Scrum of scrums/2019-09-18

2019-09-18 edit

Callouts edit

  • SRE says: various PDU upgrades throughout the next few weeks, we might reach out to specific teams.
  • Release Engineering - REMINDER: We're at 1.34.0-wmf.23 this week. The last branch for this release will be wmf.25 on 30 September. Teams who want to ship things for MW 1.34 should land them now. (If you do not mark code as deprecated in the next few weeks, you have to maintain it for another nine months.)
  • Analytics is blocking Search Platform: phab:T229882

Product edit

Editing edit

Growth edit

  • Updates:
    • Homepage discovery for desktop no-JS users (task phab:T225318)
    • Standardize error handling (task phab:T230798)
    • [MW core RecentChanges] ChangesListSpecialPage: Cache the change tag list and its summary

iOS native app edit

Android native app edit

Product Infrastructure edit

  • Updates:
    • DBA and security readiness reviews are in progress for Extension:MachineVision
    • wikifeeds service (split out from mobileapps) deployed to production; not yet handling traffic
    • Maps

Structured Data edit

  • Updates:
    • also working on phab:T230862 (blocker from last week)
    • working on - input types for structured data, machine-aided tagging, some minor campaigns stuff

Parsing edit

  • Updates:
    • Working with Marko / CPT to get Parsoid/PHP deployed and enabled on the beta cluster.
    • Continuing to fix bugs found during mass roundtrip testing on scandium ( now 99.93% tests run without crashing ).

Technology edit

Analytics edit

Fundraising Tech edit

  • Updates:
    • Payments-wiki
    • CiviCRM
      • Annual totals receipt for recurring donors phab:T195907
      • Troubleshooting new screen-scraping data importer from mass mail house phab:T230509
    • CentralNotice
      • Deploying last fixes for using EventLogging to track banner views
      • Scheduling jobs on fundraising cluster to import EventLogging stats into local DBs

Core Platform edit

  • Blocking:
  • Updates:
    • API testing
    • Kask testing
    • New REST API interfaces

Engineering Productivity edit

Performance edit

  • Blocked by:
  • Updates:
    • Attended the We Love Speed conference in Lille, France.
    • (Q-goal) Finished the AbuseFilter rework (Thanks to @Daimona) which will reduce Save Timing. Deployment expected in 1-2 weeks. – phab:T156095

Release Engineering edit

  • Blocked by:
    • Search Platform: Need resolution on the Cirrus tests in mw-config; this is blocking general testing/expansion framework for this repo phab:T232691#5488675
  • Updates:
    • The phabricator "Report Error Code" form (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/46/ ) has been updated with separate fields for the stack trace and error code/request id.
    • REMINDER: We're at 1.34.0-wmf.23 this week. The last branch for this release will be wmf.25 on 30 September. Teams who want to ship things for MW 1.34 should land them now. phab:T232026 (If you do not mark code as deprecated in the next few weeks, you have to maintain it for another nine months.)
    • Train Health

Scoring Platform edit

Search Platform edit

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
    • Release Engineering: Need resolution on the Cirrus tests in mw-config; this is blocking general testing/expansion framework for this repo phab:T232691#5488675
  • Updates:
    • Added explanation api for completion suggester scoring: phab:T230919
    • Migrated integration testing to node10

Security edit

  • Updates:
    • Data Map / GDPR Compliance updates
    • Security Reviews in Progress are:
      • Security Review for MediaWiki REST API, assigned to Sam, phab:T230140
      • Security review of Ex:DoubleWiki, in-progress - phab:T131199
      • Parsoid-PHP, moved to active, Scott this week - phab:T227209
      • Page Content Service route /page/mobile-html, Scott will post 9/17 - phab:T227114
      • Security review of WebAuthn library dependencies, in-progress - phab:T227244

Site Reliability Engineering edit

  • Blocking:
    • CPT on restrouter deployment
    • Search Platform: dumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually: phab:T222497
    • Performance: Need CR and deploy for Apache SVG compression fix. – gerrit:535860
  • Updates:
    • Helped product infrastructure team deploy wikifeeds \o/.
    • Various PDU upgrades throughout the next few weeks, we might reach out to specific teams.