Scrum of scrums/2020-03-18

2020-03-18

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
• Structured Data needs review from Security on proposed new data dump for MachineVision: phab:T236431#5900726

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • This was the last in-person SoS meeting. Going forward we will just update the etherpad.

Product

Editing

• Updates:
  • No Updates, we are shifting or focus but hoping to turn on Replying 1.0 on Beta

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Wrapping up development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration)...Beta soonphab:project/view/4273

Android native app

• Updates:
  • Release of mobile_html ready for Beta, pending final testing.
  • Release of Suggested Edits v4 (image tagging) pending user testing / polishing updates.

Web

• Updates:
  • Working on Logo and Header for Desktop Refresh

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
  • Security on review of proposed new data dump: phab:T236431#5900726
• Updates:
  • will miss the meeting because of a clash - back next week
  • units for quantities, improved geo-coordinates, date, and monolingual text input types all live
  • constraints violations code merged should be live when train rolls
  • some CAT improvements on the way

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Deployed NL bank transfer capability for backup processor, working on making it possible to accept recurring bank donations there
  • Investigating new ways to manage PayPal recurring donations
  • Testing migrating recurring donations from main card processor's old API integration to their new integration
  • Getting started making an autocomplete dropdown of employers offering matching gifts

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Wikimedia DE/Wikidata: would appreciate someone advising on phab:T225814.
  • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Continued work on jobrunner, changeprops
  • Core REST API next version coming soon
  • API Gateway
  • Developer Portal prototype Core_Platform_Team/Initiatives/API_Gateway/Documentation_Plan
  • Process of adopting or co-parenting CentralNotice

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Wikimedia DE/Wikidata: would appreciate someone chiming in on phab:T245826
• Updates:
  • [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
  • Train Health
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - phab:T233872
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - phab:T233873

Scoring Platform

• Updates:
  • Pile of volunteers: chtnnh, haksoat, clemons, nikhil, (+2 more on the way to IRC/phab)
  • Jade
    • Did first round of user-testing on Beta.
    • We got the Jade Diff view to work. https://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Jade:Diff/4
      • Considered native OOUI element for Diff. Needs PHP. Crusty.
      • Struggling to get date format strings to the client side
  • Released revscoring 2.6.9 which includes section-based features (e.g. text complexity measures)
  • Implemented improved feature extraction for idioms and images (re. articlequality)

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Copy English Wikipedia drafttopic scores to other wikis somewhere in the CirrusSearch pipeline phab:T241015
  • Once the ORES articletopic - ElasticSearch pipeline is set up, update data about all articles phab:T243357

Security

• Blocking:
  • Structured Data: review of proposed new data dump: phab:T236431#5900726

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Product Infrastructure on creations of k8s namespaces/tokens for proton, mobileapps. Working on it
  • Research on creation of k8s namespaces/tokens for recommendation-api. Working on it.

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocked by:
  • Release Engineering: We would appreciate someone chiming in on phab:T245826
  • Not sure who - Core Platform: We would appreciate someone advising on phab:T225814.
• Updates:
  • wb_terms table (the old term store) is not being read or updated anymore. phab:T208425