Scrum of scrums/2017-02-22
Call outs
edit- Community Tech: Need feedback on proposed table for range contributions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318
- Community Tech: Collation version numbering patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272419/ (blocks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47611 )
- Services: RFC Discussion REST API language variant support - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154190
- Language: Blocked on mysterious Qunit test failures: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 (RelEng/Wikidata?)and schema changes review from DBA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146450
Product
editReading
editAndroid
edit- Last week:
- 2.5.189 beta released; production release is pending community feedback on Wikidata description editing
- Mapbox library upgrade in review
- Android Support Library upgraded
- Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
- Continue improving the offline experience
Web
edit- Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-92-%F0%9F%8D%9C/
- Last week:
- Page Previews: Use bundler to generate Page Previews JavaScript code - phab:T156333
- Create reading depth schema - phab:T155639
- This week:
- Update related pages schema to allow for current A/B test - phab:T157375
- Page previews: use RESTBase in stage 0 wikis (italian, russian, greek, catalan, hebrew) - phab:T158221
- Deploy new mobile header to Catalan and Italian wikipedias - phab:T156794
- [Spike] Propose solutions for the issues identified with developing on MobileFrontend - phab:T156263
iOS native app
edit- Last Week
- Continued work on 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
- Location permission changes (friendlier prompt, users to opt-in instead of an intrusive pop-up)
- Closer evaluation of Mapbox & maps.wikimedia.org as tileserver
- Other bug fixes and enhancements
- Continued work on 5.4 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
- This week
- Continue work on 5.4
- Finish location permission changes, add links to places map from Articles, Accessibility audit
- Other bug fixes and enhancements
- Continue work on 5.4
Reading Infrastructure
edit- Mobile Content Service: Kanban Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2445/
- Adding more tests for OnThisDay; removing French from it since not all dates produce a result
- Next: expanding TFA (today's featured article) to more languages using FeaturedFeed extension
- working on TemplateStyles, ORES, MediaWiki logging
- TemplateStyles RfC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155813 - performance questions still open + waiting for community consultation to wrap up
Analytics
edit- Vetting wmf_last_access_global (project-wide unique devices) metric
- Applying feedback received from community to Wikistats2.0 and finalizing visuals
- Upgrade to CDH 5.10 to labs, went well, real production deploy scheduled for next tuesday 28th Feb
- In progress: fixing a bug in AQS (Pageview API) related to the way dates are represented in the results
Community Tech
edit- Cookie blocks should go out this week https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158129
- Investigating global gadgets https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153332
- Some improvements to PageAssessments https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158245 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154216
- Need feedback on proposed table for range contributions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156318
Discovery
edit- No blockers
- A/B test for for sister wiki results finished, processing the results.
- Working on ES5 upgrade & wikidata search
- Working on annual plan & Collab Jam slides
Security
editReviews:
- 3D extension
- Internal File Server
- CollaborationKit
- StopForumSpam
Services
edit- Blockers: None
- Updates:
- DNS caching in service-runner by default
- REST API 1.0
- Language variant RFC wrapping up right after this meeting
Editing
editLanguage
edit- Current Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/language-2017_sprint_3/
- Compact Language Links deployed in 'svwiki'.
- CX migration to OOJS continue.
Collaboration
edit- Blocked
- Blocking
- Updates
- New RecentChanges page - Bug fixes and refactoring
- Flow - Minor technical debt and upgrading pimple (should have no user impact)
- Will deploy an update to the Flow export/import scripts that allow transwiki within the farm. We'll use this shortly (probably today) to transwiki a board from Meta to MediaWiki.org
German Technical Wishlist
edit- TwoColConflict is officially in Beta, watching for feedback.
- Working on FileImporter/Exporter to transfer files to Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/projects/mediawiki/extensions/FileImporter,dashboards/default
Wikidata
edit- Same as last week, making good progress on Lexeme datatype for Wiktionary, as well as federation for Commons.
- Will check if https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153038 is Wikidata related.
UI Standardization
edit- This week
- Work on the technical fundamentals of style guide (responsive layout, grid, navigation)
- Updates
- General
- ContentTranslation: Сontribution's dropdown menu features non-standard layout. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157217
- Further work on: Replace abandoned colors in current WMF/Wikimedia products with WikimediaUI palette colors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148708
- OOjs UI:
- Figure out which parts of OOjs UI documentation should be improved, and where they should live - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158494
- Further improvements on form layouts in OOUI MW core forms for better user experience – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136790
- Align SelectfileInputWidget to color palette
- General
Technical Operations
edit- Blocked:
- None
- Blocking:
- None
- Updates:
- Work continues on Ubuntu Precise deprecation, production and labs
- Budgeting Capex / Opex and annual plan
- Datacenter switchover
- Asia datacenter preparation
Release Engineering
edit- Blocked:
- None
- Blocking:
Fundraising Tech
edit- Hiring replacement for Casey, who's turning devops
- More work on new PayPal integration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107372, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153720
- Method to purge CentralNotice banners from caches: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154954
- Investigating slow banner saves: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158084
- Andrew Green may ask ops for some help with both of the above ^^^
- More work resolving contact de-duplication conflicts in CiviCRM