Hello, This email contains updates for January 27, 2021 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-01-27>.
Cheers, Deb Callouts - Search is blocked by [Analytics] merge of the side-output schema and wikimedia-event utilities https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270371 / https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269619 No updates - Community Tech, Anti-Harassment Tools, Editing, iOS native app, Android native app *No notes provided* - Growth, Parsing, Language, Inuka, Cloud Services, Fundraising Tech, Platform, Quality and Test Engineering, Security ProductWeb - Updates: - Page Previews is now requesting larger thumbnails to fix blurry thumbnails on low-DPR screens: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272169 (see patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Popups/+/658493 ) Product Infrastructure - Updates: - Client-side error logging was enabled on enwiki: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255585 Structured Data - Updates: - Preparing for security review or MediaSearch UI, which will be moved into a separate extension - Focus on tackling remaining blockers for a wider release of MediaSearch - Figuring out how to wire up the MediaSearch elastic queries into a Learning To Rank machine learning model Abstract Wikipedia - Updates: - Vue refactoring to align our code with emerging standards continues; thanks to Vue team! - Thanks to Daniel for advice on how our code may want to change to be closer to Platform future plans, and forthcoming meetings to explore further. - Still working on programmatic type management. - Community contest to select the logo concept for Wikifunctions is currently running; ideas welcome! Library - Updates: - Starting work on setting up an exception logging service (Glitchtip) - Added a new partner in the Library Bundle - Starting a bug fix that will prevent being spammed by The Wikipedia Library Extension Vue.js - Updates: - Working on ES6 minification for ResourceLoader. - [Probably other updates James doesn't know about.] TechnologyAnalytics - Updates: - The machines for our backup Hadoop cluster are racked, we are setting them up, testing them, and moving backup data to them. After that, we'll be able to move forward with cluster migration to BigTop. - We continue with the EventLogging legacy schema migration to EventPlatform. - Working on calculation of session length metric. - We improved HDFS data security through better conventions on user groups and permits. - We're finalizing the corrections to canonical pageview dumps. Engineering ProductivityPerformance - Updates: - Kobiton has provided disappointing service for our mobile device lab, we're going to do a trial with Bitbar - Published two short videos on officewiki: - Why web performance matters at Wikimedia https://w.wiki/w7z - The role of the Performance Team https://w.wiki/w7$ - Speaking tomorrow in French and English at We Love Speed: https://www.welovespeed.com/en/2020/ Release Engineering - Updates: - [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 - Train Health - Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.27 phab:T271341 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271341> - This week: 1.36.0-wmf.28 phab:T271342 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271342> - Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.29 phab:T271342 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271342> Search Platform - Blocked by: - [Analytics] merge of the side-output schema and wikimedia-event utilities https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270371 / https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269619 - Blocking: - N/A - Updates: - Failing HTTP check on WDQS servers after latest deployment - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272713 - SPARQL-Query shows entries, which should be filter out; number of entries in result set might change when executed repeatedly (possible caching/indexing problem) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267175 - Extract a list of the 200 most viewed black historical figures from WDQS -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272447 Site Reliability Engineering - Updates: - similar-users, linkrecommendation services exposing to internal services being finalized this week. Cross-cutting - Updates: - No significant movement on PHP 8.0 this week. - LibraryUpgrader is bumping all reports to eslint-config-wikimedia 0.18.0, which has proper JSON linting support - There are some speed issues on very long JSON files, so we worked with upstream to avoid this, and have released 0.18.1 with said fix just now. - If your repo doesn't get a patch automatically, it's probably because LibraryUpgrader errors on your repo. We'll fix these manually (or file Phab tasks), but if you want to do it ahead of us, we won't complain. You can see the dashboard of such repos here: https://libraryupgrader2.wmcloud.org/errors?branch=master -- deb tankersley (she/her) senior program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation
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