Scrum of scrums/2017-05-10
2017-05-10
editcontact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering
Call outs:
edit- Research Recommendation API being ported to node
- Could use review from Services
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164282
- RelEng: No train next week (we're on our offsite). RelEng probably won't be SWATting anything -- SWATs will be best effort
Reading
editAndroid
edit- Working on UI and DB updates to accommodate reading list syncing product requirements
- Experimenting with partial XHR content loading in the WebView
- Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/
iOS
edit- Last Week
- Released 5.4.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2600/
- 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
- TWN localization pluralization support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126493
- Places bug fixes
- This Week
- 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
- Enhanced search visibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130159
- Update feed design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141767
- 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
Reading Infrastructure
edit- fix handling of video tags in MCS (for Android app); removing mobile-text route; stop stripping some id attributes; work on new HTML route
- finalizing plans for Reading Lists; RfC to follow soon
Web
edit- Aiming to address various log errors and UI regressions
- RelEng may be interested in our activity in exploring CSS regression testing (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107588 )
- Added a comment about Parsing team's visual diff testing there. :)
Community Tech
edit- Rolling out LoginNotify Extension to BetaCluster and TestWiki
- Continuing work on CodeMirror extension for syntax highlighting
- Continuing work on XTools rewrite
No blockers!
Editing
editParsing
edit- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/ is waiting on security review
- Redlink support in Parsoid is now awaiting code review
Collaboration
edit- Blocked
- Blocking
- Updates
- RCFilters
- New filters, including top revision
- Watchlist filters
- Saved queries to allow user to easily repeat their search
- Tour to invite people to use Beta Feature
- Fix contradictory RC filters
- Preparatory backend work to allow user to filter for multiple namespaces and tags
- Bug fixes for RCFilters, ORES, Echo, and Flow
- RCFilters
UI Standardization
edit- This week:
- Continued work on bringing automatic Sketch export to Wikimedia UI Style Guide to always be up-to-date with design changes
- Updates:
- OOjs UI:
- v0.21.3 released with 3 accessibility and 6 UI improvements, among those
- OOjs UI:
German Technical Wishlist
edit- Deployed TwoColumnConflict resolution extension as Beta feature on all wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162806
Wikidata
edit- Same as last weeks, focussing on the Lexeme frontend code. Demo wiki not up to date right now: http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org/index.php/Lexeme:L2
- Working on bugs and features for the WikibaseQualityConstraints extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikibase-quality/
Research
edit- Reader segmentation survey in more languages
- test happening tomorrow in ja, ro, de, he wikis
- run all surveys from approx 15-22 May
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131949
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151835
- Recommendation API being ported to node
- Could use review from Services
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164282
TechOps
edit- Blocking
- None?
- Blocked
- None
- Updates
- Final stages of hiring for our open spot
- Mark (slowly) coming back from vacation
- Datacenter switchover is done :)
RelEng
edit- Blocking
- None?
- Blocked
- None
- Updates
- Next week team offsite
- no train
- SWATs on best volunteer effort
- Next week team offsite
Security
edit- Reviews
- TemplateStyles
- JsonConfig/Kartographer
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349432/
Fundraising Tech
edit- New hire is deploying CiviCRM fixes
- About to run more tests of new PayPal integration
- CiviCRM: 3rd party mailer integration
- Ingenico re-build / library-ization work starting
- CentralNotice Banner sequence merged, testing on beta
Discovery
edit- No blockers
- Logstash/kibana upgraded to latest Elastic version
- Building infrastructure for machine learning assisted ranking (aka MjoLniR)
- Working on Hebrew language analyzer, report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/HebMorph_Analyzer_Analysis
- Talk at R-Ladies SF about analytics work in Discovery: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Data_Science_Workflow_at_Discovery.pdf
- Preparing for ES upgrade to 5.3.2