Scrum of scrums/2021-01-06
2021-01-06
editCallouts
edit- (SRE) In the event that you need to urgently reach SRE for an outage or other emergency (shell account compromise, etc), well, now there's an app for that: https://klaxon.wikimedia.org/
- (RelEng) Code deploy office hours for deployment questions are still happening Mondays 18:00UTC (see staff calendar)
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editEditing, Web, Product Infrastructure, Structured Data, Language, Inuka, OKAPI, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality and Test, Security
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
edit- Updates: Will keep retro form open until 2021-01-14
Product
editCommunity Tech
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Anti-Harassment Tools
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Growth
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- continuing work on link recommendations: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
iOS native app
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- Updates: Right-sizing scope of next experiment, development starting.
Android native app
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- Updates: Happy to have Jazmin on board! Development work underway on next version, including watchlist work.
Abstract Wikipedia
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- Getting back in the saddle after the break.
- Last Monday was the first day of our new engineering team member, Cory Massaro; general announcement coming later today.
- Process for a community contest to select the logo concept for Wikifunctions will start shortly.
- Huge thanks to the Security team for their support, meeting with us and the Architecture team.
Parsing
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Library
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- Working on Wikilink user list filtering
- Setting up to work on an Echo notification so that users get notified if they are eligible for bundle access in the Wikipedia Library
Technology
editFundraising Tech
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- Working on eoy donation summary email send which needed updates for new calendar year
- Close to final approval on CentralNotice CampaignTypes feature with new user preferences
- Will review other outstanding CN patches this sprint
Engineering Productivity
editRelease Engineering
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- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 -- office hours for deployments are still happening Mondays 1800UTC
- Train Health <https://versions.toolforge.org/>
- Last
weekyear: 1.36.0-wmf.22 phab:T267417 - This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 phab:T267418
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 phab:T267419
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Search Platform
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- Migrate WDQS to Debian Buster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244753
- wdqs1005: disk space critical on /srv/ - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270236
- wdqs-categories prometheus exporter failing on select wdqs instances -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269872
- Some wdqs metrics changed when switching to python3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269204
- Service implementation on wdqs101[1-3].eqiad.wmnet - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246345
- The saneitizer is a lot slower than when running in codfw (oct 27 2020 codfw -> eqiad switchover) -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266762
- Deepcategory returns only very few results - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246568
- Examine cases where Blazegraph generates results that timeout and don’t make it back to the user -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264447
- Spike: Can/should Swift be used as Flink checkpoint backend? - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246004
- Stuff no one else cares about:
- Call to a member function getResults() on null - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268164
Site Reliability Engineering
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- the past two weeks were thankfully quiet :)
Cross-cutting
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- LibraryUpgrader now handles security and linting upgrades in non-master release branches (currently configured for REL1_35 and REL1_31).
- PHP 8.0 compatibility work continues.