Scrum of scrums/2017-02-08

= 2017-02-08 =

iOS native app

 * Last Week
 * Continued work on 5.4, released to internal Beta channel https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
 * Refined UI, added animations, added search suggestions
 * Continued work on login
 * This week
 * Continue work on 5.4
 * 2FA
 * Integrate design feedback for places, try alternate search suggestion methods

Web

 * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2460/
 * Last week:
 * Page Previews fixes, schema changes.
 * Created Hindi versions of all three New Readers prototypes.
 * Deployed related pages to mobile French wikipedia stable channel.
 * Deployed related pages to mobile English wikipedia, 90% of the users.
 * This week:
 * Create Reading Depth schema: T155639
 * Spikes related to problems we're trying to solve from technical, design, and product points of view: T156259, T157071, and T157071.

Android

 * Last week:
 * 2.5.18x beta release and bug fixes in progress https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155917
 * Improved multi-window support
 * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
 * Continue improving the offline experience

Reading Infrastructure

 * working on TemplateStyles, ORES architecture review
 * TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813
 * not blocking/blocked:

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

 * Kanban Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/
 * New endpoint for Anniversaries

Community Tech

 * Block cookies nearing completion (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233 )
 * Making uca-xx the default for MediaWiki installations (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
 * Ongoing investigation into the architecture for Special:RangeContributions (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318 ) (insight from SQL experts welcome!)
 * Starting on rebuilding Mr. Z's popular pages report (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156856 )
 * Rewriting XTools, investigation complete (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154551 )
 * Porting CopyPatrol to Spanish Wikipedia (http://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155933 )
 * Improving date range searches on Special:Contribs, volunteer effort (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120733 )
 * Enabling echo on loginwiki (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157105 ) as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11838
 * New Wikimedia Cloud Services team (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086343.html )
 * Discussion with enwiki about their plans for a private off-wiki abuse tracking system (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative#LTA_Knowledgebase_and_abuse_documentation )

German Technical Wishlist

 * TwoColConflict extension deployed as a beta feature to mediawiki.org
 * ElectronPdfService extension deployed to dewiki

Wikidata

 * InteriwkiSorting extension deployed to beta sites
 * We have test wikis for Lexeme (the Wiktionary project) and federation (the Commons project) now. Currently fine tuning them. Will publish links soon.
 * Working on MediaWiki wide support for social network sharing, looks like we must use a Twitter specific meta tag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157145

Analytics

 * Community consultation for feedback on Wikistats2.0 design and information architecture.
 * Official launch of EventStreams, providing RecentChanges. irc.wikimedia.org and RCStream continue to work but are now deprecated in favor of EventStreams.
 * Rack and setup of 3 new machines for AQS. The last one is beeing setup now, ETA tomorrow.
 * Banner activity pivot data set is now updated minutely via spark-streaming.
 * Changes in pageview data set: remove action=submit, new bot in regexp, new field - namespace_id (to be deployed today)

Research

 * In the process of looking for product and tech leads for Recommendation API productization
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_API
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157588
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157589

Security

 * Security Reviews:
 * Extension:3d
 * Trending Edits Endpoint
 * OIT LDAP Tools (wrap-up)

Services

 * Blockers: none
 * Updates:
 * RFC Discussion REST API language variant support
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154190
 * RFC Discussion Thumb API
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214

Fundraising Tech

 * Hiring replacement for Casey, who's turning devops
 * More work on new PayPal integration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107372, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153720
 * Matching gifts import for CiviCRM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115044
 * Method to purge CentralNotice banners from caches: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954

RelEng

 * Blocking:
 * Nothing as far as we know
 * Blocked:
 * Ops/Performance (Aaron): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125735 (redis timeouts for jobqueue)
 * Mobile web: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157515 (undefined variable in MobileFrontend, blocking train)
 * Updates:
 * Expect to hear some noise about production log errors. We're going to start getting...strict...on this

Discovery

 * No blockers
 * A/B tests for sister wiki searches start soon on Polish, Persian, Italian, and Catalan Wikipedias: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149806
 * Also have test server on http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/: see http://sistersearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1&search=~rainbow
 * Working on ElasticSearch 5 upgrade
 * Working on improving wikidata search
 * Published description on how we test search: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Search/Testing_Search
 * Deployed TextCat improvements: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Improvements
 * Added frequently used aliases for filetype: keyword: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156413
 * Published call for comments on secondary search options: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2017-February/001426.html
 * Improved error reporting for advanced search syntax: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149142

UI Standardization

 * This week
 * Outlining path forward on Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747
 * feedback from core devs gathered
 * Provide WikimediaUI Base's base.less in MW core https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123359


 * Updates
 * OOjs UI:
 * Further improvements on form layouts in OOUI MW core forms for better user experience – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
 * MediaWiki theme: Align tab navigation to color palette
 * Mediawiki theme: Fix focus inset to overlap scrollbars – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103851

Collaboration

 * Blocked - None
 * Blocking - None
 * Updates
 * Continued work on new RecentChanges front and backend.
 * Working with other teams to finalize ReviewStream spec.
 * Flow bug fix

Multimedia

 * Blocked
 * Security review for 3D extension (scheduled, thanks!)
 * Discovery could maybe help with a schema change for img_media_type - adding 3D media type, supporting filetype:3D queries in CirrusSearch.
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/336454
 * Blocking: None
 * Updates
 * Firefogg losing support, we'll turn it off next week for UploadWizard
 * 3D extension nearly ready to go live, once we finish reviews and some polish, we'll push it out. Stay tuned!