Scrum of scrums/2021-05-12
2021-05-12
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Fundraising-Tech => Releng
- a little help from releng to push through an update to our CivCRM CI job would be hugely appreciated! Patch is here https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/688350/
Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback
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editCommTech, AHT, Editing, Growth, iOS, Android, Parsing, Language, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping
edit- Updates:
- future of the synchronous meeting
Product
editWeb
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Belated thanks to Sam Reed for submitting the Voice & Tone issues, e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277955
- Updates:
- Prep for the language switcher treatment A/B test
- Started work on the new user links (personal tools) treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266536
- QA'ing/analysing data from the search autocomplete widget treatment A/B test
Product Infrastructure
edit- Blocked by:
- Need input from Language Team on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277059#6976371
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
Structured Data
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- No significant updates, continuing to make improvements to MediaSearch and to work on the image recommendations testing tool
Abstract Wikipedia
edit- Blocked by:
- None.
- Blocking:
- None known.
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- We finished Phase δ (delta) this week; hurrah.
- Now working on Phase ε (epsilon) – wiring up user-written code to the evaluator: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
- Security & Performance reviews scheduled to end this Phase; our thanks to them!
Inuka
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383
- Improving Wikipedia Preview gallery feature: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269787
Library
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- The Wikipedia Library Extension is now live on Beta!
- Finished work on making tags translatable, we just need to add extra configuration on TranslateWiki
- Finished setting up Matomo
- Starting work on the Library homepage redesign
Vue.js
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Rethinking the Icon component in WVUI (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282625)
- Working on a Radio component and introducing the composition API plugin to WVUI (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281186)
Technology
editFundraising Tech
edit- Blocked by:
- a little help from releng to push through an update to our CivCRM CI job would be hugely appreciated! Patch is here https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/688350/
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Deployed new email preferences center wiki
- Started integration work for backup processor's new API
Engineering Productivity
editQuality and Test Engineering
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Blog post by John Bolorinos - Improvements to Email QA https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/239/improvements_to_email_qa/
Release Engineering
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- Web: Upgrading or dropping the legacy Ruby selenium jobs in MinervaNeue blocks the CI-wide upgrade from stretch to buster. T280901
- Wikibase: Upgrading or dropping the legacy Ruby selenium jobs in Wikibase blocks the CI-wide upgrade from stretch to buster. T280491
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Thank you to C. Scott for his support and patience waiting for T271863 to be resolved!
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.37.0-wmf.4 phab:T281145
- This week: 1.37.0-wmf.5 phab:T281146
- Next week: 1.37.0-wmf.6 phab:T281147
Search Platform
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- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Data missing from WCQS - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280022
- Get baseline measurements/expectations for splitting lexemes from Wikidata graph - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275068
Site Reliability Engineering
edit- Blocked by:
- None
- Blocking:
- None
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- work on getting mw in k8s picking up, shellbox soon to be deployed.
WMDE Technical Wishes
edit- Blocked by:
- by a failing reportupdater query, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273748#7051951
- Blocking:
- Thank yous:
- Updates:
- Reference Previews deployment in some wikis was successful: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206
- Suggested Values feature (TemplateData) enabled everywhere: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273857
- Currently working on template search improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271802
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 a small handful of bugs found so far, all now fixed. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
- CI tools:
- mediawiki-codesniffer v36 upgrade going slowly (lots of manual fixes); 67% of repos updated so far.
- CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
- PHP 8.0:
- No changes 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: