Scrum of scrums/2019-07-17

2019-07-17

Callouts

• Site Reliability Engineering - DBAs say: Wikidata master database switchover scheduled for 30th July 05:00-05:30 AM UTC (requires read-only) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227062
• Search Platform blocked by Release Engineering: WDQS GUI build is broken: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227818
• Release Engineering - train blocked
  • Search Platform - T228283 ElasticaErrorHandler.php: Object of class Elastica\Response could not be converted to string
  • Core Platform - T228286 LocalFile.php: Call to a member function getName() on a non-object (null)
• Language blocked by Core Platform: T228025 - Translate sandbox signup is broken

Product

Contributors

Editing

• Updates:
  • Improved performance of section editing by only building the CE tree for the selected section: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215717#5330186
  • Iterating on edit cards
  • Removed "Welcome to Wikipedia" overlay on mobile VE: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227670

Growth

• Blocking:
  • Scoring Platform - Working with Growth on triaging ORES filter updates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227094
• Updates:
  • Homepage: Use 2x2 grid for mobile summary of start module (task T227109)
  • Allow posting questions to Flow pages (task T212433)
  • Do not let users thank for a log entry if actor was deleted (task T224240)

Readers

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Released 6.3 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3-lobster-on-a-motorcycle/
    • talk pages
    • bug fixes
    • media & link insertion editing tools
  • Working on 6.3.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.3.1_lobster-on-an-orv/
    • bug fixes
    • talk pages enhancements

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Released to Beta! (structured image caption editing / suggested edits for image captions and article descriptions)
  • Working on integrating with page mobile-html endpoint. Current board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4123/

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: continuing development of the advanced mobile contributions and MobileFrontend architecture projects.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Advanced mobile contributions:
      • AMC - mark AMC setting as "new"
      • Create new MobileWebUIActionsTracking schema
      • [EPIC] AMC Navigation - user menu
      • [AMC] Updates to user pages
      • Update notifications & search icons (AMC & non-AMC)
      • Use a clearly intended height on MinervaNeue header
    • Invest in the MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue frontend architecture:
      • Tasking
      • MFA: TalkSectionAddOverlay should use Overlay.make pattern
      • Remove Page's View functionality
      • [GOAL] Lazy load references in mobile skin
      • Update page issues folder structure
    • Miscellaneous:
      • CSS spiked by 2kb (23% increase) for ALL users
      • Edits lost when clicking back from talk overlay
      • Minerva - Special:ContentTranslation displays TypeError:"options is null"
      • [Research 4hrs] Three clicks required to exit talk overlay
      • "Minerva AB test" blocking merge in unrelated repos
      • Bug: Order of some paragraphs is flipped on mobile
      • setPageTitle to empty string or false should prevent rendering of H1 on page otherwise Wikivoyage will print 2 h1 elements in Vector
      • BUG: Notifications tray (mobile) - margins and borders
      • [Bug] Notification counts broken on mobile
      • Regression: Download icon doesn't download images
  • Planning
    • Desktop refresh planning

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Will only answer to "Product Infrastructure" from now on
  • Released a new pagelib version with a fix for the interaction handling of reference clicks and missing interaction handling of pronunciation clicks.
  • Investigating OSM corruption https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218097
  • Followup to ReadingLists incident: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227665
  • Planned Modern Event Platform Stream Configuration Service architecture: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205319
  • Event Platform Client Library specification process ongoing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228175
  • Updating open_nsfw project for deployment in WMF prod (as nsfwoid): https://github.com/mdholloway/nsfwoid

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • We are now called the structured data team :o
  • working on getting arbitrary statements for files on commons production-ready

Language

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform: T228025 - Translate sandbox signup is broken

UI Standardization

• Updates:
  • OOUI v0.33.3 released https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md
    • WindowManager: Prevent iOS Safari from scrolling the page behind the dialog
    • ProcessDialog aftermath styling from 0.33.0 overhaul
  • Continuing work on Special:Contributions related to AMC https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117736

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Waiting on payment processor to test India forms
  • Finishing backend work for recurring donation conversion
  • updating CiviCRM custom fields for our users
  • Fixing CentralNotice bugs having to do with EventLogging updates
  • Making a couple of our message queue consumers more parallelizable
  • Almost done converting all our python2 tools to python3

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering:
    • MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
    • T228286 LocalFile.php: Call to a member function getName() on a non-object (null)
  • Language: T228025 - Translate sandbox signup is broken
  • Performance: Need CR for {{PAGEID}} optimization. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/519352
• Updates:
  • Transition planning this week

Engineering Productivity

Performance

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform: Need CR for 956754 optimization. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/519352
  • WMDE/Wikidata: Need help figuring out why DeferredUpdates enqueue-on-failure patch is incompatible with Wikibase. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/497537/
  • Site Reliability Engineering: Need review on the filter logic of obsolete domains in GTIDs for GTID_WAIT. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/517830/
• Updates:
  • Peter and Gilles of our team will be attending WeLoveSpeed! – https://www.welovespeed.com/2019/programme/
  • Aaron is helping CPT with identifying and migrating (some) users of MainStash. (Thanks! -CPT)
  • Q Goals published at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2019-20_Q1#Performance

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform: MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: WDQS GUI build is broken: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227818
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.13 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220738
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.14 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220739
      • Search Platform - T228283 ElasticaErrorHandler.php: Object of class Elastica\Response could not be converted to string
      • Core Platform - T228286 LocalFile.php: Call to a member function getName() on a non-object (null)
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.15 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220740

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Working with Growth on triaging ORES filter updates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227094
• Updates:
  • Jade RFC finally closed! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200297
  • Andy Craze working on ORES deployment and Jade development -- working API incoming
  • Working with Core platform on Jade-related schema changes

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering: WDQS GUI build is broken: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227818
• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - T228283 ElasticaErrorHandler.php: Object of class Elastica\Response could not be converted to string
• Updates:
  • Reindexing WDQS servers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228122
  • Troubles reindexing wikidata: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227136
  • Working on creating RDF export for SDC/MediaInfo: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221917
  • Working on getting glent suggestions into Elastic indexes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227364
  • Working on CirrusSearch configuration for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220625
  • Working on CirrusSearch query dispatcher: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216429

Security

• Updates:
  • Received: Security review of preact 8.4.2, to be assigned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227726
  • Received & Assigned: (informal) Security Concept Review For LibUp 2.0, starting: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227820
  • Received & Assigned: Concept Review for the machine vision, new, starting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227591
  • Froze: Waiting on update from Yurik/Vega folks (upstream) to proceed stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222806

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Performance: Need review on the filter logic of obsolete domains in GTIDs for GTID_WAIT. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/517830/
• Updates:
  • DBAs say: Wikidata master database switchover scheduled for 30th July 05:00-05:30 AM UTC (requires read-only) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227062

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Performance: Need help figuring out why DeferredUpdates enqueue-on-failure patch is incompatible with Wikibase. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/497537/

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • Jazmin and/or Deb will facilitate the meeting for the next three weeks