Hi,

for HTML version see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-06-26

Željko

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= 2019-06-26 =

== Callouts ==

* Release Engineering ** All: Input greatly wished for on the "Future of CI" planning document: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092227.html ** Unknown team (?): wikimania-scholarships hosting needs to move to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224906 * Research ** Readers Web and Performance: just a heads up that QuickSurveys is running on a handful of Wikipedias starting today: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226273 * SRE ** DBAs point out that X1 primary db master failover scheduled for 3rd July: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226358

== Audiences ==

=== Contributors ===

==== Editing ==== * Blocking: ** Performance: [12 Mar 2019] CR for Graph extension multi-dc caching. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Graph/+/493628/ * Updates: ** Section editing live on mobile for all wikis ** Mobile edit cards: Mobile Edit Cards *** v1.0: Thursday, 20 June, Edit Cards v1.0 went live for all contributors to Bengali, Hebrew and Persian wikis using the mobile visual editor. *** v2.0: In process

==== Growth ==== * Updates: ** Backporting patch for wmf.10 for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223142 ** Will release first iteration of Mobile Homepage Thursday https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225676

=== Language === * Updates: ** cxserver is updated to use nodejs 10 now. ** MT support for Italian added for ContentTranslation.

=== Readers ===

==== iOS native app ==== * Updates: ** Finishing up 6.3 work (talk pages) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3-lobster-on-a-motorcycle/) ** Preparing for a bug fix release 6.3.1 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3.1_lobster-on-an-orv/)

==== Android native app ==== * Updates: ** Finishing up testing of suggested edits of structured image captions ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3959/

==== Readers Web ==== * Updates: ** Summary: continuing ongoing development for the advanced mobile contributions project. ** Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals): *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222630 <nowiki>Add wikidata item link to AMC overflow menu</nowiki>] **** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225124 <nowiki>Allow AMC to load user contributions page from core</nowiki>] **** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221792 <nowiki>PageActions Menu should use Builder pattern and reuse existing Menu elements</nowiki>] **** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214540 <nowiki>[EPIC] AMC Navigation - user menu</nowiki>] **** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224735 <nowiki>[AMC] Updates to user pages</nowiki>] *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFron... **** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225447 Tasking for next year] *** Miscellaneous: **** [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179229 <nowiki>Decide whether we want the package-lock.json to commit or ignore</nowiki>] ** Planning *** Desktop refresh design and planning

==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Updates: ** New PCS endpoints coming soon: *** /page/talk *** /page/media-list (simpler version of /page/media)

==== Parsing ==== * Updates: ** Bulk of the porting work complete. Some odds and ends left to complete. Parsoid REST API will be layered on top of the core REST API framework. Work in progress. ** We can now run both wt -> html and html -> wt entirely in PHP. We can also parse some large pages like enwiki:Berlin without crashers and run wt2wt with some minor bugs. But, lots of QA and testing to do ** Next focus is on getting parsertests runner ported and get all parser tests green.

== Technology ==

=== Fundraising Tech === * Updates: ** Fixing a bug that got a bunch of contacts on our email unsubscribe list by mistake: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223935 ** Core CiviCRM search performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226560 ** Reviewing code written by external contractor for CentralNotice features: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225101, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226344, ** Getting forms ready for India fundraising: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224514 ** Forms to ask one-time donors to upgrade to recurring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216562 ** Off-site meeting last week

=== Core Platform === * Blocking: ** Performance *** CR for ExternalStorageAccess refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ ** Release Engineering *** MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512 *** (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview. ** Performance: [17 Apr 2019] CR for ExternalStorage Access refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ is was blocking https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/ for easier maintenance. * Updates: ** Off-site meeting last week

=== Performance === * Blocked by: ** CPT: [17 Apr 2019] CR for ExternalStorageAccess refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ ** Search Platform: [20 June 2019] CR for core SearchEngineFactory refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/502939/ ** Editing: [12 Mar 2019] CR for Graph extension multi-dc caching. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Graph/+/493628/ *** Note sure which sub-team maintains this

=== Release Engineering === * Blocked by: ** Security team (already acknowledged): Make phan-taint-check-plugin work on PHP > 7.0 so we can move CI to PHP72 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207344 ** Core Platform Team: *** MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512 *** (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview. ** SRE: *** ServiceOps Team: **** Thanks to DC Ops, contint1001 now has extra drives; how do we get them mounted? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207707 **** Phabricator tweak for allowing "silenced" job runs by more RelEngers https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/517140 *** Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero. ** Unknown team (?): wikimania-scholarships hosting needs to move to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224906 * Updates: ** Train Health *** Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.10 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220735 (derailed due to blockers) *** This week: 1.34.0-wmf.11 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220736 *** Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.12 - NO TRAIN, WMF HOLIDAY (4 July) ** All: Input greatly wished for on the "Future of CI" planning document: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092227.html

=== Research === * Updates: ** Reader demographics survey is running: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226273 ** GSoC and Outreachy are happening. ** Hiring.

=== Search Platform === * Blocked by: ** SRE: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224324 ** WMDE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447 and review for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/50... and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/515327 ** WMDE: WDQS UI test broken: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226329 * Blocking: ** Performance: [20 June 2019] CR for core SearchEngineFactory refactor. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/502939/ * Updates: ** haslabel:* enabled: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224611 though some problems on Commons *** Try: entities without labels: https://w.wiki/5Jr ** Report on folding diacritics in Slovak: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Folding_Diacritics_in... ** Fixed suggested article breakage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224879 ** Deployed WDQS Sesame upgrade (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200612 ), brief response format change, now restored to original order ** WDQS now allows variable endpoint in MWAPI query: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171303 ** Created WDQS reboot cookbook: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224385 ** Added filtering in WDQS strings for some weird characters: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225523 ** Going to remove BETA from Wikidata entity dump names: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226153 ** Working on creating RDF export for SDC/MediaInfo: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221917 ** Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625 ** Working on CirrusSearch query dispatcher: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216429

=== Security === * Blocking: ** Release Engineering (already acknowledged): Make phan-taint-check-plugin work on PHP > 7.0 so we can move CI to PHP72 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207344 * Updates: ** Backlog *** Brian to probably hand off to Sam not started - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223307 *** Exploring outsourced reviews for OIT things, rewrites, JB to follow up after new vendor budgets set stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155537, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156960, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148246, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187846 *** DoubleWiki, Brian to deploy as sec release, then push through gerrit, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199 *** Audiences user-testing concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220043 *** Audiences growth team emails concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220242 ** Active *** Waiting on update from Yurik/Vega folks (upstream) to proceed stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222806 *** Planet wikimedia - assigned to Michal Anna, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207246 *** Wikisource ext, starting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289 ** Waiting *** Wikibase Termbox, completed for now, John to follow up with Raz re: risk ownership, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419 *** Labs db/sanitarium and maintain-views.yaml audits - transition to James F for review, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169097, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011

=== Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocking: ** Search platform on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224324 ** Release engineering on *** Thanks to DC Ops, contint1001 now has extra drives; how do we get them mounted? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207707 *** Phabricator tweak for allowing "silenced" job runs by more RelEngers https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/517140 *** Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero. * Updates: ** DBAs point out that X1 primary db master failover scheduled for 3rd July: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226358

== Wikidata == * Blocking: ** Search Platform *** WMDE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447 and review for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/50... and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/515327 *** WMDE: WDQS UI test broken: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226329