Scrum of scrums/2021-05-12
2021-05-12 edit
Callouts edit
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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 edit
No updates edit
CommTech, AHT, Editing, Growth, iOS, Android, Parsing, Language, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security
SoS Meeting Bookkeeping edit
- Updates:
- future of the synchronous meeting
Product edit
Web edit
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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
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- Need input from Language Team on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277059#6976371
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- Thank yous:
- Updates:
Structured Data edit
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- 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 edit
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- Updates:
- Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383
- Improving Wikipedia Preview gallery feature: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269787
Library edit
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- 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 edit
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- 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 edit
Fundraising 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 edit
Quality and Test Engineering edit
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- 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 edit
- Blocked by:
- 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 edit
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- 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
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- None
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- 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
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- [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: