https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-11-30
= 2016-11-30 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== Android native app ====
* Last week:
** Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
** New fundraising announcement explore feed card in progress
** Fixing login and editing issues
* Next week (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/):
** More Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions (tutorial and polish)
====Web====
* Current sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-86-%F0%9F%94%AA%F0…
* This week:
** Stopped HoverCards A/B tests from Russian and Italian Wikipedias
** New readers work
** MobileFrontend regression fixes
** Make PageImages return the image in the lead section
** MobileFrontend tech debt
** Trending service
** Hovercards rewrite
====iOS====
* Last Week:
** Found and fixed notification bugs, crashes found in 5.3.0, ready for
5.3.1 release
** Finished announcement card updates, ready for 5.3.1 release
** Finished data layer updates, ready for beta in 5.3.2
** Continued dynamic font size updates to the app
* This week: 5.3.1
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2357/ &
5.3.2
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/
** Ship 5.3.1 (any remaining bug fixes)
** Beta 5.3.2
==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ====
* Board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/
* added Wikibase ID to mobile-sections output
* introducing eslint as part of the node template update
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* working on random MediaWiki tech debt
* not blocking
* Still looking for reviews on the API error/warning i18n patches (see last
week)
=== Community tech ===
* Blocked: Nope
* Blocking: Nope
* Updates:
* Continued improvements to Copypatrol (
https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol)
* Community wishlist survey is in voting phase:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
== Editing ==
=== Parsing ===
* Blocked: Tim asked for an ops person to work with him to puppetize
HTML5Depurate service; yet to hear back as of y'day
* Tim working on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151702 with Ops;
* Arlo's work on Parsoid-native <gallery> extension is now merged. Once we
update the specs at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/1.3.0 and
chat with Services folks, we'll deploy this.
* Kunal continuing to work on the Linter extension (scheduled to be
deployed in Q3 2016-17).
* Scott busy with Dev Summit Planning this previous (short) week, but
trying to finish up patches in Parsoid to parse language variant markup.
== Technology ==
=== Technical Operations ===
* Will not be able to attend, apologies!
* '''Blocked'''
** None
* '''Blocking'''
** None
* Updates
** API outage investigation and actionables ongoing
** Q3 Goals discussion started, please inform ops of dependencies on them
** Goals on track, work ongoing
=== Analytics ===
* Auditing old logs on stat1002 for *deletion*, including: mobile-sampled,
api-usage, sampled, edits (from webrequest), glam_nara, zero. More at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84618
* Mediawiki history reconstruction project milestone: standard metrics ran
against the imported data give very similar results with much simpler
queries, test dataset loaded into Druid:
https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#edit-history-test
* Adding send-to-graphite functionality to Reportupdater
* Wikistats 2.0 design starting tomorrow
* New hire engineer will start December 12th
* Ongoing:
** upgrading stat boxes and other out-of-warranty boxes
** optimizing last step of mediawiki history reconstruction
** public event streams work
** varnishkafka integration testing
** reaching out to analysts and evengelizing reportupdater and pivot
=== Release Engineering ===
* '''Blocked'''
** None
* '''Blocking'''
** None?
* '''Updates'''
** Reminder that the [
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html
deployments
schedule gets weird] between now and the end of the year
** Phabricator replication should be a bit faster thanks to Mukunda
** Scap 3.4 is out -- see the [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MSCA/browse/release/debian/chan…]
for details
** MediaWiki and extensions 1.28.0 tarball is now available
=== Security ===
* Security Reviews
* LoginNotify completing from last week
* Recommendations API started this week
* One item need code review
* CentralAuth special pages:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.o
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/>3
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/>rg/r/#/c/319055/
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/>
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Watching logs, tuning fraud settings and queue jobs
* Tweaking internal dashboard
* Updated thank you email
** Parser output had some unexpected <br>s, wondering if that changed lately
**
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?page=Fundraising/Translation/Thank_you…
=== Discovery ===
* Load-testing crosswiki searching backend code proceeds, looks fine so far
* New analysis of query features and performance published:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Query_Features_and_Search_Performan…
* New analysis of BM25 scoring in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500 -
still working on how to best tokenize zh