Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit: Server maintenance

[Patrick Mulhall]

Just a reminder that this will be happening on Monday next week.
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[Wikitech-l] Train 1.35.0-wmf.2 Status Update

[Jeena Huneidi]

The 1.35.0-wmf.2 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0].

The new version is deployed to group(s) 0 & 1[1], but can proceed no
further until these issues are resolved:

* Some revisions' contents are incorrect in the cache - wrong contents
shown in history & diffs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235188

Once these issues are resolved train can resume. If these issues are
resolved on a Friday the train will resume Monday.

Thank you for your help resolving these issues!

-- Your humble train toiler

[0]. 
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[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2019-10-16

[Alexandra Paskulin]

Hi all,

Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting:

* Discussed: Section header "share" link <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691>.
This RFC aims to make it easier for readers to share links to sections on
wiki pages.

* Discussed: RFC: Where to implement Desktop Improvements project
. This RFC discusses the approach
for implementing broad UI changes to the desktop interface of Wikimedia
projects.

* IRC discussion next week: Development policy: Require use of common
storage
abstractions . The meeting will
take
place on Freenode in the #wikimedia-office channel on 2019-10-23 at 21:00
UTC
(14:00 PT, 23:00 CET).

You can also find our meeting minutes at
.

See also the TechCom RFC board
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Best,
- Alex

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[Wikitech-l] Scrum of scrums/2019-10-16

[Željko Filipin]

Hi,

for HTML version see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-10-16

Željko

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= 2019-10-16 =

== Callouts ==
* Language team ->Core(?): Blocked on [[phab:T235188#5574342]]
* SRE DBAs
** requested read-only time for enwiki 14th Nov to switchover the primary
database master - [[phab:T234801]], already done
** s6 primary master switchover (read-only required) 19th Nov 05:00 AM UTC
* DBAs, Performance: Heads up that PI will be pinging for reviews/review
updates for the MachineVision extension later this week, as soon as the
code settles a bit (DBA review: [[phab:T227355]], Perf review:
[[phab:T230813]] )

== Product ==

=== Editing ===
* Updates:
** Catch errors during document initialization
** Enforce that some files must not use the `ve` global (task
[[phab:T228684]])
** Parse relative hrefs on image nodes like on regular links (task
[[phab:T193253]])
** Fix Vector wikitext surface padding overrides when using custom browser
font-size (task [[phab:T17]])

=== Growth ===
* Updates:
** Initial structure for Suggested Edits module
** Do not align the bottom of the homepage columns (task [[phab:T232420]])
** StartEditing: Remove special message for add-change response (task
[[phab:T232419]])

=== iOS native app ===
* Updates:
** 6.5 in active development - [[phab:project/view/4245]]
***bug fixes
*** History & diffs feature
 Core Platform working on Rest APIs for this

=== Android native app ===
* Updates:
** Working actively towards completion of Suggested edits V3
** Working with the PI team to update backend support for the same.

=== Product Infrastructure ===
* Updates:
** MachineVision extension work in progress, still aiming to deploy to prod
by end of month
** Still working to resolve [[phab:T229286]] ("'worker died, restarting'
mobileapps issue")

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
** Wikidata/WMDE: [[phab:T229280]] following up on [[gerrit:534536]]
** Wikidata/WMDE: [[phab:T223792]]
* Blocking:
** Search: RecentChange support for SDC: [[phab:T230862]] (actually the
higher level task on which we are blocked: [[phab:T221917]])
* Updates:
** Machine Vision, bugfixing/tidy up on WikibaseMediaInfo

=== Parsing ===
* Updates:
** Fixing bugs in Parsoid/PHP based on HTML string compasion between
Parsoid/JS & Parsoid/PHP. ~1% pages still have diffs that need
investigation / bug fixing.
** Will sync with Services (CPT) and SRE to finalize deployment plans for
initial deployment (no live client traffic) to identify any last lingering
Parsoid crashers OR performance problems in a production context.

=== Language ===
* Blocked by:
** Language->Core(?) Blocked on [[phab:T235188#5574342]]
* Updates:
** CX going out of beta in some Wikipedias next week.

=== UI Standardization ===
* Updates:
** OOUI v0.35.0 and 0.35.1 with one small revert released eo last week,
latter already on this week's train
** Design Style Guide:
*** Progressing “Components“ section
*** Change to Git lfs for large binary files. If you've cloned the dir,
throw away your current clone, re-clone it.
https://github.com/wikimedia/WikimediaUI-Style-Guide In your repo directory
type `git lfs pull`. If the lfs app is not installed follow
https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Installation

== Technology ==

=== Analytics ===
* Blocking:
** Search: [[phab:T229882]]

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Updates:
** Refining annual summary receipt for recurring donors: [[phab:T195907]]
** Restoring data lost during manual merges: [[phab:T232636]]
** Looking into reconciliation file discrepancies from S. Amer / India
processor: [[phab:T235212]]
** Might need to add more params to CentralNotice banner hide cookies:
[[phab:T235204]]
** Refining treatment of opt in and opt out data: [[phab:T234925]]
** Looking into errors on Amazon Pay donation form: [[phab:T234538]]

== Core Platform ==
* Blocked by:
** SRE [[phab:T235478]]
* Blocking:
** Wikidata/WMDE:  In the Data Bridge work (editing Wikidata items from
Wikipedia) we have encountered problems with Special:EntityData serving
stale (old) data. The problem is quite old:  [[phab:T128486]]. We are
looking for a team/person with whom we could get some clarity on the
current state of the cache solutions on WMF cluster, and figure out how to
get  [[phab:T128486]] unstuck.
** Scoring: Review of Jade API [[phab:T199834]]  (Can we get a high level
review in the short term?  We want to build on this but not dig a hole.)
** Language->Core(?) Blocked on [[phab:T235188#5574342]]
* Updates:
** history API done
** working on stretch goals
** echo notification storage

=== Engineering Productivity ===

 Performance 
* Blocked by:
** SRE
*** PHP7 fatal-error reports missing from type:mediawiki in Logstash. –
[[phab:T234283]]
*** mwdebug1002 might need to be reprovisioned, failing to report messages
to Logstash. – [[phab:T214734]]

 Release Engineering 
* Updates:
** v3 of CI arch document for new CI wants review and feedback
[[User:LarsWirzenius/NewCI]]
** Train Health
*** Last week: