https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-09-28

= 2016-09-28 =

== Product ==

=== Reading ===

==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Fixed video anchors * No deploys this week due to ops offsite * Starting discussions versioning sections endpoint

==== Android native app ==== * Current sprint board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2238/ * Next sprint board: TBA * Navigation overhaul work for beta release is complete. Release will go out the door today (9/28). ** We'll likely promote to stable quickly if no significant issues emerge.

==== Reading Web ==== * Current sprint board: **Begin rolling out wikidata descriptions to top 6 wikis **Move Related Pages to stable mobile web Wikipedias (all but top 6) **Investigate hovercards instrumentation issues around 9 Sep - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146620 *** Big drop in EL events in a few extensions - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146840

==== iOS native app ==== * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2220/ ** 5.3 is in development ** Release date is expected to be before end of October ** WIll include migration to MCS feed endpoint

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * blocking: TemporaryPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProviderTest is flaky https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146498 * blocked: nothing * updates: last call for comments on the proposed api.php integration for ORES and pageviews: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143895 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144865

=== Community Tech === * No blockers * Moving CopyPatrol to French Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145431 * Adding account creation to Striker https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144710#2674663 * Updating CentralAuth tables for cross-wiki watchlist https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142507 (Gerrit review needed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309553/ ) * Adding start/end times to WikiEd Programs Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546 * 11-year old task to send a cookie with each block https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233 * Slowly deploying PageAssessments to English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146679

=== Editing === ==== Language (not present, only notes) ==== * Blocked ** Would appreciate comments from ops or puppet-knowledgeable person how to override restbase url in puppet for a service in labs *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129284#2674533 *** The goal is to be able to text content translations on deployment-prep with real articles from different wikipedias. * Blocking: not aware

==== Parsing ==== * Tim working on updates to the parser tests infrasatructure ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312969/3 and related ) * Scott continuing work on having Parsoid parse language variant markup (close to moving out of WIP status) * Planning to deploy Parsoid's native <gallery> implementation in a backward compatible way and have VE pick it up when they are ready to use it -- if it doesn't happen next week, it will only happen in 3 weeks time (since we have parsing team and editing dept offsites starting oct 10).

==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked ** Continuing collaboration with Services team on ReviewStream * Blocking * Updates ** Will have a meeting with the Wiki Labels team on Friday to discuss how we can collaborate ** Continuing work on Flow back-end, including caching refactor and bug fixes for opt-in on user talk ** Continuing Echo work, including instrumentation to track the number of page views before viewing notifications.

=== UI Standardization === * Working on ** Align Minerva (Mobile Frontend) to overhauled color palette: MobileFrontendhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146799 ** Review current style and integrate messages and message boxes as MediaWiki UI component https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127405 ** MediaWiki theme: Use `color-progressive` for switched-on binary inputs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145629 * Finished ** Published new color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82 with WCAG 2.0 level AA compliant colors ** Button styles differ in mediawiki.UI from design templates and OOjs UI https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146823 ** Align Wikimedia Portal UI elements to improved color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231

== Technology == === Analytics === * Deployed new throttling limits to Pageview API, doing real well with super low latencies, we will add capacity to double requests served next week: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/aqs-elukey?from=1474479314693&...

* Erik Z vetting data from edit reconstruction project on simplewiki, after edit reconstruction calculating metrics is much easier. We can calculate metrics frm very beginning: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/standard-metrics/#simplewiki

* Load testing druid and about to put pivot in production accesible internally to wmf, this is a UI to some of our data in hive, mostly pageviews, no need to use sql

== Security == * Intake and interviews for security roles continue * Investigating appearance of 400 errors in logs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144100 * Lego, Timo: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/310257/

=== Services === * Blocking: none * Blocked: none * Updates: ** Working on ServiceWorker page composition service ** Working on supporting Change Propagation and RESTBase for private wikis

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=== ArchCom === * Full status: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus * Last week: [[Phab:E273]] - Multi-Content Revisions ([[Phab:T107595]]) * This week [[Phab:E285]] - [[WikiDev17]] ** discussion about use of Phab for topics is happening now on wikitech-l

=== Discovery === * No blockers * Analyzing BM25 A/B test, if results are positive deployment will be somewhere early October * Working on multiwiki indexes * Working on file properties indexing (size, type, dimensions, etc.) * ICU folding analysis: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Upgrading_ASCII_Foldi... ** TLDR: positive effect, implementation in progress * Completion with DEFAULTSORT demo: http://mw-sug-subpages-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/default_sort_demo.html

=== RelEng === * Blocking ** none * Blocked ** none * Updates ** New scap (3.3.0) *** scap caches local config for it's deployment (machines don't have to reach back to tin) ** Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th ** Reminder: no train week of Oct 17th (but SWATs OK)

===Wikidata==== * wiktionary - automated interwiki links * structured commons - federation, multiple repos

=== Fundraising Tech === * Need help with potential MessageCache issue relating to CentralNotice ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952 ** See Adam's investigation notes pointing to i18n / cache flukiness ** Andrew Green thinks it might even have something to do with TranslationExtension * Still trying to kill stubborn remaining ActiveMQ queues * More CiviCRM data cleanup and tweaks to deduplication process * Migrating old PayPal IPN listener to SmashPig framework