Scrum of scrums/2020-08-19

2020-08-19

Product

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: Vue.js-focused week.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • [Spike 8hrs] "Use Legacy Vector" is not working as a global preference
    • [Bug] Sidebar Expand/Collapse button impacted by Narrow Width
    • Make collapsible sidebar persistent for logged-in users
    • Move the existing search to the header in preparation for Vue.js search development
    • [Dev] Allow extensions to update the footer without resorting to SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec hook
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method TitleValue::isSubpage() in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.36.0-wmf.4/skins/MinervaNeue/includes/Skins/SkinUserPageHelper.php:55 in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.36.0-wmf.4/skins/MinervaNeue/includes/Skins/SkinUserPageHelper.php on line 55
    • HtmlFormatter incorrectly removes partial classname matches in "xenomobile" or "not-an-navbox"
    • [EPIC] Re-define the contract for displaying drawers and overlays in MobileFrontend
    • [EPIC] None of our View's should exhibit 2 levels of inheritance
    • Regression: Nested references do not open if user clicks on [ or ] (which are wrapped in span)
    • [Technical debt payoff] Remove InlineDiffFormatter and InlineDifferenceEngine from MobileFrontend
  • Standardization
    • Consider 'normalize' stylesheet RL module
    • Add 'volumeUp' icon in OOUI
  • Miscellaneous
    • Rename Special:ElectronPdf to Special:Download as Pdf or Special:Export as Pdf

Technology

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates (long list of updates, we were lagging behind in reporting those):
  • Integrate Wikimedia Event Utilities with discovery-parent-pom - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260375
  • Search does not return exact title match - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257922
  • Querying WCQS should allow me to use prefixes for MediaInfo items -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258625
  • Gather statistics on head and tail query distribution on Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252544
  • Slow indexing of Lexemes for wbsearchentities - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240328
  • Create spreadsheet of last 90 days of Commons search queries - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257361
  • Validate and fix TTL dumps of SDoC - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251496
  • Create a Examples Page for WCQS - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258489
  • v: prefix not correctly prefixed in Wikibase when using entitysource config and extra prefixes -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258507
  • CirrusSearch throws an error on several wikis when searching for "intitle:/regex/" -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250810
  • Access restriction for SPARQL Endpoint for Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251498
  • UI for SPARQL Endpoint for Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251514