[Wikitech-l] Scrum of scrums/2019-12-04

Hi, for HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-12-04 Željko -- = 2019-12-04 = == Callouts == * Release Engineering - unusual train schedule: ** This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - group1 + group2 ** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10 ** December 23-January 3rd - No deploys (including train), Holiday break == Product == === Editing === * Updates: ** Finalizing work on high fidelity prototype for replies on talk pages === Growth === * Updates: ** Cleaning up remaining bugs from v1.0 release of newcomer tasks === iOS native app === * Updates: **Released 6.5 on 12/2 - [[phab:project/view/4245]] ***Fundraising announcement on article ***History & Diffs screens **Beginning exploratory work on 6.6 [[phab:project/view/4273]] ***Mobile-html ***Bug fixes === Android native app === * Updates: ** Suggested Edits v3 is live, as well as fundraising announcement (article banner in newest app version, and in the Feed in older versions) ** Continuing integration with mobile-html, and continuing to test the latest Parsoid / content service with language variant support. === Readers Web === * Updates: ** Summary: planning for desktop improvements and tapering off of advanced mode. ** [[[Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements]] Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP)]: *** Planning, research, and task creation *** [[[phab:T239248]] <nowiki>Divide VectorTemplate into components</nowiki>] ** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals): *** [[[Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions]] Advanced mode]: **** [[[phab:T232652]] <nowiki>Add History to article toolbar for all logged-in users</nowiki>] **** [[[phab:T232594]] <nowiki>Add article and discussion tabs to all logged-in users on mobile</nowiki>] *** Miscellaneous: **** [[[phab:T232734]] <nowiki>Mobile logout should not involve an interstitial</nowiki>] **** [[[phab:T225213]] <nowiki>Main Menu should work without JavaScript to be more accessible and a better user experience</nowiki>] **** [[[phab:T214045]] <nowiki> Drawers should be removed from DOM after close</nowiki>] === Product Infrastructure === * Updates: ** Computer-Aided Tagging will launch soon (TM), after the go-ahead from Performance ** mobileapps flapping is under investigation ([[phab:T239344]]) *** seems related to increased request rate associated with the Parsoid/PHP rollout ([[phab:T238832#5708029]]) *** There are also some unexplained MW API request timeouts for which I'm adding more logging for further investigation === Structured Data === * Updates: ** rdfDumps now unblocked ** getting recentchanges by slot merged, so unblocking search ** work continues on new input types for structured data ** tech talk on Structured Data on Commons 1 week from today === Parsing === * Updates: ** Parsoid/PHP deployed to all wikis and all products except (a) linter (b) language converter. These 2 products are served by Parsoid/JS === Language === * Updates: ** Team is back from Offsite. ** More Apertium MT updates coming up. ** Exploring MarianMT at: [[phab:T234194]] === Inuka === * Updates: ** KaiOS better pagination [[phab:T234436]] === UI Standardization === * Updates: ** Design Style Guide https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/ *** Polishing tasks *** Improving responsive layout *** Adding further components, like recently Comboboxes ** OOUI release v0.35.2 in preparation == Technology == === Fundraising Tech === * Updates: ** Monitoring fundraiser, tuning parameters to keep receipts and stats flowing smoothly ** Yesterday donors gave us more money by far than any other single day in the foundation's history *** For publicly available stats (as CSVs), see https://frdata.wikimedia.org ** Seeing lower-than-expected CentralNotice banner impressions for US, AU, and IE but that may be all because of bots: [[phab:T239748]] ** Small tweaks to Civi custom code to reduce logspam and cache a few more db lookups. === Core Platform === * Blocking: ** Product Infrastructure - mobileapps flapping is under investigation ([[phab:T239344]]), seems related to increased request rate associated with the Parsoid/PHP rollout * Updates: ** Next round of Core REST API work ** Virtual offsite next week (Dec 10-12) === Engineering Productivity === ==== Release Engineering ==== * Blocking: ** Wikimedia Deutschland/Wikidata: Setting up Pipeline CI job for wikibase/vuejs-components repository: [[gerrit:551829]] * Updates: ** Train Health *** Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - [[phab:T233856]] - group0 only because of Thanksgiving *** This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - [[phab:T233856]] - group1 + group2 *** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10 - [[phab:T233858]] === Scoring Platform === * Blocking: *** Ack that we're blocking [[phab:T233448#5638765]] * Updates: *** Jade API code is ready for review again - [[phab:T199834]] *** Model improvements coming for euwiki and cawiki - [[phab:T238839]] *** Model improvements coming for nowiki - [[phab:T130291]] *** Looking at SpaCy and other "industrial strength" NLP to boost ORES models fitness and performance. *** Extending our documentation around deployment prep: [[wikitech:ORES/Prepare_deployment]] *** Developing improved topic taxonomies. See https://github.com/halfak/wikitax === Security === * Updates: ** Password Reset Update: Security Proposal - [[phab:T237755]] - complete ** Security Review For Page Content Service route /page/mobile-html - [[phab:T227114]] - nearly complete ** A Large-scale Study of Wikipedia Users' Quality of Experience: data release - [[phab:T217318]] - nearly complete ** Security Review for whichbrowser/parser - [[phab:T239259]] - in progress ** Data Map (GDPR) update period closes 12/6 == Wikimedia DE == === Wikidata === * Blocked by: ** Release Engineering: Setting up Pipeline CI job for wikibase/vuejs-components repository: [[gerrit:551829]]