https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-10-19 =2016-10-19= == Product == === Reading === ==== Android native app ==== * Current sprint ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-app-android- sprint-93-neptunium/) : * Start on Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions * v2.4.160 released to production * Workaround to handle unexpected JSON service responses gracefully * CI screenshot regression testing * Next sprint (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2319/): * More Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions ====Web==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2270/ - * Mainly tackling the tech debt - * Also working on moving the first paragraph in the lead section above the infobox - * Finished the work on prototype solutions to avoid FOUC (flash of unstyled content) on section collapsing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147338. We've demoed all 4 solutions to the team members. The next step is to decide on which solution we'll be using. * Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2314/ - * Tech debt and hovercards instrumentation - ==== iOS native app ==== Current Board (5.3 is in Beta): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2220/ Since we last met: - * Feed based off of MCS (Mobile Content Service) and persisting to YapDatabase is complete & in beta - * "In the news" Notifications are complete and awaiting beta - * "In the news" in the explore feed is complete and awaiting beta Before we meet again: - * Adding alternate ToC (Table of Contents) style for UX research - * Notifications settings - * Bug fixes, crash fixes, converging to release of 5.3 No blockers ==== Mobile Content Service ==== Backlog: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/ Added more languages to 'In the news' feed portion. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/315451/ Going to remove Chinese from it though due to an issue with language variant syntax and the inability to handle lang variantes in RB. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147874 ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * no blocking/blocked * ORES data in action API soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143895 * OAuth approval workflow changes soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103587#2621901 === Community Tech === * Sprint board: https://phabricator.wikimedia. org/tag/community-tech-sprint/ * No blockers * Not blocked * Since last week: * Did some more supporting work on Programs Dashboard * Local (wiki) ID and Global ID now populate in CentralAuth localuser table on new account attach * Did some work with NewPagesPatrol on enwiki - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147225 * Work ongoing on maintenance script to backfill the columns for existing accounts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142503 * Work ongoing to modify Copypatrol (the plagiarism detection tool) to support more wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145436 * Work ongoing on sending cookie with each block ticket - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233 * Upcoming: * Investigation for adding IP range support to Special:Contributions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147664 * Preliminary work/investigation on throttling number of accounts created per browser: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106930 === Discovery === * No blockers * Working on multiwiki indexes * Deploying BM25 for top 10 languages soon ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147008#2694395), languages like ja, zh and th still TODO * Added accent squashing for Russian/Cyrillic analyzer * Subphrase completion (completion inside phrase) enabled on mediawiki.org , wikitech and wikisources ==== Maps ==== * Launched snapshot service Is there any docs, demo, something to show to people ? ** Basic static service was described at https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian#static-map-images ** The new "overlay addition" to the static service added three params to specify which page and which map to draw over the image: domain=www.mediawiki.org title=Help:Extension:Kartographer groups=_925bf4f20f98fdda374476b902f702d080492748 * Discussing tabular data on Commons * If somebody has hive to Graphite setup, please talk to Yuri === Wikidata === * No blockers. * Working on a new parser function in addition to {{#property:…}}, as well as Lua support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142941 * Separate "Cognate" extension for automatic Wiktionary sitelinks pretty much done, in security review: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145412 * We are going to celebrate Wikidata's fourth birthday on October 29: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday === Analytics === * Not blocking nor blocked * Update: * Recruiting fullstack dev: several tasks submitted and reviewed, some candidates passed to next steps. * Working on a KafkaSSE prototype (Kafka consumer to SSE) Kasocki's analog for SSE. * More work on removing Limn dashboards, only reportcard and ee-dashboards remaining. * Edit history reconstruction: good progress on productionization of the jobs for all wikis. * Troubleshooting varnish-kafka, causing false alarms in hadoop webrequest loading jobs. * Improved EventLogging monitoring and alarms. === Security === * Brian was out last week, but is back now * Security Reviews: * FileAnnotations (this week - done) * Google MT for Content Translation (this week) * Electron PDF-rendering service (next week) === Services === * Not blocking or blocked * Updates ** SCB is expanded to 4 machines per DC ** Node.js security update to 4.6.0 is live on SCB and RESTBase *** Please test and update your services that were not updated! ** Parsoid config deployment move to Scap3 ongoing === Technical Operations === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** Noone * Updates ** SCB cluster capacity doubled today ** work ongoing on varnish 4 on text ** Jessie appserver reimaging ongoing, almost done ** API outage on Monday, root cause still unknown. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148652 === ArchCom === * (RobLa can't be here; please follow links and comment) * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E323 - today's ArchCom meeting ** *T145472: Survey Cookies/Local Storage usage on Wikimedia sites* ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145472 == Fundraising Tech == * Got some help from Aaron Schultz on CN bug, would welcome more review from others familiar with MessageCache ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952 * Brainstorming ways to monitor for recurrance of the issue * General stabilization and log-quieting tasks * Improving donor error messages _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l