Scrum of scrums/2016-09-28

Product

Reading

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• Fixed video anchors
• No deploys this week due to ops offsite
• Starting discussions about versioning sections endpoint

Android native app

• Current sprint board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2238/
• Next sprint board: TBA
• Navigation overhaul work for beta release is complete. Release will go out the door today (9/28).
  • We'll likely promote to stable quickly if no significant issues emerge.

Reading Web

• Current sprint board:
  • Begin rolling out wikidata descriptions to top 6 wikis
  • Move Related Pages to stable mobile web Wikipedias (all but top 6)
  • Investigate hovercards instrumentation issues around 9 Sep - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146620
    • Big drop in EL events in a few extensions - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146840

iOS native app

• Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2220/
  • 5.3 is in development
  • Release date is expected to be before end of October
  • WIll include migration to MCS feed endpoint

Reading Infrastructure

• blocking: TemporaryPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProviderTest is flaky https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146498
• blocked: nothing
• updates: last call for comments on the proposed api.php integration for ORES and pageviews: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143895 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144865

Community Tech

• No blockers
• Moving CopyPatrol to French Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145431
• Adding account creation to Striker https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144710#2674663
• Updating CentralAuth tables for cross-wiki watchlist https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142507 (Gerrit review needed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309553/ )
• Adding start/end times to WikiEd Programs Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546
• 11-year old task to send a cookie with each block https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233
• Slowly deploying PageAssessments to English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146679

Editing

Language (not present, only notes)

• Blocked
  • Would appreciate comments from ops or puppet-knowledgeable person how to override restbase url in puppet for a service in labs
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129284#2674533
    • The goal is to be able to text content translations on deployment-prep with real articles from different wikipedias.
• Blocking: not aware

Parsing

• Tim working on updates to the parser tests infrasatructure ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312969/3 and related )
• Scott continuing work on having Parsoid parse language variant markup (close to moving out of WIP status)
• Planning to deploy Parsoid's native <gallery> implementation in a backward compatible way and have VE pick it up when they are ready to use it -- if it doesn't happen next week, it will only happen in 3 weeks time (since we have parsing team and editing dept offsites starting oct 10).

Collaboration

• Blocked
  • Continuing collaboration with Services team on ReviewStream
• Blocking
• Updates
  • Will have a meeting with the Wiki Labels team on Friday to discuss how we can collaborate
  • Continuing work on Flow back-end, including caching refactor and bug fixes for opt-in
  • Continuing Echo work, including instrumentation to track the number of page views before viewing notifications.

UI Standardization

• Working on
  • Align Minerva (Mobile Frontend) to overhauled color palette: MobileFrontend https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146799
  • Review current style and integrate messages and message boxes as MediaWiki UI component https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127405
  • MediaWiki theme: Use `color-progressive` for switched-on binary inputs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145629
• Finished
  • Published new color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82 with WCAG 2.0 level AA compliant colors
  • Button styles differ in mediawiki.UI from design templates and OOjs UI https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146823
  • Align Wikimedia Portal UI elements to improved color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231

Technology

Analytics

• Deployed new throttling limits to Pageview API, doing real well with super low latencies, we will add capacity to double requests served next week: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/aqs-elukey?from=1474479314693&to=1475084114695

• Erik Z vetting data from edit reconstruction project on simplewiki, after edit reconstruction calculating metrics is much easier. We can calculate metrics from very beginning: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/standard-metrics/#simplewiki

• Load testing druid and about to put pivot in production accesible internally to wmf, this is a UI to some of our data in hive, mostly pageviews, no need to use sql

Security

• Intake and interviews for security roles continue
• Investigating appearance of 400 errors in logs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144100
• Lego, Timo: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/310257/

Services

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• Updates:
  • Working on ServiceWorker page composition service
  • Working on supporting Change Propagation and RESTBase for private wikis

ArchCom

• Full status: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus
• Last week: Phab:E273 - Multi-Content Revisions (Phab:T107595)
• This week Phab:E285 - WikiDev17
  • discussion about use of Phab for topics is happening now on wikitech-l

Discovery

• No blockers
• Analyzing BM25 A/B test, if results are positive deployment will be somewhere early October
• Working on multiwiki indexes
• Working on file properties indexing (size, type, dimensions, etc.)
• ICU folding analysis: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Upgrading_ASCII_Folding_to_ICU_Folding_for_French_and_English
  • TLDR: positive effect, implementation in progress
• Completion with DEFAULTSORT demo: http://mw-sug-subpages-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/default_sort_demo.html

RelEng

• Blocking
  • none
• Blocked
  • none
• Updates
  • New scap (3.3.0)
    • scap caches local config for it's deployment (machines don't have to reach back to tin)
  • Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
  • Reminder: no train week of Oct 17th (but SWATs OK)

Wikidata

• wiktionary - automated interwiki links
• structured commons - federation, multiple repos

(I'm having techical issues with joinIng hangout. Sorry. - katie)

Fundraising Tech

• Need help with potential MessageCache issue relating to CentralNotice
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952
  • See Adam's investigation notes pointing to i18n / cache flukiness
  • Andrew Green thinks it might even have something to do with TranslationExtension
• Still trying to kill stubborn remaining ActiveMQ queues
• More CiviCRM data cleanup and tweaks to deduplication process
• Migrating old PayPal IPN listener to SmashPig framework