Scrum of scrums/2015-03-18

2015-03-18

Language

• Team is working on Content Translation.
• Niklas updated LocalisationUpdates with Bryan Davis.
• Need help: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92232 (involves User Preference)
• Poke! (Sean, Aaron) for: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90704

Wikidata

• No fatal logs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89169
• Varnish cache on beta not invalidating properly when things in bits are updated: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65034
• Changing a name in LDAP: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85913

Parsoid

• Good progress with VE Q3 blocker bugs -- almost done on the Parsoid end unless more bugs surface.
• VE and Parsoid need to sync up with dealing with inter-page copy-paste.

Security

• Release Thurs or Monday (releng)
• Training for fr-tech
• Hovercard/Popups review in progress (design)
• Initial gather review on Fri
• T78730 temporarily on hold
• Hiring

Multimedia

• SHA-1 patch needs AaronS and Gilles to coordinate for progress
• Ops, heads up, we're requesting hardware for Sentry soon.

Analytics

• Event Logging throughput issues resolved for now

RelEng

• Staging environment slated for (near) completion by this quarter
• Isolated CI project moving forward to be completed by end of Q4 (July)
• Release MW 1.25 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88709
• Some improvements to MW-Vagrant regarding role settings, etc. to better accommodate heavy services
• Blockage: Antoine would like to talk with Ops regarding isolated CI architecture https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92324

Services

• Finishing up VE integration and roll-out to all wikis (gradually)
• Working on setting up RESTBase in the beta cluster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91102
• Integrating the cassandra into ops/puppet; blocked on ops - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92560
• Future deployment workflow for services - to be discussed with ops soon

Editing

• Coordinating RESTbase roll-out with Services
• Working on hittiing RESTbase directly once it's been rolled out
• Citoid extension finally live on phase0 wikis, special thanks to Alexandros in ops for all the work getting the citoid service up
• Mobile VE broken in wmf21 :( working on fixing

Mobile web

• WikiGrok and Gather work continues
• Gather team wants to deploy it in 2 weeks, would need security and DBA review
• Blockage: Waiting for DBA review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177448/
• Blockage: fun with client-side templates in core deadlocked in review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/180647/

Maps

• Kicking off in April, see email announcements

MediaWiki Core

• Started SULF notifications!
• Scap now checks for leading whitespace before <?php in config files
• RfC on Multi-Datacenter changes up for discussion today: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Master_%26_slave_datacenter_strategy_for_MediaWiki
• l10nupdate should be finally fixed starting today

Fundraising Tech

• CI for Civi job ready for review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/195063/
• Debugging stuff from deploying refactored DonationInterface
• Policy documentation for PCI compliance

Operations

• Avoid cache fragmenting URLs for Share a Fact shares - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90606

Apps

• Bernd bringing existing services code from GitHub into Gerrit, noted that services on-call support will be important for breaking change hotfixes in the future
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88633 Image-positioning service: team wanted to just raise the visibility on this ticket
• Reminder: release new versions of apps on March 30

Search

• Planning to get JavaScript Event Logging code submitted for Schema:Search sampled logging (i.e., 1 in x users will have the event logging running) in the next 1.0-2.5 weeks in order to get it running on desktop production for the last couple weeks of April