Scrum of scrums/2020-01-15
Release Engineering
January 27-31 - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at phab:T242446
SRE:
Debian Jessie deprecation is ongoing. Deadline both OS wise and hardware wise is 31March 2020. SCB cluster deployers, if you haven't already reach out to ServiceOps for help with migrating your service to Kubernetes, please do so.
Updates: Summary: Refining reply features for DiscussionTools for first release with partner wikis projected for early February
Add handling for mw:DisplaySpace (task phab:T241906 )
Use mw.Api#getErrorMessage instead of custom handling (task phab:T240519 )
Fix 'escape' to teardown by Ed Sanders
Fix re-initialization after page is updated (task phab:T241861 )
ReplyWidget: Load modules required by the content when previewing (task phab:T241193 )
Fix crash when opening VisualEditor NWE while DiscussionTools enabled (task phab:T241396 )
ReplyWidget: Pass 'title' when previewing (task phab:T241221 )
Updates: Summary: continuing to implement and refine topic matching for newcomer suggested edits
Add hidden preference for topics feature flag (task phab:T242698 )
Newcomer tasks: Don't randomize for morelike search
Newcomer tasks: Make a separate search query for every topic (task phab:T242560 ) (task phab:T242476 )
Newcomer tasks: Topic matching instrumentation (task phab:T242052 )
Suggested Edits: Fix button label from done state (task phab:T238612 ) (task phab:T238611 )
Suggested Edits: Expand filters if below the fold item is checked (task phab:T238612 )
Suggested Edits: Use classic_noboostlinks for morelike query (task phab:T240512 )
SuggestedEdits: Only export Topics.json once
Suggested Edits: Add topic filters dialog (task phab:T238612 )
Suggested Edits: Add topic filter button (task phab:T238611 )
Newcomer tasks: Log search errors in task backend (task phab:T240512 )
Newcomer tasks: Add test for API parameter info (task phab:T240512 )
Newcomer tasks: Expose task type / topic set in API parameter info (task phab:T240512 )
Newcomer tasks: Randomize suggested tasks locally (task phab:T242057 )
StartEditingDialog: Add topics (task phab:T238610 )
ApiQueryGrowthTasks: remove logged-in requirement (task phab:T242400 )
Updates:
Finished integration with mobile-html, finishing up migration logic of existing saved data on users' devices.
Proceeding with Suggested Edits v4 (adding image tags)
Product Infrastructure
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Updates:
KaiOS app: Onboarding phab:T236304
KaiOS app: various tweaks and fixes
Blocking:
Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
Updates:
OAuth 2.0 hitting production this week
Additional REST API endpoints available for search, media links, language links
Engineering Productivity
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Quality and Test Engineering
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Updates:
Train Health
January 27-31: 1.35.0-wmf.17 No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands - phab:T233865
The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at phab:T242446
Updates:
ORES deployment (new topic models - articletopic and drafttopic)
Improvements to topic models on the way (specifically, Biography and Women)
Work on Jade UI continues (requirejs import order, etc.)
released mwtext -- a common library for preprocessing MW text for ML
Evaluated fasttext for supporting our topic models -- Not good enough for re-use -- very single-purpose.
Working with haksoat on pulling English Idioms into our models phab:T205545
Picking up Hindi language assets with a new volunteer - Igarg2001 (Ishan Garg)
Working on service issue in WMFlabs phab:T242819
Exploring brief OOM issue in production phab:T242705
Blocked by:
Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: phab:T221917
Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
Updates:
WDQS: LDF server has 404 errors for JS and CSS resources phab:T237165
Site Reliability Engineering
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Blocking:
Product infrastructure on proton for buster node10 images Done
Research for recommendation API move, again buster node10 images Done
Quality and Test Engineering: Close QA mailing list phab:T237383
Updates: