Scrum of scrums/2014-01-21

Task Wall

Mingle

Docs

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

Notable action items

• Language needs help from the VE team for upcoming sprint
• Mobile apps needs review on a core patch (see below)
• Analytics needs ops review on pageview drop drom Dec (See below)

Language

Amir Aharoni

• Working on content translation
• Next sprint -- need help from VE team
• ULS extension inadvertently disabled in production/repaired
  • Will impact ops/deployment
• 58 is not currently blocking

Mobile Apps

• Patch to core merged
  • Follow up needs to be reviewed - improves captcha error reporting from API
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108088/ (core)
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108089/ (ConfirmEdit)
• Google Glass Mingle integration ongoing

Wikipedia Zero

1. 53 "WO dashboards" - on hold, Christian tasked on other high priority item
2. 64 "New Overlay" - mobile web handling gracefully, card can be closed
3. 65 "Android Integration" - submitted part 1 of Y for Android, going through review, will be submitting more
4. 66 "iOS Integration" - will work once done with #65
5. 2 "ESI headers" - ESI fix not coming for approximately 6 months, using VCL hacks for the time being, but exploring <img> tags as ESI-like workaround
6. 3 "Support SSL" - Mark revising VCL patch to hack in SSL support for W0, plan will be to continue using this approach for the foreseeable future
7. 57 "Firefox OS exploraton" - Bugzilla and email dialogue with Timo and Roan ongoing.

Ops

• Tampa outage fun
• New datacenter selection moving along
• ulsfo procurement going forward, ramp up tentatively starting next week (pending vendor issues)
• check_ganglia packaged and being used

• useful CLI for querying metrics from ganglia
• hadoop and kafka icinga alerts finally under control

• Hadoop and Hive now available for testing on mediawiki-vagrant!
• Work needed to assist PDF sprint (see ops@ & RT)
• Varnish & Zero discussions
• Discussions about JVM app deployment system. Nik and Otto plan to start working on a test setup in labs soon.

Analytics

• Page view December drop analyzed and needs ops review (#69)
• MediaWiki oauth deployed to Limn/WikiMetrics
• Limn impacted by Tampa cable cut
  • Should be fixed now
• Charles Salvia just joined WMF on Analytics team

• csalvia in IRC, charles@wikimedia.org

Platform

Greg

• LDAP replication to EQIAD is fixed/should be fixed soon
• Bugzilla is being upgraded in early February (moving to EQIAD from Tampa)
• Bryan Davis will announce the Logstash awesomeness soon

Security

Chris

• Analytics waiting for Kafka
• Hadoop review may be more important

Growth

Progress on getting started/patches merged Sam Smith (London) started

QA

Past:

• Script to monitor fatals on beta labs merged and deployed

Future:

• Still working on uploads API monitor script
• Support calls for bogus failures in browser test Jenkins still in process
• Browser tests for VE in MobileFrontend

Blocked(?)

• VisualEditor still not updated correctly on beta labs since repo name changed (NB

NB this is now resolved

Flow

Launch to 2 enwiki projects January 28