Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W17

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Engineering Goals for Next Year

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Visual Editor

Gabriel

Last week:

Fixed a bug in html5 library we are using
20% time: PHP parser bug fixes
Add tokenizer cache for templates
More bug fixes with real pages (bits of Obama currently)
Document limitations and get more info about feasibility to work around them
Refactored and cleaned up token transform and pipeline setup framework, changed API for async transforms to be completely callback-based; Created an API for lazy token expansions to be used by async transforms, so that (for example) a switch only involves the expansion of keys and the used value branches. Prepared to remove per-template buffering completely.

This week:

Finish refactoring, and continue work on real pages and parserTests. After the refactoring, big and template-heavy pages should hopefully expand in reasonable time and memory.
Start fall-back to action=parse API for parser functions using async APIs introduced in the refactoring

Roan

Last week:

Worked on data model rewrite with Trevor

This week:

Continue data model rewrite with Trevor

Blockers:

Trevor's sick :(

RobM

Last week:

Fixing bug with Context view icon positioning
Prototyping a few different solutions for selection memory / handling

This week:

Working on Stateful Ve Constructor class
- Abstracting from Sandbox to load configurable instances of VE
- Focusing on MediaWiki integration.

Trevor

Last week:

Continue implementing text nodes in linear model
Refactor node tree

This week:

Sick (recovering)
FInish refactoring DM

Blockers:

The plague

Editor Engagement: Article Creation Wizard (ACW)

ACW is waiting for PT. Work being done on PT (see below).

Editor Engagement: Page Triage (PT)

Sprint plan:
- PLEASE FILL IN

Last Week:

Matthias Mullie joins the EE team

Andrew

Last week:

Probably have a spare cycle or two. If there's a card for me I wouldn't mind Ian throwing me one.

Benny

Last week:

Add support of metadata update upon user being blocked
Add cron job to update user metadata
Testing and debugging listview for deployment

This week:

Add no-index header for untriaged pages or pages containing some defined templates
Add delete backend support for floating curation bar
Unit Testing and code review

Kaldari

Last week:

Make sure PageTriage list view is ready for deployment (more testing and bugfixes)
Begin working on PageTriage curation toolbar with Ian
Flesh out tagging and deletion workflows for PageTraige with Ian, Oliver, and Brandon

This week:

Worked on migrating our codebase to Git: code review, learning Git/Gerrit workflow, and refining workflow with other team members
Worked on PageTriage feature testing and bug fixes
Cleared out UploadWizard code review backlog

Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

Last Week:

Thursday release
- Deploy Metrics Test 3 with Option 1, 4 (call to edit), and no form at all
- Deploy final tweaks to AFT5 for Metrics Stage 2 (AFT4?)
- Deploy email requests for oversighters (switch to new address)
- Run an SQL script to clean up the data-base for feedback page actions (bug 35501)
Put Matthias in touch with Fabrice for transition

Roan

Last week:

Deployment on Thursday

This week:

Deployment on Thursday

Multimedia (TMH)

Last Week:

Make sure testing is unstuck on THM
Start testing on TMH
Get Ian +2 on Gerrit for TMH for code review goodness

Education

the roadmap

Last Week:

Education expects to finish dev and testing on 4/29.

This Week:

Line up code review resources for Jeroen

Fundraising

Jeremy

Last week:

Deploying Recurring GlobalCollect
Working on CentralNotice bugs
Working on DonationInterface features
Working on UnitTest

This week:

Working on Recurring GlobalCollect
Working on DonationInterface features

Katie

Last week:

Deployed Globalcollect Recurring, and started successfully recurring monthly Globalcollect Donors on a daily basis.
Sorting the never-ending stream of fundraiser candidates

This week:

Blocked out a lot of time to work with git/gerrit and the payments cluster
Continuation of the hiring process, including two in-person interviews
Code review for Jeremy and Peter G as needed
If I have time to sort out the git/gerrit/payments cluster deployment strategy, push out some improvements to the GC audit scripts, and run them for the last two months.

ResourceLoader 2 (Gadgets)

mw:ResourceLoader/V2 Task management

Roan

Last week:

Set up new URL structure for RL resources for use from 1.20wmf2 onwards
Got started implementing the skin and top properties

This week:

Actually test the code I wrote last week
Fix display bug on preferences page
Instate ID length limit in backend

Timo

Last week:

Error handling in UI for API actions
Figure out a way to modify 'skin' and 'position' properties in the gadget editor
Make a call on whether or not to move out:
- module-site-prefs to MediaWiki 1.21 or 1.22
- gadgetmodule-user-prefs features to Gadgets 2.1 or 3.0
- (neither have been implemented fully yet)

Echo

Last Week:

Refining data model

Messages

Official start of Messages will be July 1.
Will be re-examining state of LQT

Andrew

Last week:

Going to do a dark release just so the current state is actually around. No community feedback will be solicited, per Oliver's request.

Misc.

Andrew

Last Week:

Polishing code review for AbuseFilter
Will actually look at ref tooltips

Matthias

This Week:

Learn the ropes!

Roan (RoanKattouw)

Prep my Berlin tutorial on MySQL query performance

Terry (tewwy)

This Week:

Try again Yair and Andrew Garrett :-)

Timo (Krinkle)

Last week: m:User:Krinkle/Log/2012-W16
- Continuous integration: TestSwarm/MW/Jenkins
- Deployment support 1.20wmf1 (commonswiki)
This week: m:User:Krinkle/Log/2012-W17
- Continuous integration:
  - TestSwarm/MW/Jenkins
  - node-testswarm, testswarm-browserstack
- CodeReview