Scrum of scrums/2018-11-28

2018-11-28

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• Please avoid significant updates to any systems used by Fundraising (Geolocation, core facilities used by CentralNotice). Pls. ping on #wikimedia-fundraising by saying 'fr-tech' if you have quesitons. Thanks!!!

• Release Engineering
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660
      • Wikidata rolled back to 1.33.0-wmf.4, all other group1 and all group0 on 1.33.0-wmf.6 see https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
      • T210608 (EventBus, Analytics) EventBus::createEvent Call to a member function format() on a non-object (boolean)
      • T210610 (ORES - Ladsgroup) PHP Fatal Error: Argument 2 passed to ORES\Hooks\ApiHooksHandler::addScoresForAPI() must be an instance of array, null given
      • T210617 (Wikidata, Maps - hoo)BadMethodCallException on Wikidata item pages containing coordinates with non-Earth globes
      • T210618 (Wikidata, CirrusSearch) Wikidata entity search sometimes case-sensitive, uses wb_terms instead of CirrusSearch
    • Next week: No train due to the Release Engineering team offsite

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

• Blocked by: **Working with Reading/Web to discuss loading overlay improvements
• Blocking: **Language - working with them to prioritize adding inspector functionality to VE read mode
  • Updates:
  • Improved unit testing of ve.ce T206138

Growth

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Language

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Readers

iOS native app

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  • 6.1.2 released last week (crash fixes)
  • Working on 6.2 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/) - large release that contains editing (syntax highlighting, editing tools). Planning to release to beta before holiday break

Android native app

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Readers Web

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  • Summary: SEO A/B test staged rollout is complete, we're continuing the MobileFrontend architecture project, and planning for advanced mobile contributions.

• • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):

• • • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Reduce View inheritance and improve composition support T209007 T209647
      • Replace mobile.startup/user with mw.user T204866
      • Webpackify references T207805
      • Webpackify watchstar T208921

• • • Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
      • Standardize parsing T206177
      • Distinct issues should not be grouped T202349

• • • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Design added a few more pages to the prototype and some mocks for enable / disabling https://mobile-contributions.firebaseapp.com/nav4.html https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/share/RNO2HHBPK7M#/screens/331909359_Enabling-Disabling
      • Started team planning

• • • Maintenance and bug fixes T86210 T205008 T208808 T210191 T193505

• • Desktop website (Popups) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
    • Reproduce Popups memory leak T208634

• • PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
    • Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084

Readers Infrastructure

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  • English Wiki fundraising on apps starting Nov 29 (T209801).

Multimedia

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  • SDoC - still working on beta release, have made progress but not there yet
  • Also work continues on the next release (statements/depicts)

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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  • Preparing v0.29.6 release of OOUI
  • a11y measurments on portals finished

Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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• Blocking: Please avoid significant updates to any systems used by Fundraising (Geolocation, core facilities used by CentralNotice). Thanks!!!
• Updates:
  • Year-end fundraising campaigns in English-speaking countries started yesterday (2018-11-27). E-mail campaign ongoing.
  • Currently facing payment processor issues and sophisticated credit-card fraud attempts. Donations are pouring in, nonetheless.
  • Various minor improvements to CiviCRM (donor database), payment processors.
  • Follow-ups from CentralNotice security and permissions improvements.

MediaWiki Core Platform

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  • Finishing up review of TechConf materials by end of week. Then starting to clean up for publication on wiki.
  • Revised Session Service RFC, getting ready for final call. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010)
  • Met with Security to review potential PE Security projects for Q3/Q4 - refining list and getting ready to reach out potential contractors.
  • Excimer will be done before end of year, which is the primary blocker on our team for PHP7.
  • Continuing to work on extension blockers to PHP7.

Performance

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Release Engineering

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  • Scoring Platform: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210260 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210267
• Updates:
  • Blog post Incident Documentation: An Unexpected Journey https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/128
    • Željko will be contacting several teams about creating the first Selenium test for some repositories (Editing, Language engineering, Contributors, Growth, Fundraising tech, Reading and WMDE)
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660
      • Wikidata rolled back to 1.33.0-wmf.4, all other group1 and all group0 on 1.33.0-wmf.6
      • T210608 (EventBus, Analytics) EventBus::createEvent Call to a member function format() on a non-object (boolean)
      • T210610 (ORES - Ladsgroup) PHP Fatal Error: Argument 2 passed to ORES\Hooks\ApiHooksHandler::addScoresForAPI() must be an instance of array, null given
      • T210617 (Wikidata, Maps - hoo)BadMethodCallException on Wikidata item pages containing coordinates with non-Earth globes
      • T210618 (Wikidata, CirrusSearch) Wikidata entity search sometimes case-sensitive, uses wb_terms instead of CirrusSearch
    • Next week: No train due to the Release Engineering team offsite

Research

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • • Deploying the Reader Trust survey via QuickSurveys: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882
    • Working with SRE to import recommendation API data to MySQL: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208622

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • SRE: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210582
  • RelEng: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210260 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210267
• Blocking:
  • RelEng on train blocker. The patch is waiting for review and will get merged soon
• Updates:
  • Picking up blubber and Sentinel (releng & SRE support needed)
    • Releng for UTF8 support (blubber)
    • SRE for another redis node (sentinel)
  • Jade RFC on track to pass TechCom review, only minor changes remaining.

Search Platform

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Security

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• Updates: Analysts are on track to complete Review by deadlines.

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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   None

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   None

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  • no updates

Wikidata

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  • wb_terms table should not be used for search.

German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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  • AbuseFilter testing by multimedia team going well
• Initial MCR SlotRoleHandler work should be completed by end of week which will enable part of the UI support needed for SDC

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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