https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-01-04

= 2017-01-04 =

== Product == === Reading === ====Web==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2405/ ** Allow users who have the NavPopups gadget to use PagePreviews https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151058 ** Start working towards Wikipedia branding on the mobile site https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148514 * Next sprint: ** MobileFrontend tech debt ** New readers prototype work - Allow collapsing of sections ** Wikipedia branding on the mobile site

====Android==== * Last week: ** Holiday * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ): ** Work towards release of Wikidata description editing

=====Reading Infrastructure==== * working on TemplateStyles, tech debt https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133408 * not blocking * blocked: ** WMDE on the last API i18n patch before we can move to hard deprecation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321464/

==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/ * To be deployed: ** Add additional information to file and user pages clients can use for rendering https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148118 ** Ordered news link to have "most relevant" article in a news story appear first in list * Working on: ** Adding isDisambiguation flag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151241 ** New endpoint for "On This Day" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143408

==== iOS native app ==== * Last Week ** Released 5.3.3 ** Continued work on 5.4 ** Fixed bugs found in 5.3.3 * This week ** Release 5.3.4 ** Contine work on 5.4 - Nearby, Login enhancements

=== Community Tech === * Blocking/Blockers: None * Wikimania scholarships application has been updated and deployed * Beginning to do investigative work on top 10 from the wishlist this week (I'll be skipping the meeting today, sorry!)

=== Editing ===

==== Parsing ==== * Not blocking anyone or no blockers on anyone as far as I know * Preparing for Dev Summit sessions * Will soon start work on supporting audio/video in Parsoid * Work ongoing with language variants ( had to revert a patch in core because of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153761 )

==== UI Standardization ==== * Updates ** Replace deprecated mediawiki.UI Less variables with current ones. All, but one patch on Flow alread merged https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154362 ** Echo Notifications Thank You uses outdated PNG icon instead of SVG. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149352 ** Further research on: Improve form layouts in OOjs UI MW core forms for better user experience. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790 ** Preparing for Dev Summit and UI Standardization Design offsite * Blocked ** OOjs UI's ButtonWidgets should use `box-sizing: border-box` https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146962 ** Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747 – Needs feedback from core developers

==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked: None * Blocking: None * Updates ** userExpLevel RecentChanges filter ** Other than that, mostly bug fixes to Echo and Flow, including Flow DB inonsistency fixes

== Technology == === Analytics === * Public EventStreams launch (hopefully early) this quarter ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130651) ** Blocked on ops (they know! :)) ** Need review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/325589/ (Timo?)

=== Security === * Security Reviews: ** TwoColConflict (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149808) ** InterwikiSorting (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149083) ** Cognate (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149082)

=== Technical Operations === * '''Blocked''': ** None * '''Blocking''': ** None * Updates: ** LabsDB goal successful ** Kubernetes goal successful ** Ganglia/Prometheus goal successful ** ** Work starting on the data center switchover preparation

=== Performance === * Blocking/blockers: none * Started work on defining alerts for performance regressions * Implemented PoolCounter support in Thumbor, undergoing review

=== Discovery === * No blockers * Quatery goals update: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discov... * Continuing work on crosswiki searching, refactoring Special:Search * Merged patch allowing extensions to define query keywords

== Wikidata == * Preparing for the Dev Summit in SF. The Wikidata team is looking forward to meet you all! * Gaining speed again after holiday weeks. Working hard on federation (ground work for structured Commons) as well as Lexemes (for Wiktionary). * RfC: Drafted an alternative for the deprecated PHPUnit::assertTag: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69122 * Slow progress on phasing out UsageException: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153359 Given that it was deprecated just a few days ago we do not consider this high-priority at the moment.

== Fundraising Tech == * Reviewing payment processor performance and fraud rates * Reviewing banner impressions anomalies (neatly explained by internet.org proxies in Ireland) * CiviCRM bug fixes and minor version upgrade * little holiday scramble to deploy phpmailer CVE fixes ** Does security or releng want to look into using an automated composer.lock version vulnerability checker, e.g. https://security.sensiolabs.org/api ? *** Darian says ^^^ is already in place for mediawiki core, and he can help us set it up for all the fundraising components.