https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-12-02
== Callouts == Pinging Parsoid client teams (Editing, Language, Platform Infrastructure, Growth) onhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 again. Where necessary, this week, we will start submiting patches against your codebases. In that case, we would appreciate prompt reviews and followups as necessary. * … No updates: TechCom, Anti-Harassment Tools , Growth, Product Infrastructure, Language, OKAPI, Analytics, Machine Learning Platform, Research, Security, WMDE, Wikidata, German Technical Wish List == Product == === Community Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: * We are still reviewing wishlist proposals. We have until December 7th before the voting phase starts * Watchlist Expiry has been enabled in all production wikis since last night (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry) === Editing === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: [ reply ] link deployed by default to three wikis (cs, ar, hu) and beta feature on ~250 other Wikipedias. Received support on en.wiki during an RfC; next step is an A/B test on ~30 medium-larges wikis. Can also be enabled globally via user script (ask us how if interested). === iOS native app === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Released 6.7.3 into the App Store last week. Turning on Article as a Living Document experiment (in 6.7.3) today. ** In exploratory stage for 6.8 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4862/ *** Chinese variant fixes *** Initial push notifications *** Article inspection mode experiment === Android native app === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Latest release rolled out to public 2 days ago. ** Working on designs for bringing watchlist into the app. === Web === * Blocked by: ** RelEng?: Members of Readers Web aren't contributors to the @wikimedia/wvui package on NPM *** No task as of yet *** james f will help * Blocking: * Updates: ** Continuing to work on WVUI integration with Vector *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264355 *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268363 *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257698 ** IE11 support for WVUI: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268703 *** Thanks to James F for the note about the es6-promise polyfill ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252774 – mediawiki.toc.styles RL module merged into ResourceLoaderSkinModule === Structured Data === * Blocked by: - * Blocking: - * Updates: ** Team offsite this week === Abstract Wikipedia === * Updates: ** Continuing work on using ZType data to enforce structure when editing ZObjects. ** Excited to welcome Genoveva (Geno) Galarza Heredero, our new software engineer, to the team. === Parsing === * Blocked by: ** Pinging Parsoid client teams (Editing, Language, Platform Infrastructure, Growth) on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266143 again. Where necessary, this week, we will start submiting patches against your codebases. In that case, we would appreciate prompt reviews and followups as necessary. * Blocking: * Updates: === Inuka === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** More bug fixes and UX improvements to the KaiOS app === Library === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** A bug that denied eligible users access to the Wikipedia Library Card Bundle is now fixed ** Working on making Wikilinks more stable is still in progress == Technology == === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** releng train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support ([[phab:T267433]]) <!--https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267443 --> * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** The deluge of donations is here! Yesterday was our second-best day ever, and that was without sending any emails out (just banners). ** Lots of discussion on best way forward for dockerized dev environment - discussion of multipurpose image vs app-specific images ongoing at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268685 . Advice welcome from long-term docker users! ** Fixing little bugs as they crop up in the logs ** Updating text for different specialized thank you emails ** Tweaking timing of CiviCRM queue consumers so we can keep up with the generosity of our donors and send them timely acknowledgement. ** Trying to reduce log spam on main CRM box === Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Bug fixes for the API portal ** Parsoid cache in MediaWiki ** Sockpuppet API productionising ** Shellbox for MediaWiki on Kubernetes === Engineering Productivity ======= Performance ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** For 1000+ websites Microsoft now redirects IE users to Edge automatically when they have Edge installed: https://twitter.com/MonsieurPerf/status/1333740793253793796 Currently trying to get in touch with Microsoft to find out if getting Wikimedia sites added to the list would be a possibility. If they confirm that it can be done, we can decide whether we want to be on the list or not. ==== Quality and Test Engineering ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Blog posts at team blog: ** Outreachy, September-November 2020 (by Željko Filipin) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/220 ** Exempla Docent - testing UI for Suggested edits module, Part 2 (by Elena Tonkovidova) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/222 ** To dream a dream. My Outreachy Journey (by Harriet Ayugi) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/223 ==== Release Engineering ==== * Blocked by: ** WMCS: train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support ([[phab:T267433]]) <!--https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267443 --> ** SRE ServiceOps: deploy scap 3.16.0-1 [[phab:T268634]]<!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268634 --> * Blocking: * Updates: ** Train Health *** Last week: No Train *** This week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 [[phab:T263186]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263186 --> *** Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 [[phab:T263187]] <!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263187 --> *** Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions ** PHP 8.0 CI support is coming as an experimental job for MW-land code; already voting for some libraries. Work to do. === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Updates: ** Restart cirrus elasticsearch servers for java upgrade - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268770 ** Update BAG & BRT SPARQL endpoint in the WDQS whitelist - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264659 === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: releng: deploy scap 3.16.0-1 [[phab:T268634]]<!-- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268634 --> * Updates: ** Kunal is joining SRE Service Operations! ** Kubernetes infrastructure(s) upgrade policy doc posted at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes/Kubernetes_Infrastructure_upgrade_policy ** Effie and Giuseppe will be presenting in SRECon. See https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon20americas/presentation/mouzeli ** MCR schema change finished https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238966 ** https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/11/25/wikimedias-cdn-the-road-to-ats/ 2nd ATS blog post is out
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