Scrum of scrums/2021-05-05

2021-05-05

Callouts

• From SRE Service Operations:
  • DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
  • Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have questions/problems.
• 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/

Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback

No updates

CommTech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, iOS, Android, ProdInfra, Parsing, Language, Library, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security

SoS Meeting Bookkeeping

• Updates:

Product

Growth

• Blocked by:
  • Editing on code review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/682014
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
    • now running in dark mode on arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, viwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278710
  • Continuing work on on-wiki configuration https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_configuration
  • Deploying Growth features to elwiki

Web

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Began the rollout of the new language switcher treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280526

Structured Data

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Testing the image recommendations API—if you're bored and want to help us out, please consider reviewing some images (we especially need help in English and Cebuano)
    • https://image-recommendation-test.toolforge.org/?uselang=en
  • Starting process to deploy the new standalone MediaSearch extension

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None.
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Nothing exciting this week.
  • Working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases – getting close!

Inuka

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383
  • Trending articles engagement issue in KaiOS app https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280830

Vue.js

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Build step technical decision making process is moving along; awaiting feedback from the forum and developing proofs of concept
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
    • https://github.com/egardner/mediawiki-extensions-BuildSandbox/pull/2
  • Continuing work on the UI components design inventory
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047
  • WVUI: building components and experimenting with the Composition API plugin

Technology

Fundraising Tech

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Deploying new email preferences center
  • starting work to integrate with new API of backup card processor
  • Moving more CiviCRM custom code out of drupal 7 modules

Engineering Productivity

Quality and Test Engineering

• Blocked by:
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• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Blog post by Elena Tonkovidova - Breakpoint at BrowserStack conferences (2020-2021) - reflections and thoughts (Part 2 Focus on Exploratory testing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/237
  • Blog post by Željko Filipin - Debug Selenium Tests: logLevel (Part 1) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/238

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
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• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.37.0-wmf.3 phab:T278347
    • This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4 phab:T281145
    • Next week: 1.37.0-wmf.5 phab:T281146

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • wikidata-query-rdf-maven-release-docker builds fail due to hitting 30min timeout - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280863
  • Reload ORES data into weighted_tags - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274583
  • MediaSearch results not updated 12 hours after overwriting image - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204
  • Deploy new version of Extra Plugin (with Khmer filter) to Elasticsearch cluster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204
  • Clean up failed reindexing indexes - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279607
  • WDQS data-transfer cookbook needs to wait for updater to catchup on lag - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280108

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
  • Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have questions/problems.

WMDE Technical Wishes

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Thank yous:
  • mforns and the Analytics team carried us across the finish line, making a suite of new metrics available.
  • Urbanecm for accompanying and performing several backports and config changes over the past weeks ( even more to come 😬 )
• Updates:
  • Reference Previews deployment was reverted today, we'll try again tomorrow. (T271206)

Cross-cutting

• Blocked by:
  • [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142 (or at least 6.7).
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • REL1_36 release process:
    • 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
  • CI tools:
    • New release of mediawiki-codesniffer (v36) came out last week; 58% of repos updated so far.
    • CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
  • PHP 8.0:
    • No change this week.
    • Our target is REL1_35 (and thus also REL1_36), as well as master.
    • Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last one.
    • Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; thank you to everyone working on fixing them.