https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-08-23
*= 2017-08-23 =* == Callouts == * Core patch for range contributions needs more review from MediaWiki people https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/349457/ * Community Tech would appreciate help unbikeshedding https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 * Language: Request for review to services: https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/855 * JobQueue constantly increasing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173710 *Anti-Harassment Tools: Blocked by Performance team on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161059 * Parsing: * Work ongoing to introduce <figure-inline> output in Parsoid for inline images (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/370227/; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118520 ). If any reading / editing clients have concerns, please leave comments on the patch. But, we'll consult you all before deploying == Audiences == === Community Tech === ==== Community Wishlist ==== * Blocked by: ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 is bogged down in bikeshedding * Updates: ** Deployed LoginNotify ** Fourth time's the charm for CodeMirror ** Working on ArticleCreationWorkflow ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: Performance team on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161059 * Blocking: Nobody * Current sprint board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2931/ === Readers === ==== Multimedia ==== * 3d2png changes going out to beta today (Tuesday), should be nearly ready for a push to testwiki to test out in a production environment * Team is now ramping up with two new hires (see announcement emails internally, else welcome Cormac and Ramsey) * Off-site occurred after Wikimania, much productivity was had. ==== Web ==== * Page previews is deployed everywhere but enwiki and dewiki * We have setup infrastructure and are ready to run an A/B test on these wikis. ==== Infrastructure ==== * wrapping up work on MediaWiki side of ReadingLists * PageContentService: wrapping up HTML endpoints; working on structured reference lists endpoint ==== Android ==== * *Blocked by:* n/a * *Blocking:* n/a * Updates: ** Reading list UI updates promoted to production ** Offline compilations client-side work is nearly complete, only minor onboarding/branding updates needed – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2833/ ** Work on an offline compilation file generation and storage service is underway (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172732 )—will not likely block client-side support for existing ZIMs ** New engineers (Cooltey, Sharvani) started Monday 8/21 ** PM search in progress ==== iOS ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** 5.6.0 w/ dark mode, on this day content released ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2701/ ) , featured under "Best new app updates" in the App Store ** Working on 5.6.1 with minor bug fixes ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ ) ==== Discovery ==== * Blocked: * Blocked Up: * Updates: ** Special:Search AB thumbnail test ** Performance improvements to wikipedia.org portal & ==== Contributors ==== ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== Parsing ==== ** 2/3 team members on vacation next week (1 on vacation this week) .. so, between Wikimania, Kiwix Hackathon, and hiring, things have been and wil be a bit slow around here till we get into September. ** Work ongoing to introduce <figure-inline> output in Parsoid for inline images (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/370227/ ; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118520 ). If any reading / editing clients have concerns, please leave comments on the patch. But, we'll consult you all before deploying ** Heads up: Similar work ongoing in core ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/370206/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/196532/ ) -- this will be a bit more involved since gadgets might potentially be affected and will take a longer time to get deployed. ==== Global Collaboration ==== ===== Language ===== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** CX-VE work continue. ** Debugging of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173038 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173801 - *** Request for review to services: https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/855 ===== Collaboration ===== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** RCFilters: Add title attribute to [x] button (task T173608) ** RCFilters: Add title attribute to highlighted rows (task T173608) ** WLFilters: new 'watchlist activity' filter group (task T171127) ** WLFilters: convert mark as seen button to new style (task T171121) ** Enable RCFilters app on Watchlist (task T171132, task T171218) ** RCFilters: tweak old changes indicator (task T172213) ** RCFilters: Add marker between old and new changes in enhanced mode (task T163426) ** (Flow) Localize namespaces in ba (task T173719) ** Various bug fixes ==== Contributors Design ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ==== UI Standardization ==== * Updates: ** Major work on aligning remaining arbitrary, historically grown colors to WikimediaUI color palette *** MW core *** Vector *** MobileFrontend *** MinervaNeue *** ContentTranslation (some still pending) *** Echo *** VE *** Flow ** OOUI: v0.22.5 released, among changes: *** WikimediaUI theme: Align vars to WikimediaUI Base and remove them as OOjs UI vars *** WikimediaUI theme: Fix regression on disabled border *** Accessibility: Add `title` attribute to the 'remove' button in TagItemWidget (Moriel Schottlender) * Ongoing: ** Preparation for OOUI v0.23.0 ** Align TransparencyReport to WikimediaUI color palette and make it fully accessible == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** 1 team member in parental leave, 2 on vacation, fewer things happening mostly maintenance work ** Identified an optimization to the EL purging script that will hopefully speed it up more than 30x, will work on that next week ** Added 3 more nodes to the druid cluster ** Webrequest tagging has been deployed. For now, tags: portal and wdqs. ** Discussions around Wikistats2 backend: we plan to add a druid connector to restbase. === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: * Still investigating db replication lag * Main CC processor - continuing to update our API integration and audit file processing * updating our interrupted-donation-resolver to work generically so we can use it for PayPal express checkout * refinements to CiviCRM<->bulk mailer data flows * CentralNotice clone campaign feature almost ready for CR === MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Performance === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: T171758 - releng folks are on it. * Updates: ** Technical Debt: Developing communication campaign to roll out starting next week === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: RelEng: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171758 * Blocking: None * Updates: * Most people are OOO * Working on moving ORES to the new cluster * Adding more support for new langauges === Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Wikimania + SDC offsite ( +vacations :) ** Continuing work on ML-assisted ranking ** Running A/B test with interleaving search results ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150032 ), finishing on 24th ** Running human graded relevancy test ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171740 ) ** Working on getting categories into RDF storage ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157676 ) === Security === * Blocked by: nobody * Blocking: not aware of anything * Updates: * Worked on auditing which tables were replicated to labs, and if data stored was consistent with privacy policy * Looking into adjusting the views on WikiReplicas to be more consistent with MediaWiki core * Going to do a quick look over CentralnNotice * Looked at MW pingback === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Technical Operations === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** JobQueue constantly increasing https://phabricat <https://phabricatabusor.wikimedia.org/T173710>abus <https://phabricatabusor.wikimedia.org/T173710>or.wikimedia.org/T173710 <https://phabricatabusor.wikimedia.org/T173710> == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
