Scrum of scrums/2021-04-07

2021-04-07

Callouts

• RelEng: Note that the MediaWiki 1.36 branch will happen in the next day or so. Next week's train is the first of 1.37.0-wmf.X.
• RelEng: Backport deployment training is available, the invite is in the deployment calendar on gmail: wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com
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Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback

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Community Tec, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality & Test, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:

Product

Growth

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• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
  • Continuing to work on on-wiki configuration
  • Continuing design of mentor dashboard https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Mentor_dashboard
  • Deploying Growth features as opt-in to tawiki, mswiki and simplewiki

iOS native appkhmer

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates: Beta is out.

Android native app

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• Blocking:
• Thank yous: Miriam for the research and PET for all your help getting image recommendations ready.
• Updates: Timeline for image recommendations MVP release is set - should be out to all users in 4 weeks.

Web

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• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Continuing to onboard new hires!
  • Continuing our work on the language switcher instrumentation and A/B test
  • Fixing a regression in the SearchSatisfaction instrument for the WVUI search autocomplete treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274869#6963147 onward
  • Finalising new CSS folder structure in Vector: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264309.

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Special:MediaSearch is now the default search UI on Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users
  • Working on moving the MediaSearch UI code into a standalone extension. This will include the structured data team's library of reusable Vue components. Will announce this when the move happens.

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
  • Architecture for their on-going advice and support through some thorny issues.
• Updates:
  • We closed Phase γ; we're now working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
    • This is where we'll tie the back-end function orchestrator to the front-end MW stack.

Library

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• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Continued work on partner description translations and The Wikipedia Library extension
  • New hompage designs are almost done, and work is starting on the logged in experience

Vue.js

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Starting the technical decision-making process for introducing a front-end build step - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
  • Storybook updates to WVUI: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/676236

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • un-forking CiviCRM build tool to use upstream version in our CI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277500
  • More work on email prefs page https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510
  • Planning for integration with new API of backup card processor
  • CiviCRM contact deduplication enhancements
  • Better error handling for CentralNotice invalid banner name: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173782
  • Audit / reconciliation file processing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277244, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Wikidata: Migration of CI testing from stretch to buster is known broken in Wikidata (T279068).
• Blocking:
  • Fundraising tech might be reaching out for image tweaks
• Thank yous:
  • James for pointing out we were behind on the 1.36 branch cut :)
• Updates:
  • Note that the MediaWiki 1.36 branch will happen in the next day or so. Next week's train is the first of 1.37.0-wmf.X.
  • Backport deployment training is available, the invite is in the deployment calendar on gmail: wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 phab:T274943
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 phab:T278344
    • This week: 1.37.0-wmf.1 phab:T278345

Search Platform

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• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Recover lexemes on wdqs1009 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276784
  • Report latency metric to the wdqs-ui from the wdqs streaming updater - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277637
  • Reindex Khmer wikis to enable Khmer syllable reordering - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274205
  • Linked Data Fragments endpoint returns IllegalStateException - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270476
  • Many files on Commons cannot be found in WCQS - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269302

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Wrapping up stuff, removing tech debt regarding old kubernetes clusters.
  • Sizing up a mediawiki pod.

WMDE Technical Wishes

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• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Activating line numbering in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors, we plan to deploy with next week’s train.
  • Merged some simplifications which will affect reportupdater-queries, will probably apply the changes to all scripts there.

Cross-cutting

• Blocked by:
  • [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142 (or at least 6.7). This will be extra fun to back-port to REL1_36 as well as REL1_35.
• Blocking:
• None.
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Nothing major.
  • Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
  • CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master