Scrum of scrums/2020-02-05

= 2020-02-05 =

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * Train blocked
 * (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia T244019
 * Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 T244300
 * The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at T242446
 * SRE
 * Blocked on CPT for scb2003 reports 'Internal error in changeprop': T244069
 * Research
 * Blocked by SRE on reviews for recommendation-api. (Will get to it once outages are mitigated)

iOS native app

 * Updates:
 * Continuing development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration) project/view/4273

Android native app

 * Updates:
 * Completed mobile-html integration, ironing out final details.
 * Building conversion logic for existing saved offline files.
 * Completed Suggested Edits v4 (structured image tagging), going through design review/iteration.

Web

 * Updates:
 * Summary: mostly All Hands duties, continuing desktop improvements (DIP).
 * Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
 * Regression: Desktop diff styles for moved paragraphs load alongside mobile
 * Extract components from VectorTemplate to Mustache files
 * Separate out logo handling into square image logos and long text/wordmark banner logos
 * Add storybook to Vector
 * [RFC] Port MobileFrontend Feature Management into core
 * Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
 * Tech debt: Remove MFMobileMainPageCss from MobileFrontend
 * MobileDiff drops whitespaces from edits
 * Regression: issues with MobileDiff
 * [EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page
 * Setup storybook from Minerva
 * Ordered lists per default receive `decimal` list style type, which causes issues in non-arabic numeral scripts
 * The LoadingOverlay and src/mobile.startup/rlModuleLoader.js pattern should be removed - it results in overlay flashes during switches
 * QuickSurveys
 * Minimise the code QuickSurveys loads when there are no surveys running

Product Infrastructure

 * Blocked by:
 * SRE on proton and mobileapps reviews. Will get to it once outages are mitigated

Structured Data

 * Blocking:
 * Search Platform: Data dumps for SDC: T221917 ...we're really not blocking here, just waiting-and-seeing
 * Updates:
 * final input types
 * novalue/somevalue
 * constraints

Parsing

 * Updates:
 * No blockers, not blocked, nothing special to report

Inuka

 * Updates:
 * KaiOS app
 * Offline mode
 * Support for interwiki links
 * Image gallery view
 * Redesigned article title page

Analytics

 * Blocking:
 * Release Engineering - The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) T210271

Fundraising Tech

 * Updates:
 * CentralNotice
 * Still working to finish sub-national geotargeting
 * CiviCRM
 * Trying to upstream a couple of local performance hacks
 * Making our translated TY letters available via the UI
 * Aligning our use of contribution statuses with core
 * Analysing DB size to determine where we can drop unused data
 * DonationInterface
 * Still working on recurring payments for backup card processor

Core Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * SRE on changeprop/cpjobqueue charts. Will get to it once outages are mitigated (blocked by or blocking?)
 * Blocking:
 * Release Engineering - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 T244300
 * Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes T224425
 * SRE: Blocked on CPT for scb2003 reports 'Internal error in changeprop': T244069
 * Updates:
 * All hands
 * api.wikimedia.org Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/API_Gateway
 * Developer portal Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/Documentation_Portal
 * Session storage really, really rolling out

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) T210271
 * (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia T244019
 * Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 T244300
 * Updates:
 * The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at T242446
 * Train Health
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - T233866
 * (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia T244019
 * Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 T244300
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - T233867

Research

 * Blocked by:
 * SRE on reviews for recommendation-api. Will get to it once outages are mitigated

Scoring Platform

 * Updates:
 * New ORES deployment -- Topic models for cs, ar, ko, & vi + improvements to en T243451
 * Jade: Finishing up the entity view UI. Looking to merge in a week or two. T208819
 * Jade bus factor is now two!

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: T221917
 * Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes T224425

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * CPT on scb2003 reports 'Internal error in changeprop': T244069
 * Blocking:
 * Product infrastructure on proton and mobileapps reviews. Will get to it once outages are mitigated
 * Research on reviews for recommendation-api. Same as above.
 * CPT on changeprop/cpjobqueue charts. Same as above
 * Updates:
 * Outage fighting, alongside other teams (perf, WMDE), incident reports to follow
 * Kubernetes clusters being upgraded to 1.13.12 this week.