Scrum of scrums/2020-06-17

2020-06-17

Callouts

• 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)

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Bug fix 6.6.1 release in beta testing phab:project/view/4574
  • Beginning early development and research on new experiments for 6.7 phab:project/view/4661

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Continuing to develop enhanced contribution history screen.

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: continuing content width limiting for Desktop Improvements Project (DIP), scaffolding and identifying a component baseline for Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Render the FallbackSkin and SkinApi with a simplistic SkinMustache class
    • Language portlet no longer at the bottom of sidebar
    • Future proof addPortletLink
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
    • Duplicate <div id="mw-content-text" ...> in Vector HTML output
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Add bandwidth tests for JavaScript and CSS to Vector and component repo
    • Deprecate the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Limit content width, and refine alignment & styling of relevant elements
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Tech debt: Drop Browser.supportsAnimations method

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • Link :focus standardization part of Design Style Guide
  • OOUI v0.39.2 in preparation

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • More work on employer matching gifts
  • Missed backport window for CentralNotice update, will try again next week
  • Improving efficiency of data export to bulk mail provider.

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - phab:T254174
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - phab:T254175