Scrum of scrums/2021-02-17

2021-02-17

Callouts

• RelEng: Longer-term train disruption calendar (caveats apply) https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

No updates

AHT, Library

No notes provided

Web, Prod Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Quality & Test, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:
  • from retro ideas to try:
    • Bolding items to read aloud +JF +TC
    • relaxing the start time
    • Template
      • Perhaps add a contact point (email, url, office hours, whatever) for easy reaching out to teams when a bullet point seems interesting. +GG +JF +TC
      • Adding a section where teams can add Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests to request reviews or feedback. +GG +TC [DONE]
      • Adding a "thanks" section +GG +JF +TC+AP [DONE]

Product

Community Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • We are now preparing for our next project (OCR Improvements) while wrapping up our work on WS-Export improvements
    • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/New_OCR_tool
    • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Wikisource/Improve_export_of_electronic_books

Editing

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Releasing new topic tool as a Beta Feature on three Wikipedias (ar/cs/hu)

Growth

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • working on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
  • working on improvements in configuration (for more scalable deployments) and mentorship

iOS native app

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: I hope none.
• Updates: Finishing touches on Chinese varient work, bunches of other small things.

Android native app

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: I hope none.
• Updates: Refining watchlist and talk pages, moving to releasing every 2 weeks.

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • MediaSearch: splitting off frontend into separate extension
  • Image recommendations: started working on scripts to evaluate POC results (T273882, T273062) & tweak search profile based on analysis from Research team (T271799)
  • Continuing SDAW architecture discussions

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
    • First route for back-end executor service has landed.
    • Looking at re-using firejail for isolation of run-times within executor service.
  • Thanks to Dave Pifke and Timo Tijhof from Performance for their support and advice.
  • Final week for community suggestions for the logo concept for Wikifunctions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_concept#Gallery

Vue.js

• Blocked by: Performance (Timo), review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/657953
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • WVUI v0.1.0 merged into core, yay! Thank you to Jon R, Jan D, Nick R, Sam S, Mark H (Web team), Scott B (Security), and Timo T (Performance)
  • Patch for ES6-only module support in ResourceLoader awaiting review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/657953
  • New patch up (as of last night) adding ES6 support to JavaScriptMinifier https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/libs/Minify/+/664700
    • Thanks to Timo for setting up the mediawiki/libs/Minify repo

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Working on donor email preference center (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268495, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268497)
  • Annual PCI paperwork to keep accepting credit cards
  • Trying to get Latin American spanish (es-419) working as a variant throughout donation pipeline, falling back to Castillian Spanish (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199682, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199733)
  • More fixes for our docker setup (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274943, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268683) (will need +2s from RelEng eventually)

Engineering Productivity

Performance

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Second frontend web perf training session budget approved, will be at EMEA-friendly times. Provisional dates April 19 - 23

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • ServiceOps: VM requests for GitLab
• Blocking:
  • Hopefully no longer blocking fundraising
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Longer-term train calendar https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.30 phab:T271343
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.31 phab:T271344
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.32 phab:T274936

Thanks

• Serviceops: docker-pkg help!
• Everyone who helped us get the train unstuck over the past few weeks <3

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
• Updates:
  • Outdated data still present in WCQS a month after statement update -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267825
  • Resolve WDQS changelog situation - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272265
  • Reduce default page weighting on wikitech and mediawikiwiki for pages with "Historical" or "Archive"templates - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274082

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Working with Product Infra on maps
  • Having some issues with upload edge caches recently
  • Some SREs alongside Chris Albon made it to mainstream news for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

WMDE

Technical Wishes

• Updates:
  • Finishing a round of intensive analytics work, thanks for all the review and support.
  • Planning many changes in the Visual Editor template dialog.

Cross-cutting

• Blocked by:
  • Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142
• Blocking:
  • None
• Updates:
  • No major changes.
  • On PHP 8.0 work, we're now looking to enable PHP 8.0 as voting on the REL1_35 branch for MediaWiki itself and as a gradual opt-in for extensions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274965
  • CI tools' upgrade status is adequate: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
  • Particular thanks this week to Umherirrender for their work on the backlog of jsonlint -> eslint replacements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220036