https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-09-12
*=2018-09-12=*
== Callouts ==
* Fundraising campaigns
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
* Release Engineering:
** Log Health: Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000
times/day:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149
== Audiences ==
=== Contributors ===
==== Community Tech ====
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==== Anti-Harassment Tools ====
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==== Editing ====
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** Updates:
** Improve mobile dialogs, selections, and edit interfaces
==== Growth ====
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==== Language ====
* Blocked by: RelEng to review:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450508
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** CX: Performance improvements being worked on along with other continuous
work.
** Global Preferences now supports changing UI languages when enabled.
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
**6.0.1 released (minor bug fixes) (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0.1-walrus-on-a-golf-cart/)
** working on 6.1 (wikidata description editing) (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
** investigating visual editing capabilities of the iOS SDK
==== Android native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Completing navigation updates based on user testing.
** Should release Echo notifications to beta by end of week.
==== Readers Web ====
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
*** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro…
**** Transitioning several well-used files to Webpack T203100
**** Enable headless QUnit tests compatible with Special:JavascriptTest
T199452
**** Remove remaining white flicker from image overlay load T197110
**** Client side error reporting for Minerva+MobileFrontend follow-ups
T202026
**** Maintenance and bug fixes T203490 T202701
*** Page issues
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
**** Bug fixes (thanks Tilman!): T203386 T203725 T203050 T202349 T203449
**** New / old treatment A/B test can be seen here
https://readers-web-master.wmflabs.org/wiki/Pharmacovigilance?mobileaction=…
*** Design and product are iterating on advanced mobile contributions nav
prototypes T203480
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
** Desktop website (Popups)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
*** Fix failing isTranslatedTitleBlacklistedTest T203522
** Supporting Readers Infrastructure, Multimedia, and QA hiring processes
==== Readers Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** MCS, PCS: Nothing particularly exciting.
** Maps:
*** Upgrade to stretch on production starting next week after DC switch
T198622
*** Investigating tilerator crash on eqiad, the service needed a forced
restart T204047
*** New Grafana Dashboard for the beta cluster T202639
*** Kartographer bug changed maplink behavior (fixed) T203427
==== Multimedia ====
* Updates
** File page with multi-lingual captions in review
** MCR work begins this week
** Artwork/editing wikidata design continue
** Restore revisions in progress
** hiring!
==== Parsing ====
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==== UI Standardization ====
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
** OOUI v0.28.2 released yesterday and addendum release of v0.28.1 last
week. Highlights:
*** NumberInputWidget: Rethink 'step' semantics (Bartosz Dziewoński)
*** 15 new icons added: 'camera', 'beaker', 'globe',
'helpNotics'
'hieroglyph','mathematics' & 3 'mathematicsDisplay*',
'chart',
'musicalScore', 'zoomIn' &'zoomOut'
*** Special icon treatment for Arabic language on 'info'
*** docs and tests improvements
** Special:Preferences OOUI rollout is prepared and coming.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538 Last technical blocker on
Special:GlobalPreferences is on the way to be fixed.
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
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* Updates:
** old geowiki jobs and datasets have been turned off and deleted in favor
of the geoeditors data pipeline, accessible from Superset
** upgraded two more services to Stretch
** mediawiki history data quality checks have been automated, makes
releasing new snapshots easier
** continuing work on Presto, project family metrics, cummulative metrics,
a tinier EL module, annotations in Wikistats, helping with privacy hiring,
Schema Registry RFC
=== Cloud Services ===
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=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
** CentralNotice: Working on slowness and DB abuse when saving banners with
translatable messages. Thanks to language team and db ops for help with the
investigation
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203925
** CiviCRM: Making some progress on speed of importing donations, fixing
bugs in donor data export / delete tool
** New card processor API: more bug fixing, deploying script to resolve
pending transactions
** Working on hiring
=== MediaWiki Core Platform ===
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=== Performance ===
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=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** DBA (in support of Reedy):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174802(EducationProgram
db dump in prep of removing the extension)
* Blocking:
** Language RelEng to review:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450508
* Updates:
** Train:
*** we had a UBN! backport needed on Thursday (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203566 )
*** This has been thoroughly documented in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156541 and it is a regularly recurring
problem which causes production breakage every time the structure of a
class is changed in an incompatible way. We can do better!
** Log Health:
*** Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000 times/day:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149
=== Research ===
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=== Scoring Platform ===
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=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
** Switched communication between ElasticSearch and Analytics cluster
toKafka:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198490
** Enabled loading categories from daily diffs everywhere:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201217
** Fixed searching for strings starting with #:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182452
** Fixed bug in displaying results counts in search:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71382
** Upgraded disk space on WDQS servers:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196485
** Working on improving Korean analyzers:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178925
** Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
** Working on searching for statement values without additional keywords:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163642
** Working on ES 6.3 upgrade:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197960
Working on query parsing refactoring:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
=== Security ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
** Reading-web with T177765 (Sorry for delay)
* Updates:
** Work on phan-taint-check continues. Voting on lots of WM deployed
extensions now (Thanks Legoktm)
**Chromium-render review this week (sorry for delay)
=== Services ===
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=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
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== Wikidata ==
* Blocked by:
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* Updates:
** Finishing up Senses support in Lexicographical Data:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/
== German Technical Wishlist ==
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== Multi-Content Revisions ==
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== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
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