Scrum of scrums/2018-08-08

2018-08-08 edit

Callouts edit

Audiences edit

Readers edit

iOS native app edit

Android native app edit

Readers Web edit

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    • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
      • Page issues UI and instrumentation: T191532 T197932 T191528
      • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture: T188261 T197133
      • Other fixes and hygiene: T199282 T193172 T201131 T197110 T197931 T200867 T200518

Readers Infrastructure edit

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    • MCS patch to prepare for Parsoid <audio> tags in code review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/mobileapps/+/450896, hope to deploy today
    • MCS preparing announcement for Android app multi-language features: T191640
    • Continuing work on mobile-html endpoint improvements (see open subtasks of T177433)
    • Maps (*ping Gehel*):
      • deployment-maps04 is up and running for testing Maps on Stretch in the BC
      • we're ready for the maps cluster switchover to Stretch
      • maps-test cluster can be decom'd (perhaps, but not necessarily, after the maps cluster switchover to Stretch)

Multimedia edit

Contributors edit

Community Tech edit

Anti-Harassment Tools edit

Editing edit

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Parsing edit

Growth edit

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Language edit


Audiences Design edit

UI Standardization edit

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    • OOUI next minor release v0.28 in preparation.
      • Supporting GSOC student Hagar Shilo in finishing up new OOUI “Tutorials” section, thanks also to Moriel for initiative
      • Preparation of some UI fine-tuning for frameless buttons
    • Finishing up SVG optimization in Popups (last product resolved) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185596

Technology edit

Analytics edit

Cloud Services edit

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Fundraising Tech edit

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    • More work on new API integration for main card processor
    • More work on email opt-in
    • More work on CiviCRM donor data deletion requests
    • Ready to start publishing exchange rates to internal Google Doc
    • Work almost done on pipeline for EventLogging banner & landiing page data
    • Prepping for Monday maintenance window
      • upgrade payments-wiki to new Mediawiki LTS
      • add new columns and indexes to Civi log tables, update db replication mode

MediaWiki Core Platform edit

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    • Pingback flood issue (T200864)
      • Fixed and filtered erroneous data from graphs
    • While investigating pingback, noticed an issue with SQLite upgrade, fixed (T200861)
    • Investigated reports of events lost from Logstash. Created Grafana dashboard https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/logstash and task T200960.
    • Investigated PHP notice from RemexHtml (T200827)
    • Followup change on logging detail globals, complete and merged (T16576)
      • Pushed 3 changesets for unregistered options on maintenance scripts. 1 merged, following up on other 2 (T110209)
    • HTTP library discussion Guzzle/Requests, localization (T110022)
    • Platform Evolution stakeholder meetings

Performance edit

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    • Need access to labstore servers, Cloud Services is already aware
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    • All wikis are now using mcrouter for memcache reads, instead of nutcracker
    • ResourceLoader changes to defer jQuery dependency and to remove a roundtrip are in final review, will likely be on the train next week
    • Collecting data on how people understand outage response. Survey has gone out to Technology, will go out to Audiences later on (next week-ish)
    • Working on sitemaps generation in order to address https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199252 (and quite a few additional tickets as well)


Release Engineering edit

Research edit

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests

    • Participating in a Platform Evolution survey.

Scoring Platform edit

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Search Platform edit

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Security edit

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Site Reliability Engineering edit

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    • Network issues with switches - T201039 T201145
    • Logstash packet loss much much better now - T200960

Wikidata edit

German Technical Wishlist edit

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    • Working on:
      • TwoColConflict
      • Wikidiff2
      • AdvancedSearch
      • FileImporter

Multi-Content Revisions edit

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    • Switched all wikis to the "write both, read old" migration stage (T197816)
    • Fixed resulting breakage of wikitech.wikimedia.org (T200963)
    • Ran populateContentTables.php on four wikis (T183488)

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping edit

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