Scrum of scrums/2019-12-11

2019-12-11

Callouts

• Release Engineering - December 23-January 3rd - No deploys (including train), Holiday break
• Search Platform is blocked by Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: phab:T221917

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Working on interim bug fix release 6.5.1 phab:project/view/4414
  • Development on 6.6 phab:project/view/4273
    • Mobile-html
    • more bug fixes

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Suggested Edits V3 is in Production.
  • Currently working on mobile-html. Work is 70% done.
    • Started looking into Machine vision APIs

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: same as last week. Planning for desktop improvements and tapering off of advanced mode.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Planning, research, and task creation
    • Divide VectorTemplate into components
  • Page previews (Popups):
    • Page Previews Storybook not available on doc.wikimedia.org and documentation a bit broken
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Advanced mode:
      • Add History to article toolbar for all logged-in users
      • Add article and discussion tabs to all logged-in users on mobile
      • Updates to user pages for all logged-in users
      • Render talk page as a tab (rather than a modal)
    • Miscellaneous:
      • Main Menu should work without JavaScript to be more accessible and a better user experience
      • Drawers should be removed from DOM after close
      • MinervaNeue: Desktop mode has invisible menu button
      • History icon not completely visible in smaller screen devices
      • Mark the MobileView API as deprecated

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • BUOD: Patch for EventLogging phab:T238544
  • BUOD: Patch for error logging client phab:T235189
  • Maps: investigated populate_admin error and deployed potential fix phab:T240227
  • Proton: Profiling continues with buster images for node
  • MachineVIsion: Added no-JS fallback to Special:SuggestedTags
  • MachineVision: Added frontend event logging to Special:SuggestedTags
  • MachineVision: Updated suggestion query for performance
  • MachineVision: Tweaked user approval/rejection vote validation behavior
  • Push notifications: Researched approaches and software

Structured Data

• Blocking:
  • dumps of MediaInfo items, see phab:T239905
  • Search Platform - Data dumps for SDC: phab:T221917
• Updates:
  • work continues on new input data types for statements on File page and UW
  • tech talk today at 1800 UTC

Inuka

• Updates:
  • Wikipedia KaiOS app: table of content phab:T234618
  • Wikipedia KaiOS app: article links selection phab:T234625

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • OOUI v0.36.1 in preparation, with a hotfix for v0.36.0, which rollout we stopped for reason of breaking backwards-compatibility in one case.
  • Design Style Guide: Polishing base components in components section

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Have a pretty convincing explanation for apparent CentralNotice impression inconsistencies (new campaign fallback feature changed reporting of status codes)
  • Fixing issues with new recurring donations features
  • Optimizing donation imports from queue and from matching gifts spreadsheets

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Site Reliability Engineering - Requesting follow-up from Releng team regarding Gerrit/Zuul Prometheus metrics gerrit:479139
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - phab:T233856 - group1 + group2
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.10 - phab:T233858
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.11 - phab:T233859

Scoring Platform

• Updates:
  • Improvements to cawiki and euwiki deployed!
  • Limits requests to 50 rev_ids per
  • Model info now uses consistent ordering
  • Advanced editquality support for Norwegian Wikipedia incoming --> Growth
  • Built a machine-readable WikiProject taxonomy. See https://github.com/halfak/wikitax

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: phab:T221917
• Updates:
  • "Wikidata Query Service Updater" should have 'bot' in the user agent to indicate is a tool - phab:T238106
• Stuff no one else cares about:
  • NullPointerException in wdqs-updater after last deployment phab:T239131

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Requesting follow-up from Releng team regarding Gerrit/Zuul Prometheus metrics gerrit:479139
• Updates:
  • Wrapping up goals/OKRs for the end of the quarter.