Scrum of scrums/2016-09-28
Product
editReading
editMobile Content Service (MCS)
edit- Fixed video anchors
- No deploys this week due to ops offsite
- Starting discussions about versioning sections endpoint
Android native app
edit- Current sprint board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2238/
- Next sprint board: TBA
- Navigation overhaul work for beta release is complete. Release will go out the door today (9/28).
- We'll likely promote to stable quickly if no significant issues emerge.
Reading Web
edit- Current sprint board:
- Begin rolling out wikidata descriptions to top 6 wikis
- Move Related Pages to stable mobile web Wikipedias (all but top 6)
- Investigate hovercards instrumentation issues around 9 Sep - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146620
- Big drop in EL events in a few extensions - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146840
iOS native app
edit- Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2220/
- 5.3 is in development
- Release date is expected to be before end of October
- WIll include migration to MCS feed endpoint
Reading Infrastructure
edit- blocking: TemporaryPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProviderTest is flaky https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146498
- blocked: nothing
- updates: last call for comments on the proposed api.php integration for ORES and pageviews: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143895 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144865
Community Tech
edit- No blockers
- Moving CopyPatrol to French Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145431
- Adding account creation to Striker https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144710#2674663
- Updating CentralAuth tables for cross-wiki watchlist https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142507 (Gerrit review needed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309553/ )
- Adding start/end times to WikiEd Programs Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546
- 11-year old task to send a cookie with each block https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233
- Slowly deploying PageAssessments to English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146679
Editing
editLanguage (not present, only notes)
edit- Blocked
- Would appreciate comments from ops or puppet-knowledgeable person how to override restbase url in puppet for a service in labs
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129284#2674533
- The goal is to be able to text content translations on deployment-prep with real articles from different wikipedias.
- Would appreciate comments from ops or puppet-knowledgeable person how to override restbase url in puppet for a service in labs
- Blocking: not aware
Parsing
edit- Tim working on updates to the parser tests infrasatructure ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312969/3 and related )
- Scott continuing work on having Parsoid parse language variant markup (close to moving out of WIP status)
- Planning to deploy Parsoid's native <gallery> implementation in a backward compatible way and have VE pick it up when they are ready to use it -- if it doesn't happen next week, it will only happen in 3 weeks time (since we have parsing team and editing dept offsites starting oct 10).
Collaboration
edit- Blocked
- Continuing collaboration with Services team on ReviewStream
- Blocking
- Updates
- Will have a meeting with the Wiki Labels team on Friday to discuss how we can collaborate
- Continuing work on Flow back-end, including caching refactor and bug fixes for opt-in
- Continuing Echo work, including instrumentation to track the number of page views before viewing notifications.
UI Standardization
edit- Working on
- Align Minerva (Mobile Frontend) to overhauled color palette: MobileFrontend https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146799
- Review current style and integrate messages and message boxes as MediaWiki UI component https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127405
- MediaWiki theme: Use `color-progressive` for switched-on binary inputs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145629
- Finished
- Published new color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82 with WCAG 2.0 level AA compliant colors
- Button styles differ in mediawiki.UI from design templates and OOjs UI https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146823
- Align Wikimedia Portal UI elements to improved color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231
Technology
editAnalytics
edit- Deployed new throttling limits to Pageview API, doing real well with super low latencies, we will add capacity to double requests served next week: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/aqs-elukey?from=1474479314693&to=1475084114695
- Erik Z vetting data from edit reconstruction project on simplewiki, after edit reconstruction calculating metrics is much easier. We can calculate metrics from very beginning: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/standard-metrics/#simplewiki
- Load testing druid and about to put pivot in production accesible internally to wmf, this is a UI to some of our data in hive, mostly pageviews, no need to use sql
Security
edit- Intake and interviews for security roles continue
- Investigating appearance of 400 errors in logs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144100
- Lego, Timo: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/310257/
Services
edit- Blocking: none
- Blocked: none
- Updates:
- Working on ServiceWorker page composition service
- Working on supporting Change Propagation and RESTBase for private wikis
ArchCom
edit- Full status: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus
- Last week: Phab:E273 - Multi-Content Revisions (Phab:T107595)
- This week Phab:E285 - WikiDev17
- discussion about use of Phab for topics is happening now on wikitech-l
Discovery
edit- No blockers
- Analyzing BM25 A/B test, if results are positive deployment will be somewhere early October
- Working on multiwiki indexes
- Working on file properties indexing (size, type, dimensions, etc.)
- ICU folding analysis: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Upgrading_ASCII_Folding_to_ICU_Folding_for_French_and_English
- TLDR: positive effect, implementation in progress
- Completion with DEFAULTSORT demo: http://mw-sug-subpages-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/default_sort_demo.html
RelEng
edit- Blocking
- none
- Blocked
- none
- Updates
- New scap (3.3.0)
- scap caches local config for it's deployment (machines don't have to reach back to tin)
- Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
- Reminder: no train week of Oct 17th (but SWATs OK)
- New scap (3.3.0)
Wikidata
edit- wiktionary - automated interwiki links
- structured commons - federation, multiple repos
(I'm having techical issues with joinIng hangout. Sorry. - katie)
Fundraising Tech
edit- Need help with potential MessageCache issue relating to CentralNotice
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952
- See Adam's investigation notes pointing to i18n / cache flukiness
- Andrew Green thinks it might even have something to do with TranslationExtension
- Still trying to kill stubborn remaining ActiveMQ queues
- More CiviCRM data cleanup and tweaks to deduplication process
- Migrating old PayPal IPN listener to SmashPig framework