Scrum of scrums/2018-07-18

2018-07-18

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• [Perf] Seeking input on wmf-config variables that appear to be unused, and which we'd like to remove: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Unused_config

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

(Natalia H)

• Blocked by:
• Question for Analytics: can we return an error code if event logging validation fails? Right now we have to test manually using https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging/TestingOnBetaCluster#How_to_verify_events ** With the current system, no, because the endpoint you're sending to is a fire-and-forget Varnish server. This is a good thing to bring up in the Modern Event Platform Context.

^ thanks, that makes sense 👍 (let me know if you want to brainbounce the problem that this causes Ggellerman (WMF) (talk) 16:32, 19 July 2018 (UTC) milimetric)

• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • User testing of feed redesign and navigation changes in progress (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198932)
  • 6.0.0 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/) feature-complete by the end of this week
  • Product at Wikimedia

Android native app

(Natalia H)

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Finishing up prototypes of navigation updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3367/
  • Maintenance release this week to address minor analytics issues and audio playback. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198504

Readers Web

(Stephen N)

• Blocked by:
  • New service request: chromium-render/deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186748
    • We're not blocked but we're ready to help as needed on:
      • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/services/chromium-render/+/443465/ (+1d but needs review by Petr when available!)
      • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199264 (not sure what the status is)
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • RFC: Add a language agnostic build step to skins/extensions to our deploy process https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Page issues UI and instrumentation T191532 T191528 T197932 T197931 T199005
    • Special pages preferences T186760
    • Document existing JavaScript code coverage T197637
    • Other fixes and hygiene T193172 T197133 T198930
  • WikidataPageBanner
    • Banners should display the same in RTL or LTR T198818
  • PDF rendering (Proton):
    • Font configuration T199264
  • Desktop website (Popups):
    • Identify aborted HTTP requests logged T199482
    • Some JSDoc improvements and other fixes T198663
  • Wikipedia.org (Portals)
    • Extra spacing on article counts T199337
  • Product and design at Wikimania
  • Design finishing navigation prototypes for advanced contributors

Readers Infrastructure

• Blocked by: n/a
• Blocking: n/a
• Updates:
  • Working on updating maps dependencies to use a more recent Mapnik version (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188674)
  • Building a Docker Compose setup for maps stack (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193232)
  • content-html endpoint:
    • new name tbd T199491
    • working on splitting up CollapseTable in wikimedia-page-library into client and server portions
  • Working on respecting the accept-language header in MCS (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197009)

Multimedia

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Half the team is incommunicado for Wikimania; progress is minimal this week I think
  • Search prototype is progressing
  • Designs coming through soon for other work

Contributors

Community Tech

• Blocked by:
  • Security: Need security review for TemplateWizard extension https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198666

• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • GlobalPreferences API is out on beta. There's a breaking change that fixes a 'bug' that was introduced with blacklist notifications. Should not affect anyone.

Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Parsing

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• Updates:
  • Completed migration from Tidy to Remex, no major issues reported

Growth

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Language

• Blocked by: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199011 -> VE: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196521
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Progress on 'Progress Calculation' for CX2.
  • Some annoying bug fixes for CX1.
  • Fixed issues with cxserver and maintainance updates.

Audiences Design

UI Standardization

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • OOUI v0.27.5 released last week with accessible tabs, and standard buttons in dialogs. No release this week
  • Continuous work on Special:Preferences connected tasks and minor support for Special:Log to OOUI preparation
  • Design Style Guide: Color section/palette visual refresh, mobile friendly: https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/visual-style_colors.html

Technology

Analytics

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • We had a kafka main outage due to a stale testing environment for rest base, working with SRE teams to get more kafka expertise in ops teams so analytics is not the main point of contact of tier-1 service: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180711-kafka-eqiad#Kafka_considerations
  • New maps on wikistats. See pageviews for portuguese wikipedia around the world: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/pt.wikipedia.org/reading/page-views-by-country/normal%7Cmap%7C2-Year~2016060100~2018071700%7C~total
  • Added Historic data to UI, see legacy pageviews for portuguese wikipedia: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/pt.wikipedia.org/reading/legacy-page-views/normal%7Cbar%7CAll~1980010100~2018071700%7C~total
  • More friendly configuration on turnilo to explore datasets with numeric dimensions, this will help SRE and perf team troubleshoot issues with near-realtime data. See request-size for example: https://turnilo.wikimedia.org/#webrequest_sampled_128

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Thanks to the core team for fixing the bug blocking CentralNotice translatable message saves!
  • More public testing of new API for main CC processor
  • More work on email opt-in checkbox for selected countries
  • More work on donor data export and expurgation
  • More work on new data pipeline for banner and landing page views
  • Working on support for es-419 (LatAm Spanish) in donation pipeline

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

(Ian M)

• Blocked by:
  • SRE - Waiting on several puppet reviews/merges related to the webperf profile/roles
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Mcrouter writes config broke things when we deployed it last week, resulting in a partial outage. Rolled back, and have since fixed that issue, but have not scheduled the rollout of the fix. Incident report at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180710-MediaWiki
  • Also found an issue with mcrouter not properly supporting Unicode keys. Wrote a patch to address that which has landed on master, and has been backported.
  • fixed a few different unit tests that were sporadically failing
  • Seeking input on wmf-config variables that appear to be unused, and which we'd like to remove: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Krinkle/Unused_config

Release Engineering

(Hashar)

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • webpack for extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004
  • ORES CI patches fail https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198201
• Updates:
  • {done} Mobile CI job to Docker: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/442126/
  • Flappy tests blocking PageTriage changes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137
    • worked around by disabling a test on Friday 07/13 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/445394
    • Test suite ongoing improvement to properly fix the underlying issue

• • CI Jenkins to be upgraded to latest LTS
  • Various wikimedia deployed extensions fail tests in CI. Antoine will reach out to teams. (parent task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183512 )
    • Eg: ArticlePlaceholder , Cognate, intersection, LabeledSectionTransclusion, TrustedXFF, WikibaseLexeme

Research

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Wikimania
  • Analyzed the inital set of CitationUsage data. Making adjustments to the code to collect more data.
  • Working on re-running the UnsourcedStatements WikiLabels campaign.

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • JADE storage discussion continues, latest twist is that we should go back to TechCom.
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • wp10 storage enabled in euwiki
  • Migrating to new library for abstraction of wikibase entities in ores is going on (from pywikibase to mwbase)

Search Platform

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Security

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Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • Would it help to schedule this meeting earlier in the day?
    • Participants of the meeting said yes
    • Proposal to experiment with holding meeting 2 hours earlier