= 2021-01-06 =

== Callouts ==
* (SRE) In the event that you need to urgently reach SRE for an outage or other emergency (shell account compromise, etc), well, now there's an app for that: https://klaxon.wikimedia.org/
** FAQ at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klaxon#FAQ
* (RelEng) Code deploy office hours for deployment questions are still happening Mondays 18:00UTC (see staff calendar)

== No notes provided ==

Editing, Web, Product Infrastructure, Structured Data, Language, Inuka, OKAPI, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Quality and Test, Security


== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates: Will keep retro form open until 2021-01-13

== Product ==

=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: No updates

=== Anti-Harassment Tools ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: No updates

=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** continuing work on link recommendations: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link

=== iOS native app ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates: Right-sizing scope of next experiment, development starting.

=== Android native app ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates: Happy to have Jazmin on board! Development work underway on next version, including watchlist work.


=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Updates:
** Getting back in the saddle after the break.
** Last Monday was the first day of our new engineering team member, Cory Massaro; general announcement coming later today.
** Process for a community contest to select the logo concept for Wikifunctions will start shortly.
** Huge thanks to the Security team for their support, meeting with us and the Architecture team.

=== Parsing ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: no updates

=== Library ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Working on Wikilink user list filtering
** Setting up to work on an Echo notification so that users get notified if they are eligible for bundle access in the Wikipedia Library


== Technology ==


=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Working on eoy donation summary email send which needed updates for new calendar year
** Close to final approval on CentralNotice CampaignTypes feature with new user preferences
** Will review other outstanding CN patches this sprint



=== Engineering Productivity ===


==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
**
* Blocking:
** ???
* Updates:
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 -- office hours for deployments are still happening Mondays 1800UTC
** Train Health <https://versions.toolforge.org/>
*** Last <strike>week</strike>year:  1.36.0-wmf.22 [[phab:T267417]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267417 -->
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 [[phab:T267418]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267418 -->
*** Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 [[phab:T267419]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267419 -->

=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Updates:
** Migrate WDQS to Debian Buster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244753
** wdqs1005: disk space critical on /srv/ - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270236
** wdqs-categories prometheus exporter failing on select wdqs instances -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269872
** Some wdqs metrics changed when switching to python3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269204
** Service implementation on wdqs101[1-3].eqiad.wmnet - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246345
** The saneitizer is a lot slower than when running in codfw (oct 27 2020 codfw -> eqiad switchover) -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266762
** Deepcategory returns only very few results - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246568
** Examine cases where Blazegraph generates results that timeout and don’t make it back to the user -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264447
** Spike: Can/should Swift be used as Flink checkpoint backend? - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246004
* Stuff no one else cares about:
** Call to a member function getResults() on null - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268164


=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** the past two weeks were thankfully quiet :)


== Cross-cutting ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** LibraryUpgrader now handles security and linting upgrades in non-master release branches (currently configured for REL1_35 and REL1_31).
** PHP 8.0 compatibility work continues.

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