https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-11-02

=2016-11-02= ==Product== ===Reading=== ====Android==== * Current sprint (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2319/ ): * Wikipedia Zero system notifications are in (T135450) * Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions. Check out the alpha ( https://android-builds.wmflabs.org/, UI only)! * Beta coming this week or so (includes Zero system notification changes but not Wikidata descriptions) * Unit screenshot regression tests are finally enabled in CI ( https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/apps-android-wikipedia-periodic-tes...). Thanks to hashar, legoktm, dzahn, thcipriani and probably some other folks from releng for their help and support * Heavy networking code refactoring (and tests!) * 226 tests in CI and counting * Miscellaneous crash fixes * Next sprint (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2331/ ): * More Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions

====Web==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2314/

- * Continuing work from the last week

- * Decided to re-write Hovercards.

- * 2 team members (Sam and Jeff) will work on it with occasional reviews from other team members.

- * A requirements document has been created. The next step is to create phabricator tasks.

- * The rest of the team will continue working on the other extensions

* Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2336/

- * Hovercards and non-hovercards work

- * Hovercards work depends on the tasks we create during the current sprint

- * Non-hovercards work includes bug fixes, trending service, and page images.

==== iOS native app ==== Current Board - 5.3 (in beta): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2220/ Since we last met:

- * Accessibility Volunteer Day - fixed bugs with VoiceOver compatibility in the app: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1882/

- * Fixed crashes & other regressions based on Beta feedback

- * Released app version for UX research - also reinstating nightly Alpha builds

Before we meet again:

- * Converge toward release of 5.3

- * Continue work on Accessibility sprint - Fix voice over issues found in the accessibility audit and add dynamic Text Size (app font size changes with system font setting)

- * Next board - 5.3.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/

No blockers

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Not blocking/blocked, no changes since last week

==== Mobile Content Service ==== * Fixed issue where noprint elements where stripped out unnecessarily * Got a repo for Trending Edits service

=== Community Tech === * Not blocking/blocked * Investigating adding IP range support in Special:Contributions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147664 * Some fixes for PageTriage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149538 Noindex template on new articles only * Rest same as last week

=== UI Standardization === Working on * Align Minerva (Mobile Frontend) to overhauled color palette (T146799) * Replace MultimediaViewer colors (T149769) * Review and integrate messages, alerts, warnings as WikimediaUI component (T127405, continued) * Accessibility sprint, foremost OOjs UI https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/697/query/.o5Hlts6Hi1e/ Finished * Make Echo follow improved color palette (T147365) * Replace Flow colors with ones from WCAG 2.0 level AA compliant color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82 (T149768) Blocked * Do an icon inventory: Keep, move, delete? (T141801) – missing feedback about products where icons are in use.

=== Discovery === * No blockers * Working on multiwiki indexes * FIle properties search should be enabled on several wikis, commons reindexed but not enabled, needs mapping update ** Enabled by temp fix for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147957, still would like DBA attention to make it permanent * Second BM25 test enabled

=== Wikidata / WMDE === * Wikidata 4th birthday (see all the presents: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Presents ** new charts visualizaitons in the query service and other improvements ** new #statements parser function (T142940) ** Wikibase documentation (PHP and JS) * ElectronPDF - security review done, planning deployment to beta + test wikis, depends on service going into production (T142226) * RevisionSlider out of beta soon for German Wikipedia

=== Editing === ==== Language ==== * No blocker/blocking. * Updates: ** CX template support in review. ** Vagrant role for contenttranslation needs more eyes: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/263523/ (whom to ping?)

==== Collaboration ==== * No change to blocked/blocking. * Updates: ** Started work on Special:RecentChanges Beta Feature changes. ** Edit Review Improvements work (including feed) continues. ** Working on a maintenance script to clean up existing Flow pages in an inconsistent state

== Technology ==

=== Release Engineering === * '''Blocking''' ** None? * '''Blocked''' ** None. * '''Updates''' ** FYI, MW 1.28 release is happening https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-October/086859.html ** CI downtime on Thursday https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-October/086882.html

=== Security === * Sam Reed has joined Security team as contractor * Security Reviews * Darian finishing Electron service review * Brian finishing Electron extension review * Linter review begins next week * Merged patch to allow SVGs with malformed namespace declaration due to interaction between illustrator and Inkscape ( *https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/314349/* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/314349/ ) * Drafted patch to expand CSP on upload test to frwiki (T117618).

=== Services === * Blocking: none * Blocked: none * Updates ** 3/4 of the team got sick independently, not much done ** Node 6 upgrade planning *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149331 *** Please test your services / add node 6 to your CI ** PDF rendering service will be deployed *soon* *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142226

=== Analytics === * Pageviews for all wikis are now exposed via the API (example: outreach.wikimedia.org pageviews were intially not considered "knowledge" pageviews) * Dashiki folder structure / install / build cleaned up a lot: ask milimetric if you have any trouble, the changes are meant to help not cause pain :) * Edit History reconstruction very close to working at scale with all wikis in parallel (some problems remain with commons and wikisource, the rest of the big wikis are working)

=== Fundraising Tech === * working with Nirzar to implement his mobile donation flow suggestions ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149249 * reviewing Aaron Schultz's latest MessageCache patch to fix CN banner absenteeism ** patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/318488 ** bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952 * New fields for mailing list export ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148578 ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135407 * CiviCRM de-duplication improvements

=== Research === * Blocking: none * Blocked: None * Updates: ** Logging fixes going out to ORES this week. (Will be more quiet) ** Waiting on new LabsDB machines to upload some datasets (Talking to Jaime & Chase) ** Working on grammar-based natural language processing. Anyone who has experience with doing this on Wikitext, please reach out! *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144636

=== Technical Operations === * Blocking ** Discovery on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147957 * Blocked ** None * Updates ** Goals ongoing (kubernetes, varnish 4, labsdbs) ** Ongoing Thumbor deployment at 100%