Scrum of scrums/2017-05-10

= 2017-05-10 =

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

Call outs:

 * Research Recommendation API being ported to node
 * Could use review from Services
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164282
 * RelEng: No train next week (we're on our offsite). RelEng probably won't be SWATting anything -- SWATs will be best effort

Android

 * Working on UI and DB updates to accommodate reading list syncing product requirements
 * Experimenting with partial XHR content loading in the WebView
 * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/

iOS

 * Last Week
 * Released 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/
 * 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
 * TWN localization pluralization support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126493
 * Places bug fixes
 * This Week
 * 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
 * Enhanced search visibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130159
 * Update feed design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141767

Reading Infrastructure

 * fix handling of video tags in MCS (for Android app); removing mobile-text route; stop stripping some id attributes; work on new HTML route
 * finalizing plans for Reading Lists; RfC to follow soon

Web

 * Aiming to address various log errors and UI regressions
 * RelEng may be interested in our activity in exploring CSS regression testing (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107588 )
 * Added a comment about Parsing team's visual diff testing there. :)

Community Tech
No blockers!
 * Rolling out LoginNotify Extension to BetaCluster and TestWiki
 * Continuing work on CodeMirror extension for syntax highlighting
 * Continuing work on XTools rewrite

Parsing

 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/ is waiting on security review
 * Redlink support in Parsoid is now awaiting code review

Collaboration

 * Blocked
 * Blocking
 * Updates
 * RCFilters
 * New filters, including top revision
 * Watchlist filters
 * Saved queries to allow user to easily repeat their search
 * Tour to invite people to use Beta Feature
 * Fix contradictory RC filters
 * Preparatory backend work to allow user to filter for multiple namespaces and tags
 * Bug fixes for RCFilters, ORES, Echo, and Flow

UI Standardization

 * This week:
 * Continued work on bringing automatic Sketch export to Wikimedia UI Style Guide to always be up-to-date with design changes
 * Updates:
 * OOjs UI:
 * v0.21.3 released with 3 accessibility and 6 UI improvements, among those

German Technical Wishlist

 * Deployed TwoColumnConflict resolution extension as Beta feature on all wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162806

Wikidata

 * Same as last weeks, focussing on the Lexeme frontend code. Demo wiki not up to date right now: http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org/index.php/Lexeme:L2
 * Working on bugs and features for the WikibaseQualityConstraints extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikibase-quality/

Research

 * Reader segmentation survey in more languages
 * test happening tomorrow in ja, ro, de, he wikis
 * run all surveys from approx 15-22 May
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131949
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151835
 * Recommendation API being ported to node
 * Could use review from Services
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164282

TechOps

 * Blocking
 * None?
 * Blocked
 * None
 * Updates
 * Final stages of hiring for our open spot
 * Mark (slowly) coming back from vacation
 * Datacenter switchover is done :)

RelEng

 * Blocking
 * None?
 * Blocked
 * None
 * Updates
 * Next week team offsite
 * no train
 * SWATs on best volunteer effort

Security

 * Reviews
 * TemplateStyles
 * JsonConfig/Kartographer
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/

Fundraising Tech

 * New hire is deploying CiviCRM fixes
 * About to run more tests of new PayPal integration
 * CiviCRM: 3rd party mailer integration
 * Ingenico re-build / library-ization work starting
 * CentralNotice Banner sequence merged, testing on beta

Discovery

 * No blockers
 * Logstash/kibana upgraded to latest Elastic version
 * Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR)
 * Working on Hebrew language analyzer, report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/HebMorph_Analyzer_Analysis
 * Talk at R-Ladies SF about analytics work in Discovery: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Data_Science_Workflow_at_Discovery.pdf
 * Preparing for ES upgrade to 5.3.2