Scrum of scrums/2019-02-06

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• Fundraising campaigns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Calendar

Audiences

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Community Tech

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Anti-Harassment Tools

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Editing

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Growth

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Readers

iOS native app

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  • Finishing up 6.2 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.2-beluga-on-a-pogo-stick/), release that contains editing & syntax highlighting. Should be wrapped up this week.

Android native app

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Readers Web

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  • Summary: the team is back from All Hands, MobileFrontend Webpackification is complete, upcoming MobileFrontend Architecture work is being planned, and we're continuing the Advanced Mobile Contributions project.

• • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):

• • • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Design updates to Settings page & opt-in toggle T214195
      • Add informational links to opt-in toggle T214180
      • Page/talk toggle v1 T212216
      • Build opt-in toggle T211197

• • • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Webpackify editing T213340 (MobileFrontend is now Webpack'd!!!)
      • Enable Babel transpiling in MobileFrontend T202746
      • Separate lazy loading from Skin T214658
      • Migrate deprecated calls T208915

• • • Page issues https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues
      • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T212376 T212371

• • • ExternalGuidance extension review and support

• • • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T213336 T202374 T214955 T211724

• • Desktop website (Vector, Popups)

• • • Popups https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
      • WMDE reference previews review and support T67114 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
      • Miscellaneous bug fixes and maintenance T214974

• • PDF rendering (Proton) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
    • Remaining work tracked in deploy Proton T181084

Readers Infrastructure

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  • need guidance from SRE / Service Ops on how to handle system package / npm package version sync for Proton: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213366#4906913
  • could use some info from SRE / Traffic on how Varnish interacts with Proton https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213371#4908036 (not urgent)
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  • RfC on best method for incorporating PCS data into page HTML: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213505 - looking for feedback from SRE / Service Ops mainly
  • App Editor Tasks work in progress

Multimedia

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UI Standardization

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Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

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  • Looking at possibility of recurring upsell - i.e. asking donors if they want to recur after a successful one-time donation
  • Civi version upgrade
  • Still making tweaks for Payments-wiki PHP and mediawiki upgrade
  • Starting work on decoupling last link between payments-wiki frontend and civi db backend
  • Working on reducing volume of TY emails for monthly donors

MediaWiki Core Platform

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  • Last week: ALL HANDS

Performance

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  • runbooks: Grafana best practices (initial version). https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Runbook/Grafana_best_practices
  • Assisted RelEng w/migrating various repos' Jenkins tests from node6 to node10 (in progress) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211784
  • Continued work on registry cleanup sprint https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202154
  • Initial performance review of Extension:ExternalGuidance https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214170
  • Patch to make addWiki.php easier to re-run in case of certain DBs having problems https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/486406

Release Engineering

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  • Train Health:
    • Last week: No train, WMF ALL HANDS!
    • This week: 1.33.0-wmf.16 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206670 - no problemo
    • Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.17 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206671

Research

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Scoring Platform

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Search Platform

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Security

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  • Last week allhands

Services

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Site Reliability Engineering

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  • Slow week after allhands, no updates

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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