Scrum of scrums/2021-01-13

2021-01-13

Callouts

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264218: UX tweaks for VectorV2 at a screen width of 500px. This is on the 1.36.0-wmf.27 branch

No updates: Parsing, Platform, Performance, SRE

No notes provided: Prod Infra, Language, Inuka, Library, Analytics, Cloud Services, Fundraising Tech, Quality and Test, Search Platform, Security,

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates: asynchronous retrospective ends today

Product

Community Tech

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • Getting ready to start consultation work around OCR tools improvement project
  • Still working on Wikisource/WS-export performance/reliability/UX

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Blocked by:
  • Awaiting DBA comments on a new table in SecurePoll extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271268
• Blocking:
• Updates:

Editing

• Blocked by:
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• Updates:
  • FAO core platform: We are moving [ reply ] links on talk pages to the ParserCache this week, splitting the cache on talk pages by user preference: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267404

Growth

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• Updates:
  • working on link recommendations

iOS native app

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates: Development continues on next version

Android native app

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates: Development continues on next version

Web

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Awaiting the Security Readiness Review for WVUI from Security
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264218: UX tweaks for VectorV2 at a screen width of 500px. This is on the 1.36.0-wmf.27 branch

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • More MediaSearch feature development
  • Starting to use results of image quality testing tool to tune MediaSearch search profile (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269852)
  • Working with Platform Engineering on proof of concept for image recommendations

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Making improvements to our Vue code; with thanks to Roan, Anne, and Eric
  • Still working on programmatic type management.
  • Process for a community contest to select the logo concept for Wikifunctions will start shortly.

Parsing

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates: Nothing significant.

Technology

Platform

• Blocked by: None
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• Updates: None

Engineering Productivity

Performance

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• Updates: Routine, nothing new for anyone.

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • No blockers
• Blocking:
  • ???
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 phab:T267418
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 phab:T267419
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.27 phab:T267419

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • No updates.

Cross-cutting

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• Updates:
  • PHP 8.0 compatibility is now waiting on upstream elastica library compatibility before we can move forward with MediaWiki core, let alone production extensions. (This will likely require the completion of the ElasticSearch 6 -> 7 migration.)