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2021-04-28 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-04-28

=2021-04-28=

== Callouts ==
* Budgeting season for the next fiscal year. Send your expectations for
production computing resources requests to SRE
* For RelEng: Metrics Engineering needs reviews and/or advice on
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI
going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
** Done -- JDF.
* Backport training! Please signup if you're interested in deploying to
production:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-April/094458.html

== Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback ==

*

=== No updates ===
WMDE Technical Wishes, Security, Search Platform, Quality & Test,
Performance, Platform, Cloud Services, Analytics, Library, Parsing,
Android, iOS, Editing, CommTech

== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:

== Product ==
=== Anti-Harassment Tools ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** Thanks to Sam Reed for help with SecurePoll
* Updates:
** Partial blocks against actions enabled on beta
** Starting prep work for adding Single Transferable Vote to SecurePoll

=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
*** Backend will be enabled this week on arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, viwiki
** Working on on-wiki configuration
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_configuration

=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** Marcel Forns for working on making the VirtualPageviews instrument use
EventLogging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279382
* Updates:
** Enabled A/B test of language switcher treatment:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280526
** Split out link styling rules from the legacy feature in
ResourceLoaderSkinModule: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278576

=== Product Infrastructure ===
* Blocked by:
** Needs reviews and/or advice from RelEng on
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI
going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Image recommendations design work
** Built tool for evaluating image recommendations:
https://image-recommendation-test.toolforge.org/
** Adding English labels and aliases of related wikidata items to search
query (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseMediaInfo/+/643388
)

=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Blocked by:
** None.
* Blocking:
** None known.
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Nothing exciting this week.
** Working on Phase ? (delta):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases

=== Language ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** [Translate extension] Added support for HTML-y translation variable
syntax (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274881)
** [Translate extension] Limited the max number of translatable pages that
can be moved via the UI to 500, added a script that can be used to move a
large number of pages (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275109)
** PHP upgrade changed cookie handling wrt. URL encoding. This broke CX (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281346). Be aware.

=== Inuka ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Working on first release of WordPress plugin for Wikipedia Preview
***
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fHMjKefYf-QFNeNTpfdmNzywBQAh8G5OdICwZ90j4_Q/edit#
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280000
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279550
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255439 (spike)

=== Vue.js ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing design inventory work:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047
** Created separate entry point for Vue.js search in WVUI:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wvui/+/682763/
** Continuing Technical Decision Making Process for build step:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
** Discussing component implementation, comments highly encouraged!
*** Buttons: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278509
*** Select/dropdown: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280712
*** Binary inputs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279714
**** Radio: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281186
**** Checkbox: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281191

== Technology ==
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Deploying new email preferences pages and backend
** Starting integration with new API of backup card processor
** Migrating more custom CRM code off drupal 7
** CiviCRM imports
** updating documentation

==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
** Train is currently blocked by a Wikibase issue on Commons:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281361
* Blocking:
** Metrics Engineering needs reviews and/or advice on
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/679968 to get CI
going for mediawiki/libs/metrics-platform
* Thank yous:
** dancy: James F. for code reviews, helping me get work done.
* Updates:
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
** Train Health
*** Last week: No Train
*** This week: 1.37.0-wmf.3
*** This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Budgetting season for the next fiscal year. Send your expectations for
production computing resources requests to SRE

== Cross-cutting ==
* Blocked by:
** [long term] Search Platform: PHP 8.0 work is long-term blocked on the
migration to ElasticSearch 7.0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142
(or at least 6.7).
* Blocking:
** None known.
* Thank yous:
** Huge thanks to Jon Robson and C. Scott Ananian for their work unblocking
REL1_36.
* Updates:
** REL1_36 release process:
*** 1.36 RC.0 release should be cut very soon:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
** CI tools:
*** Nothing major.
*** Next release of mediawiki-codesniffer likely soon.
*** CI tools' upgrade status:
https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
** PHP 8.0:
*** Nothing major.
*** Our target is REL1_35 (and thus also REL1_36), as well as master.
*** Upstream libraries: Elastica-related PHP code is theoretically the last
one.
*** Core: Some unit and integration tests still fail; thank you to everyone
working on fixing them.


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