Scrum of scrums/2018-04-04

= 2018-04-04 =

Callouts

 * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar - next up: Netherlands 2018-04-03 through 2018-05-01
 * Language -> VE/Editing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188072 and review of: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/419402/
 * Need help from RelEng with WDQS GUI build automation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189811
 * Wikidata selenium test stability problems: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189762

iOS native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Reading Lists sync in beta since 03/29, finishing up 5.8 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v5.8.0-manatee-on-a-skateboard/)

Android native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Reading List syncing in Beta for a couple of weeks, currently running survey to gather feedback from Beta users.
 * Will begin initial rollout to production (10%) this week.

Readers Web

 * Blocked by:
 * Cached page previews not shown on refresh (services+Brandon Black)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184534. We'd like to fix this but it's outside the scope of projects we usually work on. How can we move this along?


 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
 * Preparing for deploy. Deploy of VirtualPageViews is being finished today, switching focus to working out a site config deploy task. Thank you Analytics!
 * Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra
 * Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra

Readers Infrastructure

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * TemplateStyles will be enabled on German Wikipedia on Wednesday
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
 * Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra
 * Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server.
 * Reading Infra depends on Parsing, Services

Maps

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Unblocked on ops today
 * Gehel back from vacation this week
 * Planning release to enwiki

Multimedia

 * Updates
 * File page MediaInfo display prototype: Slow progress
 * Search prototype: Up on wmflabs instance, some kinks to work out
 * UploadWizard multi-lingual captions: Patch up, working through review
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Objective 3.1 Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
 * SDC depends on Multimedia,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
 * Most dependencies fulfilled, prototypes moving quickly through review
 * Objective 2.1 Integrate structured file captions into search
 * SDC depends on Search Platform, Multimedia
 * Dependencies pretty much fulfilled, prototype up for perusal on wmflabs instance
 * Segment 4, Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171252
 * Research depends on Multimedia
 * Haven't heard anything, happy to help

Community Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Still working on GlobalPreferences
 * Discussing the outcome of ACTRIAL with the community

Anti-Harassment Tools

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Editing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates: None


 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Goal 3.1 Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices
 * Editing depends on Parsing.

Parsing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Tidy replaced on a bunch more wikis today (all wikiquotes except frwikiquote, all wikimedia wikis). More being replaced next week (ref. announcement on wikitech-l & ambassadors-l)
 * Today, at noon PT, we are going to be discussing with TTO about the extension in #mediawiki-parsoid. We are trying to figure out whether to merge into core ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54061 ) with a different tag, or make other fixes to the poem extension. If you have an interest in this extension, please show up in #mediawiki-parsoid.


 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
 * Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services
 * Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server.
 * Reading Infra depends on Parsing, Services
 * Goal 3.1 Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices
 * Editing depends on Parsing
 * Program 7, Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling
 * Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Collaboration

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Still dealing with fallout from the OOUI icon changes, need more follow-ups from Volker (will talk to him)
 * Deployed maps i18n code to maps-test, still working out issues before prod deployment

Language

 * Blocked by:
 * Requesting review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/419402/ from VE/Editing.


 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * ContentTranslation version 2 work continue
 * apertium upgrade done except fra-cat pair


 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Goal 3.1 Improve and consolidate our unified editing platform so that it's great on all devices
 * Language depends on Editing

Audiences Design

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

UI Standardization

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * OOUI – v0.26.2 released: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.26.2
 * Two icon deprecations: 'userActive'/'userInactive' & 'find' icon
 * 10 more icon and sizing patches as follow-ups to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97631 & https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432 rel in 0.26.0
 * Work on size unification aftermath in different products (Notifications, Flow, RevisionSlider)
 * Style Guide technical and contents improvements ongoing with 4 open PRs currently
 * Transparency Report: Wrapping up accessiblity measurments

Analytics

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Improved MediaWiki history reconstruction performance, less than half (7 hours now with spark 2)
 * Preparing the migration of all Spark jobs to Spark2
 * Lots of small-medium Wikistats2 front-end bug-fixes
 * Ongoing: Aggregation of new Audiences EL events VirtualPageViews (Popups) into pageview_hourly format.

Cloud Services

 * Blocked by:
 * Labvirt1021/22 still having initial install issues, working with DC Ops: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183937
 * Labvirt1019/1020 still have RAID issues, working with DC Ops & HP ticket open: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187373
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Madhu moved Dumps content hosting to new servers managed by Cloud Services team.
 * Toolforge, Cloud VPS, Analytics NFS moved Monday 2018-04-02 with no incident and minimal outage
 * dumps.wikimedia.org web interface & rsync moving on Wednesday 2018-04-04
 * More details at .
 * Tool catalog project led by James Hare has been branded "Toolhub" and initial use cases published on meta 
 * Chase got a functioning high availability OpenStack Neutron layer 3 network up in labtestn! There is more work to do, but this is a big Neutron project milestone.
 * Q4 goals posted on mediawiki.org

Fundraising Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * EventLogging for fundraising landing page views: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/423952
 * Short-term response to banner that loaded 3rd party script: add CSP only on forced banner previews: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/420754
 * Looking at new bitcoin payment processor, as our current one is stopping USD cashouts at the end of the month
 * More work on new API for main CC processor
 * CiviCRM custom data enhancements

MediaWiki Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * MW 1.31 release planning
 * considering additional bundled extensions (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178349 )
 * Pingback heartbeat patch merged
 * MCR:
 * API updates for query modules are in Gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/413223/
 * Code review
 * Actor table:
 * Further deployment is waiting on the schema change (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188299 )
 * 17 extension updates still need review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+topic:bug/T167246-actor-migration
 * Comment table:
 * Follow up schema change is still in progress https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/417039/
 * Toolforge view updating patch is merged and pending updates
 * The image_comment_temp merging patches are in Gerrit
 * All except one are blocked on the schema change
 * Improving API test coverage:
 * 6 changes merged and 6 changes outstanding
 * Code review and bug fixes
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
 * Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services
 * MWPT working on relevant planning for Platform Evolution CDP to prepare for next FY and will coordinate with Parsing as this progresses
 * Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
 * SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
 * MWPT meets weekly with SDC and WMDE
 * Objective 1.1 Assist with deploying MultiContent Revisions on Commons

T174022 Implement multi-content revisions, T174023 Implement MCR storage layer, T174045 DB schema migration for MCR, T174044 Deploy MCR storage layer,T174043 Deploy Multi-Content Revisions


 * SDC depends on MediaWiki Platform, WMDE
 * MWPT meets weekly with SDC and WMDE

Performance

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * The train :-(
 * Updates:
 * Continuing to monitor SG datacenter rollout, looking great. Working on a blog post.
 * Thumbor patches, adding WebP support
 * Safemode support for Visual Editor is out for review
 * Coal has been updated to use Kafka
 * Waiting on SRE for a rebuild of the mcrouter package (they're aware, just haven't had time yet)
 * Tons of ongoing CR
 * Tons of ongoing CR

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
 * Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra
 * Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra

Research

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:


 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
 * SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
 * Segment 4, Outcome 2: Develop a better understanding of existing needs for Structured Commons- T171252
 * Research depends on Multimedia

Scoring Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * git-lfs support, we've tried deploying a git-lfs submodule and it doesn't work.  git-lfs is still lacking on the deployment node, but that shouldn't affect the deployment itself.  See task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180627
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190958 needs re-deploy
 * Updates:
 * Wikidata fulltext search is fully enabled, so there should be improvements there
 * Slovak stemmer analysis done: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Slovak_Stemmer_Analysis
 * Next step - creating proper analysis plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190815
 * Fixed an issue with Wikidata RDF dumps: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185589
 * Evaluating feature generation by `query_explorer` functionality of LTR plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187148
 * Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
 * Working on Lexeme completion search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189745
 * Need help with WDQS GUI build automation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189811
 * Wikidata selenium test stability problems: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189762


 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
 * SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
 * Objective 2.1  Integrate structured file captions into search
 * SDC depends on Search Platform, Multimedia

Security

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Goal 3.6: Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
 * Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services
 * Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services

Services

 * Blocked by: search on updating CirrusSearch jobs
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * Moved a big bulk of jobs to kafka
 * Resetting the restbase-dev environment
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * * Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server.
 * Reading Infra/Parsing, Services
 * Goal 3.6 Support work towards unifying MediaWiki's parser implementations, in liaison with Technology's MediaWiki team
 * Parsing depends on MediaWiki Platform, Services
 * Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling
 * Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Holiday week, really slow stuff not much to report
 * HHVM CVE-2018-6334 patch rolled out this week
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
 * Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra
 * Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
 * SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
 * Outcome 2: Objective 1: Revision storage scaling
 * Services depends on SRE, Parsing
 * Services depends on SRE, Parsing

Wikidata
T174022 Implement multi-content revisions, T174023 Implement MCR storage layer, T174045 DB schema migration for MCR, T174044 Deploy MCR storage layer,T174043 Deploy Multi-Content Revisions
 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
 * SDC depends on Multimedia/,SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
 * Objective 1.1 Assist with deploying MultiContent Revisions on Commons
 * Objective 1.1 Assist with deploying MultiContent Revisions on Commons
 * SDC depends on MediaWiki Platform, WMDE

German Technical Wishlist

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Following up on OOUI changes influencing AdvancedSearch
 * Going to focus on FileImporter (a.k.a. MoveToCommons) again

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

 * Updates: