Scrum of scrums/2014-09-10

Task Wall

Mingle

Docs

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

Language

• Work continues on Content Translation for end of September release

Link adaptation, server logging, publishing attribution, MT abuse, UI enhancements, reference handling, unit tests, performance, language enablement

• Quarterly review last week (slides and notes not posted yet):

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_quarterly_reviews

• Alolita and Kartik working with Ops on CX deplyment issues related to service integrations
• Niklas tried out Nik's code for translation memory result scoring

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158361/

• Niklas reviewed and wrote tests for a few Translate bugs

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158146/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/158147/

• Pau, Runa and Amir held rountable with Content Translation users

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHu3vdlE1X8

• Amir fixed several RTL bugs:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159070/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159185/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159060/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159044/

• Beta hiccups continue to cause delays in development/testing.

Fundraising Tech

• Getting new FR/Analytics hire Ellery Wulczyn into the system
• Continuing work on CRM (email tracking, build/test automation, modularizing our components)
• Continuing work on FR stats dashboard
• Generic auditing / reconciliation from payment providers.

Multimedia

• Thumbnail pre-rendering is pretty much ready to go
• Gergo has filed the request for extension review for ImageMetrics
• Bunch more Media Viewer crap raining down on us, plus UploadWizard refactoring, so Mark will be stuck in that hole for the next few weeks
• Betalabs SSL issues persist - would be helpful to see those fixed.https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68387

Ops

• #127 Elasticsearch hardware tests coming along (slowly)
• Tampa datacenter will be shut down early October.

QA

• Hacking Jenkins
• Hacking beta labs
• Apologies for any outages or other weirdness
  • Browser tests are fairly stable right now, so the timing is actually pretty good
• Gearing up for significant changes in the upcoming quarter
  • Performance enhancements to Jenkins
  • Creating additional shared test environments besides beta labs
  • Reviving QA community outreach/talks/training

Analytics

• Just working on Wikimetrics and Dashiki, no dependencies
• One Limn instance had problems getting datafiles, if it happens to you just let Dan (milimetric) know (it's some weird DNS caching problem)

Parsoid

• Nothing major to report
• Scott still in PDF rendering land to try to get it moved over so that the tampa center can be shut down
• Continuing work on PHP parser and Parsoid rendering compatibility -- will get VE folks to do some review of cite css experiments

Flow

• hubbub over Echo changes, Flow feedback.
• dev affected by beta labs instability: getaddrinfo failures (bug 68125), last night everything 404'd (bug 70648)
• heads up: wgContentHandlerUseDB=true rolling out, some miscreant can use the MediaWiki web API to change the contentformat of a page to flow-board, jsonschema, etc.

Security

• Patches (soon) on cluster
• Ops - wikidata conversation about libraries
• reviews for ImageMetrcis, Graph, and RecentActivityFeed

Editing

• Nothing big going on
• Working on eliminating dependency on Rangy
• Starting to integrate substance.io's table editing code
• Trevor working on MW skin for OOjs UI based on design team designs
• Ed in SF until Sep 18
• Timo in SF for 3 weeks starting Monday (Sep 15)

Platform

• hhvm - lua bug, lots more production servers soon

Services

• Mathoid deployment moving along thanks to Alex: [1]
• The storage service & API front-end will be merged in RESTBase
  • Hardik working on secondary indexes
  • Gabriel working on cleaning up the front-end handlers & moving them to a declarative configuration (please let us know if that's readable!)
  • Starting on Parsoid integration

Zero

• Waiting for <graph> ext review