Scrum of scrums/2019-08-14

2019-08-14

Callouts

• Release Engineering:
  • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.18 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220743 - No train this week due to Wikimania
  • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.19 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220744
    • Core Platform - Hardcoded value in [[MediaWiki:Logentry-rights-blockautopromote/en]] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230296
    • Wikidata - OutOfBoundsException in WikibaseQualityConstraints setup on Beta Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230050

Product

Readers

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • New bug fix release that has some reading list fixes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3.2_lobster-on-a-vespa/
  • Working on defining API requirements for article history & diffs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.4-seamonkey-on-a-hoverboard/

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Suggested edits (editing Structured Captions on Commons) in production. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224051
  • Continuing to experiment integrating and profiling the mobile-html endpoint.

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: wrapping up advanced mode outreach and menu changes, and starting desktop refresh technical planning.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Advanced mobile contributions:
      • VE edit cards broken by Minerva change
      • "User Rights" in overflow menu has no icon
      • History links with curid set do not redirect properly on mobile
      • Notifications should appear in a modal dialog or drawer
      • AMC Outreach - Modal
      • [Bug] Overflow menu has blank entry on community portal when no Wikidata item exists
      • [AMC] Rename setting "Advanced mode" (instead of "Advanced contributions mode")
      • Main menu should slide over content
      • [Bug] BetaOptinPanel turns on Beta and turns off AMC
    • Desktop refresh:
      • Technical planning.
    • Miscellaneous:
      • mobilecite is missing i18n title messages for Special:Specialpages
      • ReferencesDrawer should be a Drawer, not extend the Drawer
      • MFA: TalkSectionAddOverlay should use Overlay.make pattern
      • [EPIC] Re-define the contract for displaying drawers and overlays in MobileFrontend
      • [Bug] can't re-enter Talk overlay after adding a discussion
      • Two link rel="canonical" if $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink and $mfNoIndexPages is true
      • Add Redux to MobileFrontend
      • Convert Anchor to ES6 class
      • Separate View code from SearchOverlay
      • Make toasts tappable links when redirecting a user away from a page

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Released new endpoint transform/html/to/mobile-html for apps edit preview feature
  • MachineVision extension enabled on Beta (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product/Machine_vision_middleware for background)
  • Working on launching wikifeeds to resolve the excessive load on mobileapps
    • Helm chart currently in review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/deployment-charts/+/526679/

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
  • need security's blessing on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/526756 to allay deployer fears.
• Updates:
  • Ready to deploy EventLogging-based pipeline to get and transform banner and landing page view stats from main cluster to payments cluster DBs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195594
  • India donation form tweaks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228698
  • More initial tests of one-time to recurring donation conversion: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227051, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227048
  • Resuming final piece of work to cut db links between payments-wiki front end and CiviCRM back end
  • Reviewing core CSP work to make sure CentralNotice banner-preview CSP doesn't break: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229607
  • Working through issues blocking updating fundraising python tools to python3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213757
  • Improvements to CiviCRM data import and export
  • Updating CiviCRM dependencies and leaving php5.6 behind. Thanks rel-eng for helping getting our tests up to date.

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering:
    • MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
    • Hardcoded value in [[MediaWiki:Logentry-rights-blockautopromote/en]] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230296

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform Team:
    • MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
    • Hardcoded value in [[MediaWiki:Logentry-rights-blockautopromote/en]] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230296
  • Wikidata
    • OutOfBoundsException in WikibaseQualityConstraints setup on Beta Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230050
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.17 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220742 - Fully deployed
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.18 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220743 - No train this week due to Wikimania
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.19 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220744
      • Core Platform - Hardcoded value in [[MediaWiki:Logentry-rights-blockautopromote/en]] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230296
      • Wikidata - OutOfBoundsException in WikibaseQualityConstraints setup on Beta Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230050

Security

• Blocking:
  • Fundraising tech needs security's blessing on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/526756 to allay deployer fears.

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering:
    • OutOfBoundsException in WikibaseQualityConstraints setup on Beta Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230050