*https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-06-28
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-06-28>*
*= 2017-06-28 =*
*contact:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering>*
== Callouts ==
* Ops: +2 needed on
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/359417 to remove
disabled image handling from VCL
* RelEng: Potential widespread thumbnail problems on beta cluster
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169114
* Thursday 29th, codfw row A switch upgrade:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168462 : expect ~10min downtime per rack
== Audiences ==
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates: 5.5.0 released, 5.5.1 pending
==== Android native app ====
* Blocked by: n/a
* Blocking: n/a
* Updates: (all ongoing)
** working on reading list syncing UI, eagerly awaiting the backend service
** Stephen working on cross-platform CSS/JS consolidation
** working on hiring an engineer, about to kick off hiring a PM
==== Reading Web ====
* Blocked by:
i18n/parsing: Your guidance is requested on Translate tag doesn't get
parsed on
action=parse[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168743 ]
Release engineering team: More an FYI, ee'd like to switch all our browser
tests to Node.js. Not clear of timeline for
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164721 Run WebdriverIO tests in CI for
extensions for planning purposes.
Ops: +2 needed on
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/359417 to remove disabled
image handling from VCL
* Blocking: n/a (please let us know)
* Updates:
** Working with services team to spec out a new HTML summary endpoint
service. (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113094) - if you are using
TextExtracts you may want to keep an eye on changes. Bug fixes are coming.
** Starting to prepare for some updates to desktop print styles and
sunsetting OCG
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** working on OCG replacement (current approach: Electron with PDF
post-processing - T168871)
** starting work on Reading List Service
** measuring payload size changes from Parsoid to read-html - T164033
** stripping reference list contents - T168875
==== Multimedia ====
* Blocked by: Potential widespread thumbnail problems on beta cluster -
RelEng?
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169114
* Blocking: N/A
* Updates: 3D mass-upload test went well - but see above re: thumbnails.
Not currently sure what a large number of 3d2png runs will do to
performance.
==== Discovery ====
* Blocked by: n/a
* Blocking: n/a
* Updates: Working on 'explore similar' feature for SRP :
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/explor…
- instrumenting this feature for an upcoming AB test.
=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by: No blockers
* Blocking: N/A
* Updates:
- * XTools rewrite ongoing (
http://xtools.wmflabs.org/)
- * LoginNotify roll-out ongoing
- * CodeMirror beta feature rolling out to Test Wikipedia next week (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror)
- * Ongoing work on RangeContributions
=== Contributors ===
==== Editing ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
==== Parsing ====
* Updates:
** Redlinks, disambig links, and redirect links are now handled in Parsoid
as well -- went live on Monday. Also bumped HTML version to 1.5.0.
** Linter went live on all wikis last week and now we are working on an
announcement to use this to get wikis to start fixing pages that would
break when Tidy is replaced. High priority issues (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter#High-priority_lint_iss…
)
should be addressed.
** Parsoid language variants patch is getting final reviews and tweaks
before it is merged for RT testing. A followup patch will address rendering
a page in the requested variant.
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: Ops on Flow dumps (is this
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164262 ?)
* Updates:
** We will soon merge changes to make HTMLUsersMultiselectWidget work
properly, see
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/357963/
** This will be used for the Echo blacklist feature:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150419
** Work on RCFilters beta feature improvements continues
==== Language ====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** Work on CX migration to OOjs + fixes continue.
** Minor updates to Apertium spa-cat language pair deployed.
** Kartik working with Services for new CX API end points.
==== Contributors Design ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Add cummulative fields to MediaWiki history data set (user revision
count, seconds elapsed since last revision) and improve format of timestamp
** Fixing a couple inconsistencies in webrequest tagging code
** Continuing work on Wikistats2 front-end, we got a repository in
Differential, we will push an initial version to it in short.
** Renaming of unique devices project wide metric to unique devices per
project family
** Getting ready for execution of EL purging script, (finalizing
white-list, making columns on EL DB nullable, bug fixes for the script)
=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by: -
* Blocking: -
* Updates:
* Minor CentralNotice features to improve Fundraising workflow
* Minor CiviCRM issues
* Usual onslaught of payment processor integration maintenance
* Slow week because a few team are members away
=== MediaWiki Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
=== Performance ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
=== Research ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** ORES intermittently unavailable for around 7 hours on 2017-06-23
***
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170623-ORES
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Continuing work on ML-assistend ranking. xgboost selected as modeling
library (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162061)
** Working on fixing breakage in non-Cirrus phrase search (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T167798)
** Working on Q1 goals
=== Security ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
=== Services ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none as far as we know
* Updates:
** Automatic rerendering of HTML to bump the version to 1.5.0 -
elevated VE latencies for a while
** Red links support in Change Propagation
=== Technical Operations ===
* Blocked by: Flow dumps blocked on Collab Team, they are already aware
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** ORES had intermittent issues on the 23rd. Long debugging session with
multiple teams. Many thanks to Subbu for figuring out the root cause!!
** Goals are being wrapped up
** Thursday 29th, codfw row A switch upgrade:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168462 : expect ~10min downtime per rack
== Wikidata ==
* No blockers.
* Wikidata is finally in the "enhanced" versions of recent changes and
watchlist!
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46874
* Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable
page data:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163923
* More work on the Lexeme UI:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165567
* Working on replacing deprecated ApiErrorReporting code.
== German Technical Wishlist ==
* No blockers (as I'm aware of).
* Sneak-peak at currently running survey:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/twl17/