Scrum of scrums/2020-06-03

2020-06-03

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • Branch cut automation starts in 2 weeks with 1.35.0-wmf.37[0]! Branches will be cut at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday starting June 16th. Please yell if that's an issue: phab:T242446
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: phab:T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)

Product

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: collapsible sidebar UI is wrapping up, persistence continues, and starting content width limiting for Desktop Improvements Project (DIP), scaffolding Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Vector page layout corrupted on cached pages
    • Render the FallbackSkin and SkinApi with a simplistic SkinMustache class
    • Update the method Wikibase uses to inject edit language links into the language portal
    • Future proof addPortletLink
    • gadget regression: addPortletLink doesn't reveal hidden menus in Vector any more [causes disappearance of merge datas on Wikidata]
    • Drop support for SkinTemplateToolboxEnd in Vector, with suitable replacement
    • Regression: Option add links in other languages has disappeared
    • [Dev] DRY up the menu templating code
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • Deprecate the `.menu` class
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Standardize `.mw-ui-icon` to overhauled icon canvas size 20x20
    • Deprecate the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Limit content width, and refine alignment & styling of relevant elements
    • Make collapsible sidebar persistent across sessions for logged-in users, for sessions for logged-out users
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Don't count startup script resourceloader.exception events in WebClientError error counting
    • 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
    • MobileFrontend QUnit tests are broken in Special:JavaScriptTest
    • Avoid SEO performance and user experience penalties by addressing our handling of lazy loaded images using IntersectionObserver
    • Tech debt: Drop Browser.supportsAnimations method
  • Alex and Stephen in performance training this week.

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Continuing work on push notifications project
    • in the Echo extension and
    • in a Node service written in TypeScript for actually sending the notification to push vendors (mediawiki/services/push-notifications).

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • minor MachineVision patches
  • work on MediaSearch prototype
  • adding schema.org data to commons images
  • SDAW preliminary work

Parsing

• Blocking:
  • Language: (not urgent) See comment on phab:T47096#6129671

Language

• Blocked by:
  • Fundraising Tech: (not urgent) Review of gerrit:598470 would be helpful
  • Parsing: (not urgent) See comment on phab:T47096#6129671
• Updates:
  • Language-data library is now available both in npm and packagist: https://language-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  • Vue.js based Content Translation dashboard and section translation development continues.

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocking:
  • Language: (not urgent) Review of gerrit:598470 would be helpful
• Updates:
  • Doing some code cleanup made possible by the removal of the db connection from payments-wiki. Will soon decommission / deinstall the ContributionTracking mediawiki extension. phab:T253057,
  • Adding Civi feature to send automatic email on recurring payment failure: phab:T230064
  • Trying new API call to get mass mailing criteria from bulk mailing provider: phab:T252247
  • Deployed code to migrate recurring card payments from old to new API, starting to test with real payments: phab:T232017
  • Integrating lists of companies who match employee donations into payments-wiki forms, building CiviCRM extension to sync the data. phab:T249922, phab:T251200

Core Platform

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

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: phab:T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
  • Branch cut automation starts in 2 weeks with 1.35.0-wmf.37[0]! Branches will be cut at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday starting June 16th. Please yell if that's an issue: phab:T242446
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - phab:T253022
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - phab:T253023
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • maps: traffic to maps2004 dropped by iptables - phab:T249701

Site Reliability Engineering

• Updates:
  • Unblocked Research and Product infrastructure on mobileapps, proton, recommendation-api deployments on kubernetes.