Scrum of scrums/2019-08-21

2019-08-21

Callouts

• Release Engineering - train blocked
  • Wikidata - Moved Wikidata Item link to Other Projects might break gadgets https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230926
• SRE
  • Performance - Multimedia - Some thumbnail images delivered with wrong application/x-www-form-urlencoded mime-type https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188831 Thumbor? Mediawiki?
  • Performance/CPT - CentralAuth Set-Cookie storm https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226840

Product

Contributors

Editing

• Updates:
  • preparing to deploy mobile ve toolbar v. 2
  • iterative improvements to mobile editing experience:
    • mobile.editor.overlay: Hide section edit links in preview
    • Upstream more styles from editor.ve.less to editor.less (task T228159)
    • Change wikitext editor toolbar height to 3em (task T228159)
    • AMC: Increase touch target size to 44px (task T230033)
    • Use same padding for wikitext editor as visual (task T228159)
    • Fix the scrolling animation after Minerva changes (task T230237)
    • Scroll to the lead paragraph on load (task T225936)

Growth

• Updates:
  • Technical investigation into newcomer task recommendations
  • Summary: iterative improvements to ui experience in growth experiments
  • Define php7 as active tag for use with RC filters (task T228943)

Readers

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • We were featured in the App Store!
  • Development on 6.4 release https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v6.4-seamonkey-on-a-hoverboard/
    • History & Diffs (will discuss API needs in Audiences Platform sync tomorrow)
    • iOS13/iPadOS updates
    • New loading screen
    • Bug fixes

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Working on minor release that includes optimized page load speed, as well as tweaks to Suggested Edits based on user testing at Wikimania.
  • Continuing to test/profile mobile-html integration.

Readers Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: desktop refresh technical research and prototyping.
  • Responsive website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend / Portals):
    • Desktop refresh:
      • Technical research and prototyping.
    • Advanced mode:
      • AMC Outreach - Modal
      • Make toasts tappable links when redirecting a user away from a page
    • Miscellaneous:
      • Excessive paragraph padding in MF editor save **** dialog
      • ReferencesDrawer should be a Drawer, not extend the Drawer
      • Minerva styles the wrong selector for rollback link
      • JS Error occurs when cancelling writing a comment on mobile structured talk pages

Product Infrastructure

• Blocking:
  • iOS wikidiff thing
• Updates:
  • Ongoing infrastructure work for the Machine-Aided Depicts partnership with the Structured Data team

Parsing

• Updates:
  • Parsoid/PHP is ~99.5% green on parser tests.

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • About to deploy new CentralNotice editing features: preview unsaved banners: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225101
  • New banner-stats pipeline still ready to deploy: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195594
  • More testing of India payment forms
  • Internal testing and tweaks to recurring conversion form: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143429
  • Legal & security taking another look at Fundraising's 'Remind Me Later' form: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230176, blocking this settings update: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194019
  • Importing new data sources to Civi

Core Platform

• Blocked by:
  • SRE Investigate Kask request latency https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229697
• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
  • Performance/CPT - CentralAuth Set-Cookie storm https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226840
• Updates:
  • Performance examination on Kask
  • API testing framework
  • Wikimania and travel

Engineering Productivity

Performance

• Updates:
  • Continuing working on unifying all synthetic testing to make it easy for developers to add their own tests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225416
  • First week the full team are back after summer vacations.

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • Core Platform Team:
    • MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
  • Wikidata
    • Moved Wikidata Item link to Other Projects might break gadgets https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230926
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.18 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220743 - no train because of Wikimania
    • This week: 1.34.0-wmf.19 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220744
      • Wikidata - Moved Wikidata Item link to Other Projects might break gadgets https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230926
    • Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.20 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220745

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Block on Design for Jade design assets
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229976 (Filter controls)
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210558 (Special:Diff integration)
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212370 ("Entity UI")
• Updates:
  • Merged changes to Jade content schema https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229355
  • Moving our python package docs from pythonhosted.org to readthedocs.org E.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229133
    • Also implementing a ton of automation around it. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230517
  • Producing datasets to support from MSFT researchers studying "explainability" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230737
  • Starting coding work on Jade API module. Exploring JSON serialization strategies (e.g TypeScript): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199834
  • Investigating celery shutdown issue (no downtime, but still concerning) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230917

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • RecentChange support for SDC: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230862
• Updates:
  • Fixed highlighting grapheme clusters in search results: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35242
  • Fixed icinga checks for cloudelastic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229621
  • Created http://dcatap.wmlabs.org/ to store data formerly in dcatap namespace: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228297
  • Added SDC URIs support to Blazegraph and Updater: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229608
  • Continuing work on Slovak analysis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223787
  • 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 WDQS Updater performance improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212826

Security

• Updates:
  • Backlog
    • Security Review for MediaWiki REST API, assigned to Sam, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230140
    • 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
  • Active
    • Parsoid-PHP, moved to active, requesting additional review by Sam, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227209
    • Security review of preact 8.4.2, Scott did a very simple assessment, unassigned, stalled https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227726
    • Page Content Service route /page/mobile-html, starting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227114
    • Security review of WebAuthn library dependancies, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227244
    • Planet wikimedia - assigned to Michal Anna, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207246
  • Waiting
    • 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, assigned to James F, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169097, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103011
  • Frozen (delayed indefinitely)
    • Audiences user-testing concept review, stalled and contacted - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220043
    • Audiences growth team emails concept review, stalled - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220242
  • Closing Soon / Closed
    • CentralNotice Code Review request, closed- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226963
    • Waiting on update from Yurik/Vega folks (upstream) to proceed, closed - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222806
    • Concept Review for the machine vision middleware project, closed- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227591
    • Doublewiki (old), Scott to resolve this week, in-progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131199
    • Banner preview - Scott to resolve this week, waiting - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230176

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Core Platform - Investigate Kask request latency https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229697
• Updates:
  • Will move to 33.3%, then possibly 50% traffic on PHP7 by next week
  • Wikidata termbox is now actively used in production
  • Anycast DNS recursive queries enabled in production.
  • Upcoming maintenances:
    • S8 master failover in eqiad Sept 10th
    • PDU swaps in eqiad will continue over the next quarter

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Release Engineering - train blocked
    • Moved Wikidata Item link to Other Projects might break gadgets https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230926