Scrum of scrums/2021-05-05

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2021-05-05[edit]

Callouts[edit]

  • From SRE Service Operations:
    • DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
    • Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have questions/problems.
  • 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/


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

No updates[edit]

CommTech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, iOS, Android, ProdInfra, Parsing, Language, Library, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping[edit]

  • Updates:

Product[edit]

Growth[edit]

Web[edit]

Structured Data[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • Testing the image recommendations API—if you're bored and want to help us out, please consider reviewing some images (we especially need help in English and Cebuano)
    • Starting process to deploy the new standalone MediaSearch extension

Abstract Wikipedia[edit]

Inuka[edit]

Vue.js[edit]

Technology[edit]

Fundraising Tech[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • Deploying new email preferences center
    • starting work to integrate with new API of backup card processor
    • Moving more CiviCRM custom code out of drupal 7 modules

Engineering Productivity[edit]

Quality and Test Engineering[edit]

Release Engineering[edit]


Search Platform[edit]

Site Reliability Engineering[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
    • Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have questions/problems.

WMDE Technical Wishes[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Thank yous:
    • mforns and the Analytics team carried us across the finish line, making a suite of new metrics available.
    • Urbanecm for accompanying and performing several backports and config changes over the past weeks ( even more to come 😬 )
  • Updates:
    • Reference Previews deployment was reverted today, we'll try again tomorrow. (T271206)

Cross-cutting[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
    • None known.
  • Thank yous:
  • Updates:
    • REL1_36 release process:
    • CI tools:
    • PHP 8.0:
      • No change this week.
      • Our target is REL1_35 (and thus also REL1_36), as well as master.
      • Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
      • Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; thank you to everyone working on fixing them.