Scrum of scrums/2020-04-29

2020-04-29

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office

Product

Android native app

• Blocked by:
  • phab:T249770 (Core Platform / mobile-html caching issue)
• Updates:
  • Release of mobile-html integration in Beta. Release to production is pending resolution of caching issues.

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: new header, collapsible sidebar, Vue.js tasking, and continuing desktop improvements project (DIP).
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • Allow skins to override mediawiki.page.ready initialisation
    • [Dev] DRY up the menu templating code
    • [Spike 4hrs] Discuss and agree on nomenclature and rules for template partial usage
    • Build new logo for Desktop Improvements Header
    • Provide basic FeatureManagement in Vector codebase
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • [Spike 12.75 hrs] Where does the application-specific Vue.js search code live and what impact does this decision have on the long term?
      • Onboarding
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Implement Tap to show for lazy loaded images without MutationObserver - Scrolling on a Kai OS mobile device can be slow on articles with lazy loading
    • Avoid SEO performance and user experience penalties by addressing our handling of lazy loaded images using IntersectionObserver
  • Miscellaneous
    • Replace jsduck with JSDoc3 across all Wikimedia code bases

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Push notifications infrastructure RFC: phab:T249065

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • working on MediaSearch prototype
  • fixing MachineVision bugs
  • prototyping a vue version of the MachineVision UI

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Fixing issues with backup processor's NL bank transfer integration
  • More rounds of fixes & code review on CentralNotice features - subnational targeting, banner templates & clone campaign
  • Removing last direct DB link between front-end payments forms and back-end DB

Core Platform

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
  • Android native app - phab:T249770 (Core Platform / mobile-html caching issue)

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.30 - phab:T249962
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.31 - phab:T249963

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes phab:T224425
• Updates:
  • Add mapping for ORES topic field in ElasticSearch phab:T240550
  • Remove usage of MEDIAWIKI_JOB_RUNNER from CirrusSearch extension phab:T247129

Site Reliability Engineering

• Updates:
  • Looking into new push notification service request phab:T250452