=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_concept/Vote

=== 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_microsoft_playwright/

==== 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.

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