[Wikitech-l] 2017-04-19 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-04-19 *= 2017-04-19=* contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering == Call outs:== * Releng: if you have a scap3-deployed repo that has a patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:T162814+%28status:open%29 please merge * Analytics: Piwik is being upgraded tomorrow, April 20th, may have a 30 minute down-time * Analytics: Wikistats 2.0 prototype consultation going on at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_Project/RequestforFeedb… == Product == === Reading === ==== iOS ==== * Last Week ** Continued work on 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/ *** Background feed loading & coalescing *** Crash fixes & performance enhancements ** 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/ *** Places *** JavaScript consolidation with Android *** Move footer content to WebView * This Week ** Testing 5.4.1 ** Continue work on 5.5 (Places, JS consolidation) ==== Android ==== * Beta release this week containing Wikidata title description editing expanded to many more languages, as well as various offline UX improvements * Further improving offline functionality and surrounding UX polish * Continuing work on cross-platform consolidation of CSS & JS * Beginning discussion of implementing offline ZIM collections (Q4 goal) * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * TemplateStyles CR, familiarizing with OCG * MCS: Finally updating Parsoid version requested by MCS to 1.3.0. Working on refactoring mobile-sections to a new, intermediary, mobile HTML endpoint. === Web === Wrapping up page previews work Beginning work on a print specific stylesheet === Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * No deploys this week, but on Monday, planning to enable new RC Filters as a Beta Feature on English Wikipedia (which does have ORES), plus all non-ORES wikis (with the possible exception of German Wikipedia). * Preview for when deployments restart: ** Working on transforming Wikidata user IDs so propagated edits show user responsible ** Optimization so if we know a query will return 0 results, we won't do the query at all. Some of these no-result queries have extremely poor performance. ** Other bug fixes ==== Parsing ==== * Linter: Continuing to address bug reports and tweaking it. Was disabled from large wikis last Friday because of performance issues ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148609 ). Problem is now fixed and will be re-enabled next week. Decided to finish tweaking and improving output before a wider announcement. ==== Language ==== * ContentTranslation disabled in all Wikis due to high load on x1 in DC switch. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163344 Ops/DBA aware. Team will debug further on it. * Work on CX + OOjs continue. ==== UI Standardization ==== * This week: ** Continued work to provide WikimediaUI Base variables in core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359 * Updates: ** OOjs UI: *** Release of v0.21.1 with 11 UI/a11y improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md – among those: **** MediaWiki theme: Ensure WCAG level AA contrast on unsupported SelectFileWidget **** MediaWiki theme: Make readonly TextInputWidget appearance clearer **** MediaWiki theme: TagMultiselectWidget outlined UI improvements **** MenuOptionWidget: Remove theme-independent 'check' icon (Prateek Saxena) **** DropdownInput-/RadioSelectInputWidget: Remove unnecessary ARIA attributes === Wikidata === * continue work on federation and structured wiktionary * deploying geoshape data type on Wikidata next Monday * also enabling Cognate extension (interwiki links) on Wiktionary next Monday == Technology == === Security === * Reviews ** Ex:WikibaseMediaInfo ** TemplateStyles re-review === Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** Services DC switchover yesterday ** RESTBase summary endpoint now allows 5 minutes client-side caching === Analytics === * Ongoing work on EventLogging analysis support in Hadoop * Ongoing work on Wikistats 2.0 data back-end * Piwik being upgraded tomorrow, will have a short (30-minute or so) downtime * Wikistats 2.0 consultation on the visual design prototype happening now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_Project/RequestforFeedb… (prototype at https://analytics-prototype.wmflabs.org ) * Dashiki configuration articles on meta are all screwed up, can't fix them until the codfw-related deployment moratorium is over === RelEng === * Blockers: none * Blocking: none? * '''Updates''' ** If you have a scap3-deployed repo that has a patch in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:T162814+%28status:open%29 please merge === Discovery === * No blockers * New blog post about search: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/10/searching-wikipedia/ * Made plan to deploy archive search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163235 comments welcome * Portal updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 * Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR) * Working on Wikidata search improvement === Fundraising Tech === * More Paypal Express Checkout fixes * Coordinating with Comms to update the WMF logo in various places: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144254 * CentralNotice: Banner sequence feature is in code review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144453 * CiviCRM: getting rid of the rest of our local core hacks === Community Tech === No blockers * Pushed out Special:AutoblockList, enhancements coming * Getting community feedback on LoginNotify ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LoginNotify) * Analyzing cookie blocking on English Wikipedia prior to broader roll-out to all wikis * Work continuing on CodeMirror (syntax highlighting) ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror)