Scrum of scrums/2017-02-22

Call outs

• Community Tech: Need feedback on proposed table for range contributions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318
• Community Tech: Collation version numbering patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272419/ (blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
• Services: RFC Discussion REST API language variant support - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154190
• Language: Blocked on mysterious Qunit test failures: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 (RelEng/Wikidata?)and schema changes review from DBA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146450

Product

Reading

Android

• Last week:
  • 2.5.189 beta released; production release is pending community feedback on Wikidata description editing
  • Mapbox library upgrade in review
  • Android Support Library upgraded
• Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
  • Continue improving the offline experience

Web

• Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-92-%F0%9F%8D%9C/
• Last week:
  • Page Previews: Use bundler to generate Page Previews JavaScript code - phab:T156333
  • Create reading depth schema - phab:T155639
• This week:
  • Update related pages schema to allow for current A/B test - phab:T157375
  • Page previews: use RESTBase in stage 0 wikis (italian, russian, greek, catalan, hebrew) - phab:T158221
  • Deploy new mobile header to Catalan and Italian wikipedias - phab:T156794
  • [Spike] Propose solutions for the issues identified with developing on MobileFrontend - phab:T156263

iOS native app

• Last Week
  • Continued work on 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
    • Location permission changes (friendlier prompt, users to opt-in instead of an intrusive pop-up)
    • Closer evaluation of Mapbox & maps.wikimedia.org as tileserver
    • Other bug fixes and enhancements
• This week
  • Continue work on 5.4
    • Finish location permission changes, add links to places map from Articles, Accessibility audit
    • Other bug fixes and enhancements

Reading Infrastructure

• Mobile Content Service: Kanban Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/
  • Adding more tests for OnThisDay; removing French from it since not all dates produce a result
  • Next: expanding TFA (today's featured article) to more languages using FeaturedFeed extension
• working on TemplateStyles, ORES, MediaWiki logging
  • TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813 - performance questions still open + waiting for community consultation to wrap up

Analytics

• Vetting wmf_last_access_global (project-wide unique devices) metric
• Applying feedback received from community to Wikistats2.0 and finalizing visuals
• Upgrade to CDH 5.10 to labs, went well, real production deploy scheduled for next tuesday 28th Feb
• In progress: fixing a bug in AQS (Pageview API) related to the way dates are represented in the results

Community Tech

• Cookie blocks should go out this week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158129
• Investigating global gadgets https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153332
• Some improvements to PageAssessments https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158245 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154216
• Need feedback on proposed table for range contributions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318

Discovery

• No blockers
• A/B test for for sister wiki results finished, processing the results.
• Working on ES5 upgrade & wikidata search
• Working on annual plan & Collab Jam slides

Security

Reviews:

• 3D extension
• Internal File Server
• CollaborationKit
• StopForumSpam

Services

• Blockers: None
• Updates:
  • DNS caching in service-runner by default
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158338
  • REST API 1.0
    • https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/764
  • Language variant RFC wrapping up right after this meeting
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122942

Editing

Language

• Current Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/language-2017_sprint_3/
• Compact Language Links deployed in 'svwiki'.
• CX migration to OOJS continue.

Collaboration

• Blocked
• Blocking
• Updates
  • New RecentChanges page - Bug fixes and refactoring
  • Flow - Minor technical debt and upgrading pimple (should have no user impact)
  • Will deploy an update to the Flow export/import scripts that allow transwiki within the farm. We'll use this shortly (probably today) to transwiki a board from Meta to MediaWiki.org

German Technical Wishlist

• TwoColConflict is officially in Beta, watching for feedback.
• Working on FileImporter/Exporter to transfer files to Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/projects/mediawiki/extensions/FileImporter,dashboards/default

Wikidata

• Same as last week, making good progress on Lexeme datatype for Wiktionary, as well as federation for Commons.
• Will check if https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 is Wikidata related.

UI Standardization

• This week
  • Work on the technical fundamentals of style guide (responsive layout, grid, navigation)
• Updates
  • General
    • ContentTranslation: Сontribution's dropdown menu features non-standard layout. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157217
    • Further work on: Replace abandoned colors in current WMF/Wikimedia products with WikimediaUI palette colors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148708
  • OOjs UI:
    • Figure out which parts of OOjs UI documentation should be improved, and where they should live - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158494
    • Further improvements on form layouts in OOUI MW core forms for better user experience – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
    • Align SelectfileInputWidget to color palette

Technical Operations

• Blocked:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Work continues on Ubuntu Precise deprecation, production and labs
  • Budgeting Capex / Opex and annual plan
  • Datacenter switchover
  • Asia datacenter preparation

Release Engineering

• Blocked:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038

Fundraising Tech

• Hiring replacement for Casey, who's turning devops
• More work on new PayPal integration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107372, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153720
• Method to purge CentralNotice banners from caches: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954
• Investigating slow banner saves: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158084
  • Andrew Green may ask ops for some help with both of the above ^^^
• More work resolving contact de-duplication conflicts in CiviCRM