[Wikitech-l] 2021-04-21 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-04-21 = 2021-04-21 = == Callouts == *** Cross-cutting: There are five filed blockers to the 1.36 RC.0 release (due tomorrow), but two are unclaimed and apparently not being worked on: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/ * … == Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback == * === No updates === CommTech, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality and Test Engineering, Release Engineering, Search Platform, Security == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: == Product == === Anti-Harassment Tools === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: ** Thanks to Sam Reed and James Forrester for code review and advice ** Thanks to DannyS for huge help on partial blocks review/QA * Updates: ** We're working on partial blocks against actions while we await next instructions on SecurePoll === Editing === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Will be working with Performance and others to reduce ParserCache expiry by ~7 days (30 -> 23) to free up some space, possibly caused by DiscsussionTools reply links. === Growth === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link ** Preparing to enable on-wiki configuration next week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274520 ** Migrating mentor data from user preferences to a dedicated table https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279853 ** Deploying Growth features as opt-in to eswiki === iOS native app === * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Thank yous: * Updates: Version 6.8 - finally improving language varient support - is currently rolling out. === Android native app === * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Thank yous: * Updates: Version w/ image recommendations suggested edits should be released 2 weeks from today. === Web === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Finishing up Vue.js search autocomplete widget project report: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249430 ** Preparing a release for WVUI to address a handful of bugs: *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277256 *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277315 *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279088 ** Beginning work on the new personal tools treatment for Desktop Improvements: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features#Us… === Structured Data === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Building a tool to manually test current implementation of the image recommendations API ** Whittled down dependencies for the new MediaSearch extension; it now only requires CirrusSearch === Abstract Wikipedia === * Blocked by: ** None. * Blocking: ** None known. * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases ** Started circulating early draft of our TDMP pitch for asynchronous parser fragments. === Inuka === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Wikipedia Preview *** Working on the version information https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278377 *** Working on the debug information https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278381 *** Working on the Wix integration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278456 ** Wikipedia KaiOS *** Optimize the confirmed characters of the search method https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246786 === Library === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: ** Language team (Niklas and Abijeet) for helping us get partner descriptions into TranslateWiki * Updates: ** You can now translate Wikipedia Library partner descriptions! https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?group=wikipedia-library-pa… ** Started setting up Matomo to track page views ** Started setting up tags to be translatable via TranslateWiki ** Finishing up The Wikipedia Library extension work === Vue.js === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Starting work to unify button implementations in WVUI and better match what's in the design style guide (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278509) ** Adding contributing guidelines to WVUI: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/681178/3/contributing.md (under review) ** Planning long-term migration of projects to Vue == Technology == === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** More work on email prefs page https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268511 ** Planning for integration with new API of backup card processor ** Work to migrate custom CRM code off drupal 7 ** CiviCRM contact deduplication enhancements ** Audit / reconciliation file processing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277244, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545 === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Thank yous: * Updates: ** 100% of MW appservers now on buster, no more stretch special test hosts, mwdebug1003 removed ** Gitlab: Performance testing on WMCS done, defining backup and monitoring, documentation ** The MediaWiki chart can run a php application on kubernetes https://people.wikimedia.org/~oblivian/mw-on-k8s-shared-socket.png ** Scap logs will be transitioned to ECS 2021-05-04 === WMDE Technical Wishes === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Thank yous: * Updates: ** Reusable edit count bucketing was accepted and is live for several 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 known. * Thank yous: ** Huge thanks to the Web team, especially Jon Robson, for their work on fixing multiple blockers to the 1.36 release. * Updates: ** REL1_36 release process: *** [In calls-out] There are five filed blockers to the 1.36 RC.0 release (due tomorrow), but two are unclaimed and apparently not being worked on: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/ ** CI tools: *** Nothing major. *** Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon. *** CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master ** PHP 8.0: *** Nothing major. *** Our target is REL1_35 (and thus also REL1_36) as well as master. *** Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one. *** Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; thank you to everyone working on fixing them. 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