Scrum of scrums/2014-10-22

Facilitating: Dan Andreescu

Currently Blocked

Deploy of MathML/SVG-based math rendering mode to all wikis tomorrow
- Backed by Mathoid
- Draft announcement at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/Announcement
Working with Andrew Otto on Cassandra puppetization
RESTBase deployment prep:
- puppet module
- logging via gelf to logstash
- Hardik started work on generic monitoring of backend services
Hiring!

Deployment work continues for CX (Card #137 done)
- Repackaging after upstream Apertium bug fixed
- Kartik working with Alex on patches. Will need more reviews.
- Kartik in Bay Area this week
- Targeting beta deployment for end of October
Closed sprint 76
- Category adaptation
- Link tool and search improvements
- References and inline markup
- Shared database design
- Translation memory ElasticSearch migration (Card #80 closed)
- Apertium packaging and puppetization
- Parsoid integration
- MT service selection
Started sprint 77
- Shared database implementation
- UI improvements ('new translation' dialog, link tool bugs)
- Initial translation dashboard work (list published articles)
- Mark high MT articles on publish
- New entry point designs
- Language support candidates
- MLEB release
- MediaWiki plurals support for CLDR 26

Prerendering thumbnails on Commons now. If thumbnails break, it's Gilles's fault.
#150 for more persistent Swift logging - not sure if Faidon made any progress
HHVM issues abound on Commons, and probably everywhere else.
Chunked uploading issues in the past two weeks or so - maybe HHVM related, we don't see any log entries that suggest anything else being the cause
Looking into JS logging solutions, especially related to saving the logs on the server so we can see what's borked
MMV work coming to a close, thankfully. UploadWizard and structured data now on the rise.
Mark moving to a proper apartment next Tuesday, will be off - Internet probably functional on Wednesday but we'll see.

(for JS media player) ops fixed upload.wikimedia.org CORS 'OPTIONS' preflight requests to enable Range header, hopefully this doesn't break anything
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/167542/

Got France payment issues sorted
Fixing banner impressions log filter (CentralNotice deploy last week changed qs param order)
Internal dashboard preview should be deployed today
Fixing CentralNotice allocations page memory usage.
Using DonationInterface component in CRM processing
Miscellaneous fixes to prepare for winter campaign

#147 Reliable BetaLabs- followed up offline; no ops blocker
#137 cxserver, in progress
#144 ElasticSearch hardware -- hardware arrived & was installed in rack today (!)
#150 keep more swift action logs. No progress yet, but should be doable.
#144 RestBase deployment - Cassandra Puppet module waiting for review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/166888/
ulsfo troubles; DC drained
codfw

initial replica of database/external storage/Swift done
appservers procurement on hold, waiting for HHVM progress for better capacity planning

Talks with Sean Pringle about starting a prototype small data warehouse with a single fact table
We're here to help with Event Logging and SQL woes, please reach out

Tested logstash logging in beta labs and worked through some problems (discovered that "type" and "_type" fields shouldn't be set in log events)
Enabling logstash in production today
Marcoil, with James F, working towards announcements and next steps to move Cite towards CSS-based customization (instead of site messages based customization)

Analytics stuff
- Roan met with analytics folks + Matt F, found and fixed breakage in EventLogging subscriber
- Roan met with Ori to figure out plans for editing instrumentation
- Roan met with James F to take first stab at schema for this
- Roan will implement initial instrumentation When He Has Time

Chris in SF through tomorrow
Working on refactoring and tech debt, emphasis on Flow right now, some MF
Zeljko and Antoine working on Ruby linter, Dan evolving the Ruby style guide
Basic training on browser test automation f2f for Rummana ahead of more test coverage for VE
I'll talk to Chris Steipp about that old card, see if we can retire it

Initial version of templating in core - needs more code review
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/167342/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/167114/
Continuing work on WikiGrok
- Talking with Damon about extending Wikidata querying in-house
More work on Mediawiki.ui features and standardization