Scrum of scrums/2021-03-31

= 2021-03-31 =

Callouts

 * RelEng: 1.36.0-wmf.37 blockers:
 * Constructing RevisionRecord for a page that can't exist
 * new edits are being marked as quality instead of "accepted"
 * RelEng: Dev satisfaction survey closes TODAY!!

No updates
Language, Library,

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Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Inuka, Cloud Services, FR Tech, Platform, Quality & Test, Search PF, Security,

Community Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * We'll be announcing today the end of our work on WS-Export and officially marking the wish/project as completed

Anti-Harassment Tools

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Wrapping up known work on SecurePoll. May have further things to do here which will take priority over other tasks.
 * New Engineering Manager joined, completing the team. Hurrah!

Growth

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
 * Continuing to work on on-wiki configuration
 * Continuing design of mentor dashboard https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Mentor_dashboard

iOS native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates: Putting finishing touches on next major release of app (including drastically better support for Chinese language variants), should be in beta within the week.

Android native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous: PET for all their collaboration.
 * Updates: Working w/ PET on image recommendation API.

Web

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Timo Tijhof for his work on the (currently Vector-specific) "pref diff" instrument: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261842
 * Updates:
 * Onboarding new hires!
 * Virtual offsite 29th March through 1st April
 * The WVUI search treatment A/B test is complete. All users opted in to Vector V2 will now get the treatment
 * Clarifying feature responsibilities in ResourceLoaderSkinModule: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269877

Structured Data

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * On April 1st, Special:MediaSearch will become the default search UI on Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users

Abstract Wikipedia

 * Blocked by:
 * None.
 * Blocking:
 * None.
 * Thank yous:
 * Margeigh and the whole Design team for their flexibility!
 * Updates:
 * Closing on end of Phase γ: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases

Language

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * No major updates this week.

Vue.js

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * WVUI: updating Storybook to use the new controls add-on instead of knobs
 * Design inventory (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047 )
 * Beginning the technical desicion-making process for adding an automated build step for front-end assets

Analytics

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * SRE ServiceOps for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
 * Updates:

Performance

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * DC Ops for looking into device lab hosting feasibility
 * ITS for doing the same
 * Updates:

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * See wmf.37 train blockers.
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous
 * Legoktm for all kinds of assistance, on mw-on-k8s
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.36 T274940
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 T278343
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 T278344
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 T278344

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * No updates

WMDE Technical Wishes

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Kartographer exploration led to a straightforward, potential solution for fixing the incompatibility with FlaggedRevs wikis.
 * Beginning user research interviews for next year’s Geoinformation focus.
 * Curious whether anyone else sees a need for mw-core anonymous user “settings” management, currently done differently in many extensions.

Cross-cutting

 * Blocked by:
 * [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142 (or at least 6.7)
 * Blocking:
 * None.
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * PHP 8.0 work
 * Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
 * Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; tank you to everyone working on fixing them.
 * Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
 * CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master