= 2021-04-07 =

== Callouts ==
* RelEng: Note that the MediaWiki 1.36 branch will happen in the next day or so. Next week's train is the first of 1.37.0-wmf.X.
* RelEng: Backport deployment training is available, the invite is in the deployment calendar on gmail: wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com
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== Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback ==

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Community Tec, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, Product Infrastructure, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality & Test, Security
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== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:

== Product ==

=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
** Continuing to work on on-wiki configuration
** Continuing design of mentor dashboard https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Mentor_dashboard
** Deploying Growth features as opt-in to tawiki, mswiki and simplewiki

=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates: Beta is out.

=== Android native app ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous: Miriam for the research and PET for all your help getting image recommendations ready.
* Updates: Timeline for image recommendations MVP release is set - should be out to all users in 4 weeks.

=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing to onboard new hires!
** Continuing our work on the language switcher instrumentation and A/B test
** Fixing a regression in the SearchSatisfaction instrument for the WVUI search autocomplete treatment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274869#6963147 onward
** Finalising new CSS folder structure in Vector: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264309.

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Special:MediaSearch is now the default search UI on Wikimedia Commons for anonymous users
** Working on moving the MediaSearch UI code into a standalone extension. This will include the structured data team's library of reusable Vue components. Will announce this when the move happens.

=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None known.
* Thank yous:
** Architecture for their on-going advice and support through some thorny issues.
* Updates:
** We closed Phase γ; we're now working on Phase δ (delta): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
*** This is where we'll tie the back-end function orchestrator to the front-end MW stack.

=== Library ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continued work on partner description translations and The Wikipedia Library extension
** New hompage designs are almost done, and work is starting on the logged in experience

=== Vue.js ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Starting the technical decision-making process for introducing a front-end build step - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
** Storybook updates to WVUI: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/676236

== Technology ==

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** un-forking CiviCRM build tool to use upstream version in our CI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277500
** More work on email prefs page https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268510
** Planning for integration with new API of backup card processor
** CiviCRM contact deduplication enhancements
** Better error handling for CentralNotice invalid banner name: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173782
** Audit / reconciliation file processing improvements: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277244, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265545


=== Engineering Productivity ===

==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
** Wikidata: Migration of CI testing from stretch to buster is known broken in Wikidata (T279068).
* Blocking:
** Fundraising tech might be reaching out for image tweaks
* Thank yous:
** James for pointing out we were behind on the 1.36 branch cut :)
* Updates:
** Note that the MediaWiki 1.36 branch will happen in the next day or so. Next week's train is the first of 1.37.0-wmf.X.
** Backport deployment training is available, the invite is in the deployment calendar on gmail: wikimedia.org_rudis09ii2mm5fk4hgdjeh1u64@group.calendar.google.com
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 [[phab:T274943]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274943 -->
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 [[phab:T278344]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278344 -->
*** This week: 1.37.0-wmf.1 [[phab:T278345]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278345 -->

=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Recover lexemes on wdqs1009 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276784
** Report latency metric to the wdqs-ui from the wdqs streaming updater - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277637
** Reindex Khmer wikis to enable Khmer syllable reordering - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274205
** Linked Data Fragments endpoint returns IllegalStateException - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270476
** Many files on Commons cannot be found in WCQS - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269302

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Wrapping up stuff, removing tech debt regarding old kubernetes clusters.
** Sizing up a mediawiki pod.

=== WMDE Technical Wishes ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Activating line numbering in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors, we plan to deploy with next week’s train.
** Merged some simplifications which will affect reportupdater-queries, will probably apply the changes to all scripts there.

== 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). This will be extra fun to back-port to REL1_36 as well as REL1_35.
* Blocking:
* None.
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Nothing major.
** Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
** CI tools' upgrade status: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master