Scrum of scrums/2017-05-10

2017-05-10 edit

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

Call outs: edit

  • Research Recommendation API being ported to node
  • RelEng: No train next week (we're on our offsite). RelEng probably won't be SWATting anything -- SWATs will be best effort


Reading edit

Android edit

iOS edit

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 edit

Parsing edit

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

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

German Technical Wishlist edit

Wikidata edit

Research edit

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

Security edit

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