Scrum of scrums/2020-07-15

2020-07-15

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: phab:T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; phab:T217924

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Bug fixes and 1st experiment development for 6.7 - phab:project/view/4661
  • WWDC research

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Continuing work on onboarding design refresh - phab:project/view/4819/

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: Desktop Improvements Project (DIP) deployment prep, continuing DIP sidebar persistence, and wrapping up DIP content max-width, Vue.js search design spec, initial WVUI library rolling development release, building button, input, and icon for Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Align Vector skin with WikimediaUI color palette
    • [Bug] Max-Width Layout: Sidebar overlaps footer when its height is longer than the content height
    • Make collapsible sidebar persistent for logged-in users
    • wgLogos follow up work
    • [Spike 8hrs] Decide how to persist state of collapsible sidebar across sessions for logged-in users, logged-out users
    • Limit content width, and refine alignment & styling of relevant elements
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • Deprecate and remove printable version mode
    • [Modern Vector] Fix broken rendering of `main` and `dialog` elements in IE9-11
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • Thank you, Anne Tomasevich, for your work on wvui-icon!
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Final warning: Mobile main page special casing will be disabled July
    • [EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page
  • Standardization
    • Narrator not announcing popup dialog when help button/icon is clicked.
    • Deprecate and replace mediawiki.ui components
    • Consider 'normalize' stylesheet RL module
    • Change filewarning to normal warning color and amend padding slightly
    • Window: focus lost when navigating with shift + tab key
    • Standardize 'mediawiki.ui' variables to CSS variables naming scheme in preparation for WikimediaUI Base variables takeover
    • OOUI PopupWidget : need to Notify caller when popup widget closes
    • SelectFileInputWidget: "Close" button is not accessible through keyboard.
    • Directly use the WikimediaUI values in the WikimediaUI theme in OOUI, rather than via copy-paste
    • Outline control widget wrong focus order
    • Focus not visible on Button on high contrast mode
  • Portals
    • [Recurring Task] Update Wikipedia and sister projects portals statistics
  • QuickSurveys
    • Run baseline quicksurvey on test wikis
  • Miscellaneous
    • SkinMustache::getTemplateData keys should be hyphenated and existing in a dictionary
    • Render the FallbackSkin and SkinApi with a simplistic SkinMustache class
    • Adopt mustache templates in Modern and Monobook
    • Use project logo wordmarks on Wikimedia projects in Timeless
    • MediaWiki installer appears unstyled

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • working on adding image schema.org licence data to article pages
  • mediasearch improvements - vue frontend, improved linked data search on backend

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Refining and improving bulk email sync
  • Better filtering for matching gift policies db
  • Looking into potential bugs with flow asking one-time donors to convert to monthly donations

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Updates:
  • New blog!
    • Wow. So wikimedia. Such quality. Many testing. Very team. 🐶 phab:phame/blog/view/21/
  • Blog posts (by Google Summer of Code interns):
    • Vidhi Mody - GSoCpedia: The journey so far phab:phame/post/view/201/gsocpedia_the_journey_so_far/
    • Soham Parekh - Fanboying Cypress phab:phame/post/view/202/fanboying_cypress/

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - phab:T256668
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - phab:T256669
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - phab:T257969