https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-09-28
= 2016-09-28 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ====
* Fixed video anchors
* No deploys this week due to ops offsite
* Starting discussions versioning sections endpoint
==== Android native app ====
* Current sprint board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2238/
* Next sprint board: TBA
* Navigation overhaul work for beta release is complete. Release will go
out the door today (9/28).
** We'll likely promote to stable quickly if no significant issues emerge.
==== Reading Web ====
* Current sprint board:
**Begin rolling out wikidata descriptions to top 6 wikis
**Move Related Pages to stable mobile web Wikipedias (all but top 6)
**Investigate hovercards instrumentation issues around 9 Sep -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146620
*** Big drop in EL events in a few extensions -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146840
==== iOS native app ====
* Current release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2220/
** 5.3 is in development
** Release date is expected to be before end of October
** WIll include migration to MCS feed endpoint
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* blocking: TemporaryPasswordPrimaryAuthenticationProviderTest is flaky
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146498
* blocked: nothing
* updates: last call for comments on the proposed api.php integration for
ORES and pageviews:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143895
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144865
=== Community Tech ===
* No blockers
* Moving CopyPatrol to French Wikipedia
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145431
* Adding account creation to Striker
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144710#2674663
* Updating CentralAuth tables for cross-wiki watchlist
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142507 (Gerrit review needed:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309553/ )
* Adding start/end times to WikiEd Programs Dashboard
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546
* 11-year old task to send a cookie with each block
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233
* Slowly deploying PageAssessments to English Wikipedia
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146679
=== Editing ===
==== Language (not present, only notes) ====
* Blocked
** Would appreciate comments from ops or puppet-knowledgeable person how to
override restbase url in puppet for a service in labs
***
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129284#2674533
*** The goal is to be able to text content translations on deployment-prep
with real articles from different wikipedias.
* Blocking: not aware
==== Parsing ====
* Tim working on updates to the parser tests infrasatructure (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312969/3 and related )
* Scott continuing work on having Parsoid parse language variant markup
(close to moving out of WIP status)
* Planning to deploy Parsoid's native <gallery> implementation in a
backward compatible way and have VE pick it up when they are ready to use
it -- if it doesn't happen next week, it will only happen in 3 weeks time
(since we have parsing team and editing dept offsites starting oct 10).
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocked
** Continuing collaboration with Services team on ReviewStream
* Blocking
* Updates
** Will have a meeting with the Wiki Labels team on Friday to discuss how
we can collaborate
** Continuing work on Flow back-end, including caching refactor and bug
fixes for opt-in on user talk
** Continuing Echo work, including instrumentation to track the number of
page views before viewing notifications.
=== UI Standardization ===
* Working on
** Align Minerva (Mobile Frontend) to overhauled color palette:
MobileFrontendhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146799
** Review current style and integrate messages and message boxes as
MediaWiki UI component
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127405
** MediaWiki theme: Use `color-progressive` for switched-on binary inputs
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145629
* Finished
** Published new color palette
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82 with
WCAG 2.0 level AA compliant colors
** Button styles differ in mediawiki.UI from design templates and OOjs UI
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146823
** Align Wikimedia Portal UI elements to improved color palette
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146231
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Deployed new throttling limits to Pageview API, doing real well with
super low latencies, we will add capacity to double requests served next
week:
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/aqs-elukey?from=1474479314693&am…
* Erik Z vetting data from edit reconstruction project on simplewiki, after
edit reconstruction calculating metrics is much easier. We can calculate
metrics frm very beginning:
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/standard-metrics/#simplewiki
* Load testing druid and about to put pivot in production accesible
internally to wmf, this is a UI to some of our data in hive, mostly
pageviews, no need to use sql
== Security ==
* Intake and interviews for security roles continue
* Investigating appearance of 400 errors in logs:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144100
* Lego, Timo:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/310257/
=== Services ===
* Blocking: none
* Blocked: none
* Updates:
** Working on ServiceWorker page composition service
** Working on supporting Change Propagation and RESTBase for private
wikis
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=== ArchCom ===
* Full status:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus
* Last week: [[Phab:E273]] - Multi-Content Revisions ([[Phab:T107595]])
* This week [[Phab:E285]] - [[WikiDev17]]
** discussion about use of Phab for topics is happening now on wikitech-l
=== Discovery ===
* No blockers
* Analyzing BM25 A/B test, if results are positive deployment will be
somewhere early October
* Working on multiwiki indexes
* Working on file properties indexing (size, type, dimensions, etc.)
* ICU folding analysis:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Upgrading_ASCII_Fold…
** TLDR: positive effect, implementation in progress
* Completion with DEFAULTSORT demo:
http://mw-sug-subpages-relforge.wmflabs.org/w/default_sort_demo.html
=== RelEng ===
* Blocking
** none
* Blocked
** none
* Updates
** New scap (3.3.0)
*** scap caches local config for it's deployment (machines don't have to
reach back to tin)
** Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
** Reminder: no train week of Oct 17th (but SWATs OK)
===Wikidata====
* wiktionary - automated interwiki links
* structured commons - federation, multiple repos
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Need help with potential MessageCache issue relating to CentralNotice
**
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952
** See Adam's investigation notes pointing to i18n / cache flukiness
** Andrew Green thinks it might even have something to do with
TranslationExtension
* Still trying to kill stubborn remaining ActiveMQ queues
* More CiviCRM data cleanup and tweaks to deduplication process
* Migrating old PayPal IPN listener to SmashPig framework