https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-08-24
= 2016-08-24 = == Product == === Reading === ==== Android native app ==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2142/ * Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2178/ * Summary: Navigation UX overhaul work continues ==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) * no update ==== iOS native app ==== * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1736/ ** 5.1 is in regrssion / beta. Due to go to the app store next week * Next board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/ ** 5.2 is in developmentwith expected deployment alongside iOS 10 release in late September *** Adding iOS 10 support (with widgets) *** Dropping iOS 8 support ==== Reading Web ==== * Current sprint: * Shipped lazy loaded images to all wikipedias * Diagnosing hovercards EL * Improving search exp in mobile web * Improvements to related pages and the footer in mobile web * Next sprint: * Related pages improvements * Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== === Community Tech === * AbuseFilter/AntiSpoof fix (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29987) - deployed and most filters + titleblacklists updated * Numeric sorting ** Deployed numeric sorting to Swedish Wikipedia for further testing, seems to be working ** Will deploy to English Wikipedia next week barring any bug discoveries * Cross-wiki watchlists - making schema changes to CentralAuth * No blockers === Editing === ==== Language ==== * Blocked: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Apertium packages for Jessie ready (few waiting for dependencies to be uploaded to WMF repo). ** CX getting updates on template handling soon. ==== Parsing ==== * Still waiting on a security review of the ParserMigration extension. * Thinking about going ahead with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111604 in the coming months (spliting up parser tests into multiple files). If you have thoughts / concerns, please comment on the ticket. * Nothing else significant to report. ==== Collaboration ==== * '''Blocking''': ** Stephane is making progress on the Flow caching rewrite, which is blocking multi-DC. * '''Blocked''': * '''Updates''': ** We have enabled Flow on all user talk pages on kabwiki. ** New feature to allow unwatching Flow boards from an Echo notification. ** Rasterizing Echo icons for email to work around Gmail bug. ** Fixed dot-dot-dot menu on Special:Notifications on mobile ** MediaWiki-Vagrant change to use psysh for Zend, since phpsh is broken == Technology == === Analytics === * AQS (pageview api) cluster is having some performance issues, Luca is back tomorrow and will take a closer look * Getting ready to build the Wikistats 2.0 front-end, evaluating js frameworks, do weigh in if interested * same ongoing work as last week, loading the new cluster, deploying the new event bus schemas, vetting the reconstruction of edit history === Security === * Security reviews this week: ** *ACL configuration for url-downloader.wikimedia.org <http://url-downloader.wikimedia.org> allowing upload.wikimedia.org <http://upload.wikimedia.org>* ** Catching up on reviews from last week * Incident handling * Darian working on hiring tasks with Recruiting === Services === Blocking: none Blocked: * Parsoid move to scap3 blocked by RelEng: *https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142990* <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142990> Updates: * Deployed Change Prop with new kafka driver === Discovery === * No blockers * Working on BM25 implementation * Working on multi-wiki indexes * Working on integrating Polestar (http://vega.github.io/polestar/) and WDQS GUI to allow create graphs visually from WDQS results * Deployed portal updates & blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/16/wikipedia-portal-update/ * Retro of portal evolution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Impact_of_Wikipedia.org_Portal_Changes_-_A_Retrospective_Statistical_Analysis.pdf * Reordering of stemming/asciifolding deployed, but no changes pending reindex (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142721 ) * Analysis of asciifolding in French: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Adding_Ascii-Folding_to_French_Wikipedia ** TLDR: French more complex than English ;) But positive results. * Asked for community help to update "showing results from" translation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143355 * Analysis of portal pageview increase: https://github.com/wikimedia-research/Discovery-Research-Portal/blob/master/Analyses/Pageviews%20Rise/README.md === RelEng === * Blocking ** Parsoid scap3 deployment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142990 * Blocked ** (Ops) Contint networking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140257#2553490 ** (Ops/puppet) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/300092/ ("contint: tidy Nodepool slaves config history") ** (Ops) Help requested: Upgrade base MW-Vagrant image to Jessie - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429 *** Outline from bd808: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429#2572195 *** Ori suggesting Ops support: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429#2572433 * Updates ** Bugfix release of scap ** European SWAT started Monday! === Fundraising Tech === * More queue work * More dedupe work * Applied security release to payments * Reacting to GeoIP lookup domain removal (3rd party impact) === ArchCom === * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status * Last week: 2016W33: 2016-08-17 (Wednesday) ** ArchCom Planning meeting: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E260 Phab:E260] *** Notes: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-08-17 Architecture committee/2016-08-17] ** ArchCom-RFC office hour: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E261 Phab:E261] *** Agenda: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105652 Revisiting T105652 (content model storage)] * This week: 2016W34: 2016-08-24 (Wednesday) ** ArchCom Planning meeting: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E262 Phab:E262] *** Notes: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-08-24 Architecture committee/2016-08-24] ** ArchCom-RFC office hour: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E263 Phab:E263] *** Agenda: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69223 Schema change for page content language] == Wikidata == * Blockers: none. * Progess on the "structured data for Commons" prototype … ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140760) * … as well as concept work for automated list generation ( https://twitter.com/simulo/status/766717877047193600). * We wrote a policy about guarantees we give about our public interfaces for data access ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy). * Experimenting with sorting statements ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129244). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
