Scrum of scrums/2017-01-04
Product
editReading
editWeb
edit- Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2405/
- Allow users who have the NavPopups gadget to use PagePreviews https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151058
- Start working towards Wikipedia branding on the mobile site https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148514
- Next sprint:
- MobileFrontend tech debt
- New readers prototype work - Allow collapsing of sections
- Wikipedia branding on the mobile site
Android
edit- Last week:
- Holiday
- Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
- Work towards release of Wikidata description editing
Reading Infrastructure
edit- working on TemplateStyles, tech debt https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133408
- not blocking
- blocked:
- WMDE on the last API i18n patch before we can move to hard deprecation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321464/
Mobile Content Service (MCS)
edit- Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/
- To be deployed:
- Add additional information to file and user pages clients can use for rendering https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148118
- Ordered news link to have "most relevant" article in a news story appear first in list
- Working on:
- Adding isDisambiguation flag https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151241
- New endpoint for "On This Day" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143408
iOS native app
edit- Last Week
- Released 5.3.3
- Continued work on 5.4
- Fixed bugs found in 5.3.3
- This week
- Release 5.3.4
- Continue work on 5.4 - Nearby, Login enhancements
Community Tech
edit- Blocking/Blockers: None
- Wikimania scholarships application has been updated and deployed
- Beginning to do investigative work on top 10 from the wishlist this week
(I'll be skipping the meeting today, sorry!)
Editing
editParsing
edit- Not blocking anyone or no blockers on anyone as far as I know
- Preparing for Dev Summit sessions
- Will soon start work on supporting audio/video in Parsoid
- Work ongoing with language variants ( had to revert a patch in core because of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153761 )
UI Standardization
edit- Updates
- Replace deprecated mediawiki.UI Less variables with current ones. All, but one patch on Flow already merged https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154362
- Echo Notifications Thank You uses outdated PNG icon instead of SVG. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149352
- Further research on: Improve form layouts in OOjs UI MW core forms for better user experience. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
- Preparing for Dev Summit and UI Standardization Design offsite
- Blocked
- OOjs UI's ButtonWidgets should use `box-sizing: border-box` https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146962
- Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112747 – Needs feedback from core developers
Collaboration
edit- Blocked: None
- Blocking: None
- Updates
- userExpLevel RecentChanges filter
- Other than that, mostly bug fixes to Echo and Flow, including Flow DB inconsistency fixes
Technology
editAnalytics
edit- Public EventStreams launch (hopefully early) this quarter (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130651)
- Blocked on ops (they know! :))
- Need review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/325589/ (Timo?)
Security
edit- Security Reviews:
- TwoColConflict (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149808)
- InterwikiSorting (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149083)
- Cognate (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149082)
Technical Operations
edit- Blocked:
- None
- Blocking:
- None
- Updates:
- LabsDB goal successful
- Kubernetes goal successful
- Ganglia/Prometheus goal successful
- Work starting on the data center switchover preparation
Performance
edit- Blocking/blockers: none
- Started work on defining alerts for performance regressions
- Implemented PoolCounter support in Thumbor, undergoing review
Discovery
edit- No blockers
- Quarterly goals update: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Discovery
- Continuing work on crosswiki searching, refactoring Special:Search
- Merged patch allowing extensions to define query keywords
Wikidata
edit- Preparing for the Dev Summit in SF. The Wikidata team is looking forward to meet you all!
- Gaining speed again after holiday weeks. Working hard on federation (ground work for structured Commons) as well as Lexemes (for Wiktionary).
- RfC: Drafted an alternative for the deprecated PHPUnit::assertTag: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69122
- Slow progress on phasing out UsageException: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153359 Given that it was deprecated just a few days ago we do not consider this high-priority at the moment.
Fundraising Tech
edit- Reviewing payment processor performance and fraud rates
- Reviewing banner impressions anomalies (neatly explained by internet.org proxies in Ireland)
- CiviCRM bug fixes and minor version upgrade
- little holiday scramble to deploy phpmailer CVE fixes
- Does security or releng want to look into using an automated composer.lock version vulnerability checker, e.g. https://security.sensiolabs.org/api ?
- Darian says ^^^ is already in place for mediawiki core, and he can help us set it up for all the fundraising components.
- Does security or releng want to look into using an automated composer.lock version vulnerability checker, e.g. https://security.sensiolabs.org/api ?