Scrum of scrums/2016-06-15

2016-06-15

Product

Reading

Android

• Still working on the content feed.
• Need from SERVICES: regeneration of certain mobile-section endpoints to fix a couple of outstanding bugs (T136964)
  • Is anything needed from us before this can be kicked off?

Mobile Content Service

• Need from SERVICES: Hook up public facing feed endpoints (T136960)

Reading Web

• Fixing things to prepare wikidata descriptions on mobile web to stable in following sprints
• Continue work on lazy loading images and references on mobile web

iOS

• It's WWDC week

Reading Infrastructure

• AuthManager has shipped, working on follow-up tasks
• blocked on T111486 Update Translate to use AuthManager (Language?)

Community Tech

• Still working on CopyPatrol tool ( https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol )
• Beta testing RevisionSlider Extension on Labs with WMDE TCB team ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider )
• Beta testing PageAssessments Extension on Labs ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments )
• Blockers: Beta Labs wikis locked

Editing

Collaboration

• Blocked - None
• Blocking - External Store on Beta: Waiting to hear back at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119567
• Updates
  • Working on new Special:Notifications sidebar to show pages with unread notifications
  • Finishing expandable Echo bundles
  • Working on Flow deletion-related issues

Parsing

• Second RFC to replace Tidy with HTML5Depurate on the WMF cluster last Wednesday
  • Things moving ahead with setting up some tools to help editors figure out how this will affect them and make wikitext changes where required (since there is broken wikitext out there that will render differently with a HTML5 parser vs. Tidy).
  • Tim in conversation with Ops about how to set up this HTML5Depurate service on the app cluster.
• Work ongoing to migrate Parsoid to use service-runner. Marko and Services are now in the loop and handling this.
• Scott & Kunal at Wikimania next week; Scott @ Kiwix hackathon this week and will focus on OCG (PDF generation) there.

Language

• Blocking: None?
• Blocked: None
• Updates:
  • Compact Language Links deployment starting next week.
  • Jessie migration for Apertium in progress.
  • Lots of template related fixes done/coming up in Content Translation.

Multimedia

• No blocking, no blocked
• Gallery work progressing, nearing working prototype
• FileAnnotations repository exists, wikitext storage, editing interface on the way
• Performance/Gilles: Thumbor status?

Technology

RelEng

• Blocking: T123718 - Phase out antimony
  • this should be done
• Blocked: None
• Updates:
  • REMINDER! Migrate your things to scap3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1824/
    • What have you touched? Please migrate! :)
  • Proposal for the #scrum-of-scrums workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137904

Services

• started work on the auth and session storage service
  • will write up an RfC describing it to get wider input
• Change-propagation
  • struggling with transclusion rules
• Parsoid move to Jessie
  • started working on porting it to service::node
  • next: move to Jessie, then Scap3
• better MW deploys
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110068
  • want to add a Swagger spec to MW for automatic monitoring
• Services team out 21/06 - 02/07 - wikimania + offsite in Lisbon

Security

• One usability bugs for Ex::OATHAuth in progress (T136988)
• Two-factor usability survey work resuming
• Fix for T137264 will be deployed today
• Reviews: Android Services for Reading

Technical operations

• Blocked:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • Work on parallel corpora dumps resumed (was blocking Language Engineering)
• Updates:
  • Got a kubernetes backend for webservice in tool labs
    • migrating webservices to it
  • Jessie appservers work ongoing
  • 10% block for insecure POST (not HTTPS that is) went live on Monday 13:00 UTC
  • various performance optimizations on cache_upload varnish cluster

Discovery

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 need help with scripts
• Portal launched new A/B test for collapsing long list of languages
• TextCat A/B test running on English wiki

Interactive

• Maps launched on English Wikivoyage
• Switched to production servers
• Soon removing referrer check, and allowing maps client code on all wikis (but not yet the wiki markup just yet)