Scrum of scrums/2018-12-12

=2018-12-12=

Callouts

 * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
 * Dec 24th and Dec 31st are freeze weeks.
 * Goal planning in progress. If you have requests from SRE, now is the time to do so.
 * Session Service RFC is heading to last call ending Wednesday December 12th 1pm PST https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010
 * Release Engineering: No Train weeks of December 24th and December 31st

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Growth

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Language

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iOS native app

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Android native app

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 * Released minor update to production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.7.268-r-2018-12-07

Readers Web

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 * Summary: mostly MobileFrontend architecture project tasks and some advanced mobile contributions planning.


 * Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):


 * Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
 * MobileFrontend should not have a global event emitter T156186
 * Collapse mobile.search* ResourceLoader modules into mobile.startup T210207
 * Reduce View inheritance and improve composition support T209007
 * Add tests for Drawer and CtaDrawer T208920
 * Webpackify watchstar T208921


 * Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
 * Investigate opt-in audience and instrumentation T211195
 * Team planning


 * Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
 * Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349
 * Split pageIssues.js into smaller functions T211257
 * Planning deployment to all wikis except enwiki on December 17th T210553


 * Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
 * Maintenance T209314


 * PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
 * Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084

Readers Infrastructure

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Multimedia

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Parsing

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UI Standardization

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 * No OOUI release this week, work on scheduled last release of the year next Tuesday ongoing.

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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 * Campaign going well so far
 * FR-tech supporting the rest of the team with processor switching & investigation
 * CentralNotice tweaks such as reducing log spam for protection
 * CiviCRM performance optimizations
 * Getting new hire oriented
 * Minor upgrades for CiviCRM components
 * Still working on a form variant for payments-wiki

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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 * Train Health:
 * Last week: No train due to the Release Engineering Offsite
 * This week: 1.33.0-wmf.8 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206662
 * T211774 Full table scans on oldimage table - Anomie and Ladsgroup probably fixed it, will move train forward after SoS and see
 * Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.9 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206663
 * No Train weeks of December 24th and December 31st

Research

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 * Working on building a 'morelike' API for article recommendations:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201192 and subtasks
 * Working on setting up a production pipeline for generating article recommendations and importing them into the database:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844
 * Research: Eliciting new editor interests:
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests#Second_Online_Experiment
 * We had to delay sending out emails last week. We're sending them out this week.

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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 * Wikidata autocompletion A/B done, results positive, slight improvement in click positions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193701
 * Fixed failed jobs when trying to index invalid titles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208932
 * Set up news servers in codfw: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210265
 * Refactored “second try” search code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204255
 * Working on data corruption issues in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210901
 * Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
 * Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
 * Working on “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
 * Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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 * T144467: Security review for Google MT for Content Translation - completed by Security Team
 * T207990: Security review for TheWikipediaLibrary extension - Analyst will start soon
 * T202143: Security review for Guzzle 6.3.3 - completed by Security Team

Site Reliability Engineering

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Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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