Scrum of scrums/2018-08-15

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=2018-08-15= Yesterday was WMF holiday, though a few teams worked and entered updates:

Callouts

 * Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
 * OOUI v0.28.0 released, minor release with breaking changes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.28.0
 * New OOUI “Tutorials” section https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/tutorials/index.html – thanks GSOC student Hagar Shilo!
 * Possible breakages limited only to removal of long-time deprecated icons, please update your icon references if you haven't yet.

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Growth

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Language

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iOS native app

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 * 6.0 still in beta (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/), working on 6.0.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0.1-walrus-on-a-golf-cart/)

Android native app

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Readers Web

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 * Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
 * Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture: T199452 T188261 T197133
 * Page issues UI and instrumentation: T201124 T191528 T197932 T191532
 * Other fixes and hygiene: T193172 T173527 T197931 T197497 T198947 T201131 T140804
 * Desktop website (Popups):
 * SVG optimization (thanks Volker!) T185596
 * Replace deprecated jQuery dependency T198579
 * WikidataPageBanner
 * Only move/restyle subtitle for pages where banner is present T199855
 * PDF rendering (Proton):
 * Improve Chromium halt behavior and resource management T181623 T181623

Readers Infrastructure

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 * Maps:
 * Upgrade of node-mapnik deployed successfully to Beta Cluster
 * Planning production upgrade to Debian Stretch
 * Working on a method for invalidating an area of map tiles
 * MCS announcement for Android app multi-language features released: up from Aug 9th until Aug 16th T191640
 * Continuing work on mobile-html endpoint improvements (see open subtasks of T177433)

Multimedia

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 * Job to get additional search data from wikidata in progress
 * search prototyping continues
 * design continues for adding structured statements for artwork

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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 * OOUI v0.28.0 released, breaking change release
 * Including new OOUI “Tutorials” section https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/tutorials/index.html – thanks GSOC student Hagar Shilo!
 * Possible breakages limited only to removal of long-time deprecated icons, please consider updating your icon pack references if you haven't done so in the deprecating phase.
 * Finished SVG optimization in Popups, all major Foundation products optimized! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185596
 * Style Guide Imagery work https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194686

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Core Platform

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 * Design work for T194697 "multiblocks"
 * Platform Evolution stakeholder meetings and planning for Wikimedia Technical Conference
 * Gathering input from non-Wikimedia MediaWiki community at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group/TechConf_Input

Fundraising Tech

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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Security

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Site Reliability Engineering

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Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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 * populateContentTables.php now running simultaneously on s1, s2, s3, s5, s6, s7 (T183488)
 * anticipated to run for 2 more weeks
 * progress continues on phase 2 (file caption support) development tasks

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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