Scrum of scrums/2019-07-03

2019-07-03

Callouts

• DBAs say: x1 master failover (will require some minutes of read-only time) scheduled for 3rd July T226358
  • Heads up to Cognate, StructuredDiscussions (Flow), MediaWiki-extensions-BounceHandler, ContentTranslation, Reading List Service, MediaWiki-extensions-UrlShortener, WikimediaEditorTasks. ArticleFeedbackv5
• Release Engineering
  • All: Input greatly wished for on the "Future of CI" planning document: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092227.html
  • Unknown team (?): wikimania-scholarships hosting needs to move to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224906 (Bryan Davis, Niharika Kohli...?)
• Language->Analytics (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209868)

Product

Contributors

Editing

• Updates:
  • A/B test of VE as default on mobile: Friday, 28 June, the VE as default A/B test went live. 50% of new contributors to 20 target wikis will have VE as the default editing interface on mobile
  • Preparing to ship an updated toolbar interface for mobile VE. The first iteration will include changes to the “save changes” and “Publish” buttons. See: T225634
  • Working on functional prototype of edit cards for VE on mobile, extending some functionality to desktop (See: T226214)
  • We have been contributing to a cross-team effort to improve the top actions in dialogs on mobile and desktop. See: T226045

Growth

• Updates:
  • Deployed mobile Homepage on cswiki/kowik/vietwikii

Readers

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Wrapping up 6.3 beta testing bugs, hope to release next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3-lobster-on-a-motorcycle/)
  • Beginning development for bug fix release 6.3.1 (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3.1_lobster-on-an-orv/)

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Ready to release suggested edits of structured image captions, pending deploy of suggestions API.

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: same as last week: continuing development of the advanced mobile contributions project.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Advanced mobile contributions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
      • AMC Navigation - add new links to main menu with click tracking
      • [EPIC] AMC Navigation - user menu
      • [AMC] Updates to user pages
      • Not possible to configure Minerva main menu to use Special:RandomRoot instead of Special:Random
    • 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
      • Remove Page's View functionality
    • Miscellaneous:
      • Decide whether we want the package-lock.json to commit or ignore
  • Browser tests:
    • Daily Minerva Selenium test job failing
  • QuickSurveys
    • Bump QuickSurveys version to 1.3.0 and remove HISTORY file
  • Planning
    • Desktop refresh design and planning

Readers Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Proton/PDF renderer: Enable support to additional options in restbase (To be deployed https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/1158 )
  • PCS/MCS:
    • Expose Talk endpoint in restbase (To be deployed https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/1156 )
  • JS error logging enabled on beta ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217142, dashboard: https://logstash-beta.wmflabs.org/goto/1600bd1153babbcc9578a4c05c427b8b )

Multimedia

• Updates:
  • offsite last week
  • release arbitrary statements to http://test-commons.wikimedia.org/

Language

• Blocked by:
  • Analytics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209868 (Would be nice to get help with that task, as well as the closely related https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210138#5256918 . I mainly need help with converting queries from reading from MySQL on mwmaint1002 to reading from databases on hive)
• Updates:
  • Translate: Extend message checker framework to support errors that prevent saving (T204568)
  • ContentTranslation: Various bug fixes: template adaptation issue (T224437), CX non-beta migration progress (T223896)

Technology

Analytics

• Blocking:
  • Language: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209868 (Would be nice to get help with that task, as well as the closely related https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210138#5256918 . I mainly need help with converting queries from reading from MySQL on mwmaint1002 to reading from databases on hive)

Fundraising Tech

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering
    • MediaWiki core backports to fundraising/REL1_31 to improve caching on CI ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225496 )
      • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/517393/ - Disable rate limiting in Development Settings
      • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/517397/ - installer: Detect APC for MainCacheType in CLI installer
• Updates:
  • Almost ready to start testing India donation form https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225639
  • Doing some cleanup of contractor-provided features in CentralNotice : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225101
  • Adding new fields to CiviCRM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222958, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170972
  • Improving source tracking for email opt-ins: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226572
  • Implementing backend bits to allow converting one-time donors to recurring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216560
  • Starting to convert our remaining python2 tools to python3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197805

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering
    • (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.
    • MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
• Updates:
  • Testing of new session storage
  • split restbase/rest-router deployed to production
  • Review on first Parsoid REST routes

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Security team (already acknowledged): Make phan-taint-check-plugin work on PHP > 7.0 so we can move CI to PHP72 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207344
  • Core Platform Team:
    • (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.
    • MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
  • SRE:
    • Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
  • Unknown team (?): wikimania-scholarships hosting needs to move to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224906
  • Fundraising tech team
    • MediaWiki core backports to fundraising/REL1_31 to improve caching on CI ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225496 )
      • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/517393/ - Disable rate limiting in Development Settings
      • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/517397/ - installer: Detect APC for MainCacheType in CLI installer
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.11 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220736
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.12 - NO TRAIN, WMF HOLIDAY (4 July)
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.13 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220738
  • All: Input greatly wished for on the "Future of CI" planning document: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-June/092227.html
  • SRE:
    • ServiceOps Team:
      • thanks for scap 3.10.0-1 deploy \o/
      • Thanks to DC Ops, and serviceops for contint1001 drives/mounts :)

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • SRE: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224324
  • WMDE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447
  • WMDE: WDQS GUI breakage: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikidata/query/gui/+/518404
  • WMDE: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/520131
• Updates:
  • Fixed mismatch in ASCII folding between autocomplete and search https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226241
  • Fixed a couple of production errors: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226568 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226969
  • WDQS federation whitelist now supports wildcards https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196858
  • Some issues reindexing wikidata: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227136
  • Working on creating RDF export for SDC/MediaInfo: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221917
  • Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625
  • Working on CirrusSearch query dispatcher: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216429

Security

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering (already acknowledged): Make phan-taint-check-plugin work on PHP > 7.0 so we can move CI to PHP72 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207344 - last patches reviewed/merged, ready to tag 2.0, issue with php-ast on composer dockers, supporting old versions of phan-taint-check-plugin
• Updates:
  • Backlog
    • John to explore funding of 3rd party audits this quarter stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155537, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156960, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148246, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187846
    • Page Content Service: mobile-html, just arrived, needs review and assignment new - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227114
    • DoubleWiki - needs reassignment stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199
    • Audiences user-testing concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220043
    • Audiences growth team emails concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220242
  • Active
    • Officially handing off to Sam starting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223307
    • CentralNotice Code Review request, assigned to Sam starting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226963
    • Planet wikimedia - assigned to Michal Anna, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207246
  • Waiting
    • Waiting on update from Yurik/Vega folks (upstream) to proceed stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222806
    • John and Scott to follow up with Raz re: risk ownership in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216419
    • Labs db/sanitarium and maintain-views.yaml audits - transition to James F for review in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169097, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011
  • Recently Completed
    • Wikisource ext - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217289

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
  • Search Platform - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224324
• Updates:
  • x1 master failover (will require some minutes of read-only time) scheduled for 3rd July T226358. Heads up to Cognate, StructuredDiscussions (Flow), MediaWiki-extensions-BounceHandler, ContentTranslation, Reading List Service, MediaWiki-extensions-UrlShortener, WikimediaEditorTasks.ArticleFeedbackv5

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/489447
    • WDQS GUI breakage: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikidata/query/gui/+/518404
    • review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/520131