Scrum of scrums/2021-05-05
2021-05-05
editCallouts
edit- From SRE Service Operations:
- DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
- Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have questions/problems.
- 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback
editNo updates
editCommTech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, iOS, Android, ProdInfra, Parsing, Language, Library, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
edit- Updates:
Product
editGrowth
edit- Blocked by:
- Editing on code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/682014
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
- now running in dark mode on arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, viwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278710
- Continuing work on on-wiki configuration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_configuration
- Deploying Growth features to elwiki
- Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
Web
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Began the rollout of the new language switcher treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280526
Structured Data
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Testing the image recommendations API—if you're bored and want to help us out, please consider reviewing some images (we especially need help in English and Cebuano)
- Starting process to deploy the new standalone MediaSearch extension
Abstract Wikipedia
edit- 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 – getting close!
Inuka
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383
- Trending articles engagement issue in KaiOS app https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280830
Vue.js
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Build step technical decision making process is moving along; awaiting feedback from the forum and developing proofs of concept
- Continuing work on the UI components design inventory
- WVUI: building components and experimenting with the Composition API plugin
Technology
editFundraising Tech
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- Updates:
- Deploying new email preferences center
- starting work to integrate with new API of backup card processor
- Moving more CiviCRM custom code out of drupal 7 modules
Engineering Productivity
editQuality and Test Engineering
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Blog post by Elena Tonkovidova - Breakpoint at BrowserStack conferences (2020-2021) - reflections and thoughts (Part 2 Focus on Exploratory testing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/237
- Blog post by Željko Filipin - Debug Selenium Tests: logLevel (Part 1) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/238
Release Engineering
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.37.0-wmf.3 phab:T278347
- This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4 phab:T281145
- Next week: 1.37.0-wmf.5 phab:T281146
Search Platform
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- wikidata-query-rdf-maven-release-docker builds fail due to hitting 30min timeout - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280863
- Reload ORES data into weighted_tags - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274583
- MediaSearch results not updated 12 hours after overwriting image - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204
- Deploy new version of Extra Plugin (with Khmer filter) to Elasticsearch cluster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204
- Clean up failed reindexing indexes - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279607
- WDQS data-transfer cookbook needs to wait for updater to catchup on lag - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280108
Site Reliability Engineering
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
- Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have questions/problems.
WMDE Technical Wishes
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- mforns and the Analytics team carried us across the finish line, making a suite of new metrics available.
- Urbanecm for accompanying and performing several backports and config changes over the past weeks ( even more to come 😬 )
- Updates:
- Reference Previews deployment was reverted today, we'll try again tomorrow. (T271206)
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).
- Blocking:
- None known.
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- REL1_36 release process:
- 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
- CI tools:
- New release of mediawiki-codesniffer (v36) came out last week; 58% of repos updated so far.
- CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
- PHP 8.0:
- No change this week.
- 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.
- REL1_36 release process: