Scrum of scrums/2019-02-27

2019-02-27

Callouts

• Fundraising campaigns: Europe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar
• Editing blocked by SRE https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213214
• Readers Web and Performance: Research is deploying/undeploying reader demographics survey: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217080
• Release Engineering: train at 14:00–16:00 UTC (EU time) for the next 4 weeks, back to the usual 20:00–22:00 UTC (US time) after that
• RelEng: Need help in setting up CI for Blazegraph ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216855 )

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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   ** SRE on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213214

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Growth

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Language

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Readers

iOS native app

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  • 6.2 with syntax highlighting released
  • Work on 6.2.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2.1-beluga-on-stilts/) continues:

   ***Bug fixes
   ***Editing onboarding + other small improvements to the editing experience
   ***Mobile HTML prototype

Android native app

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Readers Web

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  • Summary: same as last week. Continuing the Advanced Mobile Contributions and MobileFrontend Architecture investment projects.

• • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):

• • • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Add history link to actions menu T213352
      • Add X-Analytics tag for AMC webrequests T212961
      • Talk tabs disabled on main page T214724 T216514
      • Design updates to Settings page & opt-in toggle T214195

• • • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • ImageOverlay should be an Overlay T216198
      • Limit mobile.startup's mw.config variables T216848
      • TalkOverlay should not extend Overlay T215370
      • LanguageOverlay should be an Overlay with a LanguageSearcher component T215657
      • mobile.init should not be loaded on desktop Minerva T216537
      • Create PromiseView pattern T215972
      • Abandon use of template partials in MobileFrontend for components within components e.g. Button, Icon and Anchor classes T149909

• • • QuickSurveys consultation for Research

• • • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T216628 T216853 T214550 T207618 T150377 T202374

• • Desktop website (Vector, Popups)

• • • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • WMDE reference previews review and support T67114 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews

• • Medium-term planning.

Readers Infrastructure

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  • Maps
    • maps2004 conducting QA for tiles generated during codfw OS stretch migration

Multimedia

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  • preparing for first release of adding 'depicts' statements to commons images - should be code complete within a week, working with WMDE to get beta commons ready

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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  • Doing anual planning and Q4 planning
  • Working on sunsetting Wikimetrics
  • dbstore1002 will be decomissioned soon, the hardware is very unstable. The new cluster is easier to use with the new "analytics-mysql" wrapper, docs here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_access#MySQL_wrapper
  • new cloud db replica for analytics and mediawiki history use is not in place yet, sqooping and history reconstruction will speed up next month when it is
  • a few type mismatches found between EventLogging Refine's type inference and the schemas on meta, details here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216771, subtasks created and appropriate teams tagged
  • Modern Event Platform's EventGate moving closer to replacing EventBus as the way to intake realtime mediawiki events

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • Still holding off on payments-wiki upgrade, doing testing on more platforms while waiting for a European banner campaign to subside
  • Deploying some performance improvements to CiviCRM https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209415
  • Tweaking email opt-in display https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215939
  • PCI compliance paperwork
  • Better fraud reporting https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199268
  • Cutting down email volume for recurring donors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213209
  • Banner change feed for CentralNotice https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208511

Core Platform

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  • Cloud Services, SRE: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215445
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  • Product plan for new HTTP API
  • RestBase split plan
  • Parameterized rules in PEG.js
  • Upgrade phan in CI
  • Session storage configuration for Cassandra

Performance

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  • SRE: review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/379953/ (error standardization)
  • Traffic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202479 Varnish configuration change needed to get rid of 404 noise
  • Traffic: review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/vagrant/+/491215/ Strategy to avoid Varnish thumbnail cache fragmentation
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  • eswiki perf survey initial results: 87% satisfied with page load perf, exactly the same ratio as previous wikis (eg. ruwiki)
  • The debug profiler is now ready for PHP 7
  • Finalizing W3C membership with Legal, Comms, etc.

Release Engineering

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  • Search Platform: Need help in setting up CI for Blazegraph ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216855 )
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  • New Phabricator features, phame blog posted: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/145/phab_phebruary/
  • Scap 3.9.0-1 is released, ping us if scap does anything weird :)
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.18 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206671 - US time (20:00–22:00 UTC)
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.19 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206672 - the first week (out of four weeks) at 14:00–16:00 UTC (EU time), back to the usual 20:00–22:00 UTC (US time) after that
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.20 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206673 - EU time (14:00–16:00 UTC)
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Research

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  • Deploying/undeploying reader demographics survey: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217080
  • Collected data for the improved CitationUsage and CitationUsagePageLoad schemas: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213969
  • Continuing work on productionizing article recommender systems: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211981

Scoring Platform

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  • Growth (sort of): kowiki and itwiki (goodfaith) is out -- needs RC filters integration
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161628 (kowiki)
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211032 (itwiki)
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  • We complettely removed use of pickle in celery
  • kowiki and itwiki (goodfaith) is out
  • Reduced overhead for uwsgi to celery task communication

Search Platform

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• Blocking: Need help in setting up CI for Blazegraph ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216855 )
• Updates:
  • ES6 support merged to CirrusSearch codebase: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217043
  • ElasticSearch is upgraded to 5.6.14 as a step for ES6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215931
  • Korean analyzer package built, waiting for ES6 upgrade to enable: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206874
  • WikibaseCirrusSearch deployed on Beta cluster (disabled), testwikidata next: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215684
  • inlabel: search keyword code merged into WikibaseCirrusSearch, will be deployed together with it: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215967
  • Subphrase suggestions search enabled on Office wiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150153
  • Fixed broken dates rendering in WDQS: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211007
  • Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108
  • Working on moving CirrusSearch code out of Wikibase to a separate extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022

Security

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**https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216692 : just assigned

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419: start this week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214152 to be completed end of week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211489: start this week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205129: start this week
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163827: to be completed end of week

Security Readiness Review Standard Operating Procedure under revision

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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