Scrum of scrums/2020-02-05

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2020-02-05[edit]

Callouts[edit]

  • Release Engineering
    • Train blocked
      • (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia phab:T244019
      • Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 phab:T244300
    • The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at phab:T242446
  • SRE
    • Blocked on CPT for scb2003 reports 'Internal error in changeprop': phab:T244069
  • Research
    • Blocked by SRE on reviews for recommendation-api. (Will get to it once outages are mitigated)

Product[edit]

iOS native app[edit]

Android native app[edit]

  • Updates:
    • Completed mobile-html integration, ironing out final details.
    • Building conversion logic for existing saved offline files.
    • Completed Suggested Edits v4 (structured image tagging), going through design review/iteration.

Web[edit]

Product Infrastructure[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • SRE on proton and mobileapps reviews. Will get to it once outages are mitigated

Structured Data[edit]

  • Blocking:
    • Search Platform: Data dumps for SDC: phab:T221917 ...we're really not blocking here, just waiting-and-seeing
  • Updates:
    • final input types
    • novalue/somevalue
    • constraints

Parsing[edit]

  • Updates:
    • No blockers, not blocked, nothing special to report

Inuka[edit]

Technology[edit]

Analytics[edit]

  • Blocking:
    • Release Engineering - The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) phab:T210271

Fundraising Tech[edit]

  • Updates:
    • CentralNotice
      • Still working to finish sub-national geotargeting
    • CiviCRM
      • Trying to upstream a couple of local performance hacks
      • Making our translated TY letters available via the UI
      • Aligning our use of contribution statuses with core
      • Analysing DB size to determine where we can drop unused data
    • DonationInterface
      • Still working on recurring payments for backup card processor

Core Platform[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • SRE on changeprop/cpjobqueue charts. Will get to it once outages are mitigated (blocked by or blocking?)
  • Blocking:
    • Release Engineering - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 phab:T244300
    • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
    • SRE: Blocked on CPT for scb2003 reports 'Internal error in changeprop': phab:T244069
  • Updates:

Engineering Productivity[edit]

Release Engineering[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) phab:T210271
    • (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia phab:T244019
    • Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 phab:T244300
  • Updates:
    • The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at phab:T242446
    • Train Health
      • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
        • (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia phab:T244019
        • Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 phab:T244300
      • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867

Research[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • SRE on reviews for recommendation-api. Will get to it once outages are mitigated

Scoring Platform[edit]

  • Updates:
    • New ORES deployment -- Topic models for cs, ar, ko, & vi + improvements to en phab:T243451
    • Jade: Finishing up the entity view UI. Looking to merge in a week or two. phab:T208819
    • Jade bus factor is now two!

Search Platform[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: phab:T221917
    • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425

Site Reliability Engineering[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • CPT on scb2003 reports 'Internal error in changeprop': phab:T244069
  • Blocking:
    • Product infrastructure on proton and mobileapps reviews. Will get to it once outages are mitigated
    • Research on reviews for recommendation-api. Same as above.
    • CPT on changeprop/cpjobqueue charts. Same as above
  • Updates:
    • Outage fighting, alongside other teams (perf, WMDE), incident reports to follow
    • Kubernetes clusters being upgraded to 1.13.12 this week.