Scrum of scrums/2020-07-29

2020-07-29

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

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • Looking for meeting facilitator for 2020-08-05, 2020-08-12 and maybe 2020-08-19. The facilitator job is creating a wiki page and sending mail to wikitech-l.

Product

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: the Desktop Improvements Project's (DIP) new Vector is now an opt-in user preference everywhere; continuing WVUI Vector integration, network client, and search suggestion component.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • [ShoutWikiAds] Replace use of deprecated hook VectorBeforeFooter
    • Sidebar collapsed by default on desktop improvements
    • Enable sidebar instrumentation on test wikis
    • Switch test wikis to new version of vector by default
    • Fix the printable versions of modern Vector
    • Move the existing search to the header in preparation for Vue.js search development
    • Integrate WVUI into Vector for Vue.js search
    • [Modern Vector] Fix broken rendering of `main` and element in IE9-11
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • 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)
    • MobileFrontend browser test failing: User:<username> "before all" hook – Can't call setValue on element with selector "#wpName1" because element wasn't found
    • Browser test failure: Nested references do not always open
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
    • [EPIC] None of our View's should exhibit 2 levels of inheritance
  • Standardization
    • UsersMultiselectWidget not announcing status message
    • Deprecate and remove `.background-image-svg()` mixin from 'mediawiki.mixins.less'
    • Deprecate & remove `.background-image-svg-quick()` mixin from 'mediawiki.mixins.less'
    • Unify `line-height` to `20px` in widgets to simplify code and better i18n
  • Portals
    • [Recurring Task] Update Wikipedia and sister projects portals statistics
  • Miscellaneous
    • Vertical alignment of logos and text in Notifications popup

Technology

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - phab:T257969
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - phab:T257970
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.3 - phab:T257970