Scrum of scrums/2019-04-24

2019-04-24 edit

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Audiences edit

Contributors edit

Community Tech edit

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Anti-Harassment Tools edit

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Editing edit

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    • Finished first iteration on for VE edit summary field, show an auto-fill drop-down of recent edit summaries contributors have used (T50274)
    • Finished first iteration to allow users to switch between between editors on mobile while maintaining changes (T128422)
    • Working on improving the performance of selections in mobile VE

Growth edit

Language edit

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Readers edit

iOS native app edit

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Android native app edit

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    • Suggested Edits released to production
    • Planning work for next year (additional types of contributions)

Readers Web edit

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    • Summary: same as last week: fixing browser tests, planning for next year, and continuing the advanced mobile contributions and the MobileFrontend architecture investment projects. We're planning to deploy last year's "sameAs" SEO changes from 50% to 100% of main namespace pages on April 30th (T209377).
    • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Related Articles):
      • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
        • Style the history page for AMC users T219895
        • AMC Navigation - add new links to main menu with click tracking T216152
        • Upgrade MobileWebMainMenuClickTracking to have an AMC field T218627
        • AMC Navigation - overflow menu T216418
        • No way to reach the editable version of a page when viewing the most recent mobile diff T200969
      • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
        • Post-inheritance cleanup T217220
        • Nearby isn't a WatchstarPageList. Nearby has a WatchstarPageList. T217814
        • Inline remaining templates T220619
        • Remove Page's View functionality T193077
      • Browser tests
        • Enable a MobileFrontend daily Selenium build T220659
        • CI tests disabled: Steps that require login are disabled and should be restored. T219920
      • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T218809 T219320
      • SEO
        • Deploy Schema.org Article linked data for all main namespace pages (previously 50% on most wikis, soon 100% on all wikis) on April 30th T209377
    • Desktop website (Popups)
    • Planning
      • Design and MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture planning for next fiscal year

Readers Infrastructure edit

Multimedia edit

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    • Deployed depicts statements on Commons yesterday
    • Keeping an eye out for bug reports & working on subsequent releases (SDC statements in UploadWizard)

Parsing edit

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    • Parsoid-PHP porting update: About 50% done overall
    • 3 of the 6 wt2html parsing pipeline infrastructure components now green as verified through the hybrid testing infrastructure
    • More individual handlers and transformers that plug into the wt2html parsing pipeline ported (some merged and green, some merged and not green, some not yet merged)

UI Standardization edit

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    • Collaborating on remaining AMC work for MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue
    • Also changing MinervaNeue to use a normalize.css inspired approach over reset.css
    • Continuation on “Components” section work for Design Style Guide

Technology edit

Analytics edit

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    • Testing mediawiki reconstruction with the addition of edit tags, these changes will hopefully be available on the mediawiki data for April.
    • We have both api and search data flowing into EventGate deployed via Kubernetes. These new data flow will allow us to decommission some older code paths and hardware.
    • Put the skeleton work into the system that will become a repository for event schemas (this role is now filled by meta)

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Fundraising Tech edit

Core Platform edit

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Research edit

Scoring Platform edit

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Search Platform edit

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Services edit

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Site Reliability Engineering edit

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    • Discussions on apache traffic server vs nginx for TLS 1.3 ongoing
    • cache_upload slowly being converted to ATS from varnish
    • Session storage service (aka kask) nearing deployment
    • Wikidata termbox SSR service nearing deployment
    • Unicode php7 issues unblocked

TechComm edit

Wikidata edit

German Technical Wishlist edit

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