Scrum of scrums/2018-09-26
2018-09-26
editCallouts
editRelease Engineering:
- Deployments of MediaWiki with scap cause a spam of "web request took longer than 60 seconds and timed out"
- Scap is checking canary servers in dormant instead of active-dc
- Switchover process needs an update. Long term the list of canaries should be in conftool.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204907
- ComTech:
- We're starting to work on showing SVGs in page language - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205040
Audiences
editReaders
editiOS native app
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- Planning to be feature complete for 6.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1-narwhal-on-a-bumper-car/) by the end of this week
- Apps offsite next week,
Android native app
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- Working on productionising new navigation
- Apps offsite next week.
Readers Web
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- Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
- SkinMinerva.php file logs "Undefined variable: returntoquery` error T205449
- Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
- Continue Webpack and test transition of mobile.startup T203817
- Add more tests to mobile.startup files T203818
- Simplify CategoryOverlay T191987
- Add Sinon.JS configuration T204885
- Update test file naming T197884
- Bundle Hogan.js T205128 T205129
- Enable client side error reporting T167699
- Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
- Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
- Limited A/B test in progress T204609
- ReadingDepth logging sometimes initializes before PageIssues T204144
- Add new treatment opt-in query parameter override T204746
- Don't cache config flag with HTML T205355
- What % of pages feature issues? T201123
- Increase sampling ratio for ReadingDepth T205176
- Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
- Working with editing
- Add share icon to beta T181195
- Lighten default theme color T204691
- Maintenance and bug fixes T199066 T204584 T197105 T198018 T205321
- Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
- Generate list of most used special pages T198218
- Design and product continuing special pages work in Minerva
- Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
- Data working on "better use of data" requirements
- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
- Remaining work tracked in T186748
- Working with Services on a Grafana dashboard T201158 T204055
- Chromium-render doesn't handle browser connection abort well T181623
- Miscellaneous maintenance and bug fixes
- PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
- Supporting Multimedia/Test hiring processes
Readers Infrastructure
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- PCS: Continue work on mobile-html endpoint.
- Maps
- maps1004 migrated to stretch successfully
- It will now receive OSM data load to start generating tiles T205462
- Investigation of tilerator crash in eqiad has an workaround but still need permanent fix T204047
- maps1004 migrated to stretch successfully
Parsing
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- Updates: All code review requests from last week have been handled, thanks
- Will pass along: (Parsing) T205497 [Regression pre-wmf.23] REST API on Beta cluster returns content of different pages than requested (breaks VE)
Multimedia
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Contributors
editCommunity Tech
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- We're starting to work on showing SVGs in page language - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205040 Ping Parsing and SRE
Anti-Harassment Tools
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Editing
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- Removed dedicated annotation operation types in the VE data model and instead model annotation transactions using replacements
- Improved mobile dialogs in the visual editor
- Completed move of MobileFrontend's VisualEditor styles back to MobileFrontend from Minerva
Growth
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Language
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- Preparing for ContentTranslation v2 continue.
Audiences Design
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UI Standardization
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- Special:Preferences OOUI rollout
- Resolving remaining typography/imagery quests on Design Style Guide
- Accessibility work on wikimediafoundation.org website
Technology
editAnalytics
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- Analytics team off-site - Replacement of hadoop cluster node managers without issues - 2 new metrics for Wikistats2: pages to date (total article count) and top contributors, deploy before end of quarter - Final work on Wikistats2 graph annotations (tricky UI), also deploy before end of quarter - Modern Event Data Platform internal discussions, tickets and naming reworked for a clearer picture of what we will be working on
Cloud Services
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Fundraising Tech
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- Thanks to the people who are helping out with the MessageCache issue affecting CentralNotice (Ian Marlier, Jaime Crespo, Daniel Kinzler, Niklas Laxström et al)
- Got a patch out to support Amazon Alexa donations, just in time for their announcement
- Working on distinguishing endowment gifts throughout the whole donation pipeline
- Fixing a couple of issues in spreadsheet imports
- Interviewing for engineer position
Core Platform
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- Session management service design and implementation is being moved up to this quarter to get to unblock multi-DC
- Preparing for moving to production early Q3
- MediaWIki tarball release script updated
- Work starting on Excimer - New profiler for PHP to replace XHProf https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205059
- Session management service design and implementation is being moved up to this quarter to get to unblock multi-DC
Performance
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Release Engineering
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- 1.32.0-wmf.23 deployment blockers
- (Readers Web) T205449 SkinMinerva.php file logs "Undefined variable: returntoquery` error
- Done
- (Core Platform) T205469 Fatal error from LinkRenderer on special pages ("Object of class HtmlArmor could not be converted")
- Done
- (Search Platform) T205473 Fatal error "Invalid operand type" from CirrusSearch LinksUpdate
- Done
- (Parsing) T205497 [Regression pre-wmf.23] REST API on Beta cluster returns content of different pages than requested (breaks VE)
- Done
- (Readers Web) T205449 SkinMinerva.php file logs "Undefined variable: returntoquery` error
- 1.32.0-wmf.23 deployment blockers
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train Health:
- Scap is checking canary servers in dormant instead of active-dc - Switchover process needs an update. Long term the list of canaries should be in conftool - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204907
- Log Health:
- We are seing a lot of T204871 "web request took longer than 60 seconds and timed out" in `fatalmonitor`
- Code Health:
- Creating communication channels (Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/code-health-metrics/, IRC channel, mailing list)
- Train Health:
Research
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- Updates:
- Data collection for CitationUsagePageLoad at 33.3% (was 10% previously)
- Retaining de-identified CitationUsage data beyond 90 days
- Recommendation API service to MySQL connection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205452
Scoring Platform
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- PoolCounter is deployed everywhere, now the limit of parallel connections is being enforced
- Started to work on improving logs in ores, specially sending them to logstash
- Building javascript library in mediawiki to make requesting scores to ores easier: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201691
Search Platform
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- Made sanetizer process to constantly reindex the wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203622
- Implemented support for Lexemes in RDF (not enabled yet, waiting for dumps): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202459
- Finished evaluation of image quality as query-independent ranking signal: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202339
- Conclusion: positive, image quality is a good signal, will plan implementation
- Upgraded ElasticSearch plugins for 6.3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197960
- Added ntriples RDF dump for Wikidata: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144103
- Reindexing Wikidata to enable several newly deployed features
- Reindexed Esperanto wiki after new analysis enabled: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203005
- Working on calculating examination probabilities for completion queries: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205348
- Working on improving Korean analyzers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178925
- Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
- Working on searching for statement values without additional keywords for Wikidata: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163642
- Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
Security
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Site Reliability Engineering
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- Preparing for the switchback
- Finishing goals
Wikidata
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German Technical Wishlist
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Multi-Content Revisions
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- "read new" enabled on testwiki
- "read new" being enabled on mediawiki.org this week
- waiting for DC switch back to enable "read new" on Commons and other wikis
- reactive minor bug fixes
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
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