Scrum of scrums/2018-10-31

2018-10-31 edit

Callouts edit

Audiences edit

Contributors edit

Community Tech edit

Anti-Harassment Tools edit

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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 edit

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Growth edit

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Language edit

Readers edit

iOS native app edit

Android native app edit

Readers Web edit

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    • At Wikimedia Technical Conference and team offsite


Readers Infrastructure edit


Multimedia edit

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    • 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 edit

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UI Standardization edit

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Technology edit

Analytics edit

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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 edit

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Fundraising Tech edit

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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 edit

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Performance edit

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Release Engineering edit

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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 edit

Scoring Platform edit

Search Platform edit

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Security edit

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  • Blocking: T207798Security review for GrowthExperiments extension
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Services edit

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Site Reliability Engineering edit

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

Wikidata edit

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German Technical Wishlist edit

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Multi-Content Revisions edit

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping edit

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