Scrum of scrums/2014-10-29

Facilitating: Andrew Otto

Partners + W0

#145 Make app zero-rating croutons have per-operator colors: Android merged. Next up: iOS.
#149 iOS connection management exception handling: code moved around, need to see if the issue is significant for iOS users at large.
#146 Lua integration for Partners Portal: slimmed down patch submitted and merged; Yuri working on a follow up patch with features similar to the mega patch, but with more restrictions in permitted parameter types and so on.
#152 mdot/zerodot webroot Accept-Language redirects for zero-rated access: in code review, heads up to Ops.

Work on UploadWizard upcoming
Lots of metrics coming your way - image load times now being measured in samples
Structured data also on the move - we may have an early draft of an API as soon as mid-November
#150 about Swift logging...we keep dropping the ball on pushing this, but maybe someone from ops (Faidon? Andrew?) can speak as to what's up with dat

#83 - See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library (Mustache approved)
#113 - SOA Auth - back to services
WikiGrok and SandboxLink reviews in progress
Security bugs
- lang input

Hired Marielle for citoid / citation work
Parsoid server in deployment-prep (beta labs) crapped its pants yesterday, Roan had to rebuild a Parsoid node from scratch
- Dear labs people, please investigate/fix this problem where instances mysteriously die (lose LDAP and become un-SSH-able?)
- Dear ops people, I took advantage of puppet being broken for Varnish servers in labs, but maybe it shouldn't be?
Table editing! Landing in wmf7
Roan working on VE instrumentation with input from Ori

(short list this time)

-- prod is just in talks

- Apertium service/cxserver now working in beta
- New translation dialog improvements
- Mark articles published with high MT with category
- Link editing bugs
- CLDR updates

Working on wikimetrics with Grantmaking
data warehouse plans are moving forward, have become a critical part of our plans this quarter
Event Logging batching insert work underway

Math 2.0 (powered by mathoid) deployed last Thursday, provides MathML render mode [1]
- Mostly volunteer-driven: Moritz Schubotz (physikerwelt), MathJax team
- Generally positive feedback, some bug reports
- Now talking about speech annotations
Hiring taking up a lot of time
RESTBase has gained generic backend monitoring (errors, response times) via statsd to graphite; GELF logging via bunyan (-> logstash)
- Not quite ready for deploy yet:
  - need to test & review WIP puppetization, depends on Cassandra puppetization being merged (thanks to Andrew Otto!)
  - some code clean-up that should happen before the deploy
  - hw needs for real production deploy will be based on numbers from testing

Deploying WikiGrok extension
- Performance review completed
- Security review later today
- Working with Dario/analytics on development priorities
Still working on templates in core (HTML proof of concept: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/167342/)
Wondering about Staging Cluster

Nothing new, TOC coming

next sprint we are going to develop Flow analytics, will reach out to other teams