Hi,

for HTML version see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-02-26

Željko

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= 2020-02-26 =

== Callouts ==
* Language -> Core Platform: Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not
being queued [[phab:T144780]]
* Release Engineering: [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020.
If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them
done: [[phab:tag/MW-1.35-release]]

== Product ==

=== Editing ===
* Updates:
** Replying v1.0: On Tuesday, 18-Feb, v1.0 of the new replying workflow was
deployed to Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias via a query
string parameter (ca be tested by appending ?dtenable=1 to any talk URL on
ar, fr, hu or nl talk page)
*** Currently checking instrumentation, once any discovered issues are
addressed we'll be deploying this as a beta feature
** Replying v2.0: developing technical approach to comment editing and
drafting replies in rich text

=== Growth ===
* Updates:
** Newcomer tasks 1.1 (topic matching): planning to deploy our upgrade of
the topic matching algorithm next week to use ORES articletopics.  This
upgrade will increase the number of topics available to newcomers from 27
to 64
*** We will be altering the user interface to help newcomers navigate the
larger number of topics
*** Sort ORES topics alphabetically (task [[phab:T246061]])
*** Add backend support for ORES topics (task [[phab:T243477]], task
[[phab:T243359]])
** Newcomer tasks 1.2 (guidance): adding additional in-context help and
guidance for newcomers completing suggested edit tasks
*** NewcomerTasks: Add feature flag for guidance (task [[phab:T245525]])
** Planning to streamline deployments so that we can work with more wikis
more quickly
** Homepage desktop and mobile style updates (task [[phab:T232546]], task
[[phab:T239442]])

=== iOS native app ===
* Updates:
**Continuing development on 6.6 release (mobile-html integration)
[[phab:project/view/4273]]

=== Android native app ===
* Updates:
** Final testing and profiling of mobile-html and conversion logic.
** Final testing of structured image tagging interface.

=== Web ===
* Updates:
** Summary: continuing desktop improvements (DIP). The feature manager is
well underway in active development iterations, the skin preference has had
one patch merged, template partial support caching behavior is being
investigated, and there's lots cooking.
** [[Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements|Desktop Improvements Project (Vector
/ DIP)]]:
*** [[phab:T245793|<nowiki>[Firefox 73] Infusing a RadioOptionWidget
changes first-child alignment</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T245456|<nowiki>[Dev] Adopt template partials in Vector and
revise sidebar component</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T244481|<nowiki>Provide basic FeatureManagement in Vector
codebase</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T243281|<nowiki>Build opt-out button for logged-in users with
new vector on</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T242381|<nowiki>Add a Vector skin version preference</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T232140|<nowiki>Separate out logo handling into square image
logos and long text/wordmark banner logos</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T113095|<nowiki>A cached server-side HTML template should update
when you change a partial template which it includes</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T242779|<nowiki>Add Vector and Popups PHP documentation to
doc.wikimedia.org</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T242177|<nowiki>Technical: Deprecate
mediawiki.skinning.interface in favor of ResourceLoaderSkinModule</nowiki>]]
** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
*** [[phab:T245162|<nowiki>Job unable to create file page "Fatal: Call
function inNamespace() on null" (via MinervaHooks)</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T244106|<nowiki>[M] Setup storybook from Minerva</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T243650|<nowiki>Regression: Mobile talk page shows links in
overlay header</nowiki>]]
*** [[phab:T244181|<nowiki>[print] Article title hidden with mobile print
styles</nowiki>]]

=== Product Infrastructure ===
* Updates:
** Push notification service planning continues. RFC and proposed fiscal Q4
work plan due end of week.
** Patches in progress for proposed MachineVision schema changes to fix
slow random image queries: [[phab:T243872]]

=== Structured Data ===
* Updates:
** no real change - hoping to release some new input types and constraints
next week

=== Parsing ===
* Updates:
** Parsing, Release Engr., Service Ops met last week to work through
details of Parsoid deployment once Parsoid is in core as a composer library.
** Details in [[phab:T240055]] and being worked on this week.

=== Language ===
* Blocked by:
** Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued:
[[phab:T144780]]
* Updates:
** OpusMT available in Production for en->as language pair.
** ContentTranslation is out of Beta for total 20 Wikipedias!
** Section Translation work in progress.

== Technology ==

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Updates:
** More work for recurring donation on backup card processor
** Fixing up batch refund scripts
** Deleting gigs of cruft from Civi DB, adding maintenance scripts to keep
it trim
** Further harmonizing our use of Civi concepts with how they're intended
to be used in Civi core
** Reviewing work on centralnotice banner templates

=== Core Platform ===
* Blocking:
** Search Platform: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes
[[phab:T224425]]
** Language: Requesting help to debug why some jobs are not being queued
[[phab:T144780]]
* Updates:
** New hooks interfaces [[phab:T240307]]
** REST API for jobs
** Hashchecking extension [[phab:T245595]]
** Search API for Desktop Refresh search widget
** Rolling out Changeprop K8S

=== Engineering Productivity ===

==== Quality and Test Engineering ====
* Updates:
** Quality and Test Engineering Office Hour - Topic: Software Testing
Anti-patterns [[phab:T241234]]

==== Release Engineering ====
* Updates:
** [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has
any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done:
[[phab:tag/MW-1.35-release]]
** Scap 3.13.0 release
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/release/debian/changelog#1
** Train Health
*** This week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - [[phab:T233869]]
*** Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - [[phab:T233870]]

=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by:
** Core: MW Job consumers sometimes pause for several minutes
[[phab:T224425]]
* Updates:
** WDQS: Extract more metrics from blazegraph sparql update response -
[[phab:T239908]]
** WDQS: Rework how value and reference changes are handled -
[[phab:T239687]]

=== Security ===
* Updates:
** KaiOS: 3rd party review process should begin soon: [[phab:T240869]]
** Talk Pages review, resolving this week: [[phab:T242134]]
** Fileimporter, next up to resolve: [[phab:T202071]]
** DoubleWiki, next up to resolve: [[phab:T131199]]

=== Site Reliability Engineering ===
* Blocking:
** PI on proton, mobileapps.
* Updates:
** Working with CPT to migrate changeprop to k8s.
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