https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-05-05
= 2021-05-05 =
== Callouts ==
* From SRE Service Operations:
** DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out
to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
** Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and
Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have
questions/problems.
* 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release
blocker, please file it urgently:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
== Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback ==
*
=== No updates ===
CommTech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, iOS, Android, ProdInfra, Parsing,
Language, Library, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance,
Security
== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
== Product ==
=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
** Editing on code review of
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/682014
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
*** now running in dark mode on arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, viwiki
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278710
** Continuing work on on-wiki configuration
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_configuration
** Deploying Growth features to elwiki
=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Began the rollout of the new language switcher treatment:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280526
=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Testing the image recommendations API—if you're bored and want to help
us out, please consider reviewing some images (we especially need help in
English and Cebuano)
*** https://image-recommendation-test.toolforge.org/?uselang=en
** Starting process to deploy the new standalone MediaSearch extension
=== 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 – getting close!
=== Inuka ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383
** Trending articles engagement issue in KaiOS app
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280830
=== Vue.js ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Build step technical decision making process is moving along; awaiting
feedback from the forum and developing proofs of concept
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
*** https://github.com/egardner/mediawiki-extensions-BuildSandbox/pull/2
** Continuing work on the UI components design inventory
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047
** WVUI: building components and experimenting with the Composition API
plugin
== Technology ==
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Deploying new email preferences center
** starting work to integrate with new API of backup card processor
** Moving more CiviCRM custom code out of drupal 7 modules
=== Engineering Productivity ===
==== Quality and Test Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Blog post by Elena Tonkovidova - Breakpoint at BrowserStack conferences
(2020-2021) - reflections and thoughts (Part 2 Focus on Exploratory
testing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/237
** Blog post by Željko Filipin - Debug Selenium Tests: logLevel (Part 1)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/238
==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.37.0-wmf.3 [[phab:T278347]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278347 -->
*** This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4 [[phab:T281145]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281145 -->
*** Next week: 1.37.0-wmf.5 [[phab:T281146]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281146 -->
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** wikidata-query-rdf-maven-release-docker builds fail due to hitting 30min
timeout - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280863
** Reload ORES data into weighted_tags -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274583
** MediaSearch results not updated 12 hours after overwriting image -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204
** Deploy new version of Extra Plugin (with Khmer filter) to Elasticsearch
cluster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204
** Clean up failed reindexing indexes -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279607
** WDQS data-transfer cookbook needs to wait for updater to catchup on lag
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280108
=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out
to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
** Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and
Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have
questions/problems.
=== WMDE Technical Wishes ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** mforns and the Analytics team carried us across the finish line, making
a suite of new metrics available.
** Urbanecm for accompanying and performing several backports and config
changes over the past weeks ( even more to come ???? )
* Updates:
** Reference Previews deployment was reverted today, we'll try again
tomorrow. (T271206)
== 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:
* Updates:
** REL1_36 release process:
*** 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a
release blocker, please file it urgently:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
** CI tools:
*** New release of mediawiki-codesniffer (v36) came out last week; 58% of
repos updated so far.
*** CI tools' upgrade status:
https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
** PHP 8.0:
*** No change this week.
*** 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.
[[Category:Scrum of scrums{{#translation:}}|*]]
= 2021-05-05 =
== Callouts ==
* From SRE Service Operations:
** DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out
to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
** Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and
Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have
questions/problems.
* 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a release
blocker, please file it urgently:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
== Gerrit patches or GitHub Pull Requests for reviews or feedback ==
*
=== No updates ===
CommTech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, iOS, Android, ProdInfra, Parsing,
Language, Library, Analytics, Cloud Services, Platform, Performance,
Security
== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
== Product ==
=== Growth ===
* Blocked by:
** Editing on code review of
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor/+/682014
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Continuing work on Add Link https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link
*** now running in dark mode on arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, viwiki
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278710
** Continuing work on on-wiki configuration
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Community_configuration
** Deploying Growth features to elwiki
=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Began the rollout of the new language switcher treatment:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280526
=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Testing the image recommendations API—if you're bored and want to help
us out, please consider reviewing some images (we especially need help in
English and Cebuano)
*** https://image-recommendation-test.toolforge.org/?uselang=en
** Starting process to deploy the new standalone MediaSearch extension
=== 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 – getting close!
=== Inuka ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383
** Trending articles engagement issue in KaiOS app
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280830
=== Vue.js ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Build step technical decision making process is moving along; awaiting
feedback from the forum and developing proofs of concept
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279108
*** https://github.com/egardner/mediawiki-extensions-BuildSandbox/pull/2
** Continuing work on the UI components design inventory
*** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277047
** WVUI: building components and experimenting with the Composition API
plugin
== Technology ==
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Deploying new email preferences center
** starting work to integrate with new API of backup card processor
** Moving more CiviCRM custom code out of drupal 7 modules
=== Engineering Productivity ===
==== Quality and Test Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Blog post by Elena Tonkovidova - Breakpoint at BrowserStack conferences
(2020-2021) - reflections and thoughts (Part 2 Focus on Exploratory
testing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/237
** Blog post by Željko Filipin - Debug Selenium Tests: logLevel (Part 1)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/238
==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.37.0-wmf.3 [[phab:T278347]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278347 -->
*** This week: 1.37.0-wmf.4 [[phab:T281145]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281145 -->
*** Next week: 1.37.0-wmf.5 [[phab:T281146]] <!--
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281146 -->
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** wikidata-query-rdf-maven-release-docker builds fail due to hitting 30min
timeout - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280863
** Reload ORES data into weighted_tags -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274583
** MediaSearch results not updated 12 hours after overwriting image -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204
** Deploy new version of Extra Plugin (with Khmer filter) to Elasticsearch
cluster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274204
** Clean up failed reindexing indexes -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279607
** WDQS data-transfer cookbook needs to wait for updater to catchup on lag
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280108
=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** DC Switchover scheduled for week of June 28th, will start reaching out
to service owners to make sure things are ready to switch
** Mailman3!! lists.wikimedia.org is now running both Mailman2 and
Mailman3, migration slowly in progress. Reach out to Kunal/Amir if you have
questions/problems.
=== WMDE Technical Wishes ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** mforns and the Analytics team carried us across the finish line, making
a suite of new metrics available.
** Urbanecm for accompanying and performing several backports and config
changes over the past weeks ( even more to come ???? )
* Updates:
** Reference Previews deployment was reverted today, we'll try again
tomorrow. (T271206)
== 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:
* Updates:
** REL1_36 release process:
*** 1.36 RC.0 was released. Only one bug found so far. If you have a
release blocker, please file it urgently:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
** CI tools:
*** New release of mediawiki-codesniffer (v36) came out last week; 58% of
repos updated so far.
*** CI tools' upgrade status:
https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
** PHP 8.0:
*** No change this week.
*** 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.
[[Category:Scrum of scrums{{#translation:}}|*]]