Scrum of scrums/2021-04-14
2021-04-14
editGrace/Deb have conflicts today. Please self-organize :)
Callouts
edit- MediaWiki 1.36-beta has been branched: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094424.html
Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback
edit- None.
No updates
editCommunity Tech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Library, Site Reliability Engineering
No notes provided
editEditing, Growth, iOS native app, Android native app, Web, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Quality and Test Engineering, Search Platform, Security
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
edit- Updates:
Product
editStructured Data
edit- Thank yous:
- Jon Robson for getting Vue errors into logstash and helping us identify some issues in our code
- Updates:
- Working to make the new MediaSearch extension (not yet deployed on Commons) more usable on other wikis (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MediaSearch)
- Image recommendations design work
Abstract Wikipedia
edit- Thank yous:
- Thank you to Brennen and Jeena in RelEng for discussing options for testing MW<->service integrations in CI.
- Updates:
- Working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
- Working on our TDMP pitch for asynchronous parser fragments.
Vue.js
edit- Updates:
- Working on components design inventory: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047
- Starting to work on unifying various component implementations so we can add them to the experimental WMF component library (WVUI)
- Button: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278509
- Binary inputs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279714
Technology
editFundraising Tech
edit- Updates:
- More work on email prefs page https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510
- Planning for integration with new API of backup card processor
- Work to migrate custom CRM code off drupal 7
- CiviCRM contact deduplication enhancements
- Audit / reconciliation file processing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277244, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545
Engineering Productivity
editPerformance
edit- Blocking:
- WMSE with performance review of WikiSpeech (in progress, almost finished)
- Thank yous:
- Geno from Abstract Wikipedia for how engaged she is with the matrixing on our team
- Updates:
- Cancelling our Kobiton subscription, we will build our own device lab hosted at the office instead
Release Engineering
edit- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- MediaWiki 1.36-beta has been branched: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094424.html
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 phab:T278343
- This week: 1.37.0-wmf.1 phab:T278344
- This week: 1.37.0-wmf.2 phab:T278345
WMDE Technical Wishes
edit- Updates:
- Line numbering was deployed. Currently only on template namespace, due to feedback by the editing team. Discussion about other namespaces is still open.
Cross-cutting
edit- 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).
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Nothing major.
- CI tools
- Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
- CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
- PHP 8.0:
- Our target is REL1_35 (and thus also REL1_36) as well as master.
- Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
- Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; thank you to everyone working on fixing them.