= 2021-03-31 =

== Callouts ==
* RelEng: 1.36.0-wmf.37 blockers:
** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278376 Constructing RevisionRecord for a page that can't exist]
** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278904 new edits are being marked as quality instead of "accepted"]
* RelEng: Dev satisfaction survey closes TODAY!!

== Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback ==
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=== No updates ===
Language, Library,
=== '''No notes provided''' ===
Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Inuka, Cloud Services, FR Tech, Platform, Quality & Test, Search PF, Security,

== Product ==

=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** We'll be announcing today the end of our work on WS-Export and officially marking the wish/project as completed

=== Anti-Harassment Tools ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Wrapping up known work on SecurePoll. May have further things to do here which will take priority over other tasks.
** New Engineering Manager joined, completing the team. Hurrah!

=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
** Continuing to work on on-wiki configuration
** Continuing design of mentor dashboard https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Mentor_dashboard

=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates: Putting finishing touches on next major release of app (including drastically better support for Chinese language variants), should be in beta within the week.

=== Android native app ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous: PET for all their collaboration.
* Updates: Working w/ PET on image recommendation API.

=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** Timo Tijhof for his work on the (currently Vector-specific) "pref diff" instrument: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261842
* Updates:
** Onboarding new hires!
** Virtual offsite 29th March through 1st April
** The WVUI search treatment A/B test is complete. All users opted in to Vector V2 will now get the treatment
** Clarifying feature responsibilities in ResourceLoaderSkinModule: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269877

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** On April 1st, Special:MediaSearch will become the default search UI on Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users

=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Blocked by:
** None.
* Blocking:
** None.
* Thank yous:
** Margeigh and the whole Design team for their flexibility!
* Updates:
** Closing on end of Phase γ: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases


=== Language ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** No major updates this week.

=== Vue.js ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** WVUI: updating Storybook to use the new controls add-on instead of knobs
** Design inventory (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047 )
** Beginning the technical desicion-making process for adding an automated build step for front-end assets

== Technology ==

=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** SRE ServiceOps for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
* Updates:


=== Engineering Productivity ===

==== Performance ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** DC Ops for looking into device lab hosting feasibility
** ITS for doing the same
* Updates:

==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
** See wmf.37 train blockers.
* Blocking:
** ???
* Thank yous
** Legoktm for all kinds of assistance, on mw-on-k8s
* Updates:
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.36 [[phab:T274940]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274940 -->
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 [[phab:T278343]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278343 -->
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 [[phab:T278344]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278344 -->

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** No updates

=== WMDE Technical Wishes ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Kartographer exploration led to a straightforward, potential solution for fixing the incompatibility with FlaggedRevs wikis.
** Beginning user research interviews for next year’s Geoinformation focus.
** Curious whether anyone else sees a need for mw-core anonymous user “settings” management, currently done differently in many extensions.

== Cross-cutting ==
* Blocked by:
** [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142 (or at least 6.7)
* Blocking:
* None.
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** PHP 8.0 work
*** Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
*** Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; tank you to everyone working on fixing them.
** Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
** CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master