Scrum of scrums/2018-09-12

=2018-09-12=

Callouts

 * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar


 * Release Engineering:
 * Log Health: Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000 times/day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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 * Improve mobile dialogs, selections, and edit interfaces

Growth

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Language

 * Blocked by: RelEng to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450508
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 * CX: Performance improvements being worked on along with other continuous work.
 * Global Preferences now supports changing UI languages when enabled.

iOS native app

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 * 6.0.1 released (minor bug fixes) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0.1-walrus-on-a-golf-cart/)
 * working on 6.1 (wikidata description editing) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/)
 * investigating visual editing capabilities of the iOS SDK

Android native app

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 * Completing navigation updates based on user testing.
 * Should release Echo notifications to beta by end of week.

Readers Web

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 * 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
 * Transitioning several well-used files to Webpack T203100
 * Enable headless QUnit tests compatible with Special:JavascriptTest T199452
 * Remove remaining white flicker from image overlay load T197110
 * Client side error reporting for Minerva+MobileFrontend follow-ups T202026
 * Maintenance and bug fixes T203490 T202701
 * Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
 * Bug fixes (thanks Tilman!): T203386 T203725 T203050 T202349 T203449
 * New / old treatment A/B test can be seen here https://readers-web-master.wmflabs.org/wiki/Pharmacovigilance?mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile
 * Design and product are iterating on advanced mobile contributions nav prototypes T203480 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
 * Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
 * Fix failing isTranslatedTitleBlacklistedTest T203522
 * Supporting Readers Infrastructure, Multimedia, and QA hiring processes

Readers Infrastructure

 * Blocked by: None
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 * MCS, PCS: Nothing particularly exciting.
 * Maps:
 * Upgrade to stretch on production starting next week after DC switch T198622
 * Investigating tilerator crash on eqiad, the service needed a forced restart T204047
 * New Grafana Dashboard for the beta cluster T202639
 * Kartographer bug changed maplink behavior (fixed) T203427

Multimedia

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 * File page with multi-lingual captions in review
 * MCR work begins this week
 * Artwork/editing wikidata design continue
 * Restore revisions in progress
 * hiring!

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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 * OOUI v0.28.2 released yesterday and addendum release of v0.28.1 last week. Highlights:
 * NumberInputWidget: Rethink 'step' semantics (Bartosz Dziewoński)
 * 15 new icons added: 'camera', 'beaker', 'globe', 'helpNotics' 'hieroglyph', 'mathematics' & 3 'mathematicsDisplay*', 'chart', 'musicalScore', 'zoomIn' & 'zoomOut'
 * Special icon treatment for Arabic language on 'info'
 * docs and tests improvements
 * Special:Preferences OOUI rollout is prepared and coming. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180538 Last technical blocker on Special:GlobalPreferences is on the way to be fixed.

Analytics

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 * old geowiki jobs and datasets have been turned off and deleted in favor of the geoeditors data pipeline, accessible from Superset
 * upgraded two more services to Stretch
 * mediawiki history data quality checks have been automated, makes releasing new snapshots easier
 * continuing work on Presto, project family metrics, cummulative metrics, a tinier EL module, annotations in Wikistats, helping with privacy hiring, Schema Registry RFC

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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 * CentralNotice: Working on slowness and DB abuse when saving banners with translatable messages. Thanks to language team and db ops for help with the investigation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203925
 * CiviCRM: Making some progress on speed of importing donations, fixing bugs in donor data export / delete tool
 * New card processor API: more bug fixing, deploying script to resolve pending transactions
 * Working on hiring

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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 * DBA (in support of Reedy): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174802 (EducationProgram db dump in prep of removing the extension)
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 * Language RelEng to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/450508
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 * Train:
 * we had a UBN! backport needed on Thursday ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203566 )
 * This has been thoroughly documented in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156541 and it is a regularly recurring problem which causes production breakage every time the structure of a class is changed in an incompatible way. We can do better!
 * Log Health:
 * Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000 times/day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149

Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform
Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
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 * Switched communication between ElasticSearch and Analytics cluster to Kafka: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198490
 * Enabled loading categories from daily diffs everywhere: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201217
 * Fixed searching for strings starting with #: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182452
 * Fixed bug in displaying results counts in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71382
 * Upgraded disk space on WDQS servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196485
 * Working on improving Korean analyzers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178925
 * Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
 * Working on searching for statement values without additional keywords: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163642
 * Working on ES 6.3 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197960

Security

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 * Reading-web with T177765 (Sorry for delay)


 * Updates:
 * Work on phan-taint-check continues. Voting on lots of WM deployed extensions now (Thanks Legoktm)
 * Chromium-render review this week (sorry for delay)

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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Wikidata

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 * Finishing up Senses support in Lexicographical Data: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/

German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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