Scrum of scrums/2020-02-19

2020-02-19

Callouts

• SRE blocked by Releng on phab:T217924 (Make canary wait time configurable)

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • Increase participation in Scrum of Scrums meeting phab:T245278

Product

Community Tech

• Updates:
  • The table for watchlist_expiry is created.
  • We were having issues with Google approving our extension, and we think we've resolved it.

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Updates:
  • Continuing development on CU.

Editing

• Updates:
  • Bartosz created a proof of concept that enables us to test Gerrit patches with one click. This project came out of the hack week the team held at the end of December (2019). Demo instructions are here: phab:T76245#5788579
  • Deployed version 1.0 of Replies for Discussionztools to Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias via a query string parameter

Growth

• Updates:
  • Newcomer tasks 1.1 (topic matching): building support for loading ORES topic scores into the Search API

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Continuing development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration) phab:project/view/4273

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Almost done with offline conversion for mobile-html.
  • In the final design review stage for Suggested Edits V4 feature.

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: continuing desktop improvements (DIP).
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • [Dev] Adopt template partials in Vector and revise sidebar component
    • Build opt-out button for logged-in users with new vector on
    • Add a Vector skin version preference
    • Separate out logo handling into square image logos and long text/wordmark banner logos
    • [SPIKE 16hrs] Add coding convention for new commits to Vector
    • Migrate JavaScript API documentation from jsduck to JSDoc
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Job unable to create file page "Fatal: Call function inNamespace() on null" (via MinervaHooks)
    • [EPIC] MobileFrontend extension should stop special-casing main page
    • Replace all possible, non-product specific icons in MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue with WikimediaUI/OOUI ones
    • [M] Setup storybook from Minerva
    • Regression: Mobile talk page shows links in overlay header
    • [print] Article title hidden with mobile print styles

Product Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
  • SRE on review of Helm charts for proton and mobileapps (no callout needed, they know)
• Updates:
  • Push notification service planning continues

Parsing

• Updates:
  • Parsoid integration into core as a composer library underway
  • Parsoid extension API drafting underway - hoping to have a first draft ready by end April

Language

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform: Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued phab:T144780

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • Preparation of next minor release OOUI v0.37.0, planned for coming week, Tue 25th Feb

Technology

Analytics

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) phab:T210271
  • WMDE/Wikidata: waiting for updates on phab:T236895

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • More work on recurring donations with backup card processor
  • Cleaning up useless data from the CiviCRM database
  • CentralNotice work on banner templates and sub-national geotargeting
  • Moving more payment processor API response normalization into backend library

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Language: Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued phab:T144780
  • WMDE/Wikidata: would be happy to get some input/assistance on phab:T233520
• Updates:
  • Active development on job queuing
  • API gateway and rate-limiting evolving Core_Platform_Team/Initiative/API_Gateway/Epics,_User_Stories,_and_Requirements#Epic_3:_Rate_limits
  • Changeprop k8 to production

Engineering Productivity

Performance

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering: Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' phab:T245570
  • WMDE/Wikidata: would be happy to get some input/assistance on phab:T233520

Quality and Test Engineering

• Updates:
  • Quality and Test Engineering Office Hour
    • Friday, February 21 17:00-17:50 UTC
    • Topic: Software Testing Anti-patterns

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) phab:T210271
  • Performance: Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' phab:T245570
• Blocking:
  • SRE on on phab:T217924 (Make canary wait time configurable)
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868
      • (Performance) Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' phab:T245570
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - [[phab:T233869]

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering on phab:T217924 (Make canary wait time configurable)
• Updates:
  • ServiceOps has OKR reprioritization to deal with the aftermath/reasons of the outages.

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • Analytics: We're waiting for updates on phab:T236895
  • Core Platform and/or Performance: We would be happy to get some input/assistance on phab:T233520