Scrum of scrums/2020-07-08

2020-07-08

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

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Bug fixes and feature task planning for 6.7 - phab:project/view/4661
  • WWDC research

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Continuing work on onboarding design refresh - phab:project/view/4819/

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: content max-width and sidebar persistence for Desktop Improvements Project (DIP), building button and input for Vue.js search.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • [site request] enable 100% sampling for sidebar instrumentation on test.wikipedia.org
    • Implement a core 'clearfix' mixin in mediawiki.mixin and evaluate deprecation/removal of 'visualClear' class
    • Limit content width, and refine alignment & styling of relevant elements
    • [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):
    • Remove 'mediawiki.ui.anchor' module
    • Fix the most common "Module not loadable on target mobile" warnings (Oct 2019)
    • Add 'i18n-directionality.less' file to core and extract overarching theme styles from legacy.less
  • Standardization
    • Amend VisualEditor's WikimediaUI themed ProgressBar to new look
    • Consider 'normalize' stylesheet RL module
  • Portals
    • [Recurring Task] Update Wikipedia and sister projects portals statistics
  • Miscellaneous
    • ext.uls.interface should set targets and explicitly not target the Minerva skin

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Figuring out what old data we can delete, and how
  • Working out the kinks in the matching gifts sync / donation form employer autocomplete
  • More optimizing data sync between CiviCRM and bulk mail house
  • CentralNotice workaround for browsers not letting pixels set banner hide cookies:

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - phab:T254176
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - phab:T256668
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - phab:T256669