Scrum of scrums/2019-09-25

= 2019-09-25 =

Callouts

 * SRE DBAs point out that S4 primary database master switchover scheduled for Thursday 26th at 05:00 AM UTC (read-only required) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230784
 * Release Engineering: REMINDER: We're at 1.34.0-wmf.24 this week. The last branch for this release will be wmf.25 on 30 September. Teams who want to ship things for MW 1.34 should land them now. (If you do not mark code as deprecated in the next few days, you have to maintain it for another nine months.)
 * UI Standardization: Special:Contributions got switched to OOUI and in the course improved user-experience and made it mobile ready (AMC work related). Feedback welcome https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117736

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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 * ApiVisualEditorEdit: Remove special handling for SpamBlacklist (task T211443)
 * Add new EditAttemptStep stage: firstChange (task T229079)
 * Add unit tests for read-mode reference filter (task T150418)
 * Use MW import rules in MW tests (task T150418)
 * Add another looser selector for catching pasted references (task T232461)

Growth

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 * WelcomeSurvey: Remove "topics" question (task T232400)
 * WelcomeSurvey: Add/change answer options for "reason" question (task T232400)
 * WelcomeSurvey: Remove multiselect infusion code (task T232400)
 * Remove popup version of WelcomeSurvey (task T233198)
 * Remove GEHelpPanelSearchEnabled feature flag (task T233283)
 * WelcomeSurvey: Fix saving results when group is overridden (task T233263)

iOS native app

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 * 6.5 in development
 * History & diffs - beginning development against prototype endpoints https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.5/
 * Wrapping up wikidiff2 PR https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/php/wikidiff2/+/534897/

Android native app

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 * Continuing development of Suggested Edits v3 (update of user statistics screen)
 * Will release maintenance update to Production this week.

Readers Web

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Product Infrastructure

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Structured Data

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 * continuing with MachineVision, input types for structuted data, campaigns

Parsing

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 * Parsoid-PHP: We are now down to the last handful of bugs before we will be "green" in roundtrip testing (i.e no unexplainable test differences wrt Parsoid/JS).
 * In conversations with CPT (Services) & SRE about Parsoid/PHP prdeployment and charting a path and timeline for it.

Language

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 * Moving MT disable/enable config from cxserver to mediawiki-config with next week's train: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232986

UI Standardization

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 * Special:Contributions got transformed to OOUI and in the course improved user-experience and made it mobile ready, related to AMC work. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117736 Thanks to Jdlrobson and Bartosz on helpiing

Analytics

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 * Search Platform: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229882
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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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 * CiviCRM
 * End of year summary emails: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195907
 * batch fixing of typo-ed email domains: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231332
 * CentralNotice
 * Running new banner view & landing page data pipeline, will compare with old one
 * Putting finishing touches on campaign fallback feature before merging.it to master: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232859
 * Payments-wiki
 * Payment method display tweaks for India bank transfer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231452

Core Platform

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 * SRE on Logging for the session storage service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209110
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 * Search Platform: RecentChange support for SDC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230862
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 * RFC for REST API namespaces and version https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232485
 * Outreachy proposals done
 * First version of iOS history API by Sep 30
 * Echo notification storage changes coming
 * Kask performance issues unblocked

Performance

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Quality and Test Engineering

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Release Engineering

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 * REMINDER: We're at 1.34.0-wmf.24 this week. The last branch for this release will be wmf.25 on 30 September. Teams who want to ship things for MW 1.34 should land them now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232026 (If you do not mark code as deprecated in the next few weeks, you have to maintain it for another nine months.)
 * Creating accounts was broken on beta cluster since 2019-09-08. It was fixed today (2019-09-25). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232796
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220748
 * This week: 1.34.0-wmf.24 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220749
 * Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.25 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220750

Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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 * Core Platform (or Multimedia?): RecentChange support for SDC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230862
 * Analytics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229882
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 * Fixed hascaption includes files that have had their captions removed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231038

Security

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Site Reliability Engineering

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 * CPT on Logging for the session storage service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209110
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 * Restrouter has been deployed
 * S4 primary database master switchover scheduled for Thursday 26th at 05:00 AM UTC (read-only required) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230784

TechCom

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Wikidata

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 * Not sure who, Core Platform? We would apprciate some input on/triaging https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225814
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German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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 * Please remember not to read all updates, only ones that would be interesting to people outside of your team
 * Please remember to copy/paste tasks from your team's "blocking" section to "blocked by section" of the appropriate team
 * As an experiment, I'm using a tool to create short Gerrit, Git, MediaWiki, Phabricator and Wikitech links for meeting notes. Let me know what you think. For an example, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-09-18