Scrum of scrums/2021-03-03

= 2021-03-03 =

Callouts
for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262. Please review list of images in task, issue a commit for the ones you own to create a new version and deploy it, so that latest blubber improvements are passed to the deployed images. Many thanks!
 * SRE ServiceOps pinging:
 * Language
 * Product Infrastructure
 * Platform
 * WMDE
 * Analytics
 * [serviceops] PHP restart sudo rules for docroot deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/666309

No updates
CommTech, Editing, iOS, Android,Library

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Parsing, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

 * Updates:
 * from retro ideas to try:
 * Bolding items to read aloud +JF +TC
 * relaxing the start time
 * Template
 * Perhaps add a contact point (email, url, office hours, whatever) for easy reaching out to teams when a bullet point seems interesting. +GG +JF +TC

Anti-Harassment Tools

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Thank you James Forrester and Martin Urbanec for your ongoing help!
 * Updates:
 * No updates

Growth

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * SRE for their help with the link recommendation service
 * Updates:
 * Work on Add Link continues https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
 * Working on exposing more configuration settings to wiki admins T274520 T274031
 * Sending newcomer questions to mentors instead of help desks T275908
 * Enabling Growth features on dawiki T256126

Web

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Ed Sanders for the neat rewrite of the mobile site's lead paragraph hoisting code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262093
 * Updates:
 * WVUI search autocomplete widget A/B test is deployed and in QA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249297

Structured Data

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Prioritizing tasks that are blockers for making MediaSearch the default search UI on Commons
 * Working on new search profile based on image search signal results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271799)

Abstract Wikipedia

 * Blocked by:
 * None.
 * Blocking:
 * None known.
 * Thank yous:
 * Vue team for on-going discussions around Vue2/Vue3 migration and its impact on our work.
 * Updates:
 * Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
 * On-boarding Vue-specialist contractor.
 * The Wikifunctions logo concept vote is live: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_concept/Vote

Language

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * SRE ServiceOps on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
 * Thank yous:
 * Martin Urbanec & Kunal Mehta for help with deploying Section translation hotfixes.
 * Updates:
 * Released the section translation tool on Bengali Wikipedia last week. You can learn more about it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Section_translation
 * Just an FYI: Hotfix deployed for Section Translation got reverted when deploy1002 server was switched due to our module update not being synced

Vue.js

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Continuing to plan Vue 2 -> Vue 3 migration (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251974 for details)
 * Scaffolding an experimental library to update WVUI to Vue 3 and work on consolidating existing WMF components
 * Thinking through various technological decisions: local development features, Sass or Less variables vs. design tokens, code reuse via the new Vue 3 Composition API...
 * Developing criteria for evaluating existing UI libraries, to be posted to Phabricator soon

Fundraising Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Preparing for fundraising campaign in Latin America (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275812, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274319, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199733)
 * More nightly reconciliation file parsing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272105, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545
 * Email preferences forms: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510
 * Update our repos to use Composer 2 and new version of composer-merge-plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267881

Performance

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Luca Toscano for debugging and fixing the ASO ranking breakage caused by the Hive update in early February
 * Updates:
 * Helped Global Data & Insights team with performance inequality data per country
 * Helped vue.js team with code review
 * Helped Nicholas Ray with setting up vue.js search performance dashboards
 * Helped fundraising and fr-tech understand the potential implications of the Google May 2021 update to search ranking. Nicholas Perry (Strategic Partnerships) will talk to Google about it.
 * All seats for the frontend web perf training April session filled
 * Converted WebPageTest performance alerts to AlertManager

Quality and Test Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Eventlogging journey by Elena Tonkovidova https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/230/eventlogging_journey/
 * Evaluation of Microsoft Playwright by Harriet Ayugi https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/231/evaluation_of_microsoft_playwright/

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * [serviceops] PHP restart sudo rules for docroot deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/666309
 * Blocking:
 * Thanks:
 * Cole White and O11y for all the help with the Phatality kibana extension!
 * Martin Urbanec for ongoing backport window support
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Blocked:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276316
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276353
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.32 T274936
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.33 T274937
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.34 T274938
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.34 T274938

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * relforge: open up access to relforge100[3,4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274314
 * Consume new event from the AddLink feature - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262226
 * Implement CirrusSearch keyword for drafttopic - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268272
 * Null or inconsistent search results using Khmer script - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185721
 * Add the IDSM/Sachem Wikidata endpoint to the list of federated endpoints -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275196

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Language https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
 * Product Infrastructure https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
 * Platform https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
 * WMDE https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
 * Analytics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * Gitlab VMs being created and access granted.

WMDE Technical Wishes

 * Updates:
 * Preparing to deploy Reference Previews to pilot wikis (March 17th). Any user with “page previews” enabled will also see reference previews. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206
 * Still getting great support from Analytics—still flooding their inboxes with more small reviews. (Not blocked)

Cross-cutting

 * Blocked by:
 * Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142
 * Blocking:
 * None known.
 * Thank yous:
 * Updates:
 * No significant changes.