Scrum of scrums/2018-08-29

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2018-08-29[edit]

Callouts[edit]

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Switchover/Switchback dates reminder. It's in 2 Weeks.

Services: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 14:30 UTC Media storage/Swift: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 15:00 UTC Traffic: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 19:00 UTC MediaWiki: Wednesday, September 12th 2018: 14:00 UTC

Switchback:

Traffic: Wednesday, October 10th 2018 09:00 UTC MediaWiki: Wednesday, October 10th 2018: 14:00 UTC Services: Thursday, October 11th 2018 14:30 UTC Media storage/Swift: Thursday, October 11th 2018 15:00 UTC

IMPORTANT: For the duration of the switchover (1 month), please refrain from large db schema changes and please avoid deploying any kind of new feature that requires creation of tables. IMPORTANT: There will be a train freeze in the week of Sept 10th and Oct 8th.

[nuria] Dashiki just uses the files that are now not rendering from meta, it is really a seprate system that consumes those files

Audiences[edit]

Contributors[edit]

Community Tech[edit]

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Anti-Harassment Tools[edit]

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    • Continue work on Partial Blocking (Goal is to have a MVP ready by the end of the sprint)
    • Analytics on Harassment cases on A/NI

Editing[edit]

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    • Improving event logging for better data analysis
    • Mobile bug fixes to improve editing experience

Growth[edit]

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Language[edit]

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    • Work on ContentTranslation version 2 continues.

Readers[edit]

iOS native app[edit]

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Android native app[edit]

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    • Finished polling Echo notifications (limited to certain types of notifications initially)
    • Waiting on user testing of navigation prototypes.

Readers Web[edit]

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Readers Infrastructure[edit]

Parsing[edit]

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  • Updates: Offsite upcoming on 9/10-9/15

Continuing porting TokenTansformers subsystem to PHP as part of overall php port

Multimedia[edit]

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    • SDoC: multi-lingual captions display and edit on File page
    • SDoC: prototyping depicts search almost complete
    • SDoC: design artwork


UI Standardization[edit]

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Technology[edit]

Analytics[edit]

Cloud Services[edit]

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Fundraising Tech[edit]

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    • More testing and bug fixes on main CC processor's new API integration
    • CiviCRM UI enhancements
    • Donor data export/erase bug fixes
    • Testing new pipeline to get banner and landing page impressions into fundraising DBs
    • Testing stretch and PHP7 to unblock payments mediawiki LTS upgrade
    • Getting started on hiring another fr-tech


MediaWiki Core Platform[edit]

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    • Platform Evolution: summarizing stakeholder input to cluster themes for Tech Conf
    • Requirements gathering and discussion for storage component
    • More work on deploying the phan security check (aka phan-taint-check) to more extensions
    • Porting poolcounterd tests to Python (gerrit:455385)
    • LinksUpdate failure on replag (phab:T201482)
    • EU copyright landing page

Performance[edit]

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    • mcrouter broadcast now live (deletes go to both data centers)
    • Thought we had made the world much faster by removing a ResourceLoader round trip, but then realized that we'd accidentally gamed our numbers. Still evaluating the actual improvement.
    • Gilles is back from vacation, and cranking through Thumbor bugs
    • Testing "hero images" timings.


Release Engineering[edit]

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Scoring Platform[edit]

Search Platform[edit]

Security[edit]


Services[edit]

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Site Reliability Engineering[edit]

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Switchover/Switchback dates reminder

Services: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 14:30 UTC Media storage/Swift: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 15:00 UTC Traffic: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 19:00 UTC MediaWiki: Wednesday, September 12th 2018: 14:00 UTC

Switchback:

Traffic: Wednesday, October 10th 2018 09:00 UTC MediaWiki: Wednesday, October 10th 2018: 14:00 UTC Services: Thursday, October 11th 2018 14:30 UTC Media storage/Swift: Thursday, October 11th 2018 15:00 UTC

IMPORTANT: For the duration of the switchover (1 month), please refrain from large db schema changes and please avoid deploying any kind of new feature that requires creation of tables. IMPORTANT: There will be a train freeze in the week of Sept 10th and Oct 8th.

Wikidata[edit]

German Technical Wishlist[edit]

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Multi-Content Revisions[edit]

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    • almost complete phase 2 tasks (today?), planning to finish phase 3 tasks by end of week
    • deployment impacted by CI test failures - remediation in progress

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping[edit]

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