Scrum of scrums/2019-06-19

= 2019-06-19 =

Callouts

 * SRE DBAs point out that:
 * 19th June Wed 05:00 UTC - s4 primary db master failover - read only required
 * 25th June Wed 06:00 UTC - change the last parsercache key https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210725
 * SRE Service Operations require assistance (from Release Engineering) on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224857
 * Release Engineering: Train Health This week: 1.34.0-wmf.10 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220735
 * Core Platform: Jobs not being executed on 1.34.0-wmf.10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226109
 * Multimedia: BadMethodCallException on Commons: /includes/specials/pagers/ImageListPager.php: Call to a member function getUrl on a non-object (boolean) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226102

Editing

 * Updates:
 * After qualitative and quantitave tests with positive results, we completed a full rollout of section editing on all wikis
 * Mobile Edit Cards: released v1.0 of mobile VE Edit Cards to Bengali, Hebrew and Persian wikis
 * Design on Edit Cards v2.0 is ongoing. That work is happening in task:T225725

Growth

 * Blocking:
 * Performance: code review of: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/508965/

iOS native app

 * Updates:
 * Finishing up 6.3 work (talk pages) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3-lobster-on-a-motorcycle/)
 * Preparing for a bug fix release 6.3.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3.1_lobster-on-an-orv/)

Android native app

 * Updates:
 * Completed development of structured image caption editing (with suggested edit feed). Continuing to test; will soon release to beta.

Readers Web

 * Updates:
 * Summary: started tasking out next year's technical work for MobileFrontend and continuing ongoing development for the advanced mobile contributions project.
 * Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
 * Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
 * Add wikidata item link to AMC overflow menu
 * PageActions Menu should use Builder pattern and reuse existing Menu elements
 * Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
 * Tasking for next year
 * Browser tests
 * MinervaNeue wdio build fails with PHP error from Wikibase "Failed to map interlanguage prefix es to a global site ID."
 * QuickSurveys support
 * Allow quicksurveys to target based on registration date
 * Planning
 * Desktop refresh design and planning
 * Wikimania proposal planning

Readers Infrastructure

 * Updates:
 * PCS/MCS split
 * Wikifeeds patches need +2s: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/services/wikifeeds++status:open
 * Page-library
 * New version released but had some issues
 * Work on interaction handling continues
 * Adjust text size patch complete
 * TemplateStyles CSS appears in quick facts header
 * PR for mobile-html section offsets (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219909)
 * Kubernetes migration
 * Mobileapps, Wikifeeds, and Recommendation-API all running CI tests on service pipeline, ready to migrate at SRE's convenience

Multimedia

 * Blocking:
 * Release Engineering: BadMethodCallException on Commons: /includes/specials/pagers/ImageListPager.php: Call to a member function getUrl on a non-object (boolean) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226102
 * Updates:
 * qualifiers for depicts statements finally going out tomorrow
 * offsite next week
 * other statements should get onto test during offsite

Core Platform

 * Blocking:
 * Performance: code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/
 * Release Engineering:
 * Jobs not being executed on 1.34.0-wmf.10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226109
 * (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.

Performance

 * Blocked by:
 * CPT, code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/
 * Audiences, code review of: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Graph/+/493628/
 * Growth, code review of: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/508965/
 * Updates:
 * Recent blog posts about performance perception findings: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/7/
 * Timo working on making Mediawiki CI gate job faster: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225730

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Core Platform Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.
 * SRE:
 * Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
 * ServiceOps Team: Scap 3.10.0: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224915
 * Wikidata: We need to update wikiba.se hosting to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224905
 * Blocking:
 * SRE Service Operations requires assistance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224857
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.9 - NO TRAIN OR ANY OTHER DEPLOYS due to SRE Off-site
 * This week: 1.34.0-wmf.10 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220735
 * Core Platform: Jobs not being executed on 1.34.0-wmf.10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226109
 * Multimedia: BadMethodCallException on Commons: /includes/specials/pagers/ImageListPager.php: Call to a member function getUrl on a non-object (boolean) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226102
 * Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.11 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220736

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Wikidata: RDF for Structured Data on Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/507910 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447 (fixes in the making)

Security

 * Updates:
 * Backlog
 * Brian still performing code review, this is a tracking ticket for follow-ups for library/vendor code, probably need to reassign not started - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223307
 * Exploring outsourced reviews for OIT things, rewrites, JB to follow up after new vendor budgets set stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155537, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156960, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148246, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187846
 * DoubleWiki, Brian to deploy as sec release, then push through gerrit, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199
 * Audiences user-testing concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220043
 * Active
 * Waiting on update from Yurik/Vega folks (upstream) to proceed stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222806
 * Planet wikimedia - assigned to Michal Anna, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207246
 * Wikisource ext, starting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289
 * FormWizard extension, Brian to write response, tag releng stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201492
 * Waiting
 * Wikibase Termbox, completed for now, John to follow up with Raz re: risk ownership, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419
 * Labs db/sanitarium and maintain-views.yaml audits, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169097, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011
 * Audiences growth team emails concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220242

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Release Engineering: SRE Service Operations requires assistance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224857
 * Blocking:
 * WMDE has been unblocked on termbox
 * Release Engineering:
 * Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
 * ServiceOps Team: Scap 3.10.0: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224915
 * Updates:
 * SRE DBAs point out that:
 * 19th June Wed 05:00 UTC - s4 primary db master failover - read only required
 * 25th June Wed 06:00 UTC - change the last parsercache key https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210725

Wikidata

 * Blocking:
 * Search Platform: RDF for Structured Data on Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/507910 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447 (fixes in the making)
 * Release Engineering: We need to update wikiba.se tests to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224905
 * Updates:
 * Started the migration of Wikidata secondary storage (wb_terms) to a better designed tables to start next
 * Started working on the Wikidata bridge (editing Wikidata without leaving Wikipedia)
 * Work on the mobile termbox editing progresses