Scrum of scrums/2018-12-05

=2018-12-05=

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

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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 * About to release 6.1.4 - a small release that disables Wikidata description editing in English (we enabled it by mistake in a previous release)
 * Working on mobile editing (release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/) with CodeMirror - we're hoping to release something to beta before the holidays

Android native app

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Readers Web

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 * Summary: we're continuing the MobileFrontend architecture project, planning for advanced mobile contributions, and getting ready to deploy page issues everywhere except enwiki.


 * 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
 * Reduce View inheritance and improve composition support T209007
 * Webpackify watchstar T208921
 * Add tests for Drawer and CtaDrawer T208920
 * MobileFrontend should not have a global event emitter T156186


 * Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
 * Team planning


 * Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
 * Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349
 * Standardize parsing T206177
 * Planning deployment to all wikis except enwiki on December 17th T210553


 * Maintenance and bug fixes T210670 T210869 T204876 T208808


 * Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
 * Reproduce Popups memory leak T208634


 * 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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 * Maps:
 * Tested kartotherian/tilerator on Node 10
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 * Mainly code review and work on the performance patches

Multimedia

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 * SDC: still struggling to get multi-lingual captions stable on beta
 * work continues on phase 2
 * Matthias is back from paternity leave

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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 * OOUI v0.29.6 released
 * Design Style Guide
 * Now featuring improved imagery across pages

Analytics

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 * Working on fixing newly found errors in Hadoop's EventLogging refine pipeline and sanitization.
 * Working on adding unique devices counts per project family (all wikipedias, all wiktionaries, etc.)
 * Working on loading data (sqooping from labs+production mariaDBs) and joining it in the cluster for MediaWiki history reconstruction, after recent DB refactor.

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

MediaWiki Core Platform

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 * TechConf session review complete, now moving on to wiki publishing
 * Session Service RFC is heading to last call ending Wednesday December 12th 1pm PST https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010
 * Patch for Excimer ready for merging https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205059
 * PHP7: Working on production configuration sending to Redis server
 * Patch for intentionally triggering fatal errors in MediaWiki is up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210567
 * Guzzle security review complete, will be deployed next week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202143

Performance

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Release Engineering

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Research

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 * Delaying deployment of QuickSurveys for reader trust because of the ongoing fundraising campaign: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882
 * Working on taking the recommendation API to production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622
 * Starting a new online experiment for the "Eliciting new editor interests" research: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests#Second_Online_Experiment

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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 * New blog post about grouping, stemming and filtering words in search: https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/11/28/the-root-of-the-problem/
 * A/B test for wikidata completion models finished, analyzing results: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209402
 * Fixed issue with deletes not being reported in WDQS (turns out we had broken channel in Kafka for a month): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210451
 * Fixed issue with Chinese CJK extension C characters in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168427
 * Fixed transfer_to_es job that moves data from analytics to ElasticSearch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210545
 * Working on data corruption issues in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044
 * 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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 * T144467 Security review for Google MT for Content Translation - on schedule for end of week

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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 * Dec 24th and Dec 31st are freeze weeks..

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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 * Patch introducing SlotRoleHandler and SlotRoleRegistry was merged (Gerrit:434544)

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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 * request for teams to enter updates into the notes if they aren't able to attend the meeting