with cookie blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152952

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152076

• Volunteer helping with a new Special:AutoblockList page

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146414

• XTools Articleinfo moving along https://phabricator.wikimedia.

org/T157706

• Testing LoginNotify on beta cluster

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158878

• Added a CirrusSearch "source" to Massviews

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159858

=== Editing ===

==== Parsing ====

• Sorry about recent absences -- between travel and vacation, couldn't show

up regularly

• Linter extension will be enabled on test wikis this week and we'll move

on from there

• <audio> / <video> support in Parsoid coming along
• Language variant support / fixes ongoing -- using visual diff tests to

identify bug not caught by parser tests and other tests.

• RemexHTML (native PHP HTML5 parser) ready; integrated with Mediawiki Core

as a Tidy replacement along with necessary Tidy-compatibility passes. Will run visual diff tests this week before we can start thinking about deploying this.

==== UI Standardization ====

• This week

** Work on contents of style guide

• Updates

** General *** Incorporating the web fonts into style guide with a future-proof technological solution, which could work as boilerplate for similar projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155128 ** OOjs UI: *** Release of v0.19.5, among others including 6 UI related patches (new icons, keyboard-focus improvs, OutlinedBookletDialog visual order) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md

==== Collaboration ====

• Blocked
• Blocking
• Updates

** RC Filters *** RC Filters Beta Feature *** More AJAX support for the RC Filters UI *** Loading animation *** More UX elements and bug fixes *** Many bug fixes, including: **** Select filter when searching and add it on 'enter' **** Highlight improvements ** Echo bug fixes ** Maintenance: New script to init a user preference based on another preference ** ORES: Fetch thresholds from live stats for filters

== Infrastructure ==

=== Analytics ===

• Troubleshooting the upgrade to CDH 5.10 is wrapping up, we have a

work-around for the last remaining problem with oozie/spark/hive not working perfectly together

• Working on deploying historical pageview numbers (before May 2015) to AQS
• Working on inconsistency in how dates are handled in AQS, almost done

(T156312)

• Prototype (fake data, fake everything) for Wikistats 2.0 using Vue.js is

being worked on here: https://github.com/milimetric/wikistats-prototype, not sure on best practices yet but enjoying Vue development.

=== Research ===

• Starting work on missing section recommendations in support of stub

expansion ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159227

=== Security ===

• Reviews:

** Timeless skin ** Extension:StopForumSpam ** On this day mobile endpoint ** Extension:FileExporter

• Darian away at IFF in Valencia, Spain March 6th-10th; available via

e-mail and Signal (971-401-8338)

• Brian away at Enterprise Mediawiki Con March 7th-10th in D.C.

=== Services ===

• Blockers: none
• Updates: ** 2 machines added to SCB in codfw: scb2005 and scb2006 *** All services deployed there, all scap configs updated, no action

required *** Since that deploy all services do short-term DNS caching

=== RelEng ===

• '''Blocking'''

** None?

• '''Blocked'''

** [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/328191/ Selenium tests ported from Ruby → Nodejs] Could use review ** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159332 PuppetDB in beta flapping]

=== Tech Ops ===

• Blockers: none
• Blocked: none
• Updates:

** fluorine deprecated in favour of mwlog1001 ** Auditing capacity in codfw before April datacenter switchover ** DNS discovery https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149617 ** Precise deprecation work continues in prod and labs

=== Fundraising Tech ===

• No blockers
• DonationInterface

** deployed first use of new Ingenico API https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128692 ** fixing display of unsupported currency conversion notice: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98447

• CiviCRM

** fixing some blank address bugs: https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/T159402 ** more tweaks to matching gift import: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115044

• CentralNotice:

** Need advice from traffic / Varnish folks on cache purges: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954 ** Need help from core team with message cache update slowness https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158084

• Finishing up PCI compliance paperwork

=== Discovery ===

• No blockers
• ES5 upgrade process starting Monday with codfw cluster, see full plan at

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157479 ** This will also enable run-time indexing for completion suggester https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154503

• Results from sister wiki search A/B tests being analyzed
• Working on wikidata search

== German Technical Wishlist ==

• Working with suggestions we got to make RevisionSlider touch friendly.
• Working out a plan for an actual Special:Search form extension.

== Wikidata ==

• Figuring out how to update our giant wb_terms table (T159851)
• Migrated all special pages to OOUI (T48248), working on also using OOUI

on the undo interface

• Baseline to link to Data:….map pages on Commons is done (T57549)
• Review-queue we build to fully support new entity types is pretty much

merged.

• Working out a plan for sub-entity support for Wiktionary.

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