[Wikitech-l] 2018-11-28 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-11-28 *=2018-11-28=* == Callouts == * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar * Please avoid significant updates to any systems used by Fundraising (Geolocation, core facilities used by CentralNotice). Pls. ping on #wikimedia-fundraising by saying 'fr-tech' if you have quesitons. Thanks!!! * Release Engineering ** Train Health: *** Last week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday *** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660 **** Wikidata rolled back to 1.33.0-wmf.4, all other group1 and all group0 on 1.33.0-wmf.6 see https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/ **** T210608 (EventBus, Analytics) EventBus::createEvent Call to a member function format() on a non-object (boolean) **** T210610 (ORES - Ladsgroup) PHP Fatal Error: Argument 2 passed to ORES\Hooks\ApiHooksHandler::addScoresForAPI() must be an instance of array, null given **** T210617 (Wikidata, Maps - hoo)BadMethodCallException on Wikidata item pages containing coordinates with non-Earth globes **** T210618 (Wikidata, CirrusSearch) Wikidata entity search sometimes case-sensitive, uses wb_terms instead of CirrusSearch *** Next week: No train due to the Release Engineering team offsite == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: **Working with Reading/Web to discuss loading overlay improvements * Blocking: **Language - working with them to prioritize adding inspector functionality to VE read mode ** Updates: ** Improved unit testing of ve.ce T206138 ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: **6.1.2 released last week (crash fixes) **Working on 6.2 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/) - large release that contains editing (syntax highlighting, editing tools). Planning to release to beta before holiday break ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Summary: SEO A/B test staged rollout is complete, we're continuing the MobileFrontend architecture project, and planning for advanced mobile contributions. ** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend): *** Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro… **** Reduce View inheritance and improve composition support T209007 T209647 **** Replace mobile.startup/user with mw.user T204866 **** Webpackify references T207805 **** Webpackify watchstar T208921 *** Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues **** Standardize parsing T206177 **** Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349 *** Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions **** Design added a few more pages to the prototype and some mocks for enable / disabling https://mobile-contributions.firebaseapp.com/nav4.html https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/share/RNO2HHBPK7M#/screens/331909359_Enab… **** Started team planning *** Maintenance and bug fixes T86210 T205008 T208808 T210191 T193505 ** Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews *** Reproduce Popups memory leak T208634 ** PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality *** Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084 ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** English Wiki fundraising on apps starting Nov 29 (T209801). ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** SDoC - still working on beta release, have made progress but not there yet ** Also work continues on the next release (statements/depicts) ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Preparing v0.29.6 release of OOUI ** a11y measurments on portals finished == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: - * Blocking: Please avoid significant updates to any systems used by Fundraising (Geolocation, core facilities used by CentralNotice). Thanks!!! * Updates: ** Year-end fundraising campaigns in English-speaking countries started yesterday (2018-11-27). E-mail campaign ongoing. ** Currently facing payment processor issues and sophisticated credit-card fraud attempts. Donations are pouring in, nonetheless. ** Various minor improvements to CiviCRM (donor database), payment processors. ** Follow-ups from CentralNotice security and permissions improvements. === MediaWiki Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Finishing up review of TechConf materials by end of week. Then starting to clean up for publication on wiki. ** Revised Session Service RFC, getting ready for final call. ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010) ** Met with Security to review potential PE Security projects for Q3/Q4 - refining list and getting ready to reach out potential contractors. ** Excimer will be done before end of year, which is the primary blocker on our team for PHP7. ** Continuing to work on extension blockers to PHP7. === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Scoring Platform: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210260 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210267 * Updates: ** Blog post Incident Documentation: An Unexpected Journey https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/128 *** Željko will be contacting several teams about creating the first Selenium test for some repositories (Editing, Language engineering, Contributors, Growth, Fundraising tech, Reading and WMDE) ** Train Health: *** Last week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday *** This week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660 **** Wikidata rolled back to 1.33.0-wmf.4, all other group1 and all group0 on 1.33.0-wmf.6 **** T210608 (EventBus, Analytics) EventBus::createEvent Call to a member function format() on a non-object (boolean) **** T210610 (ORES - Ladsgroup) PHP Fatal Error: Argument 2 passed to ORES\Hooks\ApiHooksHandler::addScoresForAPI() must be an instance of array, null given **** T210617 (Wikidata, Maps - hoo)BadMethodCallException on Wikidata item pages containing coordinates with non-Earth globes **** T210618 (Wikidata, CirrusSearch) Wikidata entity search sometimes case-sensitive, uses wb_terms instead of CirrusSearch *** Next week: No train due to the Release Engineering team offsite === Research === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: *** Deploying the Reader Trust survey via QuickSurveys: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882 *** Working with SRE to import recommendation API data to MySQL: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622 === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: ** SRE: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210582 ** RelEng: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210260 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210267 * Blocking: ** RelEng on train blocker. The patch is waiting for review and will get merged soon * Updates: **Picking up blubber and Sentinel (releng & SRE support needed) ***Releng for UTF8 support (blubber) ***SRE for another redis node (sentinel) **Jade RFC on track to pass TechCom review, only minor changes remaining. === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Analysts are on track to complete Review by deadlines. ** === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** no updates == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** wb_terms table should not be used for search. == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** AbuseFilter testing by multimedia team going well * Initial MCR SlotRoleHandler work should be completed by end of week which will enable part of the UI support needed for SDC == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **