Scrum of scrums/2017-09-06

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

2017-09-06

callouts

• RelEng could use comments/help discovery/analytics move to scap3
• Grace to share proposal for redesign of this meeting

Audiences

Readers

iOS

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Releasing 5.6.1 with minor bug fixes ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ )
  • Next up is 5.7.0 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Onboarding updates, Improved analytics

Web

• Team is focusing on removing OCG from stack. A lot of us are currently getting up to speed with the stack there to support existing work by Baha and Gergo.

Multimedia

• 3D is pretty much working like a charm on beta, except for the puppet patch being cherry-picked and not deployed correctly. Testwiki ETA 2 weeks assuming no problems.
• (https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Crystal-NEW.stl#/media/File:Crystal-NEW.stl

• Team is nearly staffed up and ready to roll, we'll be doing some ramping-up and prioritization over the next few weeks.

Reading Infrastructure

• Blocked by: Security for the ReadingLists review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174126
• Updates:
  • ReadingLists MediaWiki extension merged, working on RESTBase half
  • Updates to On-this-day endpoint going to be deployed on Wednesday
  • Working on structured references API

Community Tech

• Subnet contributions patch merged, will ride the train next week
• Preparing ArticleCreationWorkflow for deployment

Contributors

Parsing

• Nothing for this week. We are coming off vacation.

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • OOUI: v0.23.0 released, among changes:
    • icons: Removed obsolete icons and moved icons from alerts pack so it's leniant & more performant
    • ButtonInputWidget: Fix Safari-specific intrinsic `margin` (Volker E.)
    • WikimediaUI theme: Fix frameless indicator combination buttons' appearance (Volker E.)
• Ongoing:
  • Continuation on WikimediaUI Style Guide work, starting with updating imagery on color section https://wikimedia.github.io/WikimediaUI-Style-Guide/visual-style_colors.html
  • Remaining work (get patches merged) on aligning arbitrary, historically grown colors to WikimediaUI color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148708
  • Align TransparencyReport to WikimediaUI color palette and make it fully accessible

Global Collaboration

Language

• Blocked: cxserver deployment with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173038 is WIP.
• CX-VE work continue.
• CX dashboard improvements.

Collaboration

• Updates
  • RCFilters - Mostly improving appearances and messages, some fine-tuning and bug fixes
    • git #2b7fec67 - WLFilters: convert 'edit watchlist' button to new UX (task T172030)
    • git #94497cbd - WLFilters: reword watchlist-details slightly (task T172030)
    • git #3ec69e79 - WLFilters: fix msg keys to comply with standard
    • git #8e099f54 - RCFilters: Minimize vertical spacing; get rid of legend and <br>s (task T174121)
    • git #ffb5387c - WLFilters: wrap Watchlist-details in a div instead of a p (task T172030)
    • git #8148d908 - WLFilters: adapt to customized watchlist-details (task T172030)
    • git #467fbef0 - WLFilters: fix server-side tag filtering
    • git #3bf41380 - RCFilters: Make top links in RecentChanges expand to full-width (task T174617)
    • git #61696a0b - WLFilters: describe how unseen changes should look (task T172030)
    • git #5e8ba53a - RCFilters: Include invert param when reading default saved query (task T174506)
    • git #0a823840 - RCFilters: rephrase the feedback link text (task T174411)
    • git #ba86bd1d - WLFilters: Use displaysOnUnstructuredUi instead of isVisible (task T171134)

Search Platform

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Continuing work on ML-assisted ranking
  • Preparing upgrade to Elastic 5.5 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174662 )
  • Developing strategy for porting CirrusSearch tests to nodejs (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174103 )
  • Excellent blog post by Trey on search with wrong keyboard: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/28/wikipedia-search-phonetic-keyboards/
  • Search relevance A/B test analyzed: https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Adhoc-SurveyMVP/
  • Explore similar A/B test analyzed: https://wikimedia-research.github.io/Discovery-Search-Test-ExploreSimilar/
  • Per-IP rate limits introduced on maps: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169175
  • Fixed load spikes on some Elastic backend servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169498

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by: nothing.
• Blocking:
  • We need to run our stress tests again before ops can move us to the dedicated cluster. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174402. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169246
• Updates:
  • Wikilabels incident https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/69/wikilabels_incident_reversed_diffs/
  • svwiki, eswikibooks, filter support comming soon for RC Filter

Wikidata

• Blocked by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/357985 RewriteRule patch not being merged
• Franziska Heine is new head of software department (was Abraham Taherivand before): https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/09/01/franziska-heine-ist-neue-leiterin-der-software-entwicklung/
• Published the WikidataCon program: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program
• Entity serialization will change and include all snak hashes (on main, qualifier, and reference snaks): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174692
• Did several releases of PHP libraries with MediaWiki integration removed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173936
• Investigating ways to do the same with JavaScript ResourceLoader libraries: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174922
• List of monolingual value languages grows to a point that makes people uncomfortable why core doesn't support these: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/374052

German Technical Wishlist

• Preparing for WikiCon (annual German community conference)
• Another Wikidiff2 change needs review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/319866

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• No blocker/blocking
• Trying to optimize things for December (db writes, fs access, etc)
• More PayPal Express Checkout tweaks
• More CiviCRM contact de-duplication work

Security

• No blockers
• Updates:
  • Looking into improving password blacklists
  • re-review of CentralNotice
  • review of vue.js up next

Services

• No blockers
• Updates:
  • restbase1010 disk failure, now fixed
  • Cassandra 3 cluster almost set up, continue work on new storage implementation
  • node 8 - if you can start testing your services with it
  • All time record on REST API usage - 10k req/s

RelEng

• Blocking
  • None?
• Blocked
  • Could use comments/help discovery/analytics move to scap3
• Updates
  • 1.30.0-wmf.17 going out this week

Technical Operations

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • All video scalers now running jessie, this completes the migration of mw* servers
  • tin deploy server has bad disk, pending replacement https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174452