Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W17

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Engineering Goals for Next Year

Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals

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