Scrum of scrums/2015-02-04

Facilitating: Grace Gellerman

Wikidata

What has your team done since we last met?

• Worked on file based caching for sites
• Worked on blockers for deployment header UI redesign
• Prepared deployment of usage tracking
• Attended developer summit

What will your team do before we meet again?

• Further work on file based caching for sites
• Get header redesign reviewed and merged
• Deployment of usage tracking

Is anything slowing your team down or getting in their way?

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85913

Parsoid

• Last 2 weeks were busy with all hands, dev summit, and quarterly review.
• Current Parsoid focus is on VE's Q3 goals. Towards this end, been curating the Parsoid task board ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/487/ )
• Mid-Jan, Parsoid deployed ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Deployments#Thursday.2C_Jan_15.2C_2015_around_1pm_PST:_Y_Deployed_2fdf9298 ) a config change that picked up wiki apis from sitematrix call. This exposed a few different issues:
  • special-case handling required for "special" wikis (which we fixed in subsequent patches)
  • a slow memory leak in Parsoid's error handler (fixes going out today)
  • and a problem in apache's config for https wikis ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88359 )
• Current work is on trying to pare down the metadata that Parsoid emits to reduce the DOM size that has to be transferred and loaded into VE

Editing

• Made progress with VE performance work
• Need Parsoid and RESTbase work to achieve more performance gains
• Ops (Alexandros) working on getting Citoid packaged and up; also need to talk to Chris S about security
  • Roan will work on getting these dependencies into tickets on the SoS board
• Released OOjs UI 0.6.6 today because 0.6.5 turned out to be pretty broken

Apps

• New: (Services working it) T88458 Create template / blueprint for RESTbase and Node.js service composite
• Existing: Depends on T88458: T87824 Create specialised content API for mobile apps
• Existing: Topic for discussion: T86982 generator=search API should return information about search suggestions, like list=search does
• Adam B checking on what "T1221 Enhanced search" was about :)
  • (milimetric) this sounds to me like the idea that morphed into Wikidata Query

ReleaseEngineering/QA

• found a lot of bugs this week across several repos; fixes in progress
• working an investigation of performance regression in latest WMF deploy: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88528
• would really like help to fix a JQuery(?) problem for browser tests manifesting across most repositories: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87446
• would like MobileFrontend to make this a high priority if possible; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88473

Language

• Working on post-deployment fixes for Content Translation
• Working on release planning and sprint scheduling for next Content Translation release
• Still working on beta-enablements dashboard for Content Translation; will follow up with Dan/Analytics
• Working on our own statistics page that is part of Content Translation extension
• Started on testing additional machine translation services (Yandex)

Security

• Working through security bugs in core and extension - see /home/csteipp/CurrentSecurityPatches if you need to reapply patches
• Next reviews: T78730, raven (multimedia), ApiFeatureUsage

MediaWiki core

• Investigation of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88528 ongoing (1.25wmf15 performance bug)
  • Train deploys on hold until resolved; group1 reverted to 1.25wmf14
  • war room in #mediawiki-core
• Tim working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87645 (namespace bug)
• MultiDC and authz work ongoing
• Need to get section profiler online - depends on wmf15 :/

Wikidata query

• Wikidata query has major setback; Titan project likely dead; will need to re-evaluate platform

Fundraising Tech

• Continuing to clean up DonationInterface, deploying improvements so far
• More prep for new Latin America processor
• Looking at ways to reduce / eliminate RecordImpression requests from CentralNotice
• More persistence work for internal dashboard
• Fun with glitches and format changes in nightly audit files from processors

Services

• RESTBase
  • Still on track for mid-February prod deploy
  • HW ETA: Friday (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76986)
  • Public entry point rest.wikimedia.org underway: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78194
• Looking into mobile app service / API with app team (see wikitech)

Analytics

• Geocoding UDF deployed
• officially no longer using udp2log
• Faster HIVE table with isPageview flag based on the new definition
• work on generateRandomSessionId - not always random :)
• Funnel Visualizations prototype, take a look and let us know if your team is interested: http://tools-static.wmflabs.org/wikimetrics/ve.html

Mobile Web

• Working on Collections and WikiGrok projects (experimental)
• Titan has been killed! Need to figure out a new way forward for Wikidata Query Service
• Working on integrating lightncandy with core code
• Hoping to get UI styles merged (bugs filed for Prateek)
• CentralAuth problems

Flow

• Preparing to move forward on additional Flow deployments (Catalan Wikipedia, translatewiki.net)
• Trying to push forward and get backend search done. Requires review by search team (T78789)