Scrum of scrums/2019-05-15
2019-05-15[edit]
Callouts[edit]
- 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[edit]
Contributors[edit]
Community Tech[edit]
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Anti-Harassment Tools[edit]
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Editing[edit]
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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 DziewoĆski
- git #7739b1c7 - Fix switching without changes (task T221981) by Ed Sanders
Growth[edit]
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- Working on Mobile Homepage
Language[edit]
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Readers[edit]
iOS native app[edit]
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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
- v6.2.3 released 05/09
Android native app[edit]
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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[edit]
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- Readers Web Prague offsite: 2019/05/12-2019/05/16
Readers Infrastructure[edit]
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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[edit]
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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[edit]
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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[edit]
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Technology[edit]
Analytics[edit]
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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[edit]
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Fundraising Tech[edit]
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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[edit]
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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[edit]
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- Core Platform: CR for updated LoadBalancer logic, as requested by DBA/Jaime. â 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. â https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219342
- Browser tests were breaking CI, fixed as broke last week.
Release Engineering[edit]
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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
- Train Health
Research[edit]
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Scoring Platform[edit]
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Search Platform[edit]
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Security[edit]
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Services[edit]
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Site Reliability Engineering[edit]
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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[edit]
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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[edit]
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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[edit]
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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping[edit]
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