Scrum of scrums/2018-12-19

Callouts edit

  • Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
  • OOUI v0.30.0 going to be released today, all widgets fully accessible. Rollout begin of 2019.
  • Release Engineering
    • Train Health:
    • Train blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212217 ErrorException from line 317 of /srv/mediawiki/php-1.33.0-wmf.9/extensions/ExtensionDistributor/includes/specials/SpecialBaseDistributor.php: PHP Notice: Undefined variable: downloadImg
    • No Train (nor other deploys) weeks of December 24th and December 31st

Audiences edit

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Community Tech edit

Anti-Harassment Tools edit

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Editing edit

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Growth edit

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  • Updates: Help Panel schema is close to being finalized, and initial implementation code has been merged in GrowthExperiments

Language edit

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    • ContentTranslation v2 work continue.
    • cxserver getting rate-limiter feature soon.

Readers edit

iOS native app edit

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Readers Web edit


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Multimedia edit

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Parsing edit

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  • Updates: Organizing for PHP porting process, gathering a few extra team members for the next quarter porting push.

UI Standardization edit

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    • OOUI v0.30.0 to be released later today, will be on 1st train 2019
      • All widgets are completely accessible with this release, following native elements where possible in the screen reader output or WAI ARIA best practices
        • `invisibleLabel` feature for icon-only buttons has already been added in v0.29.3
        • This release includes improvements to Dropdown-, ComboboxWidget and LookupElement
      • Breaking change: Make non-continuous StackLayouts non-scrollable, all code occurrences in Wikimedia-deployed extensions have already been cleared https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208644
      • Deprecation: `iconTitle`/`indicatorTitle` get deprecated, use unified `title` config instead https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76638


Technology edit

Analytics edit

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Cloud Services edit

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Fundraising Tech edit

MediaWiki Core Platform edit

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Performance edit

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Release Engineering edit

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Scoring Platform edit

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    • Moving towards JSON and away from pickle
    • Improved ORES performance by solving a precaching issue
    • We have developed a damage detection model for Translatewiki. Deployment could happen this week or the week immediately after the holiday deployment freeze.

Search Platform edit

Security edit

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Services edit

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Site Reliability Engineering edit

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    • blubber/blubberoid deployed in production kubernetes. Thanks Releng!

Wikidata edit

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