Scrum of scrums/2019-06-19

2019-06-19

Callouts

• SRE DBAs point out that:
  • 19th June Wed 05:00 UTC - s4 primary db master failover - read only required
  • 25th June Wed 06:00 UTC - change the last parsercache key https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210725
• SRE Service Operations require assistance (from Release Engineering) on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224857
• Release Engineering: Train Health This week: 1.34.0-wmf.10 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220735
  • Core Platform: Jobs not being executed on 1.34.0-wmf.10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226109
  • Multimedia: BadMethodCallException on Commons: /includes/specials/pagers/ImageListPager.php: Call to a member function getUrl() on a non-object (boolean) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226102

Audiences

Contributors

Editing

• Updates:
  • After qualitative and quantitave tests with positive results, we completed a full rollout of section editing on all wikis
  • Mobile Edit Cards: released v1.0 of mobile VE Edit Cards to Bengali, Hebrew and Persian wikis
  • Design on Edit Cards v2.0 is ongoing. That work is happening in task:T225725

Growth

• Blocking:
  • Performance: code review of: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/508965/

Readers

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Finishing up 6.3 work (talk pages) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3-lobster-on-a-motorcycle/)
  • Preparing for a bug fix release 6.3.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3.1_lobster-on-an-orv/)

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Completed development of structured image caption editing (with suggested edit feed). Continuing to test; will soon release to beta.

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: started tasking out next year's technical work for MobileFrontend and continuing ongoing development for the advanced mobile contributions project.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • Add wikidata item link to AMC overflow menu
      • PageActions Menu should use Builder pattern and reuse existing Menu elements
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
      • Tasking for next year
    • Browser tests
      • MinervaNeue wdio build fails with PHP error from Wikibase "Failed to map interlanguage prefix es to a global site ID."
  • QuickSurveys support
    • • Allow quicksurveys to target based on registration date
  • Planning
    • Desktop refresh design and planning
    • Wikimania proposal planning

Readers Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • PCS/MCS split
    • Wikifeeds patches need +2s: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/services/wikifeeds++status:open
  • Page-library
    • New version released but had some issues
    • Work on interaction handling continues
    • Adjust text size patch complete
    • TemplateStyles CSS appears in quick facts header
    • PR for mobile-html section offsets (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219909)
  • Kubernetes migration
    • Mobileapps, Wikifeeds, and Recommendation-API all running CI tests on service pipeline, ready to migrate at SRE's convenience

Multimedia

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering: BadMethodCallException on Commons: /includes/specials/pagers/ImageListPager.php: Call to a member function getUrl() on a non-object (boolean) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226102
• Updates:
  • qualifiers for depicts statements finally going out tomorrow
  • offsite next week
  • other statements should get onto test during offsite

Technology

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Performance: code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/
  • Release Engineering:
    • Jobs not being executed on 1.34.0-wmf.10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226109
    • (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.

Performance

• Blocked by:
  • CPT, code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/414968/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/505468/
  • Audiences, code review of: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Graph/+/493628/
  • Growth, code review of: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/508965/
• Updates:
  • Recent blog posts about performance perception findings: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/7/
  • Timo working on making Mediawiki CI gate job faster: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225730

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.
  • SRE:
    • Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
    • ServiceOps Team: Scap 3.10.0: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224915
  • Wikidata: We need to update wikiba.se hosting to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224905
• Blocking:
  • SRE Service Operations requires assistance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224857
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.9 - NO TRAIN OR ANY OTHER DEPLOYS due to SRE Off-site
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.10 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220735
      • Core Platform: Jobs not being executed on 1.34.0-wmf.10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226109
      • Multimedia: BadMethodCallException on Commons: /includes/specials/pagers/ImageListPager.php: Call to a member function getUrl() on a non-object (boolean) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226102
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.11 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220736

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Wikidata: RDF for Structured Data on Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/507910 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447 (fixes in the making)

Security

• Updates:
  • Backlog
    • Brian still performing code review, this is a tracking ticket for follow-ups for library/vendor code, probably need to reassign not started - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223307
    • Exploring outsourced reviews for OIT things, rewrites, JB to follow up after new vendor budgets set stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155537, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156960, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148246, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187846
    • DoubleWiki, Brian to deploy as sec release, then push through gerrit, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199
    • Audiences user-testing concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220043
  • Active
    • Waiting on update from Yurik/Vega folks (upstream) to proceed stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222806
    • Planet wikimedia - assigned to Michal Anna, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207246
    • Wikisource ext, starting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289
    • FormWizard extension, Brian to write response, tag releng stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201492
  • Waiting
    • Wikibase Termbox, completed for now, John to follow up with Raz re: risk ownership, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419
    • Labs db/sanitarium and maintain-views.yaml audits, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169097, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011
    • Audiences growth team emails concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220242

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering: SRE Service Operations requires assistance on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224857
• Blocking:
  • WMDE has been unblocked on termbox
  • Release Engineering:
    • Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
    • ServiceOps Team: Scap 3.10.0: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224915
• Updates:
• SRE DBAs point out that:
  • 19th June Wed 05:00 UTC - s4 primary db master failover - read only required
  • 25th June Wed 06:00 UTC - change the last parsercache key https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210725

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: RDF for Structured Data on Commons https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/507910 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447 (fixes in the making)
  • Release Engineering: We need to update wikiba.se tests to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224905
• Updates:
  • Started the migration of Wikidata secondary storage (wb_terms) to a better designed tables to start next
  • Started working on the Wikidata bridge (editing Wikidata without leaving Wikipedia)
  • Work on the mobile termbox editing progresses