Scrum of scrums/2020-03-25

2020-03-25

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] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Bug fixes & testing on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration) phab:project/view/4273
    • Releasing to public beta in the next day or two

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Released Suggested Edits v4 to Beta.
  • Released integration with mobile-html to Beta.
  • Gathering feedback and rounding out any remaining issues before releasing to production (likely next week).

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: evolving plans for Coronavirus, continuing desktop improvements project (DIP).
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Vector sidebar missing on test.wikipedia.org and weird footer
    • Broken section edit links styles on Vector
    • Default to feature branch in Vector
    • [Dev] Adopt template partials in Vector and revise sidebar component
    • Build opt-out link for logged-in users with new vector on
    • A cached server-side HTML template should update when you change a partial template which it includes
    • Regression: Border color of Vector action menu is black
    • Hureo report
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Phan warning in "includes/specials/SpecialMobileDiff.php" - working around by disabling
    • Allow customisations of Article::getSubstituteContent for different namespaces
    • Regression: MobileFrontend overrides non-existent user page handling in desktop view
    • Uncaught ReferenceError: mfTempOpenSection is not defined on main pages
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
    • Sections on mobile views jumps around after load (FOUC)
    • Long edit summary/titles/user breaking AMC special pages
  • Miscellaneous
    • WebInstallerOutput should more elegantly load Vector stylesheet rather than hardcoding a reference
  • Q4 planning

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • About to test recurring iDEAL (NL bank transfer) via our backup payment processor: phab:T230837
  • Testing migration of recurring card donations from main payment processor's old API to their new API: phab:T232017
  • Fixing localization of error messages on payments-wiki in certain circumstances: phab:T247885
  • About ready to merge sub-national targeting to CentralNotice master
  • Reviewing CentralNotice clone campaign functionality
  • Fixing matching gift CiviCRM import: phab:T246889

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Wikimedia DE/Wikidata: We'd appreciate some input on phab:T245535, and feedback on gerrit:580870. We got some comments from Krinkle (thanks), but would appreciate some more advice there.
  • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Finishing minimal client epic for Core REST API phab:T229662
  • Adding config flag for development endpoints in Core REST API phab:T247997

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • [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.25 - phab:T233873
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.26 - phab:T233874

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • Not sure which team - Core Platform?: We'd appreciate some input on phab:T245535, and feedback on gerrit:580870. We got some comments from Krinkle (thanks), but would appreciate some more advice there.