Scrum of scrums/2018-01-31

= 2018-01-31 =

Callouts

 * Parsing team had planned to replace Tidy on an additional 200+ wikis including 4 large/medium wikis today (Jan 31). (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185945, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184656 ) But, this has been postponed to Feb 6 because this week is a no M/W train, no SWAT week as per https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_January_29th
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186133 - login issues on expired beta commons sessions, product and QA are having trouble testing things

iOS native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Dev Summit / All Hands
 * Continuing work on 5.8.0 - Synced Reading Lists ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v5.8.0-manatee-on-a-skateboard/ )

Android native app

 * Blocked by: continuous integration - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185931
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Dev Summit / All Hands
 * Ready to release current version (improved reading list performance)

Reading Web

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Reading Infrastructure

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 * Dev Summit / All Hands, not much else happened
 * Trying again to get the summary switched over this week, probably more gradually by not forcing rerenders at first.

Maps

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Multimedia

 * Thanks to WMDE and Search (and others) for meatspace availability last week, it was very helpful
 * Beta commons login issues related to expired sessions seem persistent on beta cluster - specifically on UploadWizard, not sure what's happening there - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186133

Discovery

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Community Tech

 * Blocked by: Waiting on security review for GlobalPreferences
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 * Updates: Beginning to work on ping users from edit summary wish; Close to wrapping up work on Grant metrics tool; Investigating other wishes

Editing

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Parsing

 * Blocked by: Parsoid clients (VE, CX, Flow) needing to review and approve https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/402455/
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 * Updates:
 * Had originally planned to replace Tidy on an additional 200+ wikis including 4 large/medium wikis today (Jan 31). (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185945, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184656 ) But, this has been postponed to Feb 6 because this week is a no M/W train, no SWAT week.
 * Would appreciate DBA input on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173943#3933570 .. Kunal has added the #DBA phab tag already and so this SoS notification is just an FYI.
 * Question to everyone: Every once in a while, Parsoid makes changes that requires downstream clients to update / approve changes. Longer-term, once Parsoid HTML is used for everything, we have a formal content-negotiation process that includes content versioning and version headers, but for now, when our clients are all internal and the contention negotiation support is not yet in place in the Parsoid + RESTBase stack, something quicker and simpler for faster change deployment is what we need. We have followed a combo of gerrit / phab / irc / email / SoS for this so far, but suggestions welcome for of how best to get everyone's attention and action in a timely fashion. Or is our combo process the best way to make this happen?

Collaboration

 * Mostly, our team is getting up to speed on Maps, our new assignment.
 * Collaboration and Language are now two separate teams again.

Language

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UI Standardization

 * No OOUI release today
 * Ongoing:
 * OOUI: Toolbar demo overhaul in preparation of the icon refinement
 * Style Guide
 * Preparation for goal v1 of the Style Guide, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimediaui_style_guide/
 * AnnualReport
 * Fixing its accessibility issues

Analytics

 * Updates:
 * All-hands +I offsite this week - nothing to mention

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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 * Starting work on adding EventLogging to CentralNotice, initially along with existing impression tracking, but at a low sample rate
 * Upgrading our Civi instance to latest version
 * Continuing work on new API for main credit card processor
 * Fixing various vagrant issues relating to OS update

MediaWiki Platform

 * Blocked by:
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 * Developer Summit and All Hands
 * Audiences Technology Working Group meetings
 * Evolving the MediaWiki Architecture
 * Supporting Third-Party Use of MediaWiki
 * Filed "DiscussThis" RFC T185607
 * Multi-Content Revisions/Actor Table/Comment Table work on-going
 * TemplateStyles ready to deploy

Performance

 * Blocked by: Review of mcrouter puppet code (SRE knows)
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Offsite/DevSummit/All Hands
 * Adding perf monitoring of svwiki in preparation for release of TemplateStyles
 * Continued improvements to Thumbor based on new error logging

Release Engineering

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Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

 * Blocked by: none
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * DevSummit/All Hands/Offsite week
 * Phonetic search writeup published: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Overview_of_Phonetic_Algorithm_Performance next testing prototype on RelForge
 * Hewiki test analyzed: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets/discovery/reports/Second_MLR_Test_for_hewiki.html
 * Working on refactoring for search profiles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183279
 * Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
 * Working on Serbian analyzer for ES: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183015
 * Added more data to category RDF dumps: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173980 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185127
 * Deep category search patches in review: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185127 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184840

Security

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Services

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Site Reliability Engineering (formerly Technical Operations)

 * Blocked by: global collaboration on flow
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * slow week, due to AllHands

Wikidata

 * Work on Lexeme extension continues with proper persistance and diff support
 * Constraint violations now checked on qualifiers and references: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532
 * Tuning usage tracking to get full recent changes integration back: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178079
 * Started logging warnings on pages that use too many items: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184319
 * Wikibase motivated a (tiny) fix in CoreParserFunctions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182800