[Wikitech-l] 2017-07-12 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-07-12

*= 2017-07-12 =* contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

== Callouts == * Reading Web found a browser bug that might be interesting to others: Firefox fires onload twice in certain circumstances https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170018 * RelEng/Performance: 3D thumbnails broken on beta, Multimedia could your input https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170444 ** Parsing: Need input about naming of a property in Parsoid's DOM output for language variants ( see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2017-July/001129.html )

== Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: 5.5.1 Released. Working on 5.6 (Dark mode, on this day in the feed) : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2701/

==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: n/a * Blocking: n/a * Updates: (all ongoing) ** reading list syncing UI work is nearly done; on deck: ZIM support ** Stephen working on cross-platform CSS/JS consolidation ** engineer interviews in progress

==== Reading Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **Discovered a browser bug that impacts EventLogging ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170018 ) If your projects are relying on it you may want to check that. **Planning to roll out Page previews to all wikis except German and English. **Minerva and MobileFrontend will be split this week **Updating Vector's print styles

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Updates: ** Discussions about Summary 2.0 Spec and title properties. ** Measuring payload reduction of MCS transformations with removal of reference lists. ** working on Reading Lists

==== Multimedia ==== * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Updates ** Beta thumbnails are looking better, but 3D thumbnails are still broken - could use input from releng/performance about what might be causing this https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170444 ** Patch to properly label webm audio files as audio/webm (currently video/webm)

==== Discovery ==== * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Updates: ** (maps) Ops out this week, ops + developers out next week ** (search) running A/B test on Special:Search "explore similar" feature

=== Community Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** HTML5 section IDs (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540) are still coming ** Preparing CodeMirror and LoginNotify for wider deployment

=== Contributors === ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Need input about naming of a property in Parsoid's DOM output for language variants ( see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2017-July/001129.html )

==== Global Collaboration ==== ===== Collaboration ===== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Better UI for Echo notification blacklist feature ** RCFilters *** Initial implementation of live updates! *** Bug fixes ** Article Reminder notification *** Initial implementation behind feature flag

==== Contributors Design ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

== Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Building CentralNotice admin button to clear banner cache for specific banners / languages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168673 ** Upgrading integration with our main credit card provider: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163946 ** Deployed initial version of pulling 3rd-party mailer data into CiviCRM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161758 ** Fixing stubborn PayPal Express Checkout / dead session bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167923 ** Optimizing thank you email sender job

=== MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Performance === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** 1.29-rc.1 is out, hopefully release out this week (Friday if nothing comes up)

=== Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Thank you to the people who helped with the June 23 outage, especially AKosiaris and SSastry! ***https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170623-ORES *** https://github.com/wiki-ai/revscoring/commit/ab11dc4c30e8b9824949b05b7d12006... *** https://github.com/wiki-ai/revscoring/commit/c8d5c3a863059b83647e739fdcb8ce8... *** https://github.com/wiki-ai/ores/commit/2657d8a8ab4e8fa517922fcef07a598b01c5d... ***https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168965 (Good demo in the last post) **We're unblocked and unblocking on coordinating the Extension:ORES handoff with Collaboration, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167911. Looks like we're within negotiating range of feature parity. **Having a conversation about "ethical" AI, which is a major focus of our work. I'll be mailing out soon to expand the circle to anyone interested in that.

=== Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Continuing work on ML-assisted search ranking ** Working on Japanese & Vietnamese analyzers ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166731, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170423 ) ** Wikidata search fixed remaining problems, waiting for deploy to do production testing ** Database phrase search fixed (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167798 ) ** Reindexing wiki to enable archive search everywhere ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163235 ) ** Reloading WDQS data for encoding fix ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131960 )

=== Security === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: **Auditing labs views and sanitarium redaction **Review reccomendation api service ** review *Vue.js library review* ** review AdvancedSearch extension

=== Services === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Enabled automatic blacklisting of unrenderable articles for all use-cases in Change-Propagation ** Woking on the next generation RESTBase storage model implementation ** FYI: Grafana alerting capabilities: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grafana.wikimedia.org#Alerts_.28with_not...

=== Technical Operations === (apologies for not being around) * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Services running in Kubernetes Pods will have different network policies than the status quo. Feel free to comment in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170111 ** WP Zero users blocked from accessing media content due to abuse https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168142 ** RCStream will be disabled this week. ** Recommendation API to e deployed this week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148129 ** Due to a spam attack some people may have been unsubscribed from ops@wikimedia.org. If you care about that content, please make sure you are subscribed

=== Analytics === * Released a new snapshot of mediawiki_history today, it has cummulative revision counts! See the announcement on analytics-l * Deploying an alpha version of the new Wikistats 2.0 UI working with real data * Lots of work on purging data from EventLogging according to our data retention guidelines and privacy policies * Preparing for the Kafka 0.10 upgrade * Getting ready to decommission stat1002 and stat1003 and replace them with new boxes * Joseph is on parental leave until the end of July * Dan is going on parental leave at some point within the next few weeks

== Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

== German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: