Scrum of scrums/2019-02-13

2019-02-13 edit

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Readers edit

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Readers Web edit

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    • Summary: we've transitioned the Proton PDF renderer to Readers Infrastructure for final deployment, we're continuing the Advanced Mobile Contributions project and have enabled ES6 support in MobileFrontend as part of the Architecture investment effort.
    • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
      • ExternalGuidance extension review and support
      • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T215648 T215849 T213336 T202374
    • Desktop website (Vector, Popups)


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    • The replacement for dbstore1002 is in place now. Contains a queryable replica of the wiki databases distributed in 3 nodes (dbstore100[345]).
    • Up-to-date docs at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_access#MariaDB_replicas
    • The staging database is in dbstore1005. The old one in dbstore1002 will be set to read-only on Feb 18th. And we plan to decomission dbstore1002 in the upcoming weeks.
    • Superset can connect to the new MySQL hosts, including the staging database.

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   * Releng -- sort of because we have a work-around. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212818 (LFS not mirroring to gerrit)
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   * Growth -- Fixing an issue with itwiki's goodfaith model (thank you Roan!) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211032
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   * Damagaing/goodfaith support for Korean Wikipedia coming soon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161629
   * New ORES deployment on the way out 
* Increased fitness for English Wikipedia Draft Quality and Article Quality (T214091)
* Increased fitness for Wikidata Item Quality model (T158430)
* Reduced potential security issues (pyyaml T214159 & pickle-->json T206333) 
* New models for Spanish Wikiquote (T209784)

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  • Updates:T215048: waiting on code to review
    • T155537 and T156960: to be submitted for consideration for outsourcing
    • T207246: either to review in next two weeks or moved to frozen
    • T214152: review to be finished today
    • T201492: to be completed end of next week
    • T163827: to be completed end of week
    • T163827: tbd
    • T207990: tbd


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    • Goal work ongoing
    • eventgate being deployed this week

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