Scrum of scrums/2014-05-21

Task Wall

Mingle

Docs

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

Notable action items

• QA discovered a bug in PDF rendering that needs attention, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65562
• Betalabs is occasionally becoming 'read only', causing problems for browser tests https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65486
• MobileWeb blocked on VE team code review [1]
• Parsoid still blocked by ops on debian repo [2]
• Zero and Parsoid blocked on security reviews [3] and [4]

Platform

• 107: DONE
• 82: In-progress (one review of two done)
• 106: DONE
• 110: DONE
• 108/109: Probably need bugs and/or gerrit changes for anything to happen from Platform's side

QA

• orphan bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65562 PDF Rendering page no longer refreshes
  • See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65298
  • is anyone responsible for PDF stuff??
  • cc Matt F on the bug
• beta labs goes readonly according to VE https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65486 happening more frequently, suggestions welcome
  • causing problems for browser tests
• would like to catch up some VE questions with Roan (probably)

Analytics (not in attendance today - conflict)

• EventLogging saw a large increase in events, multimedia team is working on sampling to reduce that
• Gerrit -> Bugzilla link was having problems, Christian fixed it

Ops

• New DC - CODFW - ongoing
• LVS @ esams - upload done, ongoing
• rcstream - starting next week, Guiseppe running point
• Trusty image in Labs, available as of today

Mobile web

• Patches that need review from VE team:

   * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132352/
   * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132353/
   * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132355/
   * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/134237/
   * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/134240/

• #87 done
• #100 in progress (Trevor on vacation)

Parsoid

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Deployments
• Still waiting for deb repo to be set up by ops
• Shared CSS hopefully merged in core tomorrow: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130770/
• Investigating shiny Node 0.12 features (generators!), thinking about building new things with it that aren't going to be deployed before July

Services / REST API

• Starting work on REST API front-end prototype: https://github.com/gwicke/restface
• Parsoid waiting on Rashomon work (important for VE save performance)
• mentoring URL to citation service OPW project
• Matt working on new PDF rendering infrastructure with Scott

Multimedia

marktraceur

• Delaying enwiki launch until June 3rd, itwiki and ruwiki are happening tomorrow
• Continuing vague dependencies on oojs
• Core team - we're coming for you. Work on image storage ongoing, could use support from Aaron
• Usual metrics stuff, including metrics for UW; look out Analytics

VisualEditor

• Image model rewrite merged! :)
• Have been having "fun" with jQuery upgrade
• Cards: mostly blocked on Trevor (on vacation this week) or Timo (has been busy with jQuery upgrade)
• Mobile owns half of our review queue, oops

Growth

• Finished mw.cookie (use it for new client-side cookies)
• Our latest Growth experiment is now in production (encouraging anonymous editors to signup) on four Wikipedias.
• We're waiting on a review on:
  • Skin styles patch (#99)
  • Core deletion logging (#82) (there's a review for the API, hoping for a followup from or someone for the other part)

Security

• Blocking Zero on https redirect
  • https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/112
• Working on Auth Service
  • https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/113