Scrum of scrums/2014-06-18

Task Wall

Mingle

Docs

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

Notable action items

• EventLogging data that had been lost can be recovered, but it is a difficult process. Contact analytics if you need this to happen.
• Platform requests followup and a bug filed from Wikipedia Zero for 108

Language

• #80 (TTMServer+ElasticSearch) still stuck on Niklas and prioritization
• We are working with Ops and Antoine to deploy content translation service, cxserver, to beta labs
  • http://cxserver-beta.wmflabs.org (not yet fully working)

QA

• Porting browser test builds to WMF Jenkins
• Not blocked on anything

Ops

• Engineering goals first draft here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Site_Operations_and_Site_Architecture

New DC

• Racks & first switches/routers/servers installed, waiting for connectivity
• Tax exempt status acquired, procurement is unblocked

• Mail being moved this week
• LVS esams expansion is done, no issues
• Content Translation

• Initial discussion with the Language team with Mark/Faidon
• Alex got assigned on a more permanent basis

• apt repo for third-parties (Filippo)
• Phabricator - Chase making good progress
• Floor move in ULSFO proceeding, no eta yet
• Experiments in using VMs for misc production servers proceeding
• 14 new Hadoop DataNodes in procurement queue for approval
• Kafka

• Kafka tuning experiments wrapping up. 1 Kafka broker can now handle all varnish log traffic!
• May upgrade to 0.8.1.1

Analytics

• EventLogging data lost can be recovered, looking for whether or not people need that to happen
• Continuing work on Wikimetrics
• Mobile Web jobs had stopped running due to permissions problems, that's fixed now

Mobile Web

• #116 finished
• #115 done

Security

• Lots of security bugs, a few on the cluster
• Mantle / Flow templates review in progress

VisualEditor

• Cards:

   #116 is done
   #100 is in progress, Trevor is working on a big rewrite that should be ready for review later today
   #97 is in progress, Timo is discovering IE is even more horrible than we thought
   #84 is being worked on by Parsoid
   #99 is done

Platform

• nothing new, wall is up to date, as best I can tell
• EXCEPT, card 108 (dependency from Zero on us, need something more/bug report specifically)

Growth

Items of interest:

• Gerrit change 137528 Fix Wikimedia overrides of core messages (WikimediaMessages)
• Gerrit change 139368 Add icon support to .mw-ui-button (Core)

These could use cross-team review but are not blocked yet.