Mailing List Archive: 2021-05-12 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-05-12

= 2021-05-12 =
== Callouts ==
* …
Fundraising-Tech => Releng
* a little help from releng to push through an update to our CivCRM CI job
would be hugely appreciated! Patch is here
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/688350/

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

*

=== No updates ===
CommTech, AHT, Editing, Growth, iOS, Android, Parsing, Language, Analytics,
Cloud Services, Platform, Performance, Security

== SoS Meeting Bookkeeping ==
* Updates:
** future of the synchronous meeting

== Product ==
=== Web ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** Belated thanks to Sam Reed for submitting the Voice & Tone issues, e.g.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277955
* Updates:
** Prep for the language switcher treatment A/B test
** Started work on the new user links (personal tools) treatment:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266536
** QA'ing/analysing data from the search autocomplete widget treatment A/B
test

=== Product Infrastructure ===
* Blocked by:
** Need input from Language Team on
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277059#6976371
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:

=== Structured Data ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** No significant updates, continuing to make improvements to MediaSearch
and to work on the image recommendations testing tool

=== Abstract Wikipedia ===
* Blocked by:
** None.
* Blocking:
** None known.
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** We finished Phase ? (delta) this week; hurrah.
** Now working on Phase ? (epsilon) – wiring up user-written code to the
evaluator: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Phases
** Security & Performance reviews scheduled to end this Phase; our thanks
to them!

=== Inuka ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Working on the Wikipedia Preview Wordpress Plugin:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278383
** Improving Wikipedia Preview gallery feature:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269787

=== Library ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** The Wikipedia Library Extension is now live on Beta!
** Finished work on making tags translatable, we just need to add extra
configuration on TranslateWiki
** Finished setting up Matomo
** Starting work on the Library homepage redesign

=== Vue.js ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Rethinking the Icon component in WVUI (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282625)
** Working on a Radio component and introducing the composition API plugin
to WVUI (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281186)

== Technology ==

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
** a little help from releng to push through an update to our CivCRM CI job
would be hugely appreciated! Patch is here
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/688350/
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Deployed new email preferences center wiki
** Started integration work for backup processor's new API

=== Engineering Productivity ===
==== Quality and Test Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Blog post by John Bolorinos - Improvements to Email QA
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/239/improvements_to_email_qa/

==== Release Engineering ====
* Blocked by:
** Web: Upgrading or dropping the legacy Ruby selenium jobs in MinervaNeue
blocks the CI-wide upgrade from stretch to buster. T280901
** Wikibase: Upgrading or dropping the legacy Ruby selenium jobs in
Wikibase blocks the CI-wide upgrade from stretch to buster. T280491
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
** Thank you to C. Scott for his support and patience waiting for T271863
to be resolved!
* Updates:
** [All] Deployments/Covid-19
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
** Train Health
*** Last week: 1.37.0-wmf.4 [[phab:T281145]] 
*** This week: 1.37.0-wmf.5 [[phab:T281146]] 
*** Next week: 1.37.0-wmf.6 [[phab:T281147]] 

=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Data missing from WCQS - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280022
** Get baseline measurements/expectations for splitting lexemes from
Wikidata graph - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275068

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking:
** None
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** work on getting mw in k8s picking up, shellbox soon to be deployed.

=== WMDE Technical Wishes ===
* Blocked by:
** by a failing reportupdater query,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273748#7051951
* Blocking:
* Thank yous:
* Updates:
** Reference Previews deployment in some wikis was successful:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206
** Suggested Values feature (TemplateData) enabled everywhere:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273857
** Currently working on template search improvements:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271802

== 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 a small handful of bugs found so far, all
now fixed. If you have a release blocker, please file it urgently:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.36-release/
** CI tools:
*** mediawiki-codesniffer v36 upgrade going slowly (lots of manual fixes);
67% of repos updated so far.
*** CI tools' upgrade status:
https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/status?branch=master
** PHP 8.0:
*** No changes 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.

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