Scrum of scrums/2018-10-31

2018-10-31

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• Release Engineering: train blocked on T208398 Fatal error on testwiki on viewing talk pages when blocked and logged in
• Community Tech: The 2019 community wishlist survey has begun! Please submit proposals and participate in the discussions! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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  • The 2019 community wishlist survey has begun! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019

Anti-Harassment Tools

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  • Partial Blocks code is out and rode the train; We're going to enable the interface on test wiki today or tomorrow.

Editing

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Growth

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Language

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  • Continue working on ContentTranslation version 2 improvments. In details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/V2#October_2018

Readers

iOS native app

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  • 6.1.0 in review, will be released after it's approved
  • 6.1.0 won't allow editing wikidata descriptions of English articles - it will be enabled in the next release once English Wikipedia editors are notified (task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208252)
  • 6.1.1 will be a bug-fix release (release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.1.1-narwhal-on-a-magic-pumpkin/)

Android native app

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  • Released all the things to production (new navigation design, Echo notifications, etc.)
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.7.263-r-2018-10-29

Readers Web

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  • At Wikimedia Technical Conference and team offsite

Readers Infrastructure

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• Updates:
  • MCS/PCS:
    • Working on fixing performance problems caused by CPU-bound work (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202642 )
    • PCS mobile-html: working on a strategy for handling i18n in shared mobile page content composed on the server (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205550 )
  • Maps:
    • Fixing tilerator crash caused when attempting to access data subject to a lock in Postgres (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204047 )
    • The Stretch upgrade/data loading on the maps cluster continues (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205462 )
  • Admin:
    • New (properly registered) team IRC channel: #wikimedia-infrastructure

Multimedia

• Updates
  • Matthias's baby has arrived, so we're pretty short-staffed atm
  • hiring continues
  • SDoC: First prototype enabled on beta, being tested
  • SDoC: Working on UI/copy feedback, virtual statements, 'depicts' in UW, metrics

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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  • Druid cluster upgrade, now Turnilo supports monthly granularity visualizations
  • Fixed vulnerabilities of all our node projects
  • Productionized automatic ingestion of NavigationTiming, ReadingDepth and PageIssues EL schemas into Druid/Turnilo
  • As part of migration from stat1005 to stat1007, moved users and home folders, stat1005 is not to be used any more!
  • Working on deprecating the reportcard in favor of Wikistats2

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • CiviCRM: follow-on work to distinguish endowment donations
  • CiviCRM: expanding donor data export / deletion extension
  • CentralNotice backend maintenance work
  • Dealing with PayPal's poorly timed recurring payment ID migration

MediaWiki Core Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

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  • train blocked on T208398 Fatal error on testwiki on viewing talk pages when blocked and logged in
  • For fundraising, we need to upgrade composer merge plugin for Donation interface and mediawiki/vendor@fundraising/RE1_27 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203084
    • Need a sync up with Antoine "hashar" Musso next week.
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  • Train Health:
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.1 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206655
      • Six blockers closed, one opened on friday after conclusion of the train
      • Group1 was delayed until Thursday and Group2 finally happened late Thursday evening.
      • Otherwise it was a mostly uneventful train. The blockers were perhaps more worrisome than destructive, no outages occurred.
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.2 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206656
      • T208398 Fatal error on testwiki on viewing talk pages when blocked and logged in

Research

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  • Writing papers for the Web Conference
  • Working on the 3-5 year plan
  • Starting a new online experiement for the "Elicit new editor interest" research project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work_environment/Elicit_new_editor_interests#Second_Online_Experiment

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by: DBAs: Need that DDL reviewed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EJAD/browse/master/sql/
• Blocking: None (hopefully)
• Updates:
  • Logstash fixes going live today
  • Upgrade to celery 4 will gets deployed today
  • upgrading flask to 0.12.4 will go live soon

Search Platform

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Security

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• Blocking: T207798Security review for GrowthExperiments extension
• Updates:T207798Security review for GrowthExperiments extension is in progress

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • Auditing all varnish fronted services for lack of TLS by SRE traffic team, you could be pinged.

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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