Scrum of scrums/2021-03-03
2021-03-03
editCallouts
edit- SRE ServiceOps pinging:
- Language
- Product Infrastructure
- Platform
- WMDE
- Analytics
for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262 . Please review list of images in task, issue a commit for the ones you own to create a new version and deploy it, so that latest blubber improvements are passed to the deployed images. Many thanks!
- [serviceops] PHP restart sudo rules for docroot deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/666309
Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback
editNo updates
editCommTech, Editing, iOS, Android,Library
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editParsing, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, 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
- from retro ideas to try:
Product
editAnti-Harassment Tools
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Thank you James Forrester and Martin Urbanec for your ongoing help!
- Updates:
- No updates
Growth
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- SRE for their help with the link recommendation service
- Updates:
- Work on Add Link continues https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
- Working on exposing more configuration settings to wiki admins T274520 T274031
- Sending newcomer questions to mentors instead of help desks T275908
- Enabling Growth features on dawiki T256126
Web
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Ed Sanders for the neat rewrite of the mobile site's lead paragraph hoisting code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262093
- Updates:
- WVUI search autocomplete widget A/B test is deployed and in QA: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249297
Structured Data
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Prioritizing tasks that are blockers for making MediaSearch the default search UI on Commons
- Working on new search profile based on image search signal results (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271799)
Abstract Wikipedia
edit- Blocked by:
- None.
- Blocking:
- None known.
- Thank yous:
- Vue team for on-going discussions around Vue2/Vue3 migration and its impact on our work.
- Updates:
- Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
- On-boarding Vue-specialist contractor.
- The Wikifunctions logo concept vote is live: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_concept/Vote
Language
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- SRE ServiceOps on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
- Thank yous:
- Martin Urbanec & Kunal Mehta for help with deploying Section translation hotfixes.
- Updates:
- Released the section translation tool on Bengali Wikipedia last week. You can learn more about it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Section_translation
- Just an FYI: Hotfix deployed for Section Translation got reverted when deploy1002 server was switched due to our module update not being synced
Vue.js
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Continuing to plan Vue 2 -> Vue 3 migration (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251974 for details)
- Scaffolding an experimental library to update WVUI to Vue 3 and work on consolidating existing WMF components
- Thinking through various technological decisions: local development features, Sass or Less variables vs. design tokens, code reuse via the new Vue 3 Composition API...
- Developing criteria for evaluating existing UI libraries, to be posted to Phabricator soon
Technology
editFundraising Tech
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Preparing for fundraising campaign in Latin America (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275812, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274319, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199733)
- More nightly reconciliation file parsing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272105, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545
- Email preferences forms: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510
- Update our repos to use Composer 2 and new version of composer-merge-plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267881
Engineering Productivity
editPerformance
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Luca Toscano for debugging and fixing the ASO ranking breakage caused by the Hive update in early February
- Updates:
- Helped Global Data & Insights team with performance inequality data per country
- Helped vue.js team with code review
- Helped Nicholas Ray with setting up vue.js search performance dashboards
- Helped fundraising and fr-tech understand the potential implications of the Google May 2021 update to search ranking. Nicholas Perry (Strategic Partnerships) will talk to Google about it.
- All seats for the frontend web perf training April session filled
- Converted WebPageTest performance alerts to AlertManager
Quality and Test Engineering
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Eventlogging journey by Elena Tonkovidova https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/230/eventlogging_journey/
- Evaluation of Microsoft Playwright by Harriet Ayugi https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/231/evaluation_of_microsoft_playwright/
Release Engineering
edit- Blocked by:
- [serviceops] PHP restart sudo rules for docroot deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/666309
- Blocking:
- ???
- Thanks:
- Cole White and O11y for all the help with the Phatality kibana extension!
- Martin Urbanec for ongoing backport window support
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Blocked:
- Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.32 phab:T274936
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.33 phab:T274937
- Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.34 phab:T274938
Search Platform
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- relforge: open up access to relforge100[3,4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274314
- Consume new event from the AddLink feature - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262226
- Implement CirrusSearch keyword for drafttopic - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268272
- Null or inconsistent search results using Khmer script - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185721
- Add the IDSM/Sachem Wikidata endpoint to the list of federated endpoints -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275196
Site Reliability Engineering
edit- Blocked by:
- Language https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
- Product Infrastructure https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
- Platform https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
- WMDE https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
- Analytics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274262
- Blocking:
- None
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Gitlab VMs being created and access granted.
WMDE Technical Wishes
edit- Updates:
- Preparing to deploy Reference Previews to pilot wikis (March 17th). Any user with “page previews” enabled will also see reference previews. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206
- Still getting great support from Analytics—still flooding their inboxes with more small reviews. (Not blocked)
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 known.
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- No significant changes.