Scrum of scrums/2015-07-08

2015-07-08

Analytics

• Dan is not able to attend, one time conflict, ping milimetric on IRC if needed
• Nothing to report, no blockers in either direction
• Our Wikimania hackathon team project: compare different technologies for a Pageview API and dockerize our setup so others can hack with us

Discovery

• Blockers: none
• Blocking:
  • Nothing on board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
  • Charts has a security issue (see Yuri)
• Updates:
  • Working with Ops on hardware and deployments (Maps, Graphs, WDQS)
  • Security reviews of upcoming production releases (Maps, WDQS)
  • Prepping for Wikimania (presentation, Elastic upgrade)

Technical Operations

• Blockers: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:

• Leap second - Everything OK
• Working with discovery for a maps test/semi-production setup
• Cassandra woes continued
• Both teams well aware, working on short/long term plans to address this

Reading

Android

• Published production release this morning https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103788
  • Wider images
  • Chinese language variants
  • Using CirrusSearch "morelike:" for "Read more" suggestions (for 50% of users)

Release Engineering

• Blocking: (none)
• Blocked by: (none)
• Updates:
  • Refactored Beta Cluster configuration for isolated security scans
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158016/
    • cherry-picked on deployment-salt but needs a review from ops
  • Gerrit/Zuul job available that will run a subset of browser (end-to-end) tests for MW extensions
    • Currently enabled for MobileFrontend experimental pipeline
    • Working on video recording support for easier debugging of failure
  • Continuing to upgrade browser-test suites to use mw-selenium 1.x
  • Deployment tooling work continues
    • Setting up RESTBase instances in staging to evaluate Ansible- and other-based deployment tool
  • Upgraded Phabricator based on upstrea 'redesign-2015' branch

Fundraising Tech

• Security team is helping us out with PCI
• Testing AstroPay audit files and bank transfers
• CentralNotice refactor nearly ready to merge
• Verifying SquareCash import
• Testing generic donation import format

Security

• Thanks RelEng!

Collaboration

• OOjs UI Flow TOC released
• Continuing work on LQT->Flow conversion
• Continuing work on search