Scrum of scrums/2018-07-25

= 2018-07-25=

Callouts

 * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
 * SREs! Reading Infra need advice on backporting a package (mapnik 3.0.20) to Debian Stretch (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200284 )
 * 1.32.0-wmf.14 train blocked on Failed executing job: ThumbnailRender
 * EventLogging sanitization updated to work on Hive databases as well, read all about it and the new unified Whitelist
 * Need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199252 - Google has bad cache for a bunch of pages on it.m.wikipedia.org, need someone who has Google Webmaster Tools access for wikipedia.org domain to help address this.

iOS native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Still wrapping up 6.0 release (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/)

Android native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Wrapping up navigation prototypes for user testing.

Readers Web

 * Blocked by:
 * New service request: chromium-render/deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748
 * We're not blocked but we are ready to help and eager to close out the epic
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
 * Page issues UI and instrumentation T191528 T197932 T197931
 * Other fixes and hygiene T193172 T188261 T199066 T197133 T190549
 * Product and design at Wikimania

Readers Infrastructure

 * Blocked by: Need advice from SREs on backporting a package (see callouts)
 * Blocking: n/a?
 * Updates:
 * Maps:
 * Working on migrating test servers to Cloud VPS
 * Working with SRE (Gehel) on migrating all servers to Debian Stretch
 * Various grooming/triage and bug fixes
 * MCS/PCS:
 * Working with Services to deploy mobile-html endpoints, add language variant support to all endpoints
 * Working with Services, Reading Web on designing page previews for Wikidata

Multimedia

 * Updates
 * SDoC: search prototype progressing
 * SDoC: backend search patches getting merged
 * SDoC: working through implications of (technical and community) discussions from wikimania

Community Tech

 * Blocked by: Security review for TemplateWizard
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * GlobalPreferences are out, work and ready for you to use

Anti-Harassment Tools

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Editing

 * Blocked by: None
 * Blocking: Languages for Content Translator 2 implementation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197075#4447456
 * Updates: improving UI test coverage for VE; fixed VE regressions

Parsing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * No significant things to report. My laptop is having a problem, not charging, researching issue.

Growth

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Language

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Audiences Design

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UI Standardization

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Analytics

 * Blocked by:
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 * Updates:
 * Updated EventLogging sanitization to work with both MariaDB and Hive databases, see docs at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging/Data_retention_and_auto-purging
 * Filed the hardware request to host a smaller public Data Lake on our cloud
 * Follow-up from Kafka outage, testing to reproduce in labs, incident report: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180711-kafka-eqiad

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Making good progress on the ingress scripts for EventLogging data from banner and landing page impressions
 * Experimenting with different ways to let donors from certain countries opt in to emails
 * More CiviCRM work to export and expunge donor data
 * Responding to "interesting" results of today's full-scale test of card processor's new API

MediaWiki Core Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Performance

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199252 - Google has bad cache for a bunch of pages on it.m.wikipedia.org, need someone who has Google Webmaster Tools access for wikipedia.org domain to help address this.
 * Working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200346
 * Need help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199252 - Google has bad cache for a bunch of pages on it.m.wikipedia.org, need someone who has Google Webmaster Tools access for wikipedia.org domain to help address this.
 * Working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200346

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * 1.32.0-wmf.14 train blocked by Failed executing job: ThumbnailRender (in callouts)
 * SRE: helm test in production k8s namespace
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Gerrit upgrade to 2.15.3 soon, will send an email, will want SRE

Research

 * Blocked by: None
 * Blocking: None
 * Updates:
 * Working on recommending missing articles based on translation pageview predictions

Scoring Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * JADE storage discussion is headed back to TechCom with a proper RFC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200297
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Minor frontend improvements to wikilabels
 * Using OOUI alert and config instead of alert and config

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198067
 * Fixed Polish analyzer, pending reindex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046
 * Set up analysis for Malay & Indonesian, pending reindex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196780
 * Discussed potential approaches for using NLP in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193070
 * Improved prefix URI param handling: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198318
 * Working on Esperanto analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200099
 * Working on Lexeme fulltext search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196188
 * Working on collecting click statistics for Wikidata completion search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196186
 * Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
 * Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Started Apache Traffic server experimentation
 * Will start discussions to set the date for the next datacenter switchover
 * grafana-admin to be removed.

Wikidata

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Work on Structured Lexicographical Data continues: improving the editor interface, and adding Senses (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/)

German Technical Wishlist

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Multi-Content Revisions

 * Blocked by:
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 * Updates:

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

 * Updates:
 * Is there an update on changing the meeting to an earlier time?
 * Meeting this week to discuss updates to the template and meeting goals.
 * After that, we'll move the meeting to 2 hours earlier.