2015-09-09

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Production release (v2.0.110-r-2015-08-31) with link previews expected Thursday. Increased textextracts usage (about 100x more as compared to beta).
CI tests are up! Lots of help from hashar (Antoine Musso) and thcipriani (Tyler Cipriani).
Work continues on preparing page loading via the mobileapps content service

Ramping up to beta, but not estimating to release until at least October
- If current UX stays, we'll be using TextExtracts on top of search generators. Will start discussions as app solidifies.
Beginining brainstorming/discussions around providing structured access to Main Page content

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91148 is still blocked on whoever owns oojs-ui
Not blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95864 (Ops?) or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110274 (CI) yet, but it's on the horizon
(Sorry about 2 weeks ago. Google Hangouts sometimes loses audio for me, so I never heard the meeting start)

Nothing really significant to report.
- Tidy replacement continues to be WIP while we figure out if there is anything significant that might break.

Finishing up a schema change (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111084); ops is aware of this.
Flow opt in feature is in production, but not yet turned on.
Will be adding Flow dumps soon.
Continuing OO UI work

Wikidata Query Service - http://query.wikidata.org/ - announced!
- Dashboard http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/wdqs/
Planning for maps announcement
Started A/B test on suggester
More research on language detection and cross-wiki search ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Language_Detection_Evaluation )
Updating search cluster documentation
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76497 - enabled per-IP rate limiting for CirrusSearch
Blocked: none
Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796 - proposal approved, will work on finalizing the fix
Team offsite 30 Sep - 2 Oct

Blocking: (none)
Blocked by: Technical Operations
- Need feedback on which ops/puppet modules should be excluded from Rubocop linting
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102020
- Backporting ElasticSearch 1.7 to Precise (Done; Thanks!)
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111781
Updates:
- Deployment tooling implementation continues
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/
  - Implementing output/logging features and rollback this week
- Progress on Isolated CI project
  - Base images successfully building using parts of ops/puppet
  - Will continue work to include all of mediawiki::packages and other contint::packages

Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102020 (rubocop linting), https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84956 (sentry)
Blocked by: none
Updates:
- codfw live as Tier-2, slowly adding locations
- mailman done today
- schema changes policy change imminent

Blocking: none
Blocked by: none
Updates:
- Some downtime for ORES yesterday during a deploy. See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150908-ores

No blocke(e|r)s
Code review of the Maps service in progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109021
RESTBase: support for private wikis in testing, should be in prod by the end of the week

Pageview API general approach decided and agreed upon, work ongoing to merge the puppetization of the new 3-server RESTBase cluster
Event Logging on Kafka is nearly done, deployment is happening in phases right now
Ongoing work: estimated unique device counts, bot vs. spider identification in request logs, and dashiki improvements
(looking at security bug, Chris)

Big CentralNotice deploy was a success
- Does seem to have improved performance
- More performance improvements in the works, including some contributions from outside of the FR team (yay!)
- More work on Resource Loader-based banner and campaign functionality
Continuing work on Amazon Payments and Worldpay integration changes
No blockers