Scrum of scrums/2021-04-21

2021-04-21 edit

Callouts edit

Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback edit

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CommTech, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality and Test Engineering, Release Engineering, Search Platform, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping edit

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Product edit

Anti-Harassment Tools edit

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  • Thank yous:
    • Thanks to Sam Reed and James Forrester for code review and advice
    • Thanks to DannyS for huge help on partial blocks review/QA
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    • We're working on partial blocks against actions while we await next instructions on SecurePoll

Editing edit

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    • Will be working with Performance and others to reduce ParserCache expiry by ~7 days (30 -> 23) to free up some space, possibly caused by DiscsussionTools reply links.

Growth edit

iOS native app edit

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  • Updates: Version 6.8 - finally improving language varient support - is currently rolling out.

Android native app edit

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  • Updates: Version w/ image recommendations suggested edits should be released 2 weeks from today.

Web edit

Structured Data edit

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    • Building a tool to manually test current implementation of the image recommendations API
    • Whittled down dependencies for the new MediaSearch extension; it now only requires CirrusSearch

Abstract Wikipedia edit

Inuka edit

Library edit

Vue.js edit

Technology edit

Fundraising Tech edit

Site Reliability Engineering edit

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  • Updates:
    • 100% of MW appservers now on buster, no more stretch special test hosts, mwdebug1003 removed
    • Gitlab: Performance testing on WMCS done, defining backup and monitoring, documentation
    • The MediaWiki chart can run a php application on kubernetes https://people.wikimedia.org/~oblivian/mw-on-k8s-shared-socket.png
    • Scap logs will be transitioned to ECS 2021-05-04


WMDE Technical Wishes edit

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    • Reusable edit count bucketing was accepted and is live for several extensions.

Cross-cutting edit

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    • None known.
  • Thank yous:
    • Huge thanks to the Web team, especially Jon Robson, for their work on fixing multiple blockers to the 1.36 release.
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    • REL1_36 release process:
    • CI tools:
    • PHP 8.0:
      • Nothing major.
      • 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.