Scrum of scrums/2020-11-25

Scrum of scrums

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2020-11-25

Callouts

• Language->Performance: Removal of wfMemckey in MediaWiki created a deployment blocker for translatewiki.net (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266502#6648828)
• FR-Tech: English-language fundraising campaign starts this week, please help keep the front-end stable!
• Performance: statsv was broken for a week due to a Python 3 migration gone wrong (sorry), if you have a gap in your mw.track() metrics that's why

== No Updates == Tech Com, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, Growth, iOS, Android, Web, Prod Infra, Parsing, UI Standardization, OKAPI, Library, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Machine Learning Platform, Research, SRE, Wikidata, German Technical Wishlist

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • when posting the notes, I will remove teams whose updates are blank and list those teams in a "no updates" section at the top.

Product

Community Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Sifting through the 300 or so community wishlist suggestions.

Structured Data

• Blocked by: -
• Blocking: -
• Updates:
  • MediaSearch: implementing support for complex queries
  • MediaSearch: launched tool to get feedback on image quality
  • Next week: team offsite

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by: —
• Blocking: —
• Updates:
  • Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects.
  • New engineer starting on Monday.

Language

• Blocked by: Removal of wfMemckey in MediaWiki created a deployment blocker for translatewiki.net (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266502#6648828)
• Blocking:
• Updates:

Inuka

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Various KaiOS app updates based on usability study results.

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Adding CiviCRM to our docker dev environment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262975
  • Starting to build out email preference center: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125272
  • Investigating some failing recurring donations: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268690
  • Reviewing some CentralNotice code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268646

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Spin up a basic local Phabricator instance with Docker https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/214/spin_up_a_basic_local_phabricator_instance_with_docker/

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.18 phab:T263184
    • This week: No Train
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 phab:T263186
    • Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions

Search Platform

• Updates:
  • PHP fatal/ Js exception TypeError: haystack is undefined in stringEndsWith -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266163
  • Enable adaptive replica selection on CirrusSearch Elasticsearch clusters -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259539
  • Bug: Airflow reports Mjolnir connection to Hive is already open - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268180
  • Unallocated shards on elasticsearch codfw cluster after switch failure -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267903
  • Prepare wdqs1009 to run the streaming updater - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255399
  • Analysis of Method 2 Suggestion results - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244800
  • Disable cirrus sanitizer job - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266911
  • The streaming updater should identify all shared statements properly -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266751
  • The streaming updater consumer should stop accumulating patches if it cannot handle them -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266750
  • CategoryChangesAsRdfTest::testCategorization: Failed asserting that two strings are equal. - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266850

Security

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • In progress: Security Readiness Review For GlobalWatchlist extension (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260466)
  • In progress: Security Readiness Review For geoip2/geoip2 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262963)