Scrum of scrums/2020-06-10

= 2020-06-10 =

Callouts

 * SRE moving various LVS microservices (e.g. termbox, citoid, mathoid) into their TLS enabled LVS endpoints. Keep in mind
 * Release Engineering
 * [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
 * "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
 * Branch cut automation starts in 2 weeks with 1.35.0-wmf.37[0]! Branches will be cut at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday starting June 16th. Please yell if that's an issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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TechCom

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Growth

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iOS native app

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Android native app
** In production: image tagging, mobile-html integration. ** Working on enhanced user contribution history screen.
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Web

 * blocked by: language engineering + wikimedia DE. Trying to deprecate some skin hooks for next MW release but blocked on the following changes
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254565 (ArticlePlaceholder)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253685 (Wikibase)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252841 (Wikibase)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253178 (UniversalLanguageSelector)
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 * Summary: continuing content width limiting for Desktop Improvements Project (DIP), scaffolding Vue.js search.
 * Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
 * WikidataPageBanner should no longer use SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
 * Render the FallbackSkin and SkinApi with a simplistic SkinMustache class
 * Language portlet no longer at the bottom of sidebar
 * Restore banners to skins (Vector)
 * Future proof addPortletLink
 * Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
 * [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
 * Add bandwidth tests for JavaScript and CSS to Vector and component repo
 * Tech debt: Drop Browser.supportsAnimations method
 * Deprecate the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
 * Limit content width, and refine alignment & styling of relevant elements
 * Vue.js search case study:
 * See weekly status updates.
 * Alex and Stephen in performance training last week.

Product Infrastructure

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Structured Data

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 * MachineVision updates
 * preliminary work for SDAW

Parsing

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Language

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Inuka

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UI Standardization

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Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech
* Integrating lists of companies who match employee donations into payments-wiki forms, building CiviCRM extension to sync the data. phab:T249922, phab:T251200 * Export Matching Gifts data to acoustic. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254809 * Investigate donor data delivery tool. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248699
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Core Platform

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 * WMDE/Wikidata would appreciate review/some thoughts on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/603572/
 * Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224425
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Performance

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Quality and Test Engineering

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Release Engineering

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 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Train branch cut time is changing:
 * Starting with 1.35.0-wmf.37 on June 16th the wmf MediaWiki branch cut will happen at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday…
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - T253023
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - T254173
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - T254174

Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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 * Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224425
 * DC-Ops: rack/setup/install relforge100[34] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241791
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 * Fix CirrusSearch maint scripts call sites to use file names compliant with autoloaderhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250806

Security

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Site Reliability Engineering

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 * DC-Ops: rack/setup/install relforge100[34] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241791
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 * SRE moving various LVS microservices (e.g. termbox, citoid, mathoid) into their TLS enabled LVS endpoints. Keep in mind.

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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