Scrum of scrums/2018-01-16

2019-01-16

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• SRE: RI needs your input on T206504 (specifically https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504#4859812 ) regarding storing edit task suggestions in Redis
• Performance/CorePlatform: DBAs want to do a Parser Cache TTL increase. We might increase the TTL back from 22 days to 30 days soon - ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210992 )
• Anyone: SRE needs help setting up a Beta Feature for PHP7 migration. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213934
• Release Engineering: No train during All Hands (week of January 28)
• Release Engineering blocking Research https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

• Blocked by: Looking for Reviewers for Namespace Blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179110
• Blocking: No one
• Updates:
  • Enabled Partial Blocks to Italian Wikipedia! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210444
  • Starting Device Blocking Investigation. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213351
  • Changing new user password requirements.

Editing

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Growth

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Language

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  • ContentTranslation v2 going to be default for all users with this week's train.
  • Language team will reachout to Security and Performance for ExternalGuidance extension reviews.

Readers

iOS native app

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Android native app

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Readers Web

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• • Summary: Advanced Mobile Contributions is underway and MobileFrontend Webpackication frontend architectural goals are nearly complete.

• • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):

• • • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Page/talk toggle v1 T212216
      • Create AMC edit tag T212959
      • Build AMC opt-in toggle T211197

• • • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Webpackify mobile.options, mobile.init, mobilediff, and userlogin T213112
      • Webpackify Special:Uploads T213298
      • Webpackify mobile.special.watchlist.scripts T212823
      • Webpackify mobile.mediaViewer T210209
      • Webpackify notifications T213111
      • Drawers and Overlays should not auto-append themselves T209129

• • • Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
      • Deploy to enwiki TBD T210554

• • • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T212518 T211724 T213775 T149909

• • Desktop website (Vector, Popups)

• • • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • WMDE reference previews are in progress https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews

• • PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
    • Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084

Readers Infrastructure

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  • SRE: RI needs your input on T206504 (specifically https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504#4859812 ) regarding storing edit task suggestions in Redis
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  • Building new APIs to support the App Editor Tasks initiative ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212793 )
    • Counts of edits meeting specific criteria: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212795
    • Suggested entities/articles for adding descriptions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206504
  • Maps: Preparing maps1003 for OS upgrade to stretch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/483798/

Multimedia

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Parsing

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UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • CentralNotice
    • deploying bunch of patches that we'd held back during Big English, and which were again delayed last week due to what turned out to be a bug in the Translate extension.
    • taking another look at how to make the deployment less of a headache for train conductors.
  • CiviCRM
    • Reducing volume of email for recurring donors
  • Paymentswiki
    • Still working on upgrade to PHP7 & Mediawiki 1.31
    • Adding geolocation to the 'Form chooser' page

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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  • Reverted ruwiki navtiming/survey sampling rate, as very active editors were starting to talk about blocking the survey altogether
  • Wrote guide for xhgui upgrades. – https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Runbook/Webperf-tools_services
  • xhgui: Deployed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/483048/
  • Attended the W3C perf design meeting

Release Engineering

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  • Code Health Metrics https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/475470
  • Research https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225
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  • Code Health:
    • Code Health Metrics and SonarQube https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/133
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206666 - no problemo
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.13 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206667 - no problemo (so far)
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.14 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206668 - last train before All Hands (no train that week)

Research

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  • RelEng please review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/483225
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Preparing to run the third round of data collection for CitationUsage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212937
  • Generate article recommendations in Hadoop for use in roduction: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210844
  • Deploy the recommendation API changes to production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212945

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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  • Added capability to search multiple filetypes at once: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212776
  • Fixed timeouts in prefix search suggestions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212455
  • Handling WDQS issue with allocation limits: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213212
  • Added a new keyboard shortcuts to WDQS UI, for those systems where Ctrl-Space is already taken - Ctrl-Alt-Space and Alt-Enter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203320
  • Deploying tuned wikidata search parameters soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193701
  • de, fr, es next: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213105
  • Fixed error with too large offset+limit on search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213745
  • Created configs for multi-instance Blazegraph, moving categories namespace to separate Blazegraph instance: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213212
  • Fixed issue with duplicated normalized triples in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213213
  • Working on data corruption issues in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210044
  • Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
  • Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
  • Working on “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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• Updates: All active assigned tasks are being worked by Engineers

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • ??: Need help setting up a beta feature for migration to php 7. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213934
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  • Performance/CorePlatform: DBAs want to do a Parser Cache TTL increase. We might increase the TTL back from 22 days to 30 days soon - ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210992 )

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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