Scrum of scrums/2020-07-29

= 2020-07-29 =

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * [All] Review guidance at Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
 * "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
 * scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; T217924

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

 * Updates:

Web

 * Updates:
 * Summary: the Desktop Improvements Project's (DIP) new Vector is now an opt-in user preference everywhere; continuing WVUI Vector integration, network client, and search suggestion component.
 * Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
 * [ShoutWikiAds] Replace use of deprecated hook VectorBeforeFooter
 * Sidebar collapsed by default on desktop improvements
 * Enable sidebar instrumentation on test wikis
 * Switch test wikis to new version of vector by default
 * Fix the printable versions of modern Vector
 * Move the existing search to the header in preparation for Vue.js search development
 * Integrate WVUI into Vector for Vue.js search
 * [Modern Vector] Fix broken rendering of `main` and element in IE9-11
 * [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
 * Vue.js search case study:
 * See weekly status updates.
 * Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
 * ext.uls.interface should set targets and explicitly not target the Minerva skin
 * Fix the most common "Module not loadable on target mobile" warnings (Oct 2019)
 * MobileFrontend browser test failing: User: "before all" hook – Can't call setValue on element with selector "#wpName1" because element wasn't found
 * Browser test failure: Nested references do not always open
 * [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
 * [EPIC] None of our View's should exhibit 2 levels of inheritance
 * Standardization
 * UsersMultiselectWidget not announcing status message
 * Deprecate and remove `.background-image-svg` mixin from 'mediawiki.mixins.less'
 * Deprecate & remove `.background-image-svg-quick` mixin from 'mediawiki.mixins.less'
 * Unify `line-height` to `20px` in widgets to simplify code and better i18n
 * Portals
 * [Recurring Task] Update Wikipedia and sister projects portals statistics
 * Miscellaneous
 * Vertical alignment of logos and text in Notifications popup

Release Engineering

 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - T257969
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - T257970
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.3 - T257970