Scrum of scrums/2014-08-20

Task Wall

Mingle

Docs

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

Notable action items

• Elasticsearch hardware acquisition RT ticket needs some poking to get moving
• Security waiting on QA for setting proxy in selenium tests
• Token handling changes in core coming soon (see anomie's email)

Language Engineering

• Team is working on second release of ContentTranslation.
• #80: Niklas still on vacation :)
• No dependencies.

Parsoid

• Focus continues to be eliminating diffs between Parsoid and PHP parser rendering.
• Tidy support has been added to parser tests -- merged into core during wikimania, Scott will work on adding that to Parsoid this week
• Ramp up work again this week after wikimania, vacation, etc.
  • Team-member status: Subbu was away on vacation last week, Marc sick this week, Scott getting back to Parsoid hacking this week

Multimedia

• UploadWizard refactoring is chugging along, but nothing affecting other teams yet
• Could use some input from milimetric on one of our cards...

QA

• Zeljko on vacation
• Greg on vacation
• Emily (hiring recruiter) on vacation
• Quarterly review next week
• Added browser tests for Cite UI in VE
• Added Jenkins job for new Echo browser tests
• Planning big projects for next quarter: improve Jenkins performance and more better test environments
  • Specifically, the load on the Jenkins hosts is high enough that Selenium client processes get stuck for 90+ seconds at a time. After 90 seconds with no instructions from Selenium, Sauce destroys the VM, causing a false test failure.

Ops

• Dallas datacenter links up, Mark working on network config, hope to be able to start bringing servers up in a week or two.
• # 119 production phabricator
  • Chase is working with Mukunda. Greg should know about how this is going?
  • Greg is on vacation. I (Chris) talked to Mukunda yesterday, he seems to be concentrating on planning the bugzilla migration over deploying Phabricator to prod. (Unless one is prereq for the other)
  • If you are curious about this mythical phabricator thing, this is how it's going:
    • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Migration
    • http://fab.wmflabs.org/maniphest/?statuses=needsinfo%2Copen&allProjects=PHID-PROJ-y3nkcw543c4qwn73cbps#R
• # 85 Public Debian Repo
  • From Filipo: Code review out, need to test.
• # 127 Elasticsearch hardware
  • This ticket needs some love. https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8071
  • Will try to get ops folks to get it moving.
    • https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8071

Analytics

• nothing to report
• For card #131 (using new API), we think our work on the card is done and Yuri is handling the rest of the work. So I'll close the card.

Platform

• HHVM progressing - see ori's email
• Token handling change comming - see Brad's email

Security

• reviews for Fundraising and Zero done.
• Will be getting to Wikibase query engine soonish
• Waiting on qa for setting proxy in selenium tests

Growth

• Finishing up our first round of recommendations.
• Completing our first browser tests.

Mobile Web

• no external dependencies
• team members struggling with Vagrant running really slow
• mobile VE in production for a week now (on Wikipedias), nothing bad happened, not many users since its not default

Editing

• No cards, yay!
• Timo on vacation until tomorrow