https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-09-19
*=2018-09-1**9**=*
== Callouts ==
* UI Standardization: Rolled-out OOUI Special:Preferences with
user-experience improvements to Beta-Cluster yesterday, on normal train
next week.
** Have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Preferences …and provide
feedback for any issues –
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538
* Performance: Prepped documentation on how to respond to performance
alerts, aimed at engineering teams that are not Perf in order to speed up
cycle time:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Regressions
* Feedback requested on advanced mobile contributions prototype
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Na…
[Readers Web]
* Release Engineering: please help us to resolve train blockers, the train
is not moving forward until they are resolved
** T204758 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index:
csrftoken"
** T204797 [Regression 1.32.0-wmf.22] ParserOutput::getLanguageLinks
returns invalid values (Undefined index from ApiParse and LinksUpdate)
** T204826 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: query"
== Audiences ==
=== Contributors ===
==== Community Tech ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
==== Anti-Harassment Tools ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Finishing up work on Partial Blocks
** Waiting for schema changes to be executed on production
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204006
==== Editing ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
** Updates:
** Moved MobileFrontend's VisualEditor styles back to MobileFrontend
**Fixed scrolling OOUI dialogs on iOS
==== Growth ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
==== Language ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Various fixes for Content Translation v2 to be deployed with this week's
train.
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Still working on 6.1 (wikidata description editing, echo notifications) (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
==== Android native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Wrapping up navigation design updates/refinements.
==== Readers Web ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
*** Feedback requested on advanced mobile contributions prototype
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Na…
*** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro…
**** Transition View, utils, and other files to Webpack T203100
**** CategoryOverlay refactor T191987
**** Remove unused dev scripts from MobileFrontend T202743
*** Page issues
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
**** Limited A/B test imminent T204609
**** ReadingDepth sometimes initialises before PageIssues T204144
**** Safari sendBeacon issues T204143
**** Add red link logging T204073
**** QA
https://people.wikimedia.org/~jdrewniak/more_ambox/
https://people.wikimedia.org/~jdrewniak/page_issues_inventory/en.index.html
**** New / old treatment A/B test can be seen here
https://readers-web-master.wmflabs.org/wiki/Pharmacovigilance?mobileaction=…
*** Fix Edit schema EventLogging T204584 T203615
*** Maintenance and bug fixes T197884 T199066
*** Design and product auditing special pages in Minerva
** PDF rendering (Proton)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
*** Remaining work tracked in T186748
*** Working with Services on a Grafana dashboard T201158
*** Miscellaneous maintenance and bug fixes
** Supporting Readers hiring processes
==== Readers Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** MCS, PCS: Nothing particularly exciting.
** Maps:
*** Prod upgrade to stretch in progress
*** Beta testing of tilerator resource change events for purging map tiles
is in progress
**** Need change-propagation deployed for the next step
==== Multimedia ====
* Updates
** File page with multi-lingual captions in review
** MCR work has begun
** Artwork/editing wikidata design continue
** Looking into restore old revisions
** Refining structured data search prototype
** hiring!
==== Parsing ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
- Patches needing review from other teams
-
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/460032 - Deprecate Preprocessor_Hash
(Mediawiki Platform)
-
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/460200 - Preprocessor dependency in
wikibase (WMDE)
-
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/458898 /
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/458899 - Remex on translatewiki (Language
Team / Niklas)
-
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/446766 - BCP47 in Babel extension
(Language Team / Niklas)
==== UI Standardization ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** UI Standardization: Rolled-out OOUI Special:Preferences with
user-experience improvements to Beta-Cluster yesterday, on normal train
next week.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Improve_Special_Preferences_user_experience_…
Have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Preferences
…and provide feedback for any issues –
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538
**
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Trying to rescue data scrambled by a payments-wiki bug last Thursday
** Fixing bugs in latest CiviCRM point release
** Supporting Amazon Alexa donations
** Still working on CentralNotice / translate issues
=== MediaWiki Core Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** working on session themes for Wikimedia Technical Conference
** actor table and comment table deployment unblocked by DC switch, writing
to new schema enabled on test wikis and
mediawiki.org
** worked with Reedy to stop deploying symfony polyfills we don't need
(gerrit:460464) - 3.5k less lines of code!
=== Performance ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Starting perf testing on low-power Android Go phones
** Looking at moving our WebPageTest setup to bare metal - working with SRE
to do optimization testing
** Analyzing sitemaps value
** Quieting some of our alerts, so that they don't bother SRE (only us)
** Prepped documentation on how to respond to performance alerts, aimed at
engineering teams that are not Perf in order to speed up cycle time:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Regressions
** Helped investigated slowness of the recent changes API
** Major triage of mediawiki-database and wikimedia-prod-errors Phab
dashboards
=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** [WMCS] Increased quotas for vcpu and memory in integration project:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204373
* Blocking:
**
* Updates:
** Train Health:
*** no train last week due to DC switchover, train continues this week
*** Three blockers so far :(
**** T204758 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index:
csrftoken"
**** T204797 [Regression 1.32.0-wmf.22] ParserOutput::getLanguageLinks
returns invalid values (Undefined index from ApiParse and LinksUpdate)
**** T204826 EchoForeignWikiRequest emits PHP error "Undefined index: query"
** Log Health: No complains. This time.
** Code Health:
*** Code Health Metrics Working Group Kickoff last week
*** Code Health Metrics Working Group meeting this week - further
discuss/define the workgroup's scope and next steps
=== Research ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
- * Re-starting data collection for CitationUsage:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191086
- * Exploring further improvements on the recommendation API:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203041
-
=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** PoolCounter for ORES is deployed
** Working on design of secondary tables for JADE and using MCR in JADE
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Security ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Updates:
** Goal planning in process
** Switchover went very well, switchback on week of Oct 8th
** Work on Apache traffic server continuing
** PHP7 work continuing, php 7.2 part stalled as no CI+mediawiki test
acceptance yet
** Icinga upgrade to stretch ongoing (should be uneventful, but still FYI)
== Wikidata ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
== German Technical Wishlist ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**
== Multi-Content Revisions ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** software development for file caption and statement support in MCR is
complete
** deployment is in progress
*** switch to "read new" on testwiki this week followed by
mediawiki.org
after a few days of testing