Scrum of scrums/2019-12-04

= 2019-12-04 =

Callouts

 * Release Engineering - unusual train schedule:
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - group1 + group2
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10
 * December 23-January 3rd - No deploys (including train), Holiday break

Editing

 * Updates:
 * Finalizing work on high fidelity prototype for replies on talk pages

Growth

 * Updates:
 * Cleaning up remaining bugs from v1.0 release of newcomer tasks

iOS native app

 * Updates:
 * Released 6.5 on 12/2 - project/view/4245
 * Fundraising announcement on article
 * History & Diffs screens
 * Beginning exploratory work on 6.6 project/view/4273
 * Mobile-html
 * Bug fixes

Android native app

 * Updates:
 * Suggested Edits v3 is live, as well as fundraising announcement (article banner in newest app version, and in the Feed in older versions)
 * Continuing integration with mobile-html, and continuing to test the latest Parsoid / content service with language variant support.

Readers Web

 * Updates:
 * Summary: planning for desktop improvements and tapering off of advanced mode.
 * Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP)]:
 * Planning, research, and task creation
 * T239248 Divide VectorTemplate into components ]
 * Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
 * Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions Advanced mode]:
 * T232652 Add History to article toolbar for all logged-in users ]
 * T232594 Add article and discussion tabs to all logged-in users on mobile ]
 * Miscellaneous:
 * T232734 Mobile logout should not involve an interstitial ]
 * T225213 Main Menu should work without JavaScript to be more accessible and a better user experience ]
 * T214045 Drawers should be removed from DOM after close ]

Product Infrastructure

 * Updates:
 * Computer-Aided Tagging will launch soon (TM), after the go-ahead from Performance
 * mobileapps flapping is under investigation (T239344)
 * seems related to increased request rate associated with the Parsoid/PHP rollout (T238832)
 * There are also some unexplained MW API request timeouts for which I'm adding more logging for further investigation

Structured Data

 * Updates:
 * rdfDumps now unblocked
 * getting recentchanges by slot merged, so unblocking search
 * work continues on new input types for structured data
 * tech talk on Structured Data on Commons 1 week from today

Parsing

 * Updates:
 * Parsoid/PHP deployed to all wikis and all products except (a) linter (b) language converter. These 2 products are served by Parsoid/JS

Language

 * Updates:
 * Team is back from Offsite.
 * More Apertium MT updates coming up.
 * Exploring MarianMT at: T234194

Inuka

 * Updates:
 * KaiOS better pagination T234436

UI Standardization

 * Updates:
 * Design Style Guide https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/
 * Polishing tasks
 * Improving responsive layout
 * Adding further components, like recently Comboboxes
 * OOUI release v0.35.2 in preparation

Fundraising Tech

 * Updates:
 * Monitoring fundraiser, tuning parameters to keep receipts and stats flowing smoothly
 * Yesterday donors gave us more money by far than any other single day in the foundation's history
 * For publicly available stats (as CSVs), see https://frdata.wikimedia.org
 * Seeing lower-than-expected CentralNotice banner impressions for US, AU, and IE but that may be all because of bots: T239748
 * Small tweaks to Civi custom code to reduce logspam and cache a few more db lookups.

Core Platform

 * Blocking:
 * Product Infrastructure - mobileapps flapping is under investigation (T239344), seems related to increased request rate associated with the Parsoid/PHP rollout
 * Updates:
 * Next round of Core REST API work
 * Virtual offsite next week (Dec 10-12)

Release Engineering

 * Blocking:
 * Wikimedia Deutschland/Wikidata: Setting up Pipeline CI job for wikibase/vuejs-components repository: 551829
 * Blocking SRE, onboarding Gerrit and Zuul Prometheus metrics 479139
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - T233856 - group0 only because of Thanksgiving
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - T233856 - group1 + group2
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10 - T233858

Scoring Platform

 * Blocking:
 * Blocking SRE identifying ORES metrics T233448 - Acknowledged
 * Updates:
 * Jade API code is ready for review again - T199834
 * Model improvements coming for euwiki and cawiki - T238839
 * Model improvements coming for nowiki - T130291
 * Looking at SpaCy and other "industrial strength" NLP to boost ORES models fitness and performance.
 * Extending our documentation around deployment prep: ORES/Prepare_deployment
 * Developing improved topic taxonomies. See https://github.com/halfak/wikitax

Security

 * Updates:
 * Password Reset Update: Security Proposal - T237755 - complete
 * Security Review For Page Content Service route /page/mobile-html - T227114 - nearly complete
 * A Large-scale Study of Wikipedia Users' Quality of Experience: data release - T217318 - nearly complete
 * Security Review for whichbrowser/parser - T239259 - in progress
 * Data Map (GDPR) update period closes 12/6

Wikidata

 * Blocked by:
 * Release Engineering: Setting up Pipeline CI job for wikibase/vuejs-components repository: 551829