Scrum of scrums/2020-05-20

2020-05-20

Callouts

• SRE DBAs point out
  • Tuesday 19th 05:00AM UTC: s2 and s8 (wikidata) primary db masters restart phab:T251981, there will be read only time.
  • Thursday 21st 05:00AM UTC: s1 (enwiki) primary db master restart phab:T251982, there will be read only time.
  • MCR schema change deployment will start next week, mostly on testwiki and then s6 (frwiki, jawiki, ruwiki) phab:T238966 , keep an eye out, there might be issues.
  • OOUI v0.39.0 released with underlying OOjs lib updated and with one new feature and two removals of deprecated event/function https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/oojs/ui/+/v0.39.0/History.md Please check your code for occurrences of the removed event/function and update accordingly.
• Release Engineering
  • No train this week, Engineering Productivity virtual off-site
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • 6.6 release (mobile-html) in code freeze, releasing next week - phab:project/view/4273
  • Beginning development on 6.6.1 (minor bug-fix release)

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Mobile-html support now in production.
  • Commons image tagging now in production.
  • Now working on enhanced editor statistics and history.

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: collapsible sidebar Desktop Improvements Project (DIP) continues, prototyping for Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Regression: Plain text sidebar section stopped working in Vector
    • Drop support for SkinTemplateToolboxEnd in Vector, finding suitable replacement
    • Update the method Wikibase uses to inject edit language links into the language portal
    • SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec is being deprecated. Update usages to more appropriate hooks.
    • Warning flood: "Use of SkinTemplateToolboxEnd hook was deprecated "
    • Regression: Option add links in other languages has disappeared
    • [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
    • [Dev] Allow extensions to update the footer without resorting to SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Vector: Use semantic HTML5 elements where applicable
    • Deprecate the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • [Spike] Prototype a single component for new Vue.js search project
      • [Spike] Build and deploy a Vue.js search prototype to labs
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • [AMC] Regression on History page in Advanced Mode
    • 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
    • Avoid SEO performance and user experience penalties by addressing our handling of lazy loaded images using IntersectionObserver

Product Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
  • SRE on chromium-render, mobileapps k8s deployment. Will be unblocking them this week

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • OOUI v0.39.0 released with underlying OOjs lib updated and with one new feature and two removals of deprecated `onLookupMenuItemChoose` event/TagItemWidget's `setDisabled` function https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/oojs/ui/+/v0.39.0/History.md Please check your code for occurrences of the removed event/function and update accordingly.

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Building CiviCRM extension to synchronize info from matching gift info provider and Organization contact records
  • Prepping for maintenance window to deploy payments-wiki and CiviCRM changes to eliminate last front-end dependency on back-end DB
  • Updating fundraiser maintenance special page
  • Prepping production deploy of new CentralNotice features including some small schema changes

Core Platform

• Blocked by:
  • SRE on cpjobqueue k8s deployment. Will be unblocking them this week

Engineering Productivity

• Updates:
  • Engineering Productivity virtual off-site Monday-Thursday

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.32 - phab:T249964
      • Still not fully deployed. :(
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.33
      • No train (EngProd virtual off-site)
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - phab:T253022

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • PI on chromium-render, mobileapps k8s deployment. Will be unblocking them this week
  • CPT on cpjobqueue k8s deployment. Will be unblocking them this week
• Updates:
  • Tuesday 19th 05:00AM UTC: s2 and s8 (wikidata) primary db masters restart phab:T251981, there will be read only time.
  • Thursday 21st 05:00AM UTC: s1 (enwiki) primary db master restart phab:T251982, there will be read only time.
  • MCR schema change deployment will start next week, mostly on testwiki and then s6 (frwiki, jawiki, ruwiki) phab:T238966 , keep an eye out, there might be issues.