[Wikitech-l] 2021-03-03 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-03-03 =2021-03-03= = Scrum of scrums = == Callouts == * SRE ServiceOps pinging: ** Language ** Product Infrastructure ** Platform ** WMDE ** Analytics for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 . Please review list of images in task, issue a commit for the ones you own to create a new version and deploy it, so that latest blubber improvements are passed to the deployed images. Many thanks! * [serviceops] PHP restart sudo rules for docroot deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/666309 === No updates === CommTech, Editing, iOS, Android,Library === '''No notes provided''' === Parsing, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Security == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: ** from retro ideas to try: *** Bolding items to read aloud +JF +TC *** relaxing the start time *** Template **** Perhaps add a contact point (email, url, office hours, whatever) for easy reaching out to teams when a bullet point seems interesting. +GG +JF +TC == Product == === Anti-Harassment Tools === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: ** Thank you James Forrester and Martin Urbanec for your ongoing help! * Updates: ** No updates === Growth === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: ** SRE for their help with the link recommendation service * Updates: ** Work on Add Link continues https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link ** Working on exposing more configuration settings to wiki admins [[phab:T274520|]] [[phab:T274031|]] ** Sending newcomer questions to mentors instead of help desks [[phab:T275908|]] ** Enabling Growth features on dawiki [[phab:T256126|]] === Web === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: ** Ed Sanders for the neat rewrite of the mobile site's lead paragraph hoisting code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262093 * Updates: ** WVUI search autocomplete widget A/B test is deployed and in QA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249297 === Structured Data === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Prioritizing tasks that are blockers for making MediaSearch the default search UI on Commons ** Working on new search profile based on image search signal results ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271799) === Abstract Wikipedia === * Blocked by: ** None. * Blocking: ** None known. * Thank yous: ** Vue team for on-going discussions around Vue2/Vue3 migration and its impact on our work. * Updates: ** Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases ** On-boarding Vue-specialist contractor. ** The Wikifunctions logo concept vote is live: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_conce… === Language === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** SRE ServiceOps on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 * Thank yous: ** Martin Urbanec & Kunal Mehta for help with deploying Section translation hotfixes. * Updates: ** Released the section translation tool on Bengali Wikipedia last week. You can learn more about it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Section_translation ** Just an FYI: Hotfix deployed for Section Translation got reverted when deploy1002 server was switched due to our module update not being synced === Vue.js === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Continuing to plan Vue 2 -> Vue 3 migration (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251974 for details) ** Scaffolding an experimental library to update WVUI to Vue 3 and work on consolidating existing WMF components ** Thinking through various technological decisions: local development features, Sass or Less variables vs. design tokens, code reuse via the new Vue 3 Composition API... ** Developing criteria for evaluating existing UI libraries, to be posted to Phabricator soon == Technology == === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Preparing for fundraising campaign in Latin America ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275812, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274319, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199733) ** More nightly reconciliation file parsing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272105, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545 ** Email preferences forms: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510 ** Update our repos to use Composer 2 and new version of composer-merge-plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267881 === Engineering Productivity === ==== Performance ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: ** Luca Toscano for debugging and fixing the ASO ranking breakage caused by the Hive update in early February * Updates: ** Helped Global Data & Insights team with performance inequality data per country ** Helped vue.js team with code review ** Helped Nicholas Ray with setting up vue.js search performance dashboards ** Helped fundraising and fr-tech understand the potential implications of the Google May 2021 update to search ranking. Nicholas Perry (Strategic Partnerships) will talk to Google about it. ** All seats for the frontend web perf training April session filled ** Converted WebPageTest performance alerts to AlertManager ==== Quality and Test Engineering ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Eventlogging journey by Elena Tonkovidova https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/230/eventlogging_journey/ ** Evaluation of Microsoft Playwright by Harriet Ayugi https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/231/evaluation_of_microso… ==== Release Engineering ==== * Blocked by: ** [serviceops] PHP restart sudo rules for docroot deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/666309 * Blocking: ** ??? * Thanks: ** Cole White and O11y for all the help with the Phatality kibana extension! ** Martin Urbanec for ongoing backport window support * Updates: ** [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 ** Train Health *** Blocked: **** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276316 **** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276353 *** Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.32 [[phab:T274936]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274936 --> *** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.33 [[phab:T274937]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274937 --> *** Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.34 [[phab:T274938]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274938 --> === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** relforge: open up access to relforge100[3,4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274314 ** Consume new event from the AddLink feature - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262226 ** Implement CirrusSearch keyword for drafttopic - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268272 ** Null or inconsistent search results using Khmer script - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185721 ** Add the IDSM/Sachem Wikidata endpoint to the list of federated endpoints -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275196 === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** Language https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 ** Product Infrastructure https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 ** Platform https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 ** WMDE https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 ** Analytics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 * Blocking: ** None * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Gitlab VMs being created and access granted. == WMDE Technical Wishes == * Updates: ** Preparing to deploy Reference Previews to pilot wikis (March 17th). Any user with “page previews” enabled will also see reference previews. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206 ** Still getting great support from Analytics—still flooding their inboxes with more small reviews. (Not blocked) == Cross-cutting == * Blocked by: ** Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142 * Blocking: ** None known. * Thank yous: * Updates: ** No significant changes. [[Category:Scrum of scrums{{#translation:}}|*]]