Scrum of scrums/2018-01-16

=2019-01-16=

Callouts

 * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
 * SRE: RI needs your input on T206504 (specifically https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504#4859812 ) regarding storing edit task suggestions in Redis
 * Performance/CorePlatform: DBAs want to do a Parser Cache TTL increase. We might increase the TTL back from 22 days to 30 days soon - ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210992 )
 * Anyone: SRE needs help setting up a Beta Feature for PHP7 migration. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213934
 * Release Engineering: No train during All Hands (week of January 28)
 * Release Engineering blocking Research https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225

Community Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Anti-Harassment Tools

 * Blocked by: Looking for Reviewers for Namespace Blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179110
 * Blocking: No one
 * Updates:
 * Enabled Partial Blocks to Italian Wikipedia! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210444
 * Starting Device Blocking Investigation. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213351
 * Changing new user password requirements.

Editing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Growth

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Language

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * ContentTranslation v2 going to be default for all users with this week's train.
 * Language team will reachout to Security and Performance for ExternalGuidance extension reviews.

iOS native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Android native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Readers Web

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:


 * Summary: Advanced Mobile Contributions is underway and MobileFrontend Webpackication frontend architectural goals are nearly complete.


 * Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):


 * Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
 * Page/talk toggle v1 T212216
 * Create AMC edit tag T212959
 * Build AMC opt-in toggle T211197


 * Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
 * Webpackify mobile.options, mobile.init, mobilediff, and userlogin T213112
 * Webpackify Special:Uploads T213298
 * Webpackify mobile.special.watchlist.scripts T212823
 * Webpackify mobile.mediaViewer T210209
 * Webpackify notifications T213111
 * Drawers and Overlays should not auto-append themselves T209129


 * Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
 * Deploy to enwiki TBD T210554


 * Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T212518 T211724 T213775 T149909


 * Desktop website (Vector, Popups)


 * Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
 * WMDE reference previews are in progress https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews


 * PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
 * Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084

Readers Infrastructure

 * Blocked by:
 * SRE: RI needs your input on T206504 (specifically https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504#4859812 ) regarding storing edit task suggestions in Redis
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Building new APIs to support the App Editor Tasks initiative ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212793 )
 * Counts of edits meeting specific criteria: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212795
 * Suggested entities/articles for adding descriptions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504
 * Maps: Preparing maps1003 for OS upgrade to stretch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/483798/

Multimedia

 * Updates

Parsing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

UI Standardization

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Analytics

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Cloud Services

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Fundraising Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * CentralNotice
 * deploying bunch of patches that we'd held back during Big English, and which were again delayed last week due to what turned out to be a bug in the Translate extension.
 * taking another look at how to make the deployment less of a headache for train conductors.
 * CiviCRM
 * Reducing volume of email for recurring donors
 * Paymentswiki
 * Still working on upgrade to PHP7 & Mediawiki 1.31
 * Adding geolocation to the 'Form chooser' page

MediaWiki Core Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Performance

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Reverted ruwiki navtiming/survey sampling rate, as very active editors were starting to talk about blocking the survey altogether
 * Wrote guide for xhgui upgrades. – https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Runbook/Webperf-tools_services
 * xhgui: Deployed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/483048/
 * Attended the W3C perf design meeting
 * xhgui: Deployed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/483048/
 * Attended the W3C perf design meeting

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Code Health Metrics https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/475470
 * Research https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225
 * Updates:
 * Code Health:
 * Code Health Metrics and SonarQube https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/133
 * Train Health:
 * Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206666 - no problemo
 * This week: 1.33.0-wmf.13 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206667 - no problemo (so far)
 * Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.14 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206668 - last train before All Hands (no train that week)

Research

 * Blocked by:
 * RelEng please review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225
 * Blocking: None
 * Updates:
 * Preparing to run the third round of data collection for CitationUsage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212937
 * Generate article recommendations in Hadoop for use in roduction: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844
 * Deploy the recommendation API changes to production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212945

Scoring Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Added capability to search multiple filetypes at once: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212776
 * Fixed timeouts in prefix search suggestions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212455
 * Handling WDQS issue with allocation limits: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213212
 * Added a new keyboard shortcuts to WDQS UI, for those systems where Ctrl-Space is already taken - Ctrl-Alt-Space and Alt-Enter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203320
 * Deploying tuned wikidata search parameters soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193701
 * de, fr, es next: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213105
 * Fixed error with too large offset+limit on search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213745
 * Created configs for multi-instance Blazegraph, moving categories namespace to separate Blazegraph instance: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213212
 * Fixed issue with duplicated normalized triples in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213213
 * Working on data corruption issues in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044
 * Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
 * Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
 * Working on “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
 * Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

 * Blocked by: None
 * Blocking: None
 * Updates: All active assigned tasks are being worked by Engineers

Services

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * ??: Need help setting up a beta feature for migration to php 7. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213934
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Performance/CorePlatform: DBAs want to do a Parser Cache TTL increase. We might increase the TTL back from 22 days to 30 days soon - ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210992 )

Wikidata

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

German Technical Wishlist

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

Multi-Content Revisions

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

 * Updates: