2021-03-10

Callouts

• SRE ServiceOps Scheduling upgrade of the main codfw kubernetes cluster. It will be unavailable for a few hours, announcement will be sent when the exact maint window is decided
• SRE ServiceOps blocked on
  • PET on T274262
  • Product Infrastructure on T274262
  • Analytics on T274262
  • Thanks to Language and WMDE for acting on the above task.

No updates

CommTech, Anti-Harassment, Editing, iOS, Android, Language, Inuka, Library

No notes provided

Parsing, Cloud, FR-Tech, Performance, QTE, Search, Security

Product

Anti-Harassment Tools

• Thank yous:
  • Thanks to Lukasz Sobanski and Amir Sarabadani for writing documentation on adding DB tables
  • Thanks to Timo Tijhof for helping improve the AHT dashboard on logstash

Growth

• Updates:
  • Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
  • Continuing to work on exposing more configuration settings to wiki admins T274520 T274031
  • Enabling Growth tools on thwiki T274646

Web

• Thank yous:
  • Brandon Black for helping with temporarily disabling the edge caches for a small number of wikis to aid with the Desktop Improvements rollout
  • Noam Rosenthal for helping with various Page Previews performance improvements and regressions
  • Adam Wight for working on centralizing the user edit count bucketing logic: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210106
• Updates:
  • Enabled WVUI search treatment A/B test on more wikis: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249297
  • Focused on the language switcher treatment A/B test: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268504 and its subtasks

Product Infrastructure

• Blocking:
  • SRE ServiceOps on T274262

Structured Data

• Updates:
  • Focused on blockers for making MediaSearch the default search UI on Commons
  • Planning and discussion around image recommendations tool

Abstract Wikipedia

• Blocked by:
  • None.
• Blocking:
  • None known.
• Thank yous:
  • Search Platform for on-going discussion around discovery needs and how to meet them.
• Updates:
  • Continuing on phase gamma: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
  • The Wikifunctions logo concept vote closes on Monday 2021-03-15: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wikifunctions_logo_concept/Vote

Language

• Thank yous: From SRE Service Ops for T274262

Vue.js

• Thank yous:
  • Timo for code review and getting ES6 support in wikimedia/minifier over the finish line
• Updates:
  • ES6-only module support in ResourceLoader now available ("es6": true); documentation to come
  • Actual support for serving ES6 code is not yet available but very close, hoping to land it this week. We'll make an announcement and update documentaton once this is merged

Technology

Analytics

• Blocking:
  • SRE ServiceOps on T274262

Platform

• Blocking:
  • SRE ServiceOps on T274262

Engineering Productivity

Release Engineering

• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.33 phab:T274937
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.34 phab:T274938
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.35 phab:T274939

Site Reliability Engineering

• Blocked by:
  • PET on T274262
  • Product Infrastructure on T274262
  • Analytics on T274262
• Blocking:
  • None
• Thank yous:
• Updates:
  • Scheduling upgrade of the main codfw kubernetes cluster. It will be unavailable for a few hours, announcement will be sent when the exact maint window is decided
• SRE Traffic wiping edge caches on a handful of wikis to aid desktop refresh testing - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274784

WMDE Technical Wishes

• Thank yous:
  • Analytics
• Updates:
  • Syntax highlighting “accessible” color schema is ready to test on the beta cluster
  • Tweaking the shared code for edit count bucketing, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210106
  • Still piling up reviews for Analytics.
  • Would like to deploy a few non-voting jobs for Quibble+Apache

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
• Updates:
• Working on splitting our front-end JS linting rules into ES5 and ES6 variants. This will lead to a new release of eslint-config-wikimedia.
• There are a few repos still using jsonlint, notably Wikidata's data-values/value-view: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220036 https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/library/npm/grunt-jsonlint?branch=master
• PHP 8.0 work is focussed on helping upstream provide forwards and backwards compatibility in Elastica-related PHP code.
• CI tools' upgrade status is adequate: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master