https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-07-26

= *2017-07-26* = contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

== Callouts == * Reading Web request for Ops: (*URLs with title query string parameter and additional query string parameters do not redirect to mobile site - *puppet change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154227 ) * Search Platform: Would like some DBA response on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164975 * Parsing: If you are an active editor on any wiki, please get your local community to address high-priority linter errors on Special:LintErrors page.

== Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: 5.6.0 (Reading themes, on this day) goes to public beta this week

==== Android native app ==== * *Blocked by:* MobileApp extension merges are blocked by the parser test failure issue https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170880 (see also Reading Web section below)*(resolved)* * Blocking: n/a * Updates: ** Cookie release work is all in QA/design review – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2763/ ** Offline compilations work continues apace – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2833/ *** Our offline compilation files will be anywhere from <1 to 20 GB. We're thinking about where to host them. Probably not with Dumps. How about Swift? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170843 ) ** Stephen working on cross-platform CSS/JS consolidation, lazy loaded images in articles, dark mode UI ** Engineer interviews in progress (possibly complete(!)); resumes are coming in for the PM position

==== Reading Web ==== * *Blocked by:* **Ops: (*URLs with title query string parameter and additional query string parameters do not redirect to mobile site - *puppet change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154227 ) * Parsing team/RelEng - Parser tests fail if default Skin for unit tests makes use of doEditSectionLink https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170880 - this issue is blocking us from merging changes on a variety of extensions and we lack the expertise to fix it.*(resolved)* * Blocking: * Updates: ** Page previews roll out ** Working with services to build a new REST summary endpoint ** Revamping print styles for Vector skin

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Added disambig/content type to mobile-sections responses. Designing Page Content Service reference response. ** Gergo on vacation until Wikimania

==== Multimedia ==== * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Updates: Working on Thumbor support for STL files, progressing, may need some support. Hiring progressing also, but not quite complete.

==== Discovery Frontend ==== * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Updates: ** (maps) Devs are back from vacation ** finishing up Explore Similar AB test ** investigating thumbnails on search results

=== Community Tech === * Blocked by: ** Performance team on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170825 * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Contributors === ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: N/A * Blocking: N/A * Updates: If you are an active editor on any wiki, please get your local community to address high-priority linter errors on Special:LintErrors page.

==== Global Collaboration ==== ===== Language ===== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Work on ve-cx/OOjs UI migration continue. ** MLEB 2017.07 released. ** Kartik working on new API end-point config for CX.

===== Collaboration ===== * RCFilters ** Features *** Add range group filters - limit, days and hours (task T162784, task T162786) *** combine user registration and experience level filters (task T165160) *** proper group name for user experience level (task T165160) *** Emphasize UI when saved query is loaded (task T169063) *** Change loading animation (task T165286) ** Also a bunch of RCFilters bug fixes * Also small fixes for Echo, Thanks, Flow, and WikimediaMessages

==== Contributors Design ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

==== UI Standardization ==== * Updates: ** WikimediaUI Style Guide: *** Extended WikimediaUI Style Guide own imagery in repo's resources Sketch file *** Using Style Guide imagery export, improving mobile & HiDPI experience by that ** OOjs UI: no release this week, changes/ongoing since v0.22.3 *** (continued from last week): Further aligning OOjs UI with WikimediaUI Base *** Apex theme, fixing several accessibility/design issues, consolidating with WikimediaUI theme ** Support Reading in print styles/Vector print styles

== Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** EventLogging purging script continues to run. From older to newer data, dbstore1002 is purging 2015, analytics-store is still purging 2014 (slower machine). ** Deployed an alpha (development) version of Wikistats2 with a single metric (pageviews) and limited features. Also working on adding a new metric (unique devices). ** Working on Wikistats back-end final design and starting implementation. ** Working on migrating stat1002 and stat1003 to new machines. There have been some issues with the /a partition in 1002, and we need to migrate users to stat1005 sooner than we had planned. ** Finished webrequest tagging UDF and taggers. Being deployed right now. Next steps: make use of the tagging UDF in webrequest jobs. * Next up: Make unique devices per project family public in AQS after analysts finish the final vetting of the data.

=== Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** CiviCRM: *** Loading in 3rd-party bulk mailing data, improving reporting views https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161762, *** Fixing location import issues ** Fr-tech-ops: migrating monitoring from Ganglia to Prometheus: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152562 ** CentralNotice *** Cache-purge-on-save is ready to deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954 *** Manual cache purge button is in review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168673 *** Started work on 'Clone campaign' https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91078 *** Hoping to get more responses from community campaign organizers on our survey of CN usage ** DonationInterface and SmashPig payments library *** Deployed fixes for PayPal EC bugs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170478, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167923 *** Continuing work on integrating with new API for main credit card processor https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163948, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163946

=== MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Performance === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Release Engineering === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None? * Updates: ** 1.30.0-wmf.11 has 1 blocker with a patch otherwise on schedule *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171370 ** scap 3.6.0-1 tomorrow *** changelog: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMSCA2f92babd3234a4b48e84cc178179f636541cb...

=== Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

=== Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: **Trying to work out git-fat or git-lfs repos for our fast-changing binary files, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171619 * Blocking: * Updates: **Announce presence of "oresscores" in api.php ***https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153688 ***https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ores_announcements_usage **"reverted" model removals https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171059 **New models for Persian Wikipedia (more data == more better) and Wikidata (badwords/informals detection) **Conforming to MediaWiki code styles ***https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171084 ***https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169578

=== Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Continuing work on ML-assisted ranking ** Vientamese analyzer evaluated, not ready for production yet, but bugfixes incoming, so may be worth second look ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170423) ** Some search bugfixes (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171155, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171009) ** "Explore similar" A/B test finished, result analysis next ** Preparing for interleaving search results A/B test ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150032) ** Archive search final deployment announced ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163235), will be enabled next week unless there are objections. ** Wikidata prefix search with Elastic search now in testing (test: http://elastic-wikidata.wmflabs.org/wb.html, announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-July/010964.html)

=== Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Security reviews: *** vue.js *** OIT apps * Bawolff will be mostly unavailable until August 1

=== Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **nodejs upgraded to 6.11

=== Technical Operations === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** wikitech api list=novainstances not returning list of instances https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171280 ** LDAP Outage due to CA expiry and a chain of other failures https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170719-ldap ** 24th July - pdfrender (both datacenters) - Basically Giuseppe's fault for merging a change he didn't like and not testing that enough - will write an incident report. ** DBAs working on preserving parsercache space https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167784#3469341

== Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates:

== German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: