Scrum of scrums/2018-11-21

2018-11-21=

Callouts

• Release Engineering: No train this week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
• UI Standardization: Feedback welcome on non-proportional, aka monospace font choice for code https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209915

Audiences

Contributors

Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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  • Responded to Language's request for feedback

Growth

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  • Recording EventLogging events in MySQL in beta broke multiple times this past week. Perhaps caused by Neutron migration?
  • EditorJourney schema logging went live on Thursday for Czech and Korean wikis.
  • WelcomeSurvey is live on cswiki and kowiki despite 2 OOUI bugs: T209716, T209717. (help from anyone that manages OOUI would be great)

Language

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  • Apertium and depenencies are updated in Production.
  • New shiny graphs for cxserver (service-cxserver) at Graphana available. Helped to identify issues already!
  • ContentTranslation v2 bug fixes continue.

Readers

iOS native app

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Android native app

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Readers Web

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Readers Infrastructure

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  • Announcements changes for English app fundraising are deployed. App devs: please test asap. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204821

Multimedia

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  • Mostly bugfixing on beta commons - hoping to invite community comment on it real soon (honest!)
  • Also working on depicts and other statements

Parsing

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UI Standardization

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  • Design Style Guide
    • New “Resources” section https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/resources.html
    • Updates on “Typography” and imagery across pages
  • Accessibility:
    • Wikipedia Portals freed of technical a11y hurdles

Technology

Analytics

• Blocked by: performance of cloud replicas for sqooping all rows monthly, ongoing work and discussion at T209031
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  • testing Kerberos with our infrastructure on cloud VMs, progressing well
  • work on Modern Event Platform's Event Intake service code going well. If you want to follow from the very early stages, see https://github.com/ottomata/eventbus
  • XML dumps available in HDFS, see T202489
  • ongoing work on sanitizing Hive event database (all EventLogging data)

Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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MediaWiki Core Platform

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  • RFC meeting regarding session storage interface (multi-DC dependency) continuing tomorrow (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010 )
  • PHP 7.2 tests are now voting for MediaWiki (gerrit:473312)
  • Continuing to extract decisions and action items from Tech Conf session notes
  • Actor table rolled out to test wikis and mediawiki.org last week, and to group 0 this week. No problems reported
  • Comment table image_comment_temp merging is done, except for the WMF schema change (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209591 ).
  • Externallinks indexing: DONE! (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209373 )

Performance

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Release Engineering

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  • Hired Jeena Huneidi. She will be working on local development and other developer satisfaction improvements. https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/topic/foundation-optional/5GXGf28R0GE/discussion
  • Blog post by Dan Duvall: Bring in 'da noise, bring in defunct. It's a zombie party! Peering into the CI cauldron – October 2018 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/127
  • Thanks to Krenair, Andrew Boggott, and Bryan Davis for helping make the Beta Cluster region migration go as smoothly as possible - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208101
  • CI Nodepool stopped yeah! #technical-debt
  • Gerrit is alright. Got JavaMelody for monitoring now. InitialiseSettings.php is too big.
  • Blubber build with Blubber
  • Code Health:
    • Experimenting with SonarQube https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207046
  • Train Health:
    • Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.4 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206658
    • This week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660

Research

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  • Working on collecting more synonyms for section titles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210085
  • Preparing to run QuickSurveys for Reader Trust: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882

Scoring Platform

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  • Work on upgrading to celery 4 is officially done
  • Jade TechCom RFC discussion coming up regarding JADE storage (22nd @ 0600 UTC)
  • Investigating on using redis-sentinel for ores
  • Fixed scap restart check for ores-celery

Search Platform

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  • Worked with DWIM Gadget authors to improve “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958
  • Fixed prefix search with multiple namespaces: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208255
  • Improved Blazegraph reliability: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206189
  • Setting up A/B test for new wikidata completion models: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209402
  • Working on transforming Elasticsearch explains into tensorflow code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208917
  • Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282
  • Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654
  • Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108

Security

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Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • ATS work (replacing varnish) ongoing. Still a long way from complete, just FYI
  • zoterov2 successfully deployed in staging, production finally next
  • php 7.2 installed on appservers
  • A lot of reboots happening, should be transparent

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Multi-Content Revisions

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  • working on making AbuseFilter work with MCR: (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208769)
  • discussing MCR support for File page layout: (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209878)

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

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