Scrum of scrums/2020-04-15

2020-04-15

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • Next week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
• Readers Web/UI Standardization/ Design Style Guide
  • Base10 color amended from `#222` to `#202122` to fully comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines when combined with Accent50 `#36c` link color contrast ratio. phab:T248393
    • Rollout already succeeded in Design Style Guide https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/visual-style_colors.html & WikimediaUI Base, OOUI. Other extensions/skins to be followed-up on.

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • No meeting next week because of Wikimedia Foundation holiday

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • 6.6 release out on public beta (mobile-html integration) - phab:project/view/4273
    • bug fixing and working towards code freeze

Android native app

• Updates:
  • mobile-html integration currently in Beta; production release pending resolution of caching issues on RestBase side.

Web

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - Portals gulp4 migration phab:T247996
• Updates:
  • Summary: new header, collapsible sidebar, Vue.js tasking, and continuing desktop improvements project (DIP).
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • [Dev] DRY up the menu templating code
    • [Spike 4hrs] Discuss and agree on nomenclature and rules for template partial usage
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • Build new logo for Desktop Improvements Header
    • Provide basic FeatureManagement in Vector codebase
    • Build opt-out link for logged-in users with new vector on
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Section edit icon not displaying in Minerva skin
    • Regression: MobileFrontend overrides non-existent user page handling in desktop view
    • Implement Tap to show for lazy loaded images without MutationObserver - Scrolling on a Kai OS mobile device can be slow on articles with lazy loading
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
    • Avoid SEO performance and user experience penalties by addressing our handling of lazy loaded images using MutationObserver
    • Replace all possible, non-product specific icons in MobileFrontend/MinervaNeue with WikimediaUI/OOUI ones
    • Dev: Popups modules should set targets to mobile and desktop
  • Miscellaneous
    • Replace jsduck with JSDoc3 across all Wikimedia code bases

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • mobile-html: The first edit button will be moved to lead paragraph to match iOS behavior phab:T248903

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • some changes to MachineVision - exclude pictures of people from classification as much as possible
  • experimenting with vue.js on MachineVision
  • investigations for Structure Data part 2

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • Design Style Guide: Base10 color amended from `#222` to `#202122` to 100% comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines when combined with Accent50 `#36c` link color contrast ratio. phab:T248393
    • Rollout already succeeded in WikimediaUI Base, OOUI. Other extensions/skins to be followed-up on.
  • OOUI v0.38.0 released https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/oojs/ui/+/v0.38.0/History.md
    • two breaking changes icons `stripe*` and `toc` removed,
    • New features: ButtonMenuSelectWidget and IndexLayout.php#setTabPanel implemented (thanks Ed Sanders)

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
  • Need to figure out how to force-push a reset to an old repo, might have to bother releng
• Updates:
  • Testing migrating recurring donations from main card processor's old API to new API: phab:T232017
  • Still looking for better options to replace 3rd party cookies for cross-wiki banner hiding: phab:T244699
  • Investigating how to create multilingual email for failed donations using core CiviCRM: phab:T230064
  • Trying to get contractor-performed CentralNotice work reviewed and deployed: phab:T246347, phab:T226438

Core Platform

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

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Updates:
  • April Quality and Testing Engineering Office Hour - Software testing anti-patterns: Selenium phab:T246880

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Web team: Portals gulp4 migration phab:T247996
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.27 - phab:T247774
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.28 - phab:T247775
    • Next week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Search index for page 5 days out of date - phab:T249435