[Wikitech-l] 2017-02-08 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-02-08 = 2017-02-08 = == Product == === Reading === ==== iOS native app ==== * Last Week ** Continued work on 5.4, released to internal Beta channel https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/ *** Refined UI, added animations, added search suggestions *** Continued work on login * This week ** Continue work on 5.4 *** 2FA *** Integrate design feedback for places, try alternate search suggestion methods ==== Web ==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2460/ * Last week: ** Page Previews fixes, schema changes. ** Created Hindi versions of all three New Readers prototypes. ** Deployed related pages to mobile French wikipedia stable channel. ** Deployed related pages to mobile English wikipedia, 90% of the users. * This week: ** Create Reading Depth schema: T155639 ** Spikes related to problems we're trying to solve from technical, design, and product points of view: T156259, T157071, and T157071. ====Android==== * Last week: ** 2.5.18x beta release and bug fixes in progress https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155917 ** Improved multi-window support * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ): ** Continue improving the offline experience ====Reading Infrastructure==== * working on TemplateStyles, ORES architecture review * TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813 * not blocking/blocked: ===== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ===== * Kanban Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/ * New endpoint for Anniversaries === Community Tech === * Block cookies nearing completion (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233 ) * Making uca-xx the default for MediaWiki installations ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 ) * Ongoing investigation into the architecture for Special:RangeContributions (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318 )(insight from SQL experts welcome!) * Starting on rebuilding Mr. Z's popular pages report ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156856 ) * Rewriting XTools, investigation complete ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154551 ) * Porting CopyPatrol to Spanish Wikipedia ( http://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155933 ) * Improving date range searches on Special:Contribs, volunteer effort ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120733 ) * Enabling echo on loginwiki (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157105 ) as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11838 * New Wikimedia Cloud Services team ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086343.html ) * Discussion with enwiki about their plans for a private off-wiki abuse tracking system ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative#LTA_Knowle… ) == German Technical Wishlist == * TwoColConflict extension deployed as a beta feature to mediawiki.org * ElectronPdfService extension deployed to dewiki == Wikidata == * InteriwkiSorting extension deployed to beta sites * We have test wikis for Lexeme (the Wiktionary project) and federation (the Commons project) now. Currently fine tuning them. Will publish links soon. * Working on MediaWiki wide support for social network sharing, looks like we must use a Twitter specific meta tag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157145 === Analytics === * Community consultation for feedback on Wikistats2.0 design and information architecture. * Official launch of EventStreams, providing RecentChanges. irc.wikimedia.org and RCStream continue to work but are now deprecated in favor of EventStreams. * Rack and setup of 3 new machines for AQS. The last one is beeing setup now, ETA tomorrow. * Banner activity pivot data set is now updated minutely via spark-streaming. * Changes in pageview data set: remove action=submit, new bot in regexp, new field - namespace_id (to be deployed today) === Research === * In the process of looking for product and tech leads for Recommendation API productization ** https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_API ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157588 ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157589 === Security === * Security Reviews: ** Extension:3d ** Trending Edits Endpoint ** OIT LDAP Tools (wrap-up) === Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** RFC Discussion *REST API language variant support* *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154190 ** RFC Discussion *Thumb API* *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214 === Fundraising Tech === * Hiring replacement for Casey, who's turning devops * More work on new PayPal integration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107372, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153720 * Matching gifts import for CiviCRM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115044 * Method to purge CentralNotice banners from caches: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954 === RelEng === * Blocking: ** Nothing as far as we know * Blocked: ** Ops/Performance (Aaron): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125735 (redis timeouts for jobqueue) ** Mobile web: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157515 (undefined variable in MobileFrontend, blocking train) * Updates: ** Expect to hear some noise about production log errors. We're going to start getting...strict...on this === Discovery === * No blockers * A/B tests for sister wiki searches start soon on Polish, Persian, Italian, and Catalan Wikipedias: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806 ** Also have test server on http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/: see http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profil… * Working on ElasticSearch 5 upgrade * Working on improving wikidata search * Published description on how we test search: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search/Testing_Search * Deployed TextCat improvements: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat… * Added frequently used aliases for filetype: keyword: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156413 * Published call for comments on secondary search options: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-February/001426.html * Improved error reporting for advanced search syntax: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149142 === Editing === ==== UI Standardization ==== * This week ** Outlining path forward on Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747 feedback from core devs gathered ** Provide WikimediaUI Base's base.less in MW core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359 * Updates ** OOjs UI: *** Further improvements on form layouts in OOUI MW core forms for better user experience – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790 *** MediaWiki theme: Align tab navigation to color palette *** Mediawiki theme: Fix focus inset to overlap scrollbars – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103851 ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked - None * Blocking - None * Updates ** Continued work on new RecentChanges front and backend. ** Working with other teams to finalize ReviewStream spec. ** Flow bug fix ==== Multimedia ==== * Blocked ** Security review for 3D extension (scheduled, thanks!) ** Discovery could maybe help with a schema change for img_media_type - adding 3D media type, supporting filetype:3D queries in CirrusSearch. *** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/336454 * Blocking: None * Updates ** Firefogg losing support, we'll turn it off next week for UploadWizard ** 3D extension nearly ready to go live, once we finish reviews and some polish, we'll push it out. Stay tuned!