Scrum of scrums/2017-02-22

Call outs

 * Community Tech: Need feedback on proposed table for range contributions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318
 * Community Tech: Collation version numbering patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272419/ (blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
 * Services: RFC Discussion REST API language variant support - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154190
 * Language: Blocked on mysterious Qunit test failures: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 (RelEng/Wikidata?)and schema changes review from DBA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146450

Android

 * Last week:
 * 2.5.189 beta released; production release is pending community feedback on Wikidata description editing
 * Mapbox library upgrade in review
 * Android Support Library upgraded
 * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
 * Continue improving the offline experience

Web

 * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-92-%F0%9F%8D%9C/
 * Last week:
 * Page Previews: Use bundler to generate Page Previews JavaScript code - T156333
 * Create reading depth schema - T155639
 * This week:
 * Update related pages schema to allow for current A/B test - T157375
 * Page previews: use RESTBase in stage 0 wikis (italian, russian, greek, catalan, hebrew) - T158221
 * Deploy new mobile header to Catalan and Italian wikipedias - T156794
 * [Spike] Propose solutions for the issues identified with developing on MobileFrontend - T156263

iOS native app

 * Last Week
 * Continued work on 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
 * Location permission changes (friendlier prompt, users to opt-in instead of an intrusive pop-up)
 * Closer evaluation of Mapbox & maps.wikimedia.org as tileserver
 * Other bug fixes and enhancements
 * This week
 * Continue work on 5.4
 * Finish location permission changes, add links to places map from Articles, Accessibility audit
 * Other bug fixes and enhancements

Reading Infrastructure

 * Mobile Content Service: Kanban Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/
 * Adding more tests for OnThisDay; removing French from it since not all dates produce a result
 * Next: expanding TFA (today's featured article) to more languages using FeaturedFeed extension
 * working on TemplateStyles, ORES, MediaWiki logging
 * TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813 - performance questions still open + waiting for community consultation to wrap up

Analytics

 * Vetting wmf_last_access_global (project-wide unique devices) metric
 * Applying feedback received from community to Wikistats2.0 and finalizing visuals
 * Upgrade to CDH 5.10 to labs, went well, real production deploy scheduled for next tuesday 28th Feb
 * In progress: fixing a bug in AQS (Pageview API) related to the way dates are represented in the results

Community Tech

 * Cookie blocks should go out this week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158129
 * Investigating global gadgets https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153332
 * Some improvements to PageAssessments https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158245 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154216
 * Need feedback on proposed table for range contributions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318

Discovery

 * No blockers
 * A/B test for for sister wiki results finished, processing the results.
 * Working on ES5 upgrade & wikidata search
 * Working on annual plan & Collab Jam slides

Security
Reviews:
 * 3D extension
 * Internal File Server
 * CollaborationKit
 * StopForumSpam

Services

 * Blockers: None
 * Updates:
 * DNS caching in service-runner by default
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158338
 * REST API 1.0
 * https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/764
 * Language variant RFC wrapping up right after this meeting
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122942

Language

 * Current Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/language-2017_sprint_3/
 * Compact Language Links deployed in 'svwiki'.
 * CX migration to OOJS continue.

Collaboration

 * Blocked
 * Blocking
 * Updates
 * New RecentChanges page - Bug fixes and refactoring
 * Flow - Minor technical debt and upgrading pimple (should have no user impact)
 * Will deploy an update to the Flow export/import scripts that allow transwiki within the farm. We'll use this shortly (probably today) to transwiki a board from Meta to MediaWiki.org

German Technical Wishlist

 * TwoColConflict is officially in Beta, watching for feedback.
 * Working on FileImporter/Exporter to transfer files to Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/projects/mediawiki/extensions/FileImporter,dashboards/default

Wikidata

 * Same as last week, making good progress on Lexeme datatype for Wiktionary, as well as federation for Commons.
 * Will check if https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 is Wikidata related.

UI Standardization

 * This week
 * Work on the technical fundamentals of style guide (responsive layout, grid, navigation)
 * Updates
 * General
 * ContentTranslation: Сontribution's dropdown menu features non-standard layout. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157217
 * Further work on: Replace abandoned colors in current WMF/Wikimedia products with WikimediaUI palette colors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148708
 * OOjs UI:
 * Figure out which parts of OOjs UI documentation should be improved, and where they should live - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158494
 * Further improvements on form layouts in OOUI MW core forms for better user experience – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
 * Align SelectfileInputWidget to color palette

Technical Operations

 * Blocked:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Work continues on Ubuntu Precise deprecation, production and labs
 * Budgeting Capex / Opex and annual plan
 * Datacenter switchover
 * Asia datacenter preparation

Release Engineering

 * Blocked:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038

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
 * Method to purge CentralNotice banners from caches: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954
 * Investigating slow banner saves: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158084
 * Andrew Green may ask ops for some help with both of the above ^^^
 * More work resolving contact de-duplication conflicts in CiviCRM