Scrum of scrums/2020-01-22

2020-01-22

Callouts

• No SoS next week because of Wikimedia Foundation All Hands
• 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
• Quality and Test Engineering
  • Blocked by Core Platform? - Login to at least en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org and commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org sometimes fails with `There seems to be a problem with your login session` phab:T243123

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • No SoS next week because of Wikimedia Foundation All Hands

Product

Editing

• Updates:
  • Preparing to release v1.0 of replying workflow for DiscussionTools (phab:T235592)

Growth

• Updates:
  • Topic matching for suggested edits is now live on our target wikis!
  • Working on ORES drafttopic model use for topics for suggested edits, and adding guidance features to the suggested edits module

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Working on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration) phab:project/view/4273
  • Investigating bug where donations continue to come through iOS phab:T242347

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Completed prototype of image tagging for Commons (based on suggested tags from Machine Vision api)
  • Finishing up mobile-html integration.

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: continuing desktop improvements (DIP).
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • [RFC] Port MobileFrontend Feature Management into core
    • Regression: Desktop diff styles for moved paragraphs load alongside mobile
    • Extract components from VectorTemplate to Mustache files
    • Separate out logo handling into square image logos and long text/wordmark banner logos
    • Add storybook to Vector
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Advanced mode:
      • [Bug] Simplified Talk Page Does Not Support Sections With Non-ascii Characters/Several ascii characters aren't supported either
      • Regression: AMC Outreach Drawer doesn't open when user is eligible
    • Miscellaneous:
      • Regression: issues with MobileDiff
      • [EPIC] Re-define the contract for displaying drawers and overlays in MobileFrontend
      • The `site` and `site.styles` module should be explicitly disabled on mobile rather than abuse the targets system
      • The LoadingOverlay and src/mobile.startup/rlModuleLoader.js pattern should be removed - it results in overlay flashes during switches
      • [EPIC] Minerva works independently of MobileFrontend
      • Transition MobileFrontend Gruntfile.js tasks to NPM scripts
      • Respect $wgAllowSiteCSSOnRestrictedPages
  • QuickSurveys
    • Minimise the code QuickSurveys loads when there are no surveys running

Structured Data

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: Data dumps for SDC: phab:T221917
  • I don't think we're really blocking this - afaik nobody's waiting for anything from us, and Ariel is testing dumps
• Updates:
  • working on new input types
  • also prototyping media search

Inuka

• Updates:
  • KaiOS app: Article footer phab:T236301
  • KaiOS app: Empty state on various screens phab:T242350
  • KaiOS app: Change text size phab:T234622

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • payments-wiki: more work to support recurring donation via our backup card provider:
  • CentralNotice
    • deploying a fix for campaign fallback: phab:T240802
    • more work on region-level geotargeting:
    • starting to set up our Cloud VPS project for testing unmerged changes: phab:T241070 (thanks, Tech engagment team!)
  • CiviCRM
    • Trying to upstream some of our last local performance hacks:
    • More improvements to contact de-duplication: phab:T242159
    • Making our multilanguage Thank You emails sendable from the UI: phab:T227903
    • Fully squashing a recurring donation schedule bug we thought we fixed in December: phab:T243356
    • Upgrading our production instance to latest Civi core: phab:T242056

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
  • WMDE: Waiting for feedback form core platform team regarding phab:T233520
  • QTE: (Maybe) - Login to at least en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org and commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org sometimes fails with `There seems to be a problem with your login session` phab:T243123
• Updates:
  • Echo notification storage rolled out
  • OAuth 2.0 rolled out
  • Session storage rolling out this week

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform? - Login to at least en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org and commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org sometimes fails with `There seems to be a problem with your login session` phab:T243123

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • 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
  • Train Health
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.16 - phab:T233864
    • Next week: No deploys at all (including train), Wikimedia Foundation All Hands - phab:T233865

Scoring Platform

• Updates:
  • Major improvements in topic modeling fitness for enwiki (Pending deployment) phab:T243107
  • Expanding native topic models to ar, cs, ko, and viwiki. phab:T243108
  • Brought experimental cluster back online after service interruption phab:T242819
  • Still exploring an OOM issue in prod that had a very minor effect on the service phab:T242705

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: phab:T221917
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Implement sonarcloud integration for Java projects phab:T238004

Security

• Updates:
  • kaiOS in progress: phab:T240869
  • Inuka in progress: phab:T240010
  • closed: phab:T239063
  • new Security SOP: Security/SOP/Requests_For_Service

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • Waiting for feedback form core platform team regarding phab:T233520