Scrum of scrums/2018-08-08
2018-08-08
editCallouts
edit- Need help reviewing https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents/+/450021/ Anyone? (I added Timo as a reviewer - Ian)
- Release Engineering: feedback needed from various teams on two recent MediaWiki train related incident reports. Specifically, how problems could have been prevented.
- 1.32.0-wmf.13, 9 blockers, feedback needed for all of them (Audiences Design, Contributors, MediaWiki Platform, Performance, Scoring Platform, Wikidata): https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180717-Train
- 1.32.0-wmf.14, 6 blockers, feedback needed for 2 of them (Performance, Readers, Wikidata): https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180724-Train
Audiences
editReaders
editiOS native app
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- Updates:
- 6.0 in beta (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0-walrus-on-a-unicycle/) til 8/20
- We'll begin working on 6.0.1 soon (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.0.1-walrus-on-a-golf-cart/)
Android native app
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- Maintenance update released to production.
- Beginning work on Notifications support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3505/
Readers Web
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- Updates:
- 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
- Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
Readers Infrastructure
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- Updates:
- 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
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- Engineering spinning back up
- Search work is progressing and getting merged - the Search team has promised to do some re-indexing on our behalf
- Fixed an UploadWizard bug for WLM that needs review - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183075
- Filed a task for security review of MediaInfo (but it's not urgent) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200279
- Upcoming work on MediaInfo, MCR
Contributors
editCommunity Tech
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- Security for TemplateWizard review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198666
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Anti-Harassment Tools
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- IRC meeting today about Partial Blocks RFC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199917
Editing
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Parsing
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- Post-Tidy replacement: Added new lint detection for pages that might have been affected by Tidy removal: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter/misc-tidy-replacement-issues
Growth
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Language
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- ContentTranslation merge blocker is resolved!
- Niklas responded to Community Tech to inquiry about TranslateSVG: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201207#4488381
Audiences Design
editUI Standardization
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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
- OOUI next minor release v0.28 in preparation.
Technology
editAnalytics
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- “Total article count metric” vetted, available on API now and Wikistats UI soon
- Eventlogging outage due to attack using very long user agents solved with “band aid” patch, working on a timeout-for-long-regexes defense: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180728-eventlogging
- Data available in wikistats for July, this was the shortest reconstruction, it took less than 48hrs. Edits split by editor types for all wikis: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects/contributing/edits/normal
- Took decision of using Json schema (rather than avro) for the Modern Event Data Platform. Take a look: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2018/wikimedia-office.2018-08-01-21.00.log.html
Cloud Services
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Fundraising Tech
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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
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- Updates:
- 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
- Pingback flood issue (T200864)
Performance
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- Need access to labstore servers, Cloud Services is already aware
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- Updates:
- 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
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- Feedback needed from various teams (too many to name each one) on two recent MediaWiki train related incident reports. Specifically, how problems could have been prevented.
- 1.32.0-wmf.13, 9 blockers, feedback needed for all of them (Audiences Design, Contributors, MediaWiki Platform, Performance, Scoring Platform, Wikidata): https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180717-Train
- 1.32.0-wmf.14, 6 blockers, feedback needed for 2 of them (Performance, Readers, Wikidata): https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180724-Train
- Feedback needed from various teams (too many to name each one) on two recent MediaWiki train related incident reports. Specifically, how problems could have been prevented.
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Research
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- Carrying out an online experiment as part of "Research:Voice and exit in a voluntary work environment/Elicit new editor interests"
- Participating in a Platform Evolution survey.
Scoring Platform
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Search Platform
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Security
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Site Reliability Engineering
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- Network issues with switches - T201039 T201145
- Logstash packet loss much much better now - T200960
Wikidata
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- We're aware of RelEng waiting for us following up on recent incident reports. We'll finally do it soon (tm)
- Updates:
- Unblocked Content Translation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200693
- Work in Lexicographical data continues:
- adding senses
- improving the editor workflow
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2292/
- Experiment without not using secondary SQL table for formatting item links coming live soon
German Technical Wishlist
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- Nothing
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- No one
- Updates:
- Working on:
- TwoColConflict
- Wikidiff2
- AdvancedSearch
- FileImporter
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Multi-Content Revisions
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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
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