Scrum of scrums/2014-12-24

Facilitating: Grace Gellerman

Parsoid

• Nothing in the way of blockers or heads-up to other teams
• Ongoing bug fixes and improvements to the HTML -> wt code
• Ongoing work to get /v2/ API in place for use by RESTbase
• Finished up with what turned out to be a 2-week effort on improving nowiki insertion around quotes when HTML is serialized to wikitext -- surprisingly tricky to get right.
  • Other nowiki insertion code for other wikitext constructs improved a bit
  • Deployment scheduled for Jan 5th

Fundraising Tech (not present)

• Beginning work on new payment processors for China and Latin America
• Discussing options to determine how a series of banners convinces people to donate
• Form tweaks
• Internal dashboard widgets

Services

• RESTBase:
  • Movement on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76986 (dependency on ops) today - hope to have HW ready by early January
  • hooked up test coverage metrics: 76% good as a start
  • cleaning up extension points & internal paths
• Helping with query service testing
• Need to set up external entry point:
  • domain discussion (api.wikimedia.org vs. content.wikimedia.org)
  • nginx and maybe varnish; to be shared with other services

Multimedia

• Everyone is gone
• Sentry is on beta, tgr is twerking tweaking it
• UW errors exist, working on them
• Missing files on Commons happened again, will check the logs soon

MediaWiki-Core

• Present :)

Mobile web

• xmas slowness
• no blockers
• working on exploratory things