Scrum of scrums/2021-04-07

= 2021-04-07 =

Callouts

 * RelEng: Note that the MediaWiki 1.36 branch will happen in the next day or so. Next week's train is the first of 1.37.0-wmf.X.
 * RelEng: Backport deployment training is available, the invite is in the deployment calendar on gmail: wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com

No updates
Community Tec, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality & Test, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

 * Updates:

Growth

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
 * Continuing to work on on-wiki configuration
 * Continuing design of mentor dashboard https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Mentor_dashboard
 * Deploying Growth features as opt-in to tawiki, mswiki and simplewiki

iOS native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates: Beta is out.

Android native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous: Miriam for the research and PET for all your help getting image recommendations ready.
 * Updates: Timeline for image recommendations MVP release is set - should be out to all users in 4 weeks.

Web

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Continuing to onboard new hires!
 * Continuing our work on the language switcher instrumentation and A/B test
 * Fixing a regression in the SearchSatisfaction instrument for the WVUI search autocomplete treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274869#6963147 onward
 * Finalising new CSS folder structure in Vector: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264309.

Structured Data

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Special:MediaSearch is now the default search UI on Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users
 * Working on moving the MediaSearch UI code into a standalone extension. This will include the structured data team's library of reusable Vue components. Will announce this when the move happens.

Abstract Wikipedia

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None known.
 * Thank yous:
 * Architecture for their on-going advice and support through some thorny issues.
 * Updates:
 * We closed Phase γ; we're now working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
 * This is where we'll tie the back-end function orchestrator to the front-end MW stack.

Library

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Continued work on partner description translations and The Wikipedia Library extension
 * New hompage designs are almost done, and work is starting on the logged in experience

Vue.js

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Starting the technical decision-making process for introducing a front-end build step - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
 * Storybook updates to WVUI: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/676236

Fundraising Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * un-forking CiviCRM build tool to use upstream version in our CI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277500
 * More work on email prefs page https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510
 * Planning for integration with new API of backup card processor
 * CiviCRM contact deduplication enhancements
 * Better error handling for CentralNotice invalid banner name: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173782
 * Audit / reconciliation file processing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277244, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Wikidata: Migration of CI testing from stretch to buster is known broken in Wikidata (T279068).
 * Blocking:
 * Fundraising tech might be reaching out for image tweaks
 * Thank yous:
 * James for pointing out we were behind on the 1.36 branch cut :)
 * Updates:
 * Note that the MediaWiki 1.36 branch will happen in the next day or so. Next week's train is the first of 1.37.0-wmf.X.
 * Backport deployment training is available, the invite is in the deployment calendar on gmail: wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 T274943
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 T278344
 * This week: 1.37.0-wmf.1 T278345

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Recover lexemes on wdqs1009 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276784
 * Report latency metric to the wdqs-ui from the wdqs streaming updater - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277637
 * Reindex Khmer wikis to enable Khmer syllable reordering - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274205
 * Linked Data Fragments endpoint returns IllegalStateException - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270476
 * Many files on Commons cannot be found in WCQS - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269302

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Wrapping up stuff, removing tech debt regarding old kubernetes clusters.
 * Sizing up a mediawiki pod.

WMDE Technical Wishes

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Activating line numbering in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors, we plan to deploy with next week’s train.
 * Merged some simplifications which will affect reportupdater-queries, will probably apply the changes to all scripts there.

Cross-cutting

 * Blocked by:
 * [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142 (or at least 6.7). This will be extra fun to back-port to REL1_36 as well as REL1_35.
 * Blocking:
 * None.
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Nothing major.
 * Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
 * CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master