Scrum of scrums/2018-06-13
2018-06-13
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edit- SRE and Services on Readers Web: Proton times out way too often to be put into production https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748#4275727
- SRE summit next week. SREs/Ops people across the organization will be unavailable. Also deployment pause because of this. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_June_18th
- Wikidata/WMDE: If you use Wikidata's wb_terms database table replicas (tool, script, anything), please let us know what data you use and how, as we're considering phasing out the table: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197161
- Special thanks to Performance, Analytics, and Readers Web for reviewing the CitationUsage schema instrumentation code.
- Security: Security review for Wikidata queries data release proposal https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190875
- Please take the beta cluster survey:
- Announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-May/090049.html
- Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/XgIxXiSi1G5eVHbp2
- Scoring platform: Discussion about peformance impact of deploying JADE on prodcution wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196547 Please chime in and take a look
Audiences
editReaders
editiOS native app
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- 5.8.2 w/ event logging analytics and bug fixes in public beta, looks good so far ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3358/ )
- Continuing work on next major release, 6.0 - Feed customization and design updates ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3238/ )
Android native app
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Readers Web
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- Ruby to JS Cucumber refactor needs help from the RelEng team to fix our flaky Ruby tests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190710
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- Mobile website page issues improvements and A/B test framework continues https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159262
- Mobile website gallery and table of contents bug fixes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196911 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193517
- Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning and tasking https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195473
- Catching up on code review
- 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
- Outcome 1, Objective 4: Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
Readers Infrastructure
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- Safari Reading List extension coming soon, awaiting final QA signoff.
- Two new engineers.
- Supporting lang variants in MCS: Passing Accept-Language header to Parsoid. Soon: sending the uselang parameter to MW API requests.
Maps
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Multimedia
edit- Quarterly goal dependency update
- Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
- SDC depends on Multimedia, SRE, WMDE, Search Platform, MediaWiki Platform, Research
- Preparations continue - MCR and other dependencies are well tracked for this
- OOUI work now implicates some of our fine friends in Contributors - esp. Collaboration - been talking with Moriel to get a good high-level view of what's needed
- Integrate structured file captions into search
- SDC depends on Search Platform, Multimedia
- Cormac (our lead on the search work) is out until next week, but our work on search is well ahead of schedule to my knowledge
- Assess user needs for contributors to Structured Data on Commons with interviews and surveys - T171252
- Research depends on Multimedia
- As far as I know, Pam has been supporting this work, but no engineering time is needed?
- Prepare for launch of the first Structured Data on Commons feature (multilingual file captions)
Contributors
editCommunity Tech
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- Working on PageTriage improvements
- GlobalPreferences and CodeMirror are still upon us
Anti-Harassment Tools
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- Start work on Partial Blocks (quarterly goal) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196578
- Special thanks to Jaime Crespo and Brad Jorsch for their help on drafting an SQL schema change
- Fixing Bugs with the Takedown Tools https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2949/
- Start work on Partial Blocks (quarterly goal) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196578
Editing
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Parsing
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- No blockers known
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- No blocking known
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- Poem extension integrated into parsoid, reviewed, waiting for merge
- Cite extension work is done and waiting for review
- Tidy to Remex switch over nearly complete
- We are planning to do the final switch from Tidy -> RemexHtml for all wikis on the wikimedia cluster on July 5th
- C Scott' s work on language subsystem just beginning review
Collaboration
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Language
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- ContentTranslation Version 2 work continue; We are inviting some users to try it out!
- Draft purge script in progress. Thanks to suggestions from DBAs.
Audiences Design
editUI Standardization
edit- OOUI – v0.27.3 special release last Thu
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.27.3
- 4 style/code improvement/regression fixes.
- v0.27.4 in preparation for next Tue
- Continuing work on Design Style Guide
Technology
editAnalytics
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- Discussion with coms and site and measuring pageviews for new wikimediafoundation site.
- Ops goals for quarter done. Others still in progress.
- Working with security and legal on data map, should be done by end of quarter.
- Old geowiki system completely shut down (removing puppet code), we put the new data in superset (dashboard being vetted).
- Changes continue to selectively purge data in hadoop for eventlogging backend.
- Adding "permalinks" to Wikistats2.
Cloud Services
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Fundraising Tech
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- DonationInterface: working through bugs revealed in 1 hr trial of main CC processor's new API
MediaWiki Platform
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Performance
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Release Engineering
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- Ruby to JS Cucumber refactor needs help from the RelEng team to fix our flaky Ruby tests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190710
- Updates
- Please take the Beta Cluster survey:
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-May/090049.html
- Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/XgIxXiSi1G5eVHbp2
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-May/090049.html
- Heads up: There will be more people in the normal MW Train deployment rotation (namely: Antoine, Zeljko, and Dan to start) and we'll be doing some Train deployments during EU hours some weeks. Exact timing TBA (soon).
- Please take the Beta Cluster survey:
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Research
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- Updates:
- Adding UI translations to the Gapfinder tools project: http://gapfinder-tools.wmflabs.org/
- Training models for recommending translation suggestions: https://github.com/wikimedia/research-translation-recommendation-models/
Scoring Platform
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- Draft topic is deployed!
- Deployed drafttopic in production, try it out like: https://ores.wikimedia.org/v3/scores/enwiki/123456?models=drafttopic
- bswiki & srwiki have advanced support --> Collab
- Fixed ORES extension bugs for services and analytics
- Discussion about peformance impact of deploying JADE on prodcution wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196547 Please chime in and take a look
- Draft topic is deployed!
Search Platform
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- Security: Security review for Wikidata queries data release proposal https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190875
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- Updates:
- Fixed prefix: to not override chosen namespaces: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195815
- Created analysis chains for Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bosnian, reindex next: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192395
- Reindexed Slovak and Serbian wikis for new analyzers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191545
- Added Lexeme terms to source text: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195912
- Added RDF export for Wikibase constraints: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194762
- Working on Lexeme fulltext search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196188
- Working on fixing Geodata issues: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196526
- Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
- Working on fixing namespace/redirect mixup in search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115756
Security
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Services
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- Readers web on Proton times out way too often to be put into production https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748#4275727 (from SRE)
- EchoNotificationJob being non JSON serializable https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192945#4278916
- Parsing on deploying the language conversion API at least t deployment-prep
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- Groundwork in RESTBase to prepare for language variants support
- Tweaking the kafka job queue for cirrus search jobs
Site Reliability Engineering
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- No longer blocked by collaboration on Flow dumps. The move to php7 made it faster, it's not an issue currently, it can be put on the back burner
- Readers web on Proton times out way too often to be put into production https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748#4275727
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- None
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- An outbound email outage was experienced on June 6th, https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180606-mx
- videoscalers/jobrunners clusters merged increasing available videoscaling capacity
- tin has been replaced (but you should anyway use deployment.eqiad.wmnet
- Upgrade to 3.24 HHVM started
- Proton (chromium-render) has been deployed and is timeouting way too often even on basic monitoring traffic. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748#4275727
Wikidata
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- No longer blocked on hard-to-track browser failures: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191537 Thanks Hashar, Anomie and Zeljko!
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- None (that we know of)
- Updates:
- Investigating ways of migrating away from the unmaintainable wb_terms database table
- Improving editor experience of the recently launched lexemes on Wikidata
- Prototyping a mobile user interface for editing labels, descriptions, etc of items and properties
German Technical Wishlist
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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
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