Scrum of scrums/2021-04-28

=2021-04-28=

Callouts

 * Budgeting season for the next fiscal year. Send your expectations for production computing resources requests to SRE
 * For RelEng: Metrics Engineering needs reviews and/or advice on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
 * Done -- JDF.
 * Backport training! Please signup if you're interested in deploying to production: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094458.html

No updates
WMDE Technical Wishes, Security, Search Platform, Quality & Test, Performance, Platform, Cloud Services, Analytics, Library, Parsing, Android, iOS, Editing, CommTech

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

 * Updates:

Anti-Harassment Tools

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Thanks to Sam Reed for help with SecurePoll
 * Updates:
 * Partial blocks against actions enabled on beta
 * Starting prep work for adding Single Transferable Vote to SecurePoll

Growth

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
 * Backend will be enabled this week on arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, viwiki
 * Working on on-wiki configuration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_configuration

Web

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Marcel Forns for working on making the VirtualPageviews instrument use EventLogging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279382
 * Updates:
 * Enabled A/B test of language switcher treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280526
 * Split out link styling rules from the legacy feature in ResourceLoaderSkinModule: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278576

Product Infrastructure

 * Blocked by:
 * Needs reviews and/or advice from RelEng on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:

Structured Data

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Image recommendations design work
 * Built tool for evaluating image recommendations: https://image-recommendation-test.toolforge.org/
 * Adding English labels and aliases of related wikidata items to search query (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/643388)

Abstract Wikipedia

 * Blocked by:
 * None.
 * Blocking:
 * None known.
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Nothing exciting this week.
 * Working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases

Language

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * [Translate extension] Added support for HTML-y translation variable syntax (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274881)
 * [Translate extension] Limited the max number of translatable pages that can be moved via the UI to 500, added a script that can be used to move a large number of pages (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275109)
 * PHP upgrade changed cookie handling wrt. URL encoding. This broke CX (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281346). Be aware.

Inuka

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Working on first release of WordPress plugin for Wikipedia Preview
 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fHMjKefYf-QFNeNTpfdmNzywBQAh8G5OdICwZ90j4_Q/edit#
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280000
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279550
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255439 (spike)

Vue.js

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Continuing design inventory work: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047
 * Created separate entry point for Vue.js search in WVUI: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/682763/
 * Continuing Technical Decision Making Process for build step: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
 * Discussing component implementation, comments highly encouraged!
 * Buttons: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278509
 * Select/dropdown: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280712
 * Binary inputs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279714
 * Radio: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281186
 * Checkbox: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281191

Fundraising Tech

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 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Deploying new email preferences pages and backend
 * Starting integration with new API of backup card processor
 * Migrating more custom CRM code off drupal 7
 * CiviCRM imports
 * updating documentation

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Train is currently blocked by a Wikibase issue on Commons:  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281361
 * Blocking:
 * Metrics Engineering needs reviews and/or advice on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
 * Thank yous:
 * dancy: James F. for code reviews, helping me get work done.
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: No Train
 * This week: 1.37.0-wmf.3
 * This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Budgetting season for the next fiscal year. Send your expectations for production computing resources requests to SRE

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 known.
 * Thank yous:
 * Huge thanks to Jon Robson and C. Scott Ananian for their work unblocking REL1_36.
 * Updates:
 * REL1_36 release process:
 * 1.36 RC.0 release should be cut very soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
 * CI tools:
 * Nothing major.
 * Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
 * CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
 * PHP 8.0:
 * Nothing major.
 * Our target is REL1_35 (and thus also REL1_36), as well as master.
 * Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
 * Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; thank you to everyone working on fixing them.