Scrum of scrums/2021-02-17

=2021-02-17=

Callouts

 * RelEng: Longer-term train disruption calendar (caveats apply) https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

No updates
AHT, Library

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Web, Prod Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Quality & Test, 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
 * Adding a section where teams can add Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests to request reviews or feedback. +GG +TC [DONE]
 * Adding a "thanks" section +GG +JF +TC+AP [DONE]

Community Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * We are now preparing for our next project (OCR Improvements) while wrapping up our work on WS-Export improvements
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/New_OCR_tool
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Wikisource/Improve_export_of_electronic_books

Editing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Releasing new topic tool as a Beta Feature on three Wikipedias (ar/cs/hu)

Growth

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * working on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
 * working on improvements in configuration (for more scalable deployments) and mentorship

iOS native app

 * Blocked by: None
 * Blocking: I hope none.
 * Updates: Finishing touches on Chinese varient work, bunches of other small things.

Android native app

 * Blocked by: None
 * Blocking: I hope none.
 * Updates: Refining watchlist and talk pages, moving to releasing every 2 weeks.

Structured Data

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * MediaSearch: splitting off frontend into separate extension
 * Image recommendations: started working on scripts to evaluate POC results (T273882, T273062) & tweak search profile based on analysis from Research team (T271799)
 * Continuing SDAW architecture discussions

Abstract Wikipedia

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
 * First route for back-end executor service has landed.
 * Looking at re-using firejail for isolation of run-times within executor service.
 * Thanks to Dave Pifke and Timo Tijhof from Performance for their support and advice.
 * Final week for community suggestions for the logo concept for Wikifunctions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_concept#Gallery

Vue.js

 * Blocked by: Performance (Timo), review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/657953
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * WVUI v0.1.0 merged into core, yay! Thank you to Jon R, Jan D, Nick R, Sam S, Mark H (Web team), Scott B (Security), and Timo T (Performance)
 * Patch for ES6-only module support in ResourceLoader awaiting review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/657953
 * New patch up (as of last night) adding ES6 support to JavaScriptMinifier https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/libs/Minify/+/664700
 * Thanks to Timo for setting up the mediawiki/libs/Minify repo

Fundraising Tech

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Working on donor email preference center (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268495, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268497)
 * Annual PCI paperwork to keep accepting credit cards
 * Trying to get Latin American spanish (es-419) working as a variant throughout donation pipeline, falling back to Castillian Spanish (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199682, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199733)
 * More fixes for our docker setup (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274943, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268683) (will need +2s from RelEng eventually)

Performance

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Second frontend web perf training session budget approved, will be at EMEA-friendly times. Provisional dates April 19 - 23

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * ServiceOps: VM requests for GitLab
 * Blocking:
 * Hopefully no longer blocking fundraising
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Longer-term train calendar https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.30 T271343
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.31 T271344
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.32 T274936

Thanks

 * Serviceops: docker-pkg help!
 * Everyone who helped us get the train unstuck over the past few weeks <3

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Updates:
 * Outdated data still present in WCQS a month after statement update -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267825
 * Resolve WDQS changelog situation - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272265
 * Reduce default page weighting on wikitech and mediawikiwiki for pages with "Historical" or "Archive"templates - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274082

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Working with Product Infra on maps
 * Having some issues with upload edge caches recently
 * Some SREs alongside Chris Albon made it to mainstream news for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

Technical Wishes

 * Updates:
 * Finishing a round of intensive analytics work, thanks for all the review and support.
 * Planning many changes in the Visual Editor template dialog.

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
 * Updates:
 * No major changes.
 * On PHP 8.0 work, we're now looking to enable PHP 8.0 as voting on the REL1_35 branch for MediaWiki itself and as a gradual opt-in for extensions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274965
 * CI tools' upgrade status is adequate: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
 * Particular thanks this week to Umherirrender for their work on the backlog of jsonlint -> eslint replacements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220036