Scrum of scrums/2020-07-01

2020-07-01

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)
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; phab:T217924
  • Gerrit was updated over the weekend to version 3

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Early development and research on new experiments for 6.7 - phab:project/view/4661
  • WWDC research

Android native app

• Updates:
  • User contribution history screen now in production.
  • Starting next development phase: phab:project/view/4819/

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: sidebar instrumentation and content max-width for Desktop Improvements Project (DIP), building initial component primitives for Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Implement a core 'clearfix' mixin in mediawiki.mixin and evaluate deprecation/removal of 'visualClear' class
    • Current checkbox hack doesn't provide <Enter> or <Space> as toggle action
    • UniversalLanguageSelector should stop using the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Build sidebar instrumentation
    • Limit content width, and refine alignment & styling of relevant elements
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • Deprecate the SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • [Modern Vector] Fix broken rendering of `main` and `dialog` elements in IE9-11
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Eventually deprecate SkinTemplateNavigation::SpecialPage and SkinTemplateNavigation hooks in favor of SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Align MinervaNeue's/MobileFrontend variables to CSS variable naming scheme
    • History page insert `ins`/ delete `del` elements have accessibility issues
    • ext.uls.interface should set targets and explicitly not target the Minerva skin
    • Fix the most common "Module not loadable on target mobile" warnings (Oct 2019)
    • Mobile version Star for Watchlist not consistent
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
    • Mobile web donate link
    • [EPIC] None of our View's should exhibit 2 levels of inheritance
  • Standardization
    • Consider 'normalize' stylesheet RL module
    • Re-design progress bar for OOUI
    • Devise a generic way for theme-agnostic stylesheets to adapt to the current theme
    • Focus not visible on checkbox in high contrast dark mode
  • Portals
    • [Recurring Task] Update Wikipedia and sister projects portals statistics
  • Miscellaneous
    • Latest version of SkinBlueSpiceCalumma is not compatible with current version of Chameleon
    • Scope and use of mediawiki.skinning's 'elements.less' file
    • Adopt mustache templates in Modern and Monobook
    • Use project logo wordmarks on Wikimedia projects in Timeless
    • RFC: Reconsider how we run QUnit unit tests
    • Some images appear when Show Images is disabled
    • Add 'i18n-directionality.less' file to core and extract overarching theme styles from legacy.less

Product Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
  • RelEng: to review codehealth pipeline for push notifications gerrit:604830

UI Standardization

• Updates:
• Design Style Guide
  • Prep work for WVUI – technically and planning, including WikimediaUI Base variables amendment and extension.
  • Improved long-standing consistency imagery representation, both desktop and mobile phab:T251347
  • Icon additions: 'doubleChevronStart', 'doubleChevronEnd', 'userAdd'
  • “Link” component got updated to reflect “new” treatment https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/components/links.html

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Finishing up matching gifts data sync and form autocomplete
  • Overhauling data export to bulk mailer house
  • Implementing workaround for browsers blocking pixels from setting cookies for hiding banners

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Product Infrastructure - to review codehealth pipeline for push notifications gerrit:604830
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - phab:T254175
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - phab:T254176
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - phab:T256668

Site Reliability Engineering

• Updates:
  • Proton to be switched over to the k8s TLS enabled version.
  • Work on mobileapps traffic being routed to k8s will start soon.