Scrum of scrums/2021-03-31

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2021-03-31[edit]

Callouts[edit]

Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback[edit]

No updates[edit]

Language, Library,

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Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Inuka, Cloud Services, FR Tech, Platform, Quality & Test, Search PF, Security,

Product[edit]

Community Tech[edit]

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  • Updates:
    • We'll be announcing today the end of our work on WS-Export and officially marking the wish/project as completed

Anti-Harassment Tools[edit]

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  • Updates:
    • Wrapping up known work on SecurePoll. May have further things to do here which will take priority over other tasks.
    • New Engineering Manager joined, completing the team. Hurrah!

Growth[edit]

iOS native app[edit]

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  • Updates: Putting finishing touches on next major release of app (including drastically better support for Chinese language variants), should be in beta within the week.

Android native app[edit]

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  • Thank yous: PET for all their collaboration.
  • Updates: Working w/ PET on image recommendation API.

Web[edit]

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  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • Onboarding new hires!
    • Virtual offsite 29th March through 1st April
    • The WVUI search treatment A/B test is complete. All users opted in to Vector V2 will now get the treatment
    • Clarifying feature responsibilities in ResourceLoaderSkinModule: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269877

Structured Data[edit]

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  • Updates:
    • On April 1st, Special:MediaSearch will become the default search UI on Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users

Abstract Wikipedia[edit]


Language[edit]

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    • None
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    • None
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  • Updates:
    • No major updates this week.

Vue.js[edit]

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  • Updates:
    • WVUI: updating Storybook to use the new controls add-on instead of knobs
    • Design inventory (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047 )
    • Beginning the technical desicion-making process for adding an automated build step for front-end assets

Technology[edit]

Analytics[edit]


Engineering Productivity[edit]

Performance[edit]

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  • Thank yous:
    • DC Ops for looking into device lab hosting feasibility
    • ITS for doing the same
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Release Engineering[edit]

Site Reliability Engineering[edit]

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    • None
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    • None
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    • No updates

WMDE Technical Wishes[edit]

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  • Updates:
    • Kartographer exploration led to a straightforward, potential solution for fixing the incompatibility with FlaggedRevs wikis.
    • Beginning user research interviews for next year’s Geoinformation focus.
    • Curious whether anyone else sees a need for mw-core anonymous user “settings” management, currently done differently in many extensions.

Cross-cutting[edit]

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  • None.
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • PHP 8.0 work
      • Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
      • Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; tank you to everyone working on fixing them.
    • Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
    • CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
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