[Wikitech-l] 2016-10-12 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

[Grace Gellerman]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-10-12

== Product ==
=== Reading ===
Goals section:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Reading

 iOS native app 
Current Release Build: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2220/
Since we last met:

   - * Notification UI is complete


   - * Feed based off of MCS and persisting to YapDatabase is almost
   complete


   - * Bug fixes & event logging fixes landed


   - * Working with Apple on fixing Siri integration

Before we meet again:
* Connect notification UI to data source - enable notifications
* Add notifications preferences to onboarding & feed
* Release a beta
No blockers

 Android native app 
* Current sprint (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-app-android-sprint-93-neptunium/)
:
* Start on Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
* v2.4.158 beta coming soon
* Alpha builds fixed
* CI screenshot regression testing
* Languages with three letter codes enabled
* Next sprint:
* More Q2 goals...


 Mobile Content Service (MCS) 
* adding a few more languages to feed endpoints (mainly news, maybe TFA):
Sv, Fr
* next gen of content endpoint: references only endpoint
* updated scap3 deploy host from tin to generic deployment server name

 Reading Web 
Since last met:
* Wrapped up the remaining sprint work
Until the next time we meet:
* Fix some Event Logging issues with Hovercards
* Move lead section before the infobox on mobile
* Clean up the old language button
Blocked on:
* We need input from the Performance team regarding "UC Mini should not
be supported by ResourceLoader" (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147369)

 Reading Infrastructure 
* no blocking
* blocked on WMDE adding query modification hooks to
WatchedItemQueryService which can replicate
ApiQueryBaseBeforeQuery/ApiQueryBaseAfterQuery/ApiQueryBaseProcessRow

=== Community Tech ===


=== Editing ===
 Collaboration 
* Blocking: Hopefully nobody?
* Blocked:
** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143743 disagrements between Collab
(Stephane), Analytics (Otto) and Services (Marko, Petr) about approach,
probably going to organize a meeting
* Update:
** Flow beta feature was disabled on all wikis due to breakage. Slowly
re-enabling now, beginning with frwikiquote today
** UI standardization improvements in Echo, thanks Volker!
** Fixing some small bugs in PageTriage

 Language 
* Blocked:
** Help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145650 is needed, this
affects translatewiki.net

=== Discovery ===


== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
*Not blocking nor blocked
*Update:
Recruiting - Still screening, tasks sent to some applicants.
Pivot (UI over Druid, analytics datastore) is now available behind LDAP
- Fast access to pageviews (more datasets to come)
Kasocki - Discution around using SocketIO,WebSockets or SSE (in ticket:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130651)
We started work to replace last instance of Limn by Dashiki (limn1)
Old aqs machines are now spares.

=== Services ===
* Blocked: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Node 4.6.0 security release: please test your services.

=== Architecture / ArchCom ===
* Last week (E287): Magic Links deprecation:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145604
* This week (E316): CREDITS file: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status


=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocking:
** nobody
* Blocked:
** Ops: looking at throttle rate for nodepool/Openstack (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/315214/)
* Updates:
** Reminder: RelEng at offsite in DC next week. No train deploys. Other
deploys (like SWAT) ok.


=== Security ===



=== Services ===



=== Technical Operations ===



== Wikidata ==
* No blockers.
* Working on new network graph and diagram renderers for the Wikidata Query
Service: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142179
* Working on referencing entities on foreign Wikibase repositories (Commons
will reference Wikidata items): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007
* Expanding client side integration with new Lua and parser formatter
function: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142940
* We heard people being busy keeping up with changes in core (stuff being
deprecated and removed). Not all are happy with the frequency breaking
changes are done currently.

== Fundraising Tech ==
* Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts
till after December's fundraising campaign
* One CentralNotice bug closed, one still happening:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952
** Andrew's pretty sure it's a MessageCache thing
** Added logging, got some logs from the beta cluster
** Getting some help from Aaron and Timo, but any other suggestions are
welcome
* Cleaning up any remaining references to ActiveMQ
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing Srishti Sethi, our new Developer Advocate

[Scott MacLeod]

Welcome, Srishti!

From the MIT Media Lab to Wikimedia Foundation! How great!

It would be great to chat further about your work at the Media Lab with
UnHangouts and at the WMF - and wiki CC WUaS as well; might you participate
in the open ArchCom (Architecture Committee) meeting this afternoon from
2-3pm PT in Internet Relay Chat - #wikimedia-office ...
https://webchat.freenode.net - as a start?

I'd like to invite you, Srishti, (and all
Wikitechans/Wikidatans/Wikimedians in the SF Bay Area) to the Wikidata 4th
birthday party on Wednesday, October 26 from 12:30-1:30 at Red Door Coffee
SF on 111 Minna Street - https://www.wikidata.org/
wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events. (CC World University and School
donated CC WUaS to CC Wikidata last autumn. WUaS is bringing the cake to
this party. Wiki WUaS is accrediting on MIT OpenCourseWare in its 7
languages+ to create free CC "Harvards of the Web" with free CC Uni degrees
in all countries' main languages. WUaS holds an open hive meeting space at
AFSC / SFFM on 9th Street at Mission on M & W, 10-noon, not far from the
Wikimedia Foundation at all).

(Waiting here to hear if I made the short list for a tenure track MIT Media
Lab junior faculty position. Will head back to Cambridge, MA, to give a
talk and for interviews in late October / early November if I do.)

Welcome to the WMF wiki world of SF and looking forward to meeting and
talking with you in person.

Namaste, Scott
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch




On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Alangi Derick 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You are highly welcome Srishti
> Sethi. Hope you will enjoy working with the entire Wikimedia Foundation and
> it's various departments. I wish you a nice stay in the Wikimedia
> Foundation. Once again, you are welcome and I am hoping to work with you 
>
> Cheers
> Alangi Derick N
>
> On Oct 12, 2016 7:52 AM, "Quim Gil"  wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > The Technical Collaboration team is very happy to introduce you to
> Srishti
> > Sethi , our new
> > Developer Advocate. Srishti will lead our efforts to engage volunteer
> > developers in Wikimedia software projects and to grow the Wikimedia
> > technical community. In her first assignments, she will help promote
> > Community Wishlist projects, the Wikimedia Developer Summit, and
> > Wikimedia’s participation in Google Code-in. Srishti just relocated from
> > Boston to San Francisco, and she will work at the Wikimedia Foundation
> > office.
> >
> > Srishti originally hails from Rajasthan, India. She recently finished her
> > Masters in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was
> > exploring how online platforms for learning could be made more peer-led,
> > engaging, participatory and accessible to diverse populations. At the
> Media
> > Lab, Srishti contributed to the design, development, and research of
> > Unhangout (http://unhangout.media.mit.edu), a platform for running
> > large-scale un-conference style events online.
> >
> > Before joining MIT, she was working as a software developer with a
> startup
> > organization in India. As an undergrad, she was involved with the open
> > source community GNOME and its educational project GCompris.
> >
> > In her spare time, Srishti likes to play ping-pong, do long bike trips,
> > take photographs and make masala chai for friends. :)
> >
> > Please join us in welcoming Srishti!
> >
> > --
> > Quim Gil
> > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Gerrit was down today

[Chad Horohoe]

Heya!

Gonna reboot Gerrit real quick this morning. Turns out "cobalt" did not
have hyperthreading turned on. Services should be back momentarily!

-Chad

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:07 PM Daniel Zahn  wrote:

> The Gerrit migration is over. It is back up and served from new server
> "cobalt" now. It feels faster than before as well.  Thanks much to
> Brandon Black for help.
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[Wikitech-l] Small old unreviewed MediaWiki Core patches waiting in Gerrit

[Andre Klapper]

On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 18:27 +, Jon Robson wrote:
> Would you be also open to flagging some of our oldest patches

To randomly start somewhere, here is a list of MediaWiki Core patches
from 2015, touching <=10 lines, with CR=0 + Verified>0, without merge
conflicts in Gerrit, sorted by age.

Decisions (=CR) welcome. 
Thanks in advance for your reviews + help reducing our review backlog.


https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/225371/
Improve Doxygen template used by mwdocgen.php
  /maintenance/Doxyfile

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/211034/
Move up devunt's name to Developers
  /CREDITS

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/26/
Subst templates and clean tildes even if $wgCleanSignatures is false
  /includes/parser/Parser.php

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150210/
Special:Newpages feed now shows first revision instead of latest revision
  /includes/specials/SpecialNewpages.php

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142701/
Allow specifying sort keys for tracking categories 
  /includes/parser/Parser.php and ParserOutput.php

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/250372/
Gallery: Use intrinsic width for gallery to center caption 
  /resources/src/mediawiki/page/gallery.css

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/258037/
Qualify page titles as such in messages about editing or acting on a page
  /languages/i18n/en.json

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/259618/
Fix the TODO comment in documentation of getTitleLink
  /includes/logging/LogPage.php

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/261268/
Added documentation for wfClientAcceptsGzip()
  /includes/GlobalFunctions.php


Cheers,
andre
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[Wikitech-l] Recently proposed patchsets by new contributors awaiting code review

[Andre Klapper]

Your help is welcome to provide feedback (CR±1/2) and guidance:


== mediawiki/extensions/LdapAuthentication: ==

since 2016-09-27 (2nd time listed here):
Allow local user creation even if LDAP user creation is disabled
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313019/

== operations/mediawiki-config: ==

since 2016-09-27 (2nd time listed here):
Adding language name configuration for Wikidata
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312944/

== pywikibot/core: ==

since 2016-09-25 (2nd time listed here):
Checks the type of isbn and modifies accordingly
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312726/


Thanks in advance for your reviews.

Of last time's 5 listed patches, 1 got abandoned, 1 got reviewed. 
Thanks to Krinkle and Reedy!

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing Srishti Sethi, our new Developer Advocate

[Alangi Derick]

Hi,

You are highly welcome Srishti
Sethi. Hope you will enjoy working with the entire Wikimedia Foundation and
it's various departments. I wish you a nice stay in the Wikimedia
Foundation. Once again, you are welcome and I am hoping to work with you 

Cheers
Alangi Derick N

On Oct 12, 2016 7:52 AM, "Quim Gil"  wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> The Technical Collaboration team is very happy to introduce you to Srishti
> Sethi , our new
> Developer Advocate. Srishti will lead our efforts to engage volunteer
> developers in Wikimedia software projects and to grow the Wikimedia
> technical community. In her first assignments, she will help promote
> Community Wishlist projects, the Wikimedia Developer Summit, and
> Wikimedia’s participation in Google Code-in. Srishti just relocated from
> Boston to San Francisco, and she will work at the Wikimedia Foundation
> office.
>
> Srishti originally hails from Rajasthan, India. She recently finished her
> Masters in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was
> exploring how online platforms for learning could be made more peer-led,
> engaging, participatory and accessible to diverse populations. At the Media
> Lab, Srishti contributed to the design, development, and research of
> Unhangout (http://unhangout.media.mit.edu), a platform for running
> large-scale un-conference style events online.
>
> Before joining MIT, she was working as a software developer with a startup
> organization in India. As an undergrad, she was involved with the open
> source community GNOME and its educational project GCompris.
>
> In her spare time, Srishti likes to play ping-pong, do long bike trips,
> take photographs and make masala chai for friends. :)
>
> Please join us in welcoming Srishti!
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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[Wikitech-l] Introducing Srishti Sethi, our new Developer Advocate

[Quim Gil]

Hello everybody,

The Technical Collaboration team is very happy to introduce you to Srishti
Sethi , our new
Developer Advocate. Srishti will lead our efforts to engage volunteer
developers in Wikimedia software projects and to grow the Wikimedia
technical community. In her first assignments, she will help promote
Community Wishlist projects, the Wikimedia Developer Summit, and
Wikimedia’s participation in Google Code-in. Srishti just relocated from
Boston to San Francisco, and she will work at the Wikimedia Foundation
office.

Srishti originally hails from Rajasthan, India. She recently finished her
Masters in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was
exploring how online platforms for learning could be made more peer-led,
engaging, participatory and accessible to diverse populations. At the Media
Lab, Srishti contributed to the design, development, and research of
Unhangout (http://unhangout.media.mit.edu), a platform for running
large-scale un-conference style events online.

Before joining MIT, she was working as a software developer with a startup
organization in India. As an undergrad, she was involved with the open
source community GNOME and its educational project GCompris.

In her spare time, Srishti likes to play ping-pong, do long bike trips,
take photographs and make masala chai for friends. :)

Please join us in welcoming Srishti!

-- 
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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