Scrum of scrums/2020-05-06

2020-05-06

Callouts

• From PI to SRE: What's the current timeline for getting mobileapps onto the the deployment pipeline / k8s? (phab:T218733 )
• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
• Restarting MySQL masters for upgrade (read-only windows are needed)
  • S5 and S6 Tuesday 5th May 05:00 AM UTC phab:T251154
  • S3 and S7 Thursday 7th May 05:00 AM UTC phab:T251157
  • S4 Tuesday 12th May 05:00 AM UTC phab:T251502

Product

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: new Desktop Improvements Project (DIP) header is getting close (check it out!), new Vue.js search is ramping up, and collapsible sidebar is coming along.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Add title attribute to opt-out link
    • [Dev] DRY up the menu templating code
    • [Spike 4hrs] Discuss and agree on nomenclature and rules for template partial usage and CSS organization from experience with header
    • Build collapsible sidebar and sidebar button
    • Build new logo for Desktop Improvements Header
    • Provide basic FeatureManagement in Vector codebase
    • [Dev] Allow extensions to update the footer without resorting to SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • [Bug] "Existing accounts only" configuration applies to anonymous users too
    • [Dev] Drop VectorTemplate usage in Vector
    • 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?
      • Add bandwidth tests for JavaScript and CSS to Vector
      • Allow skins to override mediawiki.page.ready initialisation
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • Make mobile wordmark gray again
    • 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
  • QuickSurveys
    • Deploy Quicksurveys extension on all Wikipedias (for a Growth study)
  • Miscellaneous
    • Replace jsduck with JSDoc3 across all Wikimedia code bases

Product Infrastructure

• Updates:
  • Push notifications service RFC will move to Last Call soon: phab:T249065

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • MachineVIsion updates, and move to vue
  • mediasearch prototype for commons

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Updates:
  • Starting work on matching gifts provider integration and payments form employer autocomplete phab:T251199
  • Trying to finish up work to eliminate last direct DB connection between payments and backend phab:T215463
  • Merged sub-national targeting to master CentralNotice branch, so it's up on beta to look at
  • Tweaking handling of payment notification messages from backup payment processor: phab:T243334
  • Debugging an unexpected missing field in messages from payments-wiki: phab:T251025
  • Testing new OS for CiviCRM box

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.30 - phab:T249962
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.31 - phab:T249963
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.32 - phab:T249964

Search Platform

• Blocking:
  • Wikimedia Deutschland/Wikidata: We would like to have gerrit:594442 deployed (deploying gerrit:594414)

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Product Infrastructure on proton, mobileapps k8s migration
  • Research on recommendation-api k8s migration
• Updates:
  • DC related work still pretty slow due to covid-19 measures.
  • Restarting MySQL masters for upgrade (read-only windows are needed)
    • S5 and S6 Tuesday 5th May 05:00 AM UTC phab:T251154
    • S3 and S7 Thursday 7th May 05:00 AM UTC phab:T251157
    • S4 Tuesday 12th May 05:00 AM UTC phab:T251502

Wikimedia DE

Wikidata

• Blocking:
  • Search Platform: We would like to have gerrit:594442 deployed (deploying gerrit:594414)