'[Wikitech-l] 2017-10-18 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes'

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Subject:    [Wikitech-l] 2017-10-18 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes
From:       Grace Gellerman <ggellerman () wikimedia ! org>
Date:       2017-10-25 17:54:55
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-10-18

*= 2017-10-18=*

== Callouts ==
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177765 Reading Web -> Security

== Audiences ==
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: Apps offsite this week, 5.7.0 in public beta, will be released
next week ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Visual
updates to onboarding, iOS 11 support, iPhone X support

==== Android native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

==== Reading Web ====
* Blocked by:
    https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177765 [security]
* Blocking:
* Updates:

   -     Investigating ChromeDriver for PDF generation. Security review has
   been requested. OCG is off.

   - Print styles have been deployed to Vector.

==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

==== Multimedia ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates: MediaInfo work progressing, ramping up over the next few months.
3D is stalled currently on consideration of changes to the upload pipeline
to handle patent/weapons concerns.

==== Discovery ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
     - Working on serving SVGs on wikipedia.org portal
     - Making progress on the portal automation tool (to automate portal
builds)

====== Maps =====
* Blocked by: N/A
* Blocking: N/A
* Updates:
    Hanging updates solved
    Most of team will be at SOTM (State of The Map) US next week

=== Community Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Contributors ===
==== Editing ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

==== Global Collaboration ====
* Blocked by: No one
* Blocking: No one (we think)
* Updates:
** One cause of ORES-on-watchlist slowness fixed (removed STRAIGHT_JOIN at
Bawolff's recommendation) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176456
** Compact Language Links deployed on dewiki
** Continuing work on porting ContentTranslation to VE, and addressing
bugs/feedback from RCFilters release
** Team out at an offsite next week (Oct 23-27), some people traveling on
Friday (Oct 20)

==== UI Standardization ====
* Blocked: icon feedback appreciated, see below
** OOUI v0.24.0 released,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/browse/master/History.md;v0.24.0
*** 5 breaking changes,
**** Dropped 'MediaWiki' backwards-compatibility theme, replaced by
'WikimediaUI' and moved, deleted different icons
* Ongoing:
** OOUI:
*** icons: Work on icon set to be more harmonious and align to WikimediaUI
Style Guide's guidelines https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432
** Aligning arbitrary, historically grown colors across products to
WikimediaUI color palette https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148708

=== Community Tech ===
* Working on GlobalPreferences
* Unicode sections going live very soon

== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

   - ** Developed new editing- and content-related metrics for AQS together
   with Services team (for Wikistats2 back-end)

   - ** Worked on Wikistats2 front-end: topic selector, views for new AQS
   metrics

   - ** Replacement boxes for eventlogging databases are racked and have
   been reimaged, migration soon

   - ** Assisted Reading team with refinement of EventLogging:Popups data
   into Hive for scalable A/B test

=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
    ** Reconstructing banner and landing page impression data from Hive
    ** May have fixed our replication lag (mysql's automatic temp table
drops were being replicated out of order, leaving lots of open temp tables
on replicas. Explicit drops seem to be fine).
    ** Using contact_id from email links (and adding a verification hash)
to avoid creating duplicate contacts
    ** Fixing issues caused by Safari's new privacy policies
    *** Payment providers that require cookies can't be in an iframe
    *** Using a different method to record banner impressions
    ** Adding more stats to grafana
    ** Logging client-side errors on donation forms

=== MediaWiki Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Performance ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates: None

=== Research ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Scoring Platform ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
* Discussing how to improve relevance surveys and A/B tests (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171215#3677637)
* A/B test for using MLR on 18 wikis finished, analysis next (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177490)
* Running A/B test with relaxing match requirements on search with multiple
terms (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177502)
* Wikidata configured for indexing P31 and P279, reindexing and working on
integrating them to search
* Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS
* Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5
* Working on indexing Wikidata descriptions and adding them to fulltext
search
* WDQS had brief partial outage due to overactive client, working on some
fixes (
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171018-wdqs)

=== Security ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: Whoever is waiting for security review
* Updates:
  * Reviews:
    * pdfrw
    * Extension:WikipediaExtracts
    * New vega library

=== Services ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
    ** Deployed analytics edit metrics REST API
    *** Check it out! https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/
    ** Removed deprecated /revision hierarchy from REST API
    ** Deployed reading lists API to beta for Reading to test
    ** Started testing summary endpoint move to Cassandra 3 in production
on ruwiki

=== Technical Operations ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

== Wikidata ==
* QUnit 2 update unblocked for real now:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177764
* Investigating workarounds and performance improvements to enable
RecentChanges integration again: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177707
* Working on persisting all elements a Lexeme is made of (Senses and
Forms): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173744

== German Technical Wishlist ==
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
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