Scrum of scrums/2021-02-17
2021-02-17
editCallouts
edit- RelEng: Longer-term train disruption calendar (caveats apply) https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
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editAHT, Library
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editWeb, Prod Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Quality & Test, Security
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
edit- Updates:
- from retro ideas to try:
- Bolding items to read aloud +JF +TC
- relaxing the start time
- Template
- Perhaps add a contact point (email, url, office hours, whatever) for easy reaching out to teams when a bullet point seems interesting. +GG +JF +TC
- Adding a section where teams can add Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests to request reviews or feedback. +GG +TC [DONE]
- Adding a "thanks" section +GG +JF +TC+AP [DONE]
- from retro ideas to try:
Product
editCommunity Tech
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- We are now preparing for our next project (OCR Improvements) while wrapping up our work on WS-Export improvements
Editing
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Releasing new topic tool as a Beta Feature on three Wikipedias (ar/cs/hu)
Growth
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- working on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
- working on improvements in configuration (for more scalable deployments) and mentorship
iOS native app
edit- Blocked by: None
- Blocking: I hope none.
- Updates: Finishing touches on Chinese varient work, bunches of other small things.
Android native app
edit- Blocked by: None
- Blocking: I hope none.
- Updates: Refining watchlist and talk pages, moving to releasing every 2 weeks.
Structured Data
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- MediaSearch: splitting off frontend into separate extension
- Image recommendations: started working on scripts to evaluate POC results (T273882, T273062) & tweak search profile based on analysis from Research team (T271799)
- Continuing SDAW architecture discussions
Abstract Wikipedia
edit- Blocked by:
- None
- Blocking:
- None
- Updates:
- Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
- First route for back-end executor service has landed.
- Looking at re-using firejail for isolation of run-times within executor service.
- Thanks to Dave Pifke and Timo Tijhof from Performance for their support and advice.
- Final week for community suggestions for the logo concept for Wikifunctions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_concept#Gallery
- Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
Vue.js
edit- Blocked by: Performance (Timo), review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/657953
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- WVUI v0.1.0 merged into core, yay! Thank you to Jon R, Jan D, Nick R, Sam S, Mark H (Web team), Scott B (Security), and Timo T (Performance)
- Patch for ES6-only module support in ResourceLoader awaiting review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/657953
- New patch up (as of last night) adding ES6 support to JavaScriptMinifier https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/libs/Minify/+/664700
- Thanks to Timo for setting up the mediawiki/libs/Minify repo
Technology
editFundraising Tech
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Working on donor email preference center (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268495, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268497)
- Annual PCI paperwork to keep accepting credit cards
- Trying to get Latin American spanish (es-419) working as a variant throughout donation pipeline, falling back to Castillian Spanish (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199682, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199733)
- More fixes for our docker setup (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274943, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268683) (will need +2s from RelEng eventually)
Engineering Productivity
editPerformance
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Second frontend web perf training session budget approved, will be at EMEA-friendly times. Provisional dates April 19 - 23
Release Engineering
edit- Blocked by:
- ServiceOps: VM requests for GitLab
- Blocking:
- Hopefully no longer blocking fundraising
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Longer-term train calendar https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.30 phab:T271343
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.31 phab:T271344
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.32 phab:T274936
Thanks
edit- Serviceops: docker-pkg help!
- Everyone who helped us get the train unstuck over the past few weeks <3
Search Platform
edit- Blocked by:
- Updates:
- Outdated data still present in WCQS a month after statement update -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267825
- Resolve WDQS changelog situation - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272265
- Reduce default page weighting on wikitech and mediawikiwiki for pages with "Historical" or "Archive"templates - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274082
Site Reliability Engineering
edit- Blocked by:
- None
- Blocking:
- None
- Updates:
- Working with Product Infra on maps
- Having some issues with upload edge caches recently
- Some SREs alongside Chris Albon made it to mainstream news for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741
WMDE
editTechnical Wishes
edit- Updates:
- Finishing a round of intensive analytics work, thanks for all the review and support.
- Planning many changes in the Visual Editor template dialog.
Cross-cutting
edit- Blocked by:
- Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142
- Blocking:
- None
- Updates:
- No major changes.
- On PHP 8.0 work, we're now looking to enable PHP 8.0 as voting on the REL1_35 branch for MediaWiki itself and as a gradual opt-in for extensions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274965
- CI tools' upgrade status is adequate: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
- Particular thanks this week to Umherirrender for their work on the backlog of jsonlint -> eslint replacements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220036