Scrum of scrums/2020-03-18

= 2020-03-18 =

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: tag/MW-1.35-release
 * Structured Data needs review from Security on proposed new data dump for MachineVision: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236431#5900726

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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 * This was the last in-person SoS meeting. Going forward we will just update the etherpad.

TechCom

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Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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 * No Updates, we are shifting or focus but hoping to turn on Replying 1.0 on Beta

Growth

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iOS native app

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 * Wrapping up development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration)...Beta soonproject/view/4273

Android native app

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 * Release of mobile_html ready for Beta, pending final testing.
 * Release of Suggested Edits v4 (image tagging) pending user testing / polishing updates.

Web

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 * Working on Logo and Header for Desktop Refresh

Product Infrastructure

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 * no updates

Structured Data

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 * Security on review of proposed new data dump: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236431#5900726
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 * will miss the meeting because of a clash - back next week
 * units for quantities, improved geo-coordinates, date, and monolingual text input types all live
 * constraints violations code merged should be live when train rolls
 * some CAT improvements on the way

Parsing

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Language

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Inuka

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UI Standardization

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Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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 * Deployed NL bank transfer capability for backup processor, working on making it possible to accept recurring bank donations there
 * Investigating new ways to manage PayPal recurring donations
 * Testing migrating recurring donations from main card processor's old API integration to their new integration
 * Getting started making an autocomplete dropdown of employers offering matching gifts

Core Platform

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 * Wikimedia DE/Wikidata: would appreciate someone advising on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225814.
 * Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224425
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 * Continued work on jobrunner, changeprops
 * Core REST API next version coming soon
 * API Gateway
 * Developer Portal prototype https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/API_Gateway/Documentation_Plan
 * Process of adopting or co-parenting CentralNotice

Performance

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Quality and Test Engineering

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Release Engineering

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 * Wikimedia DE/Wikidata: would appreciate someone chiming in on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245826
 * Updates:
 * [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: tag/MW-1.35-release
 * Train Health
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - T233872
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - T233873

Research

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Scoring Platform

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 * Pile of volunteers: chtnnh, haksoat, clemons, nikhil, (+2 more on the way to IRC/phab)
 * Jade
 * Did first round of user-testing on Beta.
 * We got the Jade Diff view to work. https://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Jade:Diff/4
 * Considered native OOUI element for Diff. Needs PHP.  Crusty.
 * Struggling to get date format strings to the client side
 * Released revscoring 2.6.9 which includes section-based features (e.g. text complexity measures)
 * Implemented improved feature extraction for idioms and images (re. articlequality)

Search Platform

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 * Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224425
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 * Copy English Wikipedia drafttopic scores to other wikis somewhere in the CirrusSearch pipeline https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241015
 * Once the ORES articletopic - ElasticSearch pipeline is set up, update data about all articles https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243357

Security

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Site Reliability Engineering

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 * Product Infrastructure on creations of k8s namespaces/tokens for proton, mobileapps. Working on it
 * Research on creation of k8s namespaces/tokens for recommendation-api. Working on it.
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Wikidata

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 * Release Engineering: We would appreciate someone chiming in on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245826
 * Not sure who - Core Platform: We would appreciate someone advising on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225814.
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 * wb_terms table (the old term store) is not being read or updated anymore. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208425

German Technical Wishlist

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