Scrum of scrums/2015-09-23

2015-09-23

Reading

Android

• Beta release (v2.0.111-beta-2015-09-16) published September 16th. This is the final planned legacy device release. \o/
• Initial map patch will be merged when 2.0.111 beta is promoted to prod and released to beta soon.
• HockeyApp crash report licensing in progress, implementation in review. Some nice legal guidance from Zhou Zhou and Manprit Brar.

Web

Mobile site no longer has an alpha - just beta and stable Quick Surveys version 0.20 released Outstanding patches with -1 from collaboration team - please help get them merged. All our QA work for the quarter (browser tests per patch) summarised here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web#QA Improved mobile support for Wikivoyage.org pagebanners

Reading Infrastructure

• Nothing new. Stuff from last time:
  • 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

Fundraising Tech

• CentralNotice: for banner history logging, more tweaks for performance, flagging logs associated with doantions, final review and other details for FR Analytics.
• Various issues with payment processors, details of new integrations with Amazon and Worldpay.
• Improvements in Major Gifts importer.
• No known blocks or blocking

Infrastructure

Release Engineering

• Blocking: (none)
• Blocked by: (none)
• Updates:
  • Deployment tooling implementation continues
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/
    • Completed/merged rollback support
    • Configurable concurrency per deployment stage
    • Better output for sub-commands
  • Slew of MW-Vagrant patches to be reviewed today
  • Nodepool working for one CI job \o/
  • Last branch cut for 1.26 this week, first branch for 1.27 next Tuesday

Technical Operations

• Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95864 (HHVM) but it's moving, has had patch merged
• Blocked by: (none)
• Updates:
  • mailman migrated!!!
  • 84% of boxes firewalled now
  • various outages
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112770 discussed in ops meeting. Consensus is owner is analytics team, however ops can/will help with it

Services

• We have multi-DC Cassandra!
• Varnish purging support in testing
  • will need to enlist Brandon's help

Research

• Blocking: (none)
• Blocked by: (none)
• Updates:
  • ORES productionization continues. Still working on debian packages.
  • ORES extension almost ready. See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/229423

Analytics

• Pageview API RESTBase endpoints back-end almost ready to merge, thx for the help from Services and Ops

Editing

Language

• Need help on: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112964 (Issue with scap/l10update not updating messages immediately)
• Updates:
  • Suggestions enabled on en -> pt. Work on making them better continue.
  • CX has a redesigned 'Stats' page with new types of information (Special:CXStats)

Parsing

• Nothing significant to report today.

Security

• Incidents...
• less library review nearly done
• Analytics: security assessment next Tues
• Ops: OpenStack 2fa next week