Scrum of scrums/2021-01-06

= 2021-01-06 =

Callouts

 * (SRE) In the event that you need to urgently reach SRE for an outage or other emergency (shell account compromise, etc), well, now there's an app for that: https://klaxon.wikimedia.org/
 * FAQ at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klaxon#FAQ
 * (RelEng) Code deploy office hours for deployment questions are still happening Mondays 18:00UTC (see staff calendar)

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Editing, Web, Product Infrastructure, Structured Data, Language, Inuka, OKAPI, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality and Test, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

 * Updates: Will keep retro form open until 2021-01-14

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Growth

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 * continuing work on link recommendations: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link

iOS native app

 * Blocked by: None
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 * Updates: Right-sizing scope of next experiment, development starting.

Android native app

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 * Updates: Happy to have Jazmin on board! Development work underway on next version, including watchlist work.

Abstract Wikipedia

 * Updates:
 * Getting back in the saddle after the break.
 * Last Monday was the first day of our new engineering team member, Cory Massaro; general announcement coming later today.
 * Process for a community contest to select the logo concept for Wikifunctions will start shortly.
 * Huge thanks to the Security team for their support, meeting with us and the Architecture team.

Parsing

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Library

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 * Working on Wikilink user list filtering
 * Setting up to work on an Echo notification so that users get notified if they are eligible for bundle access in the Wikipedia Library

Fundraising Tech

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 * Working on eoy donation summary email send which needed updates for new calendar year
 * Close to final approval on CentralNotice CampaignTypes feature with new user preferences
 * Will review other outstanding CN patches this sprint

Release Engineering

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 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 -- office hours for deployments are still happening Mondays 1800UTC
 * Train Health 
 * Last week year: 1.36.0-wmf.22 T267417
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 T267418
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 T267419
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 T267418
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 T267419

Search Platform

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 * Migrate WDQS to Debian Buster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244753
 * wdqs1005: disk space critical on /srv/ - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270236
 * wdqs-categories prometheus exporter failing on select wdqs instances -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269872
 * Some wdqs metrics changed when switching to python3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269204
 * Service implementation on wdqs101[1-3].eqiad.wmnet - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246345
 * The saneitizer is a lot slower than when running in codfw (oct 27 2020 codfw -> eqiad switchover) -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266762
 * Deepcategory returns only very few results - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246568
 * Examine cases where Blazegraph generates results that timeout and don’t make it back to the user -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264447
 * Spike: Can/should Swift be used as Flink checkpoint backend? - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246004
 * Stuff no one else cares about:
 * Call to a member function getResults on null - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268164

Site Reliability Engineering

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 * Updates:
 * the past two weeks were thankfully quiet :)

Cross-cutting

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 * LibraryUpgrader now handles security and linting upgrades in non-master release branches (currently configured for REL1_35 and REL1_31).
 * PHP 8.0 compatibility work continues.