Scrum of scrums/2021-03-24

2021-03-24 edit

(meeting conflict with Product Platform Strategy overview)

Callouts edit

Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback edit

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iOS

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Editing, Parsing, Inuka, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security,

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping edit

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Product edit

Community Tech edit

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    • Subbu and other parsoid team members for their help and support with several tasks
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    • We'll be wrapping up WS-Export work this week and move on full-time onto the OCR Improvements wish

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/New_OCR_tool

Anti-Harassment Tools edit

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  • Thank yous:
    • Huge thanks to David Lynch for excellent work on SecurePoll, and helping mentor our new engineers
    • Thanks to everyone who has helped with onboarding the engineers
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    • No updates

Growth edit

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    • SRE with their continued support with the link recommendation service
    • Search for their help with indexing pages with recommendations
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Android native app edit

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  • Updates: No big updates. Continuing our work w/ Platform Engineering Team on image recommendations - we're getting near the MVP launch date and cooperatively pruning the remaining desired API features.

Web edit

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    • No updates. We're continuing our work on the language switcher instrumentation and A/B test

Product Infrastructure edit

Structured Data edit

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    • Wrapping up final work before MediaSearch goes default on Commons
    • Continuing to work on improved search profile
    • Continued discussions across teams regarding Structured Data Across Wikimedia (image recommendations API and structured content)

Abstract Wikipedia edit

Language edit

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  • Thank yous:
    • Alexandros Kosiaris for cluster upgrades and for T278141 help.
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    • No major updates deployed in Section Translation this week.
    • MassMessage remote wiki delivery was briefly broken. Now fixed.
    • Working on new translation variable syntax for better Parsoid support.
    • There is now a limit how big translatable pages can be moved. Working on a script to move manually pages that are too big.
    • Improving ULS language selector dialog positioning (for Web team).
    • Translatable templates are usable on translatable pages with the normal syntax for transclusion. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47096)

Library edit

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    • Started work on making library partner's descriptions translatable
    • Getting first mock-ups of the Library redesign. They look great and we look forward to implementing them!

Vue.js edit

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    • Onboarding our new program manager!
    • Planning for the experimental shared internal component library, both on the design front and the development side

Technology edit

Analytics edit

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    • mw server replacements in codfw proceeding
    • Eqiad kubernetes cluster upgraded, reinitialized and fully repooled. Some Job backlog was created, it's being served though.

Fundraising Tech edit


Engineering Productivity edit

Quality and Test Engineering edit

Release Engineering edit

Search Platform edit

Site Reliability Engineering edit

WMDE Technical Wishes edit

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  • Thank yous: To WMF Analytics, especially MForns and AOtto for the code review, feedback, and many deployments on our behalf.
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    • Currently working on the Kartographer map extension throughout prototyping week, in order to enable it on dewiki we will need to fix a bug with how map overlay content is linked to page revision.
    • Two successful deployments today: enabling bracket matching for group0 wikis and wikitech, and an update to syntax highlighting colors everywhere.

Cross-cutting edit

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  • Thank yous:
    • Daimona for their continued work on phan tooling.
    • Antoine from RelEng for support on the stretch -> buster CI migration.
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