2015-04-22

Search Team

Ongoing preparations for Wikidata Query Service version 0.0.1
- [ ] truthiness
- [ ] Puppet scripts
- [ ] Labs infrastructure
- [x] packaging for distribution
- [ ] documentation
Ongoing team structure/organization planning, interviews, etc. re: reorg

Wikidata

What has your team done since we last met?
- Big thanks to Stas, Nik, Jason and Co for continuing to work on query service and RDF exports!

What will your team do before we meet again?
- Begin to roll out usage tracking on next Tuesday on fr Wikisource and nl Wikipedia

Is anything slowing your team down or getting in their way?
- No fatal logs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89169
- Changing a name in LDAP: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85913

Are you about to put something in another team’s way?
- not planned

Analytics

Done: Welcoming madhu, new team member Fixing small EL data drops (1 hr in length) right now. Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96082 Incident documentation: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150409-EventLogging

Reworked cluster resource allocation, backfilled pageview files that had stalled Working on spark jobs to determine length of mobile sessions Work into our visualization platform: dashiki (limn replcement, currently hosting only vital signs, will host VE funnel viz)

Will do: Finish backfilling Work into visualization platform (dashiki) Pageview computations (new definition), communication and development

Parsing

Erstwhile parsoid team, now under the editing department. Missed last week because of quarterly review.
Continuing to deal with code cleanup and tech debt last 2 weeks. Should be done in a week's time, and focus entirely on VE goals.
Added a new normalization pass to our HTML -> WT endpoints which clients can enable (pass "scrubWikitext=true" via POST or GET) for more aggressive normalization if desired. Added to support VE. Yet to be documented.

RelEng

What has your team done since we last met?
- Stoping staging-work for the time being, moving forward on deployment tooling
- Continued work on Isolated CI instances, breaking up pool into smaller hosts
- Finishing by-team test history

What will your team do before we meet again?
- Deployment research team meeting tomorrow
- Finish by-team test history (this week is the goal)

Is anything slowing your team down or getting in their way?
- Nothing currently

Are you about to put something in another team’s way?
- No plans

Services

Done:
- RESTBase: security headers, generic cache module, various small fixes
- Services:
  - Work with ops on streamlining the deployment process (ongoing)
  - Deployment of graphoid (ongoing)
To do:
- All ongoing stuff wrt deployment
- Work on deploying MobileApps service
- Meet with RelEng to continue the conversation about future deployment tooling
Blockers:
- eployment of MobileApps
  - test sec headers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96126
  - write tests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96870

Fundraising Tech

Done:
- CentralNotice code cleanup
- Small DonationInterface fixes
Doing:
- Astropay integration
- Use Mustache in donation forms
- Make queueing not ActiveMQ-specific

No blockers, no plans to block

Language

CX in 17 more Wikis!
Blocker: Mystery of failing package (apertium-dan) build,

   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P481

No other blockers

API Team (that doesn't exist any more)

SUL finalization Done (mostly, a few things to button up before setting `$wgCentralAuthStrict = true` on the prod cluster)
Logstash servers racked; bd808 will be working with ops on provisioning and adding them to the current cluster

Operations

phab:T72068 Jenkins: Re-enable lint checks for Apache config in operations-puppet
- New patch by Legotkm, needs review.
phab:T88798 Jenkins is using php-luasandbox 1.9-1 for zend unit tests; precise should be upgraded to 2.0-8 or equivalent
- No response since Alex's last response o March 30.

Security

Coordinating with all teams for security priorities