Scrum of scrums/2020-06-10

2020-06-10

Callouts

• SRE moving various LVS microservices (e.g. termbox, citoid, mathoid) into their TLS enabled LVS endpoints. Keep in mind
• Release Engineering
  • [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

Product

Android native app

• Updates:
  • In production: image tagging, mobile-html integration.
  • Working on enhanced user contribution history screen.

Web

• Blocked by:
  • language engineering + wikimedia DE. Trying to deprecate some skin hooks for next MW release but blocked on the following changes
    • phab:T254565 (ArticlePlaceholder)
    • phab:T253685 (Wikibase)
    • phab:T252841 (Wikibase)
    • phab:T253178 (UniversalLanguageSelector)
• Updates:
  • Summary: continuing content width limiting for Desktop Improvements Project (DIP), scaffolding Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • WikidataPageBanner should no longer use SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Render the FallbackSkin and SkinApi with a simplistic SkinMustache class
    • Language portlet no longer at the bottom of sidebar
    • Restore banners to skins (Vector)
    • Future proof addPortletLink
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Add bandwidth tests for JavaScript and CSS to Vector and component repo
    • Tech debt: Drop Browser.supportsAnimations method
    • Deprecate the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Limit content width, and refine alignment & styling of relevant elements
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Alex and Stephen in performance training last week.

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • MachineVision updates
  • preliminary work for SDAW

Language

• Blocking:
  • Web - language engineering + wikimedia DE. Trying to deprecate some skin hooks for next MW release but blocked on the following changes
    • phab:T254565 (ArticlePlaceholder)
    • phab:T253685 (Wikibase)
    • phab:T252841 (Wikibase)
    • phab:T253178 (UniversalLanguageSelector)

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Integrating lists of companies who match employee donations into payments-wiki forms, building CiviCRM extension to sync the data. phab:T249922, phab:T251200
  • Export Matching Gifts data to acoustic. phab:T254809
  • Investigate donor data delivery tool. phab:T248699

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • WMDE/Wikidata would appreciate review/some thoughts on gerrit:603572
  • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Train branch cut time is changing:
      • Starting with 1.35.0-wmf.37 on June 16th the wmf MediaWiki branch cut will happen at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday…
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - phab:T253023
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - phab:T254174

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
  • DC-Ops: rack/setup/install relforge100[34] phab:T241791
• Updates:
  • Fix CirrusSearch maint scripts call sites to use file names compliant with autoloader phab:T250806

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform - DC-Ops: rack/setup/install relforge100[34] phab:T241791
• Updates:
  • SRE moving various LVS microservices (e.g. termbox, citoid, mathoid) into their TLS enabled LVS endpoints. Keep in mind.

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform: We would appreciate review/some thoughts on gerrit:603572
• Blocking:
  • Web - language engineering + wikimedia DE. Trying to deprecate some skin hooks for next MW release but blocked on the following changes
    • phab:T254565 (ArticlePlaceholder)
    • phab:T253685 (Wikibase)
    • phab:T252841 (Wikibase)
    • phab:T253178 (UniversalLanguageSelector)