https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-10-04

*= 2017-10-04 =*

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

== Callouts == * Language: Need help to debug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173801 further * 3D deployed to testwiki, feel free to upload STL files to test it out * Mobile web disabling OCG [cc Operations] ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150871 ) * Need Ops review of patches for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146381#3447319

== Audiences ==

=== Readers ===

==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** 5.6.1 release went well ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ ) - crash rate is low, 5 star rating ** Continuing work on 5.7.0 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Onboarding updates, Improved analytics, iOS 11 support, iPhone X support. Public beta this week.

==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: Reading List API/service * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Preparing for maintenance release with design updates / bug fixes for language variant issues. ** This is planned to be the last release that supports earlier Android versions than KitKat (<4.4).

==== Multimedia ==== * 3D deployed to testwiki, feel free to upload STL files to test it out * Next up: Work on MediaInfo, an extension for Wikibase, which will be central to our work on SDoC ** Adding API module to shortcut wbgetentities via filenames (instead of querying for the page ID, then the entity) ** Adding page_props entries for uploaded files to point to the relevant MediaInfo entity

==== Web ==== * Disabling OCG [cc Operations] * Investigating ChromeDriver as an alternative.

==== Discovery ==== * Working on creating a Labs Tool to automate portal builds

===== Maps ===== - Fixing release practices - Preparing to update versions in production

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * finishing ReadingList proxy * MCS: adding fundraising announcement for France

=== Contributors ===

==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by Design: `font` specifics upstream to WikimediaUI Base https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175877 * Updates (last week update was missing, due to meeting conflict, including important here): ** TransparencyReport made fully accessible – https://transparency.wikimedia.org/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173629 ** OOUI v0.23.2 (last week) & v0.23.3 released, among changes: *** UI design **** WikimediaUI theme: 10+ changes on toolbar code & design, most importantly unifying positioning and sizing of tools, toolgroups and menus (Volker E.) ***** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176106 & https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177234 **** Apex theme: Begin killing `constructive` flag & streamline demo (James D. Forrester) – https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/ *** Accessibility **** WindowManager: Set `aria-hidden` by default and change toggleAriaIsolation behavior (Prateek Saxena) * Ongoing: ** OOUI icons: Work on icon set to be more harmonious and align to WikimediaUI Style Guide's guidelines

==== Global Collaboration ====

==== Collaboration ==== * Releasing RCFilters as default experience to all wikis (except some FlaggedRevs ones) probably tomorrow (Oct 5) * We (WMF) need to get serious about Wikidata-triggered watchlist problems ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171027 ), Roan is going to dive into that and propose action

===== Language =====/quit * Blocked: See callout (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173801 ) * Blocking: None, but https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107914 is holding due to infrequent cxserver updates. * Updates: ** CX-VE: Template adaptation, publishing and error handling work in progress

==== Parsing ==== * Nothing significant to update

=== Community Tech === * Not blocked * Not blocking * Nothing new, continuing work on GlobalPreferences

== Technology ==

=== Analytics === * New kafka cluster (kafka-jumbo) is using prometheus for metrics. * Working on Druid configuration so we have 2 clusters: public data and private data cluster. The public one will serve the wikistats 2.0 backend. * Issues with disk space on databases (db1002), trying to free up, have moved some tables to Hadoop, more info here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging#Hadoop._A... * Working with legal to perserve data for litigation purposes. * Finished auditing of users and data access, carrying goals for next quarter: purging of eventlogging data and wikistats 2.0 alpha release * Gave talk at Strata about analytics in wikipedia in conjunction with Druid folks. Slides: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/present...

=== Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** About to unblock the new ORES cluster. Need one more iteration of stress testing. * Updates: ** Created a list of c. 50 community stakeholders, and will use that to communicate and get feedback on initial work on JADE. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Keegan_(WMF)/sandbox https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/JADE **Preparing a new major version release for revscoring 2.0, which we hope is seamless but may involve some turbulence for ORES consumers. The thresholds API has a breaking change. Planned deployment date is c. Oct 18th.

=== Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: * Added more namespaces to default searches, per community requests ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473) * Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS * Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5 * Working on indexing Wikidata descriptions

=== Fundraising Tech === * Looking into possible issues with Kafkatee not getting us all the web logs we need: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177331 * dealing with Safari's new privacy settings * Adding lots of metrics to https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/fundraising-overview?refresh=1m&a... * Fixing issues with CiviCRM's de-duplication UI * Dealing with outgoing mail issue caused by PHPMailer security fix

=== Technical Operations === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Goals completed: Streamline Service Delivery / Remove salt from our infrastructure / Prepare for puppet 4 / Improve database backups' coverage ** Asia DC unblocked, moving along with procurement

== RelEng == ==== This week ==== * Blocking ** * Blocked ** Need Ops review of patches for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146381#3447319 * Updates ** Mukunda taking over for 1.31.0-wmf.2 for the rest of this week

== Security == * Reviews: ** Ex:FileImporter (T160982) ** Ex:WikipediaExtracts (T149424) ** pdfrw