Scrum of scrums/2020-05-13

2020-05-13

Callouts

• From PI to SRE: What's the current timeline for getting mobileapps and chromium-render onto the the deployment pipeline / k8s? (phab:T218733, phab:T225680 )
• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office

Product

Growth

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - [Low priority] Growth team: Fix Flow DB errors from phpunit tests – phab:T249839, blocking phab:T246358

Android native app

• Updates:
  • All set for a Beta rollout of Suggested Edits V4 and Mobile-html features.
  • Currently working on Suggested Edits V5:phab:project/view/4645/

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: new Desktop Improvements Project (DIP) header is merged, prototyping, scaffolding, and task prioritization for Vue.js search, and collapsible sidebar is under development.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Regression: Vector skin did not populate all variants option in the variant drop-down menu
    • Add title attribute to opt-out link
    • [Dev] DRY up the menu templating code
    • [Spike 4hrs] Discuss and agree on nomenclature and rules for template partial usage and CSS organization from experience with header
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • [Epic] Build the new Vue.js search experience
      • Where does the application-specific Vue.js search code live and what impact does this decision have on the long term?
      • Should Desktop Improvements use Vue 2 or Vue 3 for Vue.js search?
      • Prototyping and task prioritization
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • [AMC] Regression on History page in Advanced Mode
    • [Dev] Allow extensions to update the footer without resorting to SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook

Product Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
  • SRE on migrating mobileapps and chromium-render to the pipeline (see Callouts)
• Updates:
  • Push Notifications RFC moved to Last Call phab:T249065

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Building employer search into payments form for matching gifts: phab:T251200
  • Smoke testing changes to pipeline to sever direct link between payments-wiki and backend DB: phab:T215463
  • Deploying new CentralNotice features: region-level geotargeting and banner templates: phab:T252596
  • Figuring out best way to notify donors when recurring donation fails: phab:T230064
  • Migrating recurring donations from main card processor's old API to new one: phab:T169357

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Updates:
  • QTE Office Hours - May 15th - 16:00 UTC

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • [Low priority] SRE Service Ops: Provide our special component/php72 in buster-wikimedia — phab:T250515
  • [Low priority] Wikibase team: Fix WikibaseLexeme DB errors from phpunit tests – phab:T249838, blocking phab:T246358
  • [Low priority] Growth team: Fix Flow DB errors from phpunit tests – phab:T249839, blocking phab:T246358
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.31 - phab:T249963
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.32 - phab:T249964
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.32 - No train (EngProd virtual off-site)

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Product infrastructure on move of mobileapps and chromium-render to k8s
  • Release Engineering - [Low priority] SRE Service Ops: Provide our special component/php72 in buster-wikimedia — phab:T250515

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - [Low priority] Wikibase team: Fix WikibaseLexeme DB errors from phpunit tests – phab:T249838, blocking phab:T246358