Scrum of scrums/2014-09-03

Ops

• #127 Elasticsearch Hardware
  • Newer SSDs are in elastic1016 and running in production
  • Need to generate extra IO on these and see how they perform.
  • elastic1019 is still down for the count...:/

Analytics

• Working on dashboarding, nothing to report

Parsoid

• CSS changes to Vector and Monobook merged to core -- this reduces rendering diffs between Parsoid and PHP parser output
• Scott is back in PDF land for a bit again
• Ongoing bug and compatibility fixes -- no blockers, nothing much else to report

Fundraising Tech

• Continuing to work on email tracking, stats dashboard, Central Notice
• Consultant has come up with a great roadmap for turning our payment processor integration into a drop-in module for any PHP project

Multimedia

• Wiki Loves Monuments!!!!11!!1!1one!!!eleven
• A few UW-related bugs coming in but mostly quiet I think
• ImageMetrics extension NEEDS REVIEW BADLY (well, not that badly. I'll file the bug today)
• Structured metadata chat today at 11:00 -0700, immediately after this - join usssss

QA

• No blockers
• Quarterly review is today after SoS
• Some UW work
• Some GettingStarted
• Some MF

Flow

• Echo changes to support Flow messages rolling out to wikis on Thursday

 ** the Echo flyout now scrolls up to 25 alerts, and shows "Alerts(14)" in header

• cross-team wiki icon work

Platform

• HHVM continues - fixed labs segfault, working on lua issues
• SUL Finalization - hopefully not causing any issues for anyone

Security

• Reviews for wikidata, multimedia in the queue
• Patch to cluster this week

Growth

• Icons (no longer blocked)
• Continued ironing out final features and bug fixes for our first A/B test of recommendations
• Starting to research A/B testing framework

Services

• Content API front-end WIP: https://github.com/gwicke/restface -- your input wanted!
• Storage service backend WIP: https://github.com/gwicke/rashomon -- your input wanted!
  • Table storage service similar to Amazon DynamoDB / Google DataStore: https://github.com/gwicke/rashomon/blob/master/storage/cassandra/db.js
    • Plan: support secondary indexes, transactions
  • Bucket storage service front-end implemented on top of table storage: https://github.com/gwicke/rashomon/blob/master/buckets/kv/index.js
  • Prototype demo: http://api.wmflabs.org/v1/en.wikipedia.org/pages/, see https://github.com/gwicke/restface#usage for hints
• Some minimal work to shepherd Citoid, OCG & Mathoid along
  • Alex setting up service cluster: https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8236

Language

(Sorry stuck in QR)

• Team has been working on ContentTranslation (links, templates, MT abuse)
• Ongoing support for other Wikimedia i18n needs
• Need help from Ops regarding provisioning of ContentTranslation hardware in production (Alolita to follow up)
• Nothing else blocking

Mobile web

• working on last bugs in mobile VE and WikiData game
• no dependencies