Scrum of scrums/2019-05-15

2019-05-15

Callouts

• Try the new Wikistats Time Selector - https://wikistats-canary.wmflabs.org/time-selector/#/all-projects
• SRE DBAs asking Performance about timelines for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221577

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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  • Improving mobile usability, iterating on improving editing context workflows
  • git #95da826e - Make JSON styling available on mobile by Ed Sanders
  • git #ff15a2ba - Fix diffs in non-section-editing mode (task T222489) by Bartosz Dziewoński
  • git #7739b1c7 - Fix switching without changes (task T221981) by Ed Sanders

Growth

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  • Working on Mobile Homepage

Language

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Readers

iOS native app

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  • v6.2.3 released 05/09
    • Send CSFR token on logout - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221856
    • Keyboard editor fix - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221605
  • Continuing work on v6.3
    • Talk page MCS endpoint - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221148
    • Talk page native work - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215928
    • Link wizard in Editor - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213979

Android native app

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  • Proton/Chromium renderer: Improved timeout handling https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217724
  • Ready to roll out changes to logout behavior, pending QA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221856
  • More navigation improvements and optimizations: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222056
  • Beginning work on adding image caption editing (structured Commons) in native image gallery: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223128
  • Building abstraction layer of page library for clients to use in /page/mobile-html endpoint

Readers Web

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Readers Infrastructure

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  • Commons structured caption edit suggestion work (for Android's Suggested Edits) is in progress
  • MCS/PCS split in progress
  • Maps: stack migrated to node 10 successfully
  • Proton/Chromium PDF renderer: fixed timeout handling issues https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217724

Multimedia

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  • SDoC: preparing to add qualifiers to depicts statements about Files - hope to release next week
  • SDoC: working on adding other types of statements

Parsing

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• about 2/3rd of the porting done.
• HTML -> WT: More code ported and merged. Expect to be able to start testing this code this week.
• WT -> HTML: Porting the parsing pipeline components - the pipeline will have reduced complexity compared to JS because all work will happen synchronously.

UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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  • Upgrading superset (dashboarding tool for public and private data sources) this week to 0.32 version
  • Cool new functionality on wikistats regarding ability to select time ranges. You can take a peek here: https://wikistats-canary.wmflabs.org/time-selector/#/all-projects
  • Reconfiguring deployments of EventGate for analytics to be able to better deploy EventGate main, for mediawiki events.
  • Many issues with latest upgrade of kafka-python in eventlogging, we had to rollback: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222941

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • More anti-fraud work
  • Fixing issues with card detail entry in main CC processor's new API
  • CentralNotice monitoring work
  • Thank You email updates
  • Looking at CentralNotice brokenness on beta

Core Platform

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  • Session storage service: Security review complete, Service checker support merged, Code review of MW connection to service complete
  • RESTBase Split: VE made so it will work with Parsoid: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222639, Parsoid simplification is patched and waiting for review and then extensive testing on beta
  • Actor Table migration is on read-new everywhere. Write-new is on Beta Cluster

Performance

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  • Core Platform: CR for updated LoadBalancer logic, as requested by DBA/Jaime. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/394430/
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  • Various patches refactoring LoadBalancer (avoiding extra connections when using query groups, logging, read-only logic)
  • Working getting meaningful metrics out of the most common use case on mobile: Google search, go to Wikipedia and don't scroll.
  • Unseen-change notification fixes:
    • Fix for old bug with font-bolding logic for pages at Special:Watchlist; https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/509176
    • Fix for client cache for action=history views; https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/508965/
  • Improvements for page startup performance in QuickSurveys, CirrusSearch, CentralAuth, MediaViewer. – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219342
  • Browser tests were breaking CI, fixed as broke last week.

Release Engineering

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  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.4 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220729
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220730
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.6 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220731

Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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Security

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Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • Performance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221577
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  • Performance on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/492948/. Known, it's complicated to test it, it's going to take a while.
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  • No updates.

TechComm

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  • Office Hours during Hackathon will provide link for remote video participation may also join via IRC #wikimedia-office 8:00 PT/15:00 UTC/17:00 CEST on May 17th

Wikidata

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  • "Blocked" might be to big of a word, but we'd appreciate an input from Security on the ongoing Production Readiness review: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419#5178010
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  • Working with SRE on deploying SSR service to kubernetes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220402
  • EntitySchema a.k.a. Shape Expressions to go live soon (planned for the week of May, 27th)
  • Test system for tool builders/users of DB replica for the new table containing terms of items and properties (to replace existing wb_terms) a bit delayed, and expect to be available in the week of May, 29th

German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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