Scrum of scrums/2014-07-16

Task Wall

Multimedia still awaiting feedback from Ops on pre-rendiner thumbnails (#125)
Parsoid/Services continue to be blocked by Ops on debian repo (#85 - reported 4 mos ago)
Security patches on the cluster - do not overwrite them!
Mobile web working with QA to improve reliability of automated browser tests (#128)
Mobile web releasing mobile VisualEditor to stable on enwiki July 31

125 pre-rendering thumbnails - hey ops, how's your hardware capacity?
126 track media viewer opt-outs - thanks analytics for answering our question, we're set now
UploadWizard refactoring is going down, and we're starting to use OOJS for class-y stuff. VE, watch out.
More backend changes to thumbnail rendering are in the pipeline - watch for tests coming down at you at high speeds. (platform, ops) (namely, once Fae has images to upload, we're testing GLAMWikiToolset again)

Subbu

More work on visual diffs -- preparing for mass rendering tests
Bunyan logging support added -- it needs hooking up with gelf/logstash
More work on Tidy support in parser tests -- scott got pulled away into pdf rendering land
No blockers on anyone at this time

Preparing for PDF render, Citoid & mathoid deploys
- perf measurements for PDF renderer
- need to figure out misc services cluster really soon (see ops list)
- also need to figure out a better service deployment solution longer term; hope for ideas from ops
Rashomon now a backend for RestFace (REST API front-end)
- shooting for alpha deploy by end of this month: need to coordinate with ops on hw
still hoping for Debian repo progress (ops)
continuing to work with Parsoid on CSS, storage
still blocked on #85 (debian repo for parsoid)
hiring!

Gerrit linkyfying fix - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67866
Packet loss issues on Oxygen and Analytics1003 confirmed to be caused by the spike in interest for the World Cup, Oliver is looking at the sampled logs to get more insight

Killed Cloudbees Jenkins
Killed /qa/browsertests repo
Went on vacation
Doing maintenance, fixing glitches, adding at least one API call, working on vagrant dev envs, finishing GSoC project, etc.
No blockers
Mobile web/QA - bugs, code review

ULSFO floor move complete.
#123 has been +1ed by bblack
#125 Mark is following up
Hadoop cluster now 100% back online, 770TB reporting!
- Working on getting queryable data back in it
Otto gave a tech talk on analytics infrastructure: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c53ho5esd0luccd09a1c30rlrmg

SUL, search -> elastic search but delayed due to hardware reasons (technically blocked by ops on hardware acquisition - #127), HHVM

phabricator transition

adds a Topic namespace in 1.24wmf14
using Parsoid CSS module that's in core (card #84), fixes some image presentation issues!

pushing mobile VE to stable on July 31
#100 almost done, final tweaks needed (Trevor and Juliusz meet today)
automated browser test notifications currently disabled for mobile web team due to consistent failures due to network issues, betalabs/saucelabs issues #128

#2 GIFification. It's going in. It's functional. We're not yet enabling it for an operator
#121 Nested configs. It's in. It seems to be working fine for a test operator config. We'll enable it for a real config soon.
#122 Thumbnail downsampling. It's in. It seems to be working fine for a test operator config. We'll enable it for a real config soon.
#124 MediaViewer. We put in a hack, so it's good to go from the W0 perspective.