Scrum of scrums/2015-06-03

2015-06-03

Wikidata

• What has your team done since we last met?
  • rolled out usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis. going well.
• What will your team do before we meet again?
  • code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions that were created by a team of students that worked with us. needs to go live soon.
• Is anything slowing your team down or getting in their way?
  • we need review and deploy of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98743 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98742
• Are you about to put something in another team’s way?
  • nope

Editing

Collaboration

• Continued LQT -> Flow conversion on MediaWiki.org. Problem with notifications has been resolved and deployed, and four additional pages have been converted to Flow
• Continued work on converting parts of Flow to OO UI
• Added OAuth support to Flow

Language

• Apologies; Sick kid.
• Updates?
  • Automatic Wikidata link!
  • cxserver will use logstash. In near future, moving to service runner (T101272)
  • Deployed in more wikis!
• Need?
  • Marko is checking why https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/213840 doesn't log to logstash-beta (and also why restbase doing same..)
• Blocked?
  • None.

Parsing

• Deployed subst: support in the Parsoid API on Monday -- VE can now use it to provide PST support for editors.
• Nothing more to report -- no blockers.

Fundraising Tech

• Testing Astropay integration in production
• Queue refactor continues, switching from Memcache to Redis for pseudo-FIFO
• CentralNotice mixins work continues
• Internal dashboard new features work picking up again

Search & Discovery

• Blocking https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
  • None
  • Concerns about EventLogging capacity, but we need to figure out our criteria first
• Blocked by:
  • Ops: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101233
• Ongoing work (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Team/Meeting_minutes/2015-06-01#Checkins)
  • EventLogging for Wikipedia Portal
  • Defining metrics for search quality
  • Maps: hardware, queries, conference
    • Need access to an up to date db server, ops knows about this (blocker task above)
  • Hiring and budget
  • Wikidata query service enhancements
  • CirrusSearch enhancements

Infrastructure

Analytics

• Working on an Intermediate hourly pageview aggregate, we will base the pageview API on this
• Trying to get a really good idea of EL capacity, blocked a bit on getting a machine similar to eventlog1001.eqiad.wmnet to test on

Release Engineering

• Blocked: none
• Blockers: none
• Updates
  • Deployment working group
  • Working with Reading on fixing browser tests
  • Many changes in team process (thanks for the offsite TPG!)
    • Regular pairings within team to diffuse siloed knowledge
    • Sharing the load of triage on a team that has no budget for PMs (or anyone for that matter) :/
    • Will hopefully yield a team where any one member is more responsive to other team needs (CI, QA, deployment, etc.)

Services

• Nothing to report this week
  • Hackathon + Team off-site
• Parsoid v1 API update jobs turning off: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93291
• Mathoid: we'd need some kind of browser-rendering tests
  • Blocked on services:

Graphoid is waiting on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101093

Technical Operations

• Not much to report since last week
• Blocking: Maps - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101233
• Blocked by: Noone

Reading

Release engineering:

• We need some way to mark tests that are failing but who's fix is going to take a long time to reduce noise - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101062
• Beta labs caching differences from production https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99096

Security

• Reviews: Wikidata Quality extensions are in progress
• Ops: I need help with T94570