Scrum of scrums/2019-10-02

= 2019-10-02 =

Callouts

 * Rel Eng: The Growth team is planning deployments for the newcomer tasks projects and we need to know November black out dates
 * 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.)
 * Looking for someone to review a new MW API module (Scoring Platform / Jade)
 * Fundraising emails to English-speaking countries started going out this week - that traffic goes through donate.wikimedia.org (on the main cluster) before it hits payments-wiki (on the fr cluster), so let's nobody break it.
 * Structured Data team need review on a patch for T231855 (probably from CPT)

Editing

 * Updates:
 * Talk pages enhancements: WIP and research ongoing for legacy signature parsing, signature parser function, autocomplete notifications
 * Fix loading icons for historical diff mode switcher
 * Fix mw:MediaLink support (task T232754)
 * mobile.editor.overlay: Use errorformat=html and display all error messages (task T202460) (task T228897) (task T232685)

Growth

 * Updates:
 * Homepage: Add startediting placeholder module for suggested edits (task T232419)
 * Add JS and dialog for startediting module (task T232419)
 * Homepage: Stop querying non-existent help module storage (task T232548)
 * Selenium: Add regression test for NONE group survey submission (task T233263)
 * EditorJourney: Redact sensitive values for diff and oldid (task T234084)

iOS native app

 * Updates:
 * 6.5 in active development - project/view/4245
 * Includes history & diffs feature
 * Core Platform working on Rest APIs for this
 * wikidiff2 PR to output inline JSON merged 534897
 * followup wikidiff2 PR for section titles 539906

Android native app

 * Updates:
 * Had a minor release with many bug fixes.
 * Extended our User survey for suggested edits feature, by a week
 * In active development of Suggested Edits V3 features

Product Infrastructure

 * Updates:
 * Offsite concluded last week
 * Machine Vision: scripts to create image tagging candidate lists
 * Machine Vision: code review
 * Wikifeeds: fixed raw preq call to public endpoint that broke deployment last week
 * Wikifeeds: need to update Helm chart with new stuff and try deploying again
 * mobile-html: minor performance tweaks
 * BUOD: triaged remaining issues for event platform client prototypes
 * BUOD: moving event platform client prototypes into Gerrit

Structured Data

 * Blocking:
 * RecentChange support for SDC: T230862 ... working on it
 * Updates:
 * nothing new ... input types, MachineVision, campaigns continuing

UI Standardization

 * Blocking:
 * Scoring platform: T219238
 * Updates:
 * DSG Components: this and next week finish for publish iteration
 * Special:Contributions began to roll out yesterday
 * Vector updates in context of T121730 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T63099 Vector perf improvements and it uses CSS gradients now (hey, it’s 2019). Also fixed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T4013

Analytics

 * Blocking:
 * Search Platform: T229882

Fundraising Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Not blocked, but nice-to-have from release engineering: php7.0 docker image for CRM tests T230446
 * Updates:
 * CiviCRM
 * Adopted an orphan extension to fix typo-ed email domains, refactoring it and installing it locally T231332
 * Deploying first draft of automated year-end summary receipt emails for recurring donors T195907
 * Adding a UI button for on-demand send of year-end summary emails T221271
 * CentralNotice
 * Found a couple last nits to pick with campaign fallback code, fixing them T234248
 * Fixing issues found in new data pipeline after first real-data tests T234352
 * Payments-wiki
 * Card selection form tweaks T231452
 * Revising content and amounts on form that asks one-time donors to convert to recurring T234059

Core Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Release Engineering T233092
 * Blocking:
 * Wikidata: (not sure which team is actually to call out on this, Core Platform is our best guess): In the Data Bridge work (editing Wikidata items from Wikipedia) we have encountered problems with Special:EntityData serving stale (old) data. The problem is quite old: T128486. We are looking for a team/person with whom we could get some clarity on the current state of the cache solutions on WMF cluster, and figure out how to get T128486 unstuck.
 * Search Platform: RecentChange support for SDC: T230862
 * Updates:
 * RESTBagOStuff changes for 1.34
 * New Echo notification storage
 * Page History REST API for iOS team
 * Parsoid/PHP in parsoid cluster

Performance

 * Blocked by:
 * Wikidata: We believe we are actually not blocking you on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/497537 but never heard back from you what do you think about what was said in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/497537#message-2cc44c252b1750c49c9e2f84920cc74e3d8184bf. Can we please get a clear information again if we are actually blocking you?

Release Engineering

 * Blocking:
 * The Growth team is planning deployments for the newcomer tasks projects and we need to know November black out dates
 * CPT T233092
 * Kartotherian folks: T233316
 * Not blocked, but nice-to-have for Fundraising tech: php7.0 docker image for CRM tests T230446
 * Updates:
 * REMINDER: We're at 1.34.0-wmf.25 this week. This is the last branch for this release. Teams who want to ship things for MW 1.34 should land them now. T232026 (If you do not mark code as deprecated in the next few days, you have to maintain it for another nine months.)
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.24 - T220749
 * This week: 1.34.0-wmf.25 - T220750
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.1 - T233849

Scoring Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * UI Standardization: T219238
 * Updates:
 * Victory on WMFLabs ORES install
 * Looking for someone to review MWAPI work for Jade (Core Platform? Brad maybe?) T199834
 * T232494 (Now using Git-lfs on ORES hosts)
 * T230917 (Blocked on improving Celery Monitoring -- Should we use PS to count processes?)
 * Kevin Bazira has started as an Associate Engineer

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Core Platform (or Multimedia?): RecentChange support for SDC: T230862
 * Analytics: T229882
 * Updates:
 * HighlightBuilder: Introduce a way to control the highlighting behaviors with keywords T190130
 * Deferred update AutoCommitUpdate_LinksUpdate::doUpdate failed: Could not enqueue jobs: Unable to serialize events (CirrusSearch LinksUpdate) T230728

Security

 * Updates:
 * Development of Privacy Review process; Anticipated completion of first draft this month
 * GRC Tool Eval
 * GDPR / Data Map updates and reviews are in progress
 * three new policies drafted and in review
 * Parsoid-PHP, in progress - T227209

Wikidata

 * Blocked by:
 * (not sure who, Core Platform? Performance?): In the Data Bridge work (editing Wikidata items from Wikipedia) we have encountered problems with Special:EntityData serving stale (old) data. The problem is quite old: T128486. We are looking for a team/person with whom we could get some clarity on the current state of the cache solutions on WMF cluster, and figure out how to get T128486 unstuck.
 * Blocking:
 * Performance (we actually believe we are not blocking them, read further): We believe we are not blocking https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/497537 but never heard back from Performance team what do they think about what was said in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/497537#message-2cc44c252b1750c49c9e2f84920cc74e3d8184bf. Can we please get a clear information again if we are actually blocking you?