https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-10-05
= 2016-10-05 = REMINDER: Arthur will facilitate a retrospective on process in the 2016-10-12 instance of this meeting
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * no blocking/blocked
==== Reading Web ==== * Current sprint: - Fixed Hovercards instrumentation around `totalInteractionTime` - Verified correctness of hovercards instrumenation around `totalInteractionTime` - Fixed open Hovercards issue when the user comes back to the previous page by closing a hovercard when the user clicks on it - Promoted footer from beta to stable - Created a DeviceDetector service to move device detection code away from MobileContext - Spikes: * Search in UC browser * Reading debth - Bugfixes: * Wikidata UI * New footer on diff pages * Broken "edit" link on user pages
* Next sprint: * Move the first paragraph above infobox * More work on MobileContext service * Remove the language button from the bottom of the page * Page images should return the image from the lead section or * infobox * Prototype different options in order to remove FOUC from mobile * pages (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147338)
==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Deployed: * Fixed video anchors * Work on a new version of mobile-sections API
==== iOS native app ==== * Current release board: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2220/
* Notifications for articles that are in the news (with new iOS 10 * notification UI)
* Updating feed to use MCS and persist to YapDatabase instead of the * FS
* iOS 9 support for widgets
* Bug fixes (Chinese variants, License icons, iOS 9 Search Issue
==== Android native app ==== * Current sprint * (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-app-android-sprint-92-uranium/): * Q1 goals met * v2.4.157 promoted to production * (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia) * Alpha builds currently not publishing * Investigate Wikipedia Zero Android system notifications * Fix for semi-protected page permissions * Fix for image not shown on File pages * CI screenshot regression testing * Next sprint * (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-app-android-sprint-93-neptunium...): * Start on Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
=== Editing ===
==== Parsing ==== * Nothing significant to report this week
==== Collaboration === * Blocked ** Continuing collaboration with Services team on ReviewStream ** Work on ORES extension in collaboration with the ORES team * Blocking ** No change * Updates ** Had to disable Flow opt-in beta feature temporarily due to a bug. Working on that now. - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138310 ** Other Flow bug fixes to opt-in and other things ** Echo bug fixes and features
==== Language ==== * Blocked: ** Would appreciate (more) 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 ) * Blocking: ** None * Updates ** Apertium Jessie migration done. ** Work on CX templates continue.
=== Discovery === * No blockers * Working on multiwiki indexes * Working on ICU folding for Russian, Greek, French and other languages * BM25 analysis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143589 ** TLDR: BM25 beneficial, tracking typos in first 2 chars - not so much * File properties search merged, waiting for reindex (hopefully this * week) to enable (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144447) * New report on geographic distribution of queries in WDQS: * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exploration_on_the_Use_of_WDQS_-_Bre... * Portal: working on GUI improvements & translation improvements * Portal: about to launch test for putting links to apps on portal page
=== Community Tech === * No blockers * Not blocked * Need security review for * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:T144712 (Checking for & * validating OATH tokens) * PageAssessments extension deployed to enwiki, pending addition of * parser function to master template * Continued work on Programs Dashboard * Continued work on sending a cookie with each block * (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233) * Updating CentralAuth tables for cross-wiki watchlist nearly done * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142507 (Gerrit review needed: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309553/ ) * Work on porting CopyPatrol to work for other languages is on hold this * week
== Technology == === Technical Operations === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None * Updates ** Offsite done, resuming normal work ** Apertium migrated to Jessie today ** Work on the Kubernetes goal started, will be multi quarter
=== Security === * Intake and interviews for security roles continue * Reviewing OATHAuth patches * (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/topic:T144712) from bd808 for labs * work
=== Services === * Blocking: none * Blocked: none * Updates: ** RESTBase drops support for node.js 0.10 and 0.12. 4 is now minimal required version ** ServiceWorker composition work is ongoing ** Parsoid: we want to move config to deploy repo fron ops/puppet and enable scap3 config deploys.
=== ArchCom === * Last week's IRC meeting was about * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiDev17 * This week's IRC meeting: Future of Magic Links * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145604 * More details/links: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status
=== RelEng === * Blocking: ** None * Blocked ** Migration of gallium to contint1001 ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95757 * Updates ** Phabricator *** Phabricator upgrade this Thursday 1:00 AM UTC (Wednesday night Pacific) *** Phabricator database maintenance this week. Time TBA ** Reminder: No train week of Oct 17th (RelEng team offsite)
=== Analytics === * Increased aqs throttling to 100/second, new cluster is wicked fast * Kasocki prototype ready for people to play with * https://github.com/wikimedia/kasocki (connects kafka topics to a * socket.io node server) * Quarter wrap-up work (cleaning up layouts on dashiki, EventLogging * monitoring, improving some reportupdater queries) * Recruiting work to get through the many applications we received for * our now closed junior track position * Pondering labsdb, Sanitarium, dumps, and history reconstruction here: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146444
== Wikidata == * No blockers. * Progress on supporting "federation" (linking entities on foreign * Wikibase repositories, e.g. linking Wikidata from Commons): * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007 * Now allowing bzr://… and cvs://… URL schemes in Wikidata values (first * time we add schemes core doesn't support).
== Fundraising Tech == * Andrew making progress on (one) CentralNotice bug: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146880 ** Some background here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CentralNotice_translation_magick ** Seems to be a race condition trying to apply protection to a newly-created article ** We think we can work around by waiting for replication, but should the race be fixed in core? * Looks like this is different from the other recent CN bug: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952 ** Getting some help from RobLa and Timo, but would appreciate any other help from caching experts * Migrated main donations queues to Redis, turning off last ActiveMQ * usage real soon now * Still more tweaks to CiviCRM contact de-duplication * Testing backup credit card processor in other Big English countries