Scrum of scrums/2020-09-02

2020-09-02

Callouts

• Datacenter switchover completed. All wikis are being served from codfw. Switchback in 1 month from now. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this!
• GitLab consultation is now open! Please comment on the talk page.

Product

iOS native app

• Updates:
  • Development of our 6.7 release - phab:project/view/4661
    • Article as a living document feature
    • New iOS14 widgets (Top Read, Picture of the Day, On This Day)

Web

• Updates:
  • Summary: Vue.js search performance tests, IE11 support, and instrumentation.
  • Desktop Improvements Project (Vector / DIP):
    • Search bar should shift to right edge of container at low resolutions
    • Revisit client exclusion rules for errors where file uri matches URL or no URL
    • PrefUpdate captures user preference modifications at registration
    • Decide on and clean up naming of CSS classes identifying menus in toolbars and the sidebar.
    • [ShoutWikiAds] Replace use of deprecated hook VectorBeforeFooter
    • [Spike 10hrs] Determine steps necessary for switch to header-first DOM
    • Add wordmarks and taglines for 26 more Wikipedias
    • [Spike 8hrs] "Use Legacy Vector" is not working as a global preference
    • Add skin version and search version fields to search satisfaction schema
    • Build a pre-library loading indicator for Vue.js search
    • Move the existing search to the header in preparation for Vue.js search development
    • Checkbox and mediawiki.toc.styles styles should be merged into a single ResourceLoader module
    • Add user journey performance tests for Vector's Legacy and Vue.js search
    • Change link colors in Vector
    • Update link colors in Vector for improved UX (and consistency)
    • Vue.js search case study:
      • See weekly status updates.
  • Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
    • 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
    • Use standard external link icon for external links
  • Miscellaneous
    • Remove IE8 CSS hacks and fallbacks in Vector
    • TypeError: results.error is undefined
    • Drop MonoBookAfterContent hook
    • skins.monobook.mobile.uls dependency doesn't do mobile?
    • Future proof addPortletLink

Technology

Site Reliability Engineering

• Updates:
  • Datacenter switchover successfully completed. All wikis are now being served by codfw. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this!