Scrum of scrums/2018-11-21

2018-11-21=

Callouts

 * Release Engineering: No train this week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
 * UI Standardization: Feedback welcome on non-proportional, aka monospace font choice for code https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209915

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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 * Responded to Language's request for feedback

Growth

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 * Recording EventLogging events in MySQL in beta broke multiple times this past week. Perhaps caused by Neutron migration?
 * EditorJourney schema logging went live on Thursday for Czech and Korean wikis.
 * WelcomeSurvey is live on cswiki and kowiki despite 2 OOUI bugs: T209716, T209717. (help from anyone that manages OOUI would be great)

Language

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 * Apertium and depenencies are updated in Production.
 * New shiny graphs for cxserver (service-cxserver) at Graphana available. Helped to identify issues already!
 * ContentTranslation v2 bug fixes continue.

iOS native app

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Android native app

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Readers Web

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Readers Infrastructure

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 * Announcements changes for English app fundraising are deployed. App devs: please test asap. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204821

Multimedia

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 * Mostly bugfixing on beta commons - hoping to invite community comment on it real soon (honest!)
 * Also working on depicts and other statements

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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 * Design Style Guide
 * New “Resources” section https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/resources.html
 * Updates on “Typography” and imagery across pages
 * Accessibility:
 * Wikipedia Portals freed of technical a11y hurdles

Analytics

 * Blocked by: performance of cloud replicas for sqooping all rows monthly, ongoing work and discussion at T209031
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 * testing Kerberos with our infrastructure on cloud VMs, progressing well
 * work on Modern Event Platform's Event Intake service code going well. If you want to follow from the very early stages, see https://github.com/ottomata/eventbus
 * XML dumps available in HDFS, see T202489
 * ongoing work on sanitizing Hive event database (all EventLogging data)

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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MediaWiki Core Platform

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 * RFC meeting regarding session storage interface (multi-DC dependency) continuing tomorrow (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010 )
 * PHP 7.2 tests are now voting for MediaWiki (gerrit:473312)
 * Continuing to extract decisions and action items from Tech Conf session notes
 * Actor table rolled out to test wikis and mediawiki.org last week, and to group 0 this week. No problems reported
 * Comment table image_comment_temp merging is done, except for the WMF schema change (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209591 ).
 * Externallinks indexing: DONE! (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209373 )

Performance

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Release Engineering

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 * Hired Jeena Huneidi. She will be working on local development and other developer satisfaction improvements. https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/topic/foundation-optional/5GXGf28R0GE/discussion
 * Blog post by Dan Duvall: Bring in 'da noise, bring in defunct. It's a zombie party! Peering into the CI cauldron – October 2018 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/127
 * Thanks to Krenair, Andrew Boggott, and Bryan Davis for helping make the Beta Cluster region migration go as smoothly as possible - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208101
 * CI Nodepool stopped yeah! #technical-debt
 * Gerrit is alright. Got JavaMelody for monitoring now. InitialiseSettings.php is too big.
 * Blubber build with Blubber
 * Code Health:
 * Experimenting with SonarQube https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207046
 * Train Health:
 * Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.4 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206658
 * This week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
 * Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660

Research

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 * Working on collecting more synonyms for section titles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210085
 * Preparing to run QuickSurveys for Reader Trust: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882

Scoring Platform

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 * Work on upgrading to celery 4 is officially done
 * Jade TechCom RFC discussion coming up regarding JADE storage (22nd @ 0600 UTC)
 * Investigating on using redis-sentinel for ores
 * Fixed scap restart check for ores-celery

Search Platform

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 * Worked with DWIM Gadget authors to improve “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
 * Fixed prefix search with multiple namespaces: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208255
 * Improved Blazegraph reliability: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206189
 * Setting up A/B test for new wikidata completion models: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209402
 * Working on transforming Elasticsearch explains into tensorflow code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208917
 * 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 query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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 * ATS work (replacing varnish) ongoing. Still a long way from complete, just FYI
 * zoterov2 successfully deployed in staging, production finally next
 * php 7.2 installed on appservers
 * A lot of reboots happening, should be transparent

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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 * working on making AbuseFilter work with MCR: (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208769)
 * discussing MCR support for File page layout: (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209878)

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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