Scrum of scrums/2020-06-24

2020-06-24

Callouts

• SRE DBAs:
  • m1-master failover, etherpad will have minor issues on Thursday Jun 25th
• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
  • Gerrit upgrade on Saturday, 27th of June <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-June/093526.html>
  • "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)
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; phab:T217924

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • looking for somebody to facilitate on 2020-07-01

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Bug fix 6.6.1 to be released this week phab:project/view/4574
  • Early development and research on new experiments for 6.7 phab:project/view/4661

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Completed new user contribution screen, to be deployed to Beta this week.
  • Design refresh of explore feed cards and the main screen.

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: sidebar instrumentation and content width limiting for Desktop Improvements Project (DIP), component baseline taskout for Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Watchlist star gone on Vector
    • ext.uls.interface should set targets and explicitly not target the Minerva skin
    • Language portlet no longer at the bottom of sidebar
    • Future proof addPortletLink
    • Build sidebar instrumentation
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • Deprecate the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Checkbox and mediawiki.toc.styles styles should be merged into a single ResourceLoader module
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Fix the most common "Module not loadable on target mobile" warnings (Oct 2019)
    • Sorry toast doesn't show for mobile editor on pages you can't edit (Uncaught TypeError: m.show is not a function, Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'show' of undefined)
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
  • Standardization
    • Scope and use of mediawiki.skinning's 'elements.less' file
    • Align mediawiki.ui/variables.less variables to CSS variable naming scheme
    • Replace non-standard color palette .new color with Red50 `#d33`
    • Vector: Use semantic HTML5 elements where applicable
  • Miscellaneous
    • Latest version of SkinBlueSpiceCalumma is not compatible with current version of Chameleon
    • Some images appear when Show Images is disabled
    • TypeError: self.hide is not a function. (In 'self.hide()', 'self.hide' is undefined)

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • mediasearch design work, vue prototype work and backend changes

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • More work on employer matching gifts: phab:T249924, phab:T251201
  • CentralNotice subnational targeting and banner templates going out on train this week phab:T255476
  • Improving efficiency of data export to bulk mail provider phab:T253152
  • Tweaking config of card entry forms to avoid confusion phab:T254032
  • Monitoring converted recurring donations now that a month has passed, ready to convert the rest from our main card processor's old API to their new API phab:T256181
  • Adding a redirect feature to hide banners now that many browsers don't allow pixels to set cookies: phab:T251780

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; phab:T217924
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - phab:T254174
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - phab:T254175
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - phab:T254176

Site Reliability Engineering

• Updates:
  • Working on actionables for the sessionstore incident
  • m1-master failover, etherpad will have minor issues on Thursday Jun 25th
  • Working on moving switching proton traffic to kubernetes