Scrum of scrums/2021-04-07

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2021-04-07[edit]

Callouts[edit]

  • RelEng: Note that the MediaWiki 1.36 branch will happen in the next day or so. Next week's train is the first of 1.37.0-wmf.X.
  • RelEng: Backport deployment training is available, the invite is in the deployment calendar on gmail: wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com

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

No updates[edit]

Community Tec, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality & Test, Security

No notes provided[edit]

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping[edit]

  • Updates:

Product[edit]

Growth[edit]

iOS native appkhmer[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates: Beta is out.

Android native app[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous: Miriam for the research and PET for all your help getting image recommendations ready.
  • Updates: Timeline for image recommendations MVP release is set - should be out to all users in 4 weeks.

Web[edit]

Structured Data[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • Special:MediaSearch is now the default search UI on Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users
    • Working on moving the MediaSearch UI code into a standalone extension. This will include the structured data team's library of reusable Vue components. Will announce this when the move happens.

Abstract Wikipedia[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • None
  • Blocking:
    • None known.
  • Thank yous:
    • Architecture for their on-going advice and support through some thorny issues.
  • Updates:

Library[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • Continued work on partner description translations and The Wikipedia Library extension
    • New hompage designs are almost done, and work is starting on the logged in experience

Vue.js[edit]

Technology[edit]

Fundraising Tech[edit]


Engineering Productivity[edit]

Release Engineering[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • Wikidata: Migration of CI testing from stretch to buster is known broken in Wikidata (T279068).
  • Blocking:
    • Fundraising tech might be reaching out for image tweaks
  • Thank yous:
    • James for pointing out we were behind on the 1.36 branch cut :)
  • Updates:
    • Note that the MediaWiki 1.36 branch will happen in the next day or so. Next week's train is the first of 1.37.0-wmf.X.
    • Backport deployment training is available, the invite is in the deployment calendar on gmail: wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com
    • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
    • Train Health

Search Platform[edit]

Site Reliability Engineering[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • None
  • Blocking:
    • None
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • Wrapping up stuff, removing tech debt regarding old kubernetes clusters.
    • Sizing up a mediawiki pod.

WMDE Technical Wishes[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • Activating line numbering in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors, we plan to deploy with next week’s train.
    • Merged some simplifications which will affect reportupdater-queries, will probably apply the changes to all scripts there.

Cross-cutting[edit]