Scrum of scrums/2015-07-22
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2015-07-22
[edit]Reading
[edit]Android app
[edit]- Removed blocker for F-droid update: using Central Maven repo instead of custom Maven repo. Once we release a new stable version we should be able to get the app on F-droid updated.
- Beta app 2.0.106 released on Monday 7/20:
* Language selection in search bar allows faster language selection * Added link to mobile web at bottom of page * More material design: Floating Action Button for ToC * More consistent and accurate error messages * Onboarding with tooltips, now also covering ShareAFact
iOS
[edit]- 4.1.7 release planned, but not for at least another couple weeks (still have work in the backlog, will update when it's closer to done/review)
Web
[edit]- Run browser tests on MobileFrontend and Gather patches (bot on wmflabs)
Services
[edit]- Working with Ops on Cassandra improvements
- RESTBase
- various fixes / improvements
- page delete handling
- section API
- various fixes / improvements
- more secure services with firejail
- endpoint monitoring in production
- Reading / MobileApps
- Public RESTBase endpoints for the service:
- need https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106149 from you guys
Discovery
[edit]- Blockers:
- Waiting for WDQS hardware
- Blocking:
- Nothing on board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
- Updates
- Upgraded Elastic to 1.6.0, and working toward 1.6.2. Also looking at 1.7.
- WDQS hardware is on the way
- Working on WDQS upgrade to latest Blazegraph, with patches from us
- Zero-results investigation ongoing: ES suggesters, NLP, dashboard, event logging
- Transitional docs and procedures for Nik and James
Fundraising Tech
[edit]- no blockers / blocking
- Fixing Latin American fundraising pipeline based on results of 1 hr all user banner test in Brazil
- More import formats and fields for offline donations
- Form tweaks for Japan
- Reviewing and testing big CentralNotice refactor
- Updating payments cluster to MediaWiki 1.25
- General question: best fix for git-review deprecating global config files? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Gerrit/Getting_started
Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocking: (none)
- Blocked by: operations
** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158016/
- Updates:
* Continuing to upgrade browser-test suites to use mw-selenium 1.x * Co-hosting testing workshop/discussion w/ TPG next Monday @ 9am PDT ** See announcement on engineering@ and/or staff calendar * Deployment tooling work continues ** Tyler showed off some progress at Wikimania: http://tyler.zone/scap.gif * CI isolation work continues
Community Tech
[edit]- No blockers
- Working on internal processes for team
- Hoping to get help from Team Practices
- Removing sajax from SecurePoll (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55122)
- Discussed sharing work backlog with German Chapter Community Tech Team
Collaboration
[edit]- Working on rescuing Flow text from impending destruction (external store recompression)
- Part of the external store audit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106388
- If you use external store, participate in this audit!