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 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: 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: T242446

Android native app

 * Updates:
 * In production: image tagging, mobile-html integration.
 * Working on enhanced user contribution history screen.

Web

 * Blocked by:
 * language engineering + wikimedia DE. Trying to deprecate some skin hooks for next MW release but blocked on the following changes
 * T254565 (ArticlePlaceholder)
 * T253685 (Wikibase)
 * T252841 (Wikibase)
 * T253178 (UniversalLanguageSelector)
 * Updates:
 * 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.

Structured Data

 * Updates:
 * MachineVision updates
 * preliminary work for SDAW

Language

 * Blocking:
 * Web - language engineering + wikimedia DE. Trying to deprecate some skin hooks for next MW release but blocked on the following changes
 * T254565 (ArticlePlaceholder)
 * T253685 (Wikibase)
 * T252841 (Wikibase)
 * T253178 (UniversalLanguageSelector)

Fundraising Tech

 * Updates:
 * Integrating lists of companies who match employee donations into payments-wiki forms, building CiviCRM extension to sync the data. T249922, T251200
 * Export Matching Gifts data to acoustic. T254809
 * Investigate donor data delivery tool. T248699

Core Platform

 * Blocking:
 * WMDE/Wikidata would appreciate review/some thoughts on 603572
 * Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes T224425

Release Engineering

 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 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

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes T224425
 * DC-Ops: rack/setup/install relforge100[34] T241791
 * Updates:
 * Fix CirrusSearch maint scripts call sites to use file names compliant with autoloader T250806

Site Reliability Engineering

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

Wikidata

 * Blocked by:
 * Core Platform: We would appreciate review/some thoughts on 603572
 * Blocking:
 * Web - language engineering + wikimedia DE. Trying to deprecate some skin hooks for next MW release but blocked on the following changes
 * T254565 (ArticlePlaceholder)
 * T253685 (Wikibase)
 * T252841 (Wikibase)
 * T253178 (UniversalLanguageSelector)