Scrum of scrums/2014-09-17

Task Wall

Mingle

Docs

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

Notable items

Multimedia grappling with mediawiki-ui and oojs-ui issues - they need help!
Tampa datacenter shutting down in Oct (see emails from Ops)
Language team's content translation deployment currently blocked by Ops, mtg to unblock scheduled
Editing team encountered issues with VE page corruption, likely many pages affected on big non-English wikis
Fr-tech is updating CentralNotice
Services needs ops support around deploying RESTBase

Multimedia

Fabrice is vacationing for a wedding until Tuesday, Eloquence is our PM in the meantime
Metrics improvements pretty much set, ty milimetric
Prerendering of thumbnails is coming to a theatre near you Real Soon Now - only for new images, though, because there's some issue about tall vs. wide images.
Ori is going to be a dear and review ImageMetrics, so I marked it "scheduled" (card 136)
Why do we only keep Swift logs for only a week? We'd like to debug the outage...
More media viewer UI fixes coming your way, should minimize the drama...sorta
mediawiki-ui issues...using the button classes on my "more details" button screwed it up, would love some help debugging.
aaaand oojs-ui issues. Maybe not seeing 'choose' events when an InlineMenuWidget changes.

Analytics

https://metrics.wmflabs.org/static/public/dash/ released as a first draft of the Vital Signs dashboard

Ops

#127 Elasticsearch hardware testing done. Now moving forward with procurement, waiting on quote for new SSDs in current machines.
Heira support will soon be merged into production operations/puppet
Just another reminder, Tampa datacenter will be shut down in October.

QA

wrapping up hiring for QA Tester position
MobileFrontend test refactoring
Echo and Flow test refactoring
setting up Meetup for Oct 22 apropos of Quarterly Review feedback
wrangling old docs on mw.o
wrangling new builds in Jenkins with jjb
Rummana and Chris available for MMV if you need eyeballs and browsers
Program note: Chris will not be available for much of October.
Card 119 still in progress, worked on by D Duvall, currently low priority

Flow/Core features

(Can't attend)

Fixing and polishing Echo alerts/notifications, had several unscheduled deploys
We have an implementation of simple mw.ui dialog, and a spec for a full-featured one. Shahyar Ghobadpour will send mail to design list.
beta labs more stable

Language

Finished Sprint 74 (Content Translation)
- Link adaptation, source attribution, logging
- Additional languages in labs, performance, MT abuse detection
- Unit tests for cxserver
- Research for minimal text styling support
- MediaWiki localization fixes and Translate bugs
Started Sprint 75 (Content Translation)
- UI Enhancements: cursor positioning, minimal text styling
- Performance: client-side request caching, section heading preloading
- Logging: publishing failure errors
- Analytics (published articles): reporting, visualization (stretch)
- Testing: enable automated unit tests, GWT tests
- Deployment: BLOCKED enable es<->ca translation (both directions) on beta
Blockers
- Content Translation deployment currently blocked by Ops
- Alolita and Kartik meeting with Ops tomorrow
Requests
- Ops Team: Please read deployment plan before meeting tomorrow

  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Deployment_Plan#CX_Deployment_Plan_for_September_2014

- Analytics Team: may request help with EL schema review
- Analytics Team: advice on visualization tools

Mobile apps

iOS bug with 'debug=true' in ResourceLoader call should be resolved with this Tuesday's update
One more iOS fix in queue to resolve iPhone 6 resolution issues

Editing

Fun issues yesterday with VE page corruption in IE and Firefox
- Worked around browser bugs in VE; Parsoid bugs still outstanding
- Probably many pages affected on big non-English wikis, still figuring out cleanup strategy
Ed in SF until tomorrow, Timo in SF until Oct 4
Roan working on Citoid puppetization because Services doesn't have time

Fundraising Tech

Generalize payment reconciliation
CiviCRM continuous integration
Exchange rate update
FR stats dash now has some db filters hooked up
CentralNotice updates ready to deploy: unarchive campaigns, list which campaigns a banner is used in
Upgrading payments wiki from 1.22

Services

sca cluster ('services cluster a') ready (thanks Alex!) -- next steps:
- deploy mathoid (Gabriel)
- puppetize & deploy citoid (Roan)
RESTBase
- Hardik continues work on secondary indexes
- Front-end being refactored (Gabriel)
- shooting for ready-for-deploy by end of this month
OCG / PDF rendering: Sprint to fix issues led by Scott with help by Arlo & Gabriel
- most major crashers fixed, some remaining but look tractable
- should be ready for October 1st Tampa shutdown
preparing for RESTBase deploy, likely using current test boxes (xenon, praseodymium, cerium) as they have ssds
- chase might help
- will need to reimage, install with puppet
- RT ticket forthcoming

(Timo first time attending)

CI

(Timo)

New pool of Trusty-based Jenkins slaves for running tests in node 0.10. They're opt-in for Jenkins jobs at the moment. Editing team projects and Parsoid have expressed interest. Others to follow.

With (some of) production running nodejs 0.8 still, projects running server-side should (also) stay integrated under node 0.8.

Platform

(Timo)

ResourceLoader now wraps legacy scripts (that bypass ResourceLoader) in conditionals. Our decreasing Grade A browser and more exposed Grade C behaviour (e.g. no javascript payload) helped find this problem.
CSSJanus is being made into a standalone project.

It was already untangled from MediaWiki code-wise but still maintained in mediawiki-core with no versioninig or releases. We're moving node-cssjanus, php-cssjanus and python-cssjanus into new repositories and sync their implementations to reach bugfix/feature/API parity.