Scrum of scrums/2021-04-28

=2021-04-28= 

Callouts

• Budgeting season for the next fiscal year. Send your expectations for production computing resources requests to SRE
• For RelEng: Metrics Engineering needs reviews and/or advice on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
  • Done -- JDF.
• Backport training! Please signup if you're interested in deploying to production: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094458.html

Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback

No updates

 WMDE Technical Wishes, Security, Search Platform, Quality & Test, Performance, Platform, Cloud Services, Analytics, Library, Parsing, Android, iOS, Editing, CommTech

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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Product

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • Thanks to Sam Reed for help with SecurePoll
• Updates:
  • Partial blocks against actions enabled on beta
  • Starting prep work for adding Single Transferable Vote to SecurePoll

Growth

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
    • Backend will be enabled this week on arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, viwiki
  • Working on on-wiki configuration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_configuration

Web

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • Marcel Forns for working on making the VirtualPageviews instrument use EventLogging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279382
• Updates:
  • Enabled A/B test of language switcher treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280526
  • Split out link styling rules from the legacy feature in ResourceLoaderSkinModule: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278576

Product Infrastructure

• Blocked by:
  • Needs reviews and/or advice from RelEng on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Image recommendations design work
  • Built tool for evaluating image recommendations: https://image-recommendation-test.toolforge.org/
  • Adding English labels and aliases of related wikidata items to search query (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/643388)

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None.
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Nothing exciting this week.
  • Working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases

Language

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • [Translate extension] Added support for HTML-y translation variable syntax (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274881)
  • [Translate extension] Limited the max number of translatable pages that can be moved via the UI to 500, added a script that can be used to move a large number of pages (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275109)
  • PHP upgrade changed cookie handling wrt. URL encoding. This broke CX (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281346). Be aware.

Inuka

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Working on first release of WordPress plugin for Wikipedia Preview
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fHMjKefYf-QFNeNTpfdmNzywBQAh8G5OdICwZ90j4_Q/edit#
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280000
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279550
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255439 (spike)

Vue.js

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Continuing design inventory work: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047
  • Created separate entry point for Vue.js search in WVUI: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/682763/
  • Continuing Technical Decision Making Process for build step: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
  • Discussing component implementation, comments highly encouraged!
    • Buttons: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278509
    • Select/dropdown: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280712
    • Binary inputs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279714
      • Radio: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281186
      • Checkbox: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281191

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Deploying new email preferences pages and backend
  • Starting integration with new API of backup card processor
  • Migrating more custom CRM code off drupal 7
  • CiviCRM imports
  • updating documentation

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Train is currently blocked by a Wikibase issue on Commons:  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281361
• Blocking:
  • Metrics Engineering needs reviews and/or advice on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
• Thank yous:
  • dancy: James F. for code reviews, helping me get work done.
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: No Train
    • This week: 1.37.0-wmf.3
    • This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Budgetting season for the next fiscal year. Send your expectations for production computing resources requests to SRE

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).
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
  • Huge thanks to Jon Robson and C. Scott Ananian for their work unblocking REL1_36.
• Updates:
  • REL1_36 release process:
    • 1.36 RC.0 release should be cut very soon: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
  • CI tools:
    • Nothing major.
    • Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
    • CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
  • 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.