[Wikitech-l] 2021-01-06 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2021-01-06 Thread Grace Gellerman 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-01-06

= 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 
*** Last weekyear:  1.36.0-wmf.22 [[phab:T267417]] 
*** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 [[phab:T267418]] 
*** Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 [[phab: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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[Wikitech-l] Google Season of Docs and new resources for technical writers

2021-01-06 Thread Sarah R 
Hi Everyone,


Today Google announced the completion of the 2020 Season of Docs program
. Google
Season of Docs (GSoD)  pairs
technical writers with open source organizations to work on 3-month long
projects to improve documentation.


As part of this year’s GSoD program, Wikimedia’s participant, Gbadebo
Bello, developed new resources for folks working on technical documentation.
This included several templates for common types of documents:

   1.

   *Quick start guides documentation template*:
   
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Quick_Start_Guides_Documentation_Template

   2.

   *Walkthroughs, how-tos, and tutorials templates*:
   
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Walkthoughs,_how-tos_and_tutorials_templates

   3.

   *Library documentation template*:
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Library_Documentation_Template

   4.

   *API documentation template*:
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/API_Documentation_Template

Gbadebo also developed a review process to help improve the accuracy,
grammar, and style of technical documents. We’ll be testing and refining
this process in the coming months and encourage you to try it out with your
documentation, too.


You can read more about the review process on MediaWiki:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/Documentation_Review_Processes


These resources are all linked from the Documentation page on MediaWiki.
Here you'll find a variety of resources to support documentation efforts on
Wikimedia technical projects: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation

You can learn more about Gbadebo’s work this season in his final report
blog post:

https://gbahdeyboh.medium.com/google-season-of-docs-project-report-wikimedia-foundation-9949879aa959

Kindly,

Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy

srodl...@wikimedia.org
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[Wikitech-l] Commons Android app v3.0 beta

2021-01-06 Thread Josephine Lim 
Hi all,

Hope you've been well. The Commons Android app team is stoked to be
releasing v3.0 of the app[1] for beta testing! This version has several new
features, including:

- The ability to pause and resume uploads, and the addition of a limited
connection mode
- Structured data integration in our upload flow, whereby users can search
for and select "depicts" for their image
- The addition of a Leaderboard feature in our Achievements pane
- Users can now add and modify categories for their own uploads from within
the app
- New UI with bottom navigation bar

If you'd like to help test the new version, please do sign up[2] for beta
testing on our app's Google Play listing. Feedback, bug reports, and
suggestions are always welcome in our GitHub repo[3]. :)

Thanks for your support!

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
[2]: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/fr.free.nrw.commons
[3]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/

Best regards,
Josephine / @misaochan (Commons app project lead)
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