Scrum of scrums/2018-05-09

2018-05-09

Callouts

• UI Standardization: OOUI – v0.27.0 breaking change release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.27.0 As there are 5 breaking changes & 2 deprecations in this release, at least nominally, please carefully consider if they affect your code.
• RelEng: Please review my patch! https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/415886/ <3 -mdh (RI)

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

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Android native app

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  • Nearly ready with Multilingual prototype for user-testing at the Hackathon.

Readers Web

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  • Ruby to JS Cucumber refactor needs help from the RelEng team: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190710
  • Proton instrumentation needs help from the Services team: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189307
    • We need help setting up the test environment (send production traffic to new server to find out how it performs); let's discuss in the Thursday sync!
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  • Merged refactoring jQuery collapsible elements to use CSS instead of JavaScript https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42812
  • Merged miscellaneous watchstar bug fixes wrapping up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191454
  • Working with anti-harassment team for improvements to messaging for blocked users https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165535
  • Miscellanous post-page previews en/dewiki launch clean up https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192622
  • Some rather involved improvements to long infobox presentation and inlined article thumbnails https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189688
  • Miscellaneous MobileFrontend and Popups refactors
  • Proton (Chromium rendering service) instrumentation in progress https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189307
  • Reviewing applicants for full stack engineer backfill
  • Continuing on improving the page issues experience https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159262
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
    • Reading Web depends on SRE, RelEng, Reading Infra

Readers Infrastructure

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  • Updated mobile-sections, summary, and action=mobileview to take overridden local short descriptions into account (also provide the source where the description came from: local or central wiki; the first two endpoints are already deployed, the action=mobileview is riding the train this week)
  • Added announcement for production Android app to point to a survey about reading list sync, running for one week since Tuesday.
  • Add to Reading List browser extensions awaiting legal review
• Quarterly goal dependency update:
  • Increase code sharing of client apps by coalescing and moving more logic to the server
    • Reading Infra depends on Parsing, Services

Maps

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Multimedia

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  • Working on frontend changes for MediaInfo (changing forms to OOUI)
  • Added instrumentation to UploadWizard via EventLogging
  • Continuing work on search indexing of properties and qualifiers
  • Discussion in progress about what parts of MCR need to be completed for initial SDoC launch with multi-lingual file captions

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Parsing

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Collaboration

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  • Internationalized maps are live
  • <mapframe> live on almost all Wikipedias (waiting for a Parsoid restart before we announce)

Language

• Blocked by: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151116 - Abuse filters set to warn users require two captchas - affecting CX.
• Blocking: None
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  • ContentTranslation version 2 work continue.

Audiences Design

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UI Standardization

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  • OOUI – v0.27.0 breaking change release: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.27.0
  • 5 breaking changes & 2 deprecations in this release! Additionally 7 style changes, 4 code & 3 accessibility improvements. Among those:
    • Infusable PHP NumberInputWidget is now added and part of core (mainframe98)
    • ProcessDialog: Fix footer height when actions or dialog size changes (Bartosz Dziewoński)
    • icons: Add 'editing-citation' pack (Volker E.)
    • SelectFileWidget: Use `<label>` for select ButtonElement (Volker E.)

• • Continued work on Design Style Guide

Technology

Analytics

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  • Kafka upgrade on main Kafka cluster (tier 1)
  • Upgrading druid to 0.11 and running into trouble, testing in labs.
  • Working on geoeditors (the improved geowiki data - #editors per country).
  • Work continues to update UA Parser.
  • Recruiting for SRE, Audiences and data analysts team.
  • Surfacing virtual pageviews in aggregated form in Hive and in Druid/pivot.
  • switching on EL sanitization in Hive, not yet deleting data, just creating another sanitized copy.

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • CiviCRM
    • another version upgrade - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194210
    • imports for new bitcoin processor - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192953
    • fixes for audit file processing (refunds to recurring payments) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190098
    • recurring charge processing for main CC processor's new API - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170973
  • CentralNotice
    • Still working out mechanics of new banner impression / EventLogging backend pipeline - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186048
    • CSP on banner previews breaking some workflows, investigating whether those should stay broken - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193332
  • DonationInterface
    • squashing last blocker bug for public-facing trial of main CC processor's new API - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190871

MediaWiki Platform

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Performance

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  • Continuing to migrate our tools, making good progress there.
  • Evaluating several different mobile testing services, hoping to find one that allows us to do regular testing but haven't yet done so.
  • Beginning to do performance testing on Android phones (mobile site, not app)
  • Had an issue with NavTiming extension that resulted in some data collection being dropped. Fixed at the end of last week.
  • Beginning some ResourceLoader refactoring to reduce overhead. Related, looking in to deferring jQuery until somewhat later in the page load process.
  • Blocked the train last week, had to roll back a change to DBTransactionError
  • Refactoring varnish log processing for better reusability
  • Planning an offsite for June

Release Engineering

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Research

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  • Started implementing the CitationUsage schema instrumentation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191086
  • Started identifying areas of improvement for the recommendation API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190774

Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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  • Trey published a blog post about names & search: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/05/08/searching-for-names-is-not-always-straightforward/
  • Wikidata indexing for more properties enabled, pending reindex: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163642
  • More wikis get deepcategory search enabled soon (~next week): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194139
  • Working on Polish analyzer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186046
  • Working on using Serbian analyzer for more languages: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192395
  • Working on improving sharding of Elastic cluster: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192972
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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Services

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: PDF service
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  • Kafka 1.1 🎉 Cheers to Analytics
  • A lot of RESTBase patches are getting deployed
  • A big thank for everyone who reached to us regarding the jobs callout from last week

Site Reliability Engineering

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Wikidata

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  • nodejs selenium tests to be stable and voting on ci they still fail most of the time due to issues that are in mediawiki core or other extensions and generally seem super flaky
  • Enhanced recent changes don't format external usernames well in contributors summary https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/428712/ (Any objections?)

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  • Normalize change tag schema - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185355
  • 2 weeks until Lexeme is live.

German Technical Wishlist

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  • UCA category collation got declined because of …? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128806
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  • AdvancedSearch is enabled as a Beta feature on all wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193182
  • Finalizing deepcategory search integration in AdvancedSearch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194256
  • Fixed a OOUI bug in IE10+: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191287
  • Raised test coverage of FileImporter to over 60%: https://doc.wikimedia.org/cover-extensions/FileImporter/
  • Working on a core fix needed for FileImporter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193621
  • Looking forward to the Hackathon

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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