Scrum of scrums/2020-03-04

2020-03-04

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
  • [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in phab:T246833.

Product

Community Tech

• Updates:
  • The password reset update feature has been released on wikivoyage and wiktionary, and will be released on all wikis this week. we have encountered no issues or bad feedback on the feature. We are working on implementing the core functionality in the back-end for watchlist expiry. things are going well. no major blockers or issues. We have just launched the project for section name in diff: metawiki:Community Tech/Section Name in Diff

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Updates:
  • Working on Check User. Working on testing with legal and T&S.

Editing

• Updates:
  • DIscussionTools:
  • Fix IE 11 incompatibility due to 'parentElement' (task phab:T246565)
  • Work around mw.Uri crash on fallback encoding in links (task phab:T245889)
  • ReplyWidget: Disable "Reply" button if input is empty (task phab:T246058)
  • Clean up the interface after discarding a reply (task phab:T245574)
  • Instrumentation: abort-navigate case (task phab:T244874)

Growth

• Updates:
  • Planning to deploy our upgrade of the topic matching algorithm this week to use ORES articletopic scores
    • TopicSelectionWidget: Do not resize dialogs when "show more" is clicked (task phab:T238610, task phab:T244421)
    • SuggestedEdits: Use different prefs for morelike vs ORES topic filters (task phab:T244421)
    • StartEditingDialog: Don't send a flurry of requests on "select all"
    • SuggestedEdits: Fix JS error when displaying end of queue card (task phab:T246512)
    • TopicSelectionWidget: UI changes for ORES topics (task phab:T244421)
    • StartEditing: Handle configuration errors more gracefully
    • Make suggested edit cards link directly to articles when there is no page ID
  • Engineering is underway to guide users through suggested edits via the help panel (Newcomer tasks 1.2)
    • Avoid extra URL parameter when guidance is disabled
    • Guidance: Add pulsing blue dot on desktop and mobile (task phab:T244435)

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Final Testing stage for mobile html
  • Last couple tasks left to wrap-up Suggested Edits V4 - Image tags - Also in testing.

Web

• Updates:
  • Working on the deployment of headers and logos

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Soliciting feedback on updated push notifications technical plan
  • Code review ongoing for initial mobileapps and chromium-render Helm charts for k8s migrations

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • nothing major - more input types coming, some CAT work

Parsing

• Updates:
  • Starting next week, Parsoid will no longer be deployed independently and will ride the train via the vendor repository as a composer library

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • finishing up credit card recurring for backup card processor, moving on to iDEAL & iDEAL recurring with same processor
  • more fixes for regional geotargeting in CentralNotice phab:T243011
  • reviewing contractor work on banner templates and clone campaign in CentralNotice
  • More CiviCRM work to clean up low-value or redundant data phab:T245088
  • Investigating better process for managing translated thank you emails in Civi
  • Recordkeeping for PCI compliance phab:T243020

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Updates:
  • New and improved (but not yet completely finished) Selenium documentation - Selenium

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • SRE ServiceOps: For the work to migrate wikimedia-portals to Docker (phab:T238747), we need an official base image for serving Web pages, either the same as future-MW (phab:T238774) or a simpler one
• Blocking:
  • [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in phab:T246833.
• Updates:
  • [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
  • Train Health
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - phab:T233870
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.23 - phab:T233871

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Make /entity/ alias work for Commons phab:T222321
• Stuff no one else cares about:
  • Newcomer tasks: set initial thresholds for ORES articletopic phab:T244297
  • org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.Updater - Importer error: ConcurrentModificationException: KafkaConsumer is not safe for multi-threaded access phab:T239750

Security

• Updates:
  • Office hours starting next week, will be on staff calendar
  • Push notification review needs code / RFC (stalled): phab:T246712
  • Vendor will start KaiOS review mid-March: phab:T240869
  • Web-push PHP library review is assigned and in progress: phab:T246714
  • Talk pages, wrapping up: phab:T242134

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - SRE ServiceOps: For the work to migrate wikimedia-portals to Docker (phab:T238747), we need an official base image for serving Web pages, either the same as future-MW (phab:T238774) or a simpler one
• Updates:
  • Working with CPT on finalizing changeprop deployment on kubernetes
  • Reviewing proton/mobileapps charts for Product Infrastructure. Will be creating namespaces soon for them.