Scrum of scrums/2014-12-03

Facilitating: Andrew Otto

Parsoid

• Deployed fix for template expansion with older MW versions.
• Deployment today: Fixes to v2 API endpoint, fix to API v2 ids leaking into v1 API.
• Need CSS help on Cite CSS patch, more info at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51538

Language

• Working with product and analytics on defining metrics and targets for CX beta feature deployment
• Work on adding cx_ tables to beta wikishared completed; patch for review
• Finalizing features and stabilizing release for beta feature deployment in January

Security

• Release last Wed:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CSteipp_(WMF)/SecurityRelease_1.23.7 for the details
  • One patch didn't make it into the release, so still patched on the cluster.
• Review of kafkatee and Phabricator Sprint done, Aphlict (phab) and Plancake next
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177152/ (<- someone in ops)
• CSteipp ooo Dec 16-31

Platform

• ContentHandler stlll blocked on us?
• T1223 Unified diff on mobile - Is this still valid

Flow

spage Can't attend, first standup on Phabricator

• still working on TOC
• need wgContentHandlerUseDB in late December, haven't followed up with csteipp

Editing

• David Chan visiting SF until Dec 14, working on IME support with Roan
• No particularly exciting things happened in wmf11
• Exciting things will happen in wmf12: IME support improvements, find and replace
• Roan working with Ori on JS gateway for statsd

Analytics

• Helping people with dashboarding (you're next!) - some basic documentation coming soon
• Event logging outages and matching reports available for those interested. All sent via email already, but just in case you didn't hear
• Data Warehouse progress is good, will not be making it available in labs right away though
• We are working around labsdb problems - so it's no longer a problem for us in the short term

Operations

• HHVM 100% of non-API requests; API underway blocked on T758
• LabsDB issues (T76075) - in progress
• Phabricator

• BZ leftovers (mainly handling of security tickets)
• service level discussion, T76446
• RT migration to come next

• T1228 Restbase - in progress(?)
• T1254 CX Databases- in progress(?) -- Is this still an ops task?
• T67683 - deployment cache purge
  • Need to ping bblack
• T76086 - labs deployment-prep ldap user for NFS4
  • In progress, Andrew Bogott did somethign, need to check if it works.

Fundraising Tech

• Whole team in SF this week
• Souping up internal dashboard
  • Watching the money roll in, scrutinizing load and logs
  • Started full-strength campaigns Tuesday. $3.5M raised in December so far.
• Watching CentralNotice closely
  • So far, any odd allocation behavior has been due to banner-specific javascript
• Minor updates to mailing list data, payment forms, and reporting
• GeoIP issues Monday? saw incorrect lookups from HHVM and from Varnish, but Varnish seems correct now
  • Updated FundraiserLandingPage and LandingCheck to rely on cookie from Varnish

QA

• Need some assistance:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76086 needs Ops help
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65681 can Aaron close this issue? We don’t know…
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67683 needs Brandon Black’s help. He might not be aware of it.

* Otherwise: 

• refactoring MobileFrontend tests
• fixing linting errors everywhere
• training people to write browser test

Mobile Web

• Experimenting with pulling data and images from Wikidata
• Concluded WikiGrok A/B test in Beta mode
• Planning to conduct some limited testing in stable mode next week
• Nik's Wikidata Query team is working on testing graph databases
• Talking with Analytics about replacing limn for dashboards
• Still having problems with Beta Labs outages/instability

Partners

• Done: Deployed Accept-Language aware redirects to mdot for Wikipedia Zero users
• Yuri to add X-Analytics logging across sister projects and desktop
• T76626: HTTPS-to-HTTP downgrade option interstitial for external Referers via Varnish upcoming

Services

• RESTBase:
  • need ops help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76313 (Alex?)
  • testing by dumping all of enwiki
    • discovered some bugs in Parsoid v2 API, working with Parsoid team on integration
  • improving logging & fixing graphite metrics
  • to follow RESTBase architecture discussions, watch restbase-architecture: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/watch/837/ (maybe https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/restbase-architecture/ ?)
• OCG security issue basically resolved: writer param sanitized, apparmor enforced; would be great to do another security review pass
• Working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikidata-query-service/ (also watch if you'd like to follow)

Multimedia

• SHA-1 patch is ACTUALLY HAPPENING THIS WEEK. Or Gilles will have to answer to ME.
• UploadWizard was throwing fake stash errors for about two weeks, apparently nobody noticed, it's fixed now.
• We're shifting away from other projects to seriously focus on UploadWizard now, so...yeah.
• Also, Commons is using chained thumbnails now, and apparently nothing is broken *knocks on wood* so that will continue being awesome and hopefully faster!
• We're thinking about bringing OOUI into UW a little bit, but it's not quite ready yet...VE team, watch out, I'll be coming for you soonish.