Scrum of scrums/2015-10-21

2015-10-21

Reading

Android

• Nice release cooking with lots of library upgrades. Shooting for beta release this week.
• HockeyApp crash reporting will be included the upcoming release.
• Improvements to article language UI localization.
• New session event logging provides better page view statistics.

iOS

• Nothing to report yet. Still gearing up for internal Alpha release of next update

Content Services

• Still looking into moving from action=mobileview to Parsoid https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108777
• Looking at following redirects from Parsoid response payload https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116200
• Remaining blockers for moving to Parsoid are:

   * missing srcset
   * missing information about audio file from spoken Wikipedia

Reading Infrastructure

• Block: Need security review for php-session-serializer, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115638 for details
• Block: Language is still requested to comment on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/216909/
• Block: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91148 is still ultimately blocked on whoever owns oojs-ui
• Not blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110274 (CI) yet, but it's on the horizon
• Going to need a Security look at SessionManager soonish.

Editing

Language

• Blocking: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/216909/
• CX Suggestions enabled in all Wikipedias.
• New features in CX Suggestion in progress.
• service-runner patch (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101272) in review!

Collaboration

• Continuing prep work for Echo cross-wiki
• Working on dumps
• Working on unblocking Flow's side of multi-datacenter
• Finishing feature to allow links in topic titles

Parsing

• Just finished successful offsite, have a number of RFCs for future work
• Filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116090 to request a dedicated server to run performance regression tests
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53852 needs input from language team so that we use each community's preferred localization for image options (&etc)
• Content Services mentioned srcset support (which we discussed at offsite, scheduled for Q2), redirects (not sure there's really an issue there), and "spoken wikipedia support" (which requires more investigation/discussion)

Community Tech

• No blockers
• Preparing for Wishlist survey
• Meeting next week to discuss work on Gadgets 2.0

Infrastructure

Technical Operations

• Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102039 (parsoid restarts)
• Blocked by: none
• Updates:
  • Not much ops was in offsite

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Ish, mostly done just waiting for Parsoid to close: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92871
  • T114694 Create deployment for wikimedia/portals: ongoing discussion on task, we're mostly ready
• Blocked by:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115416 (Phab/Shinken/other mail being marked as spam)
• Updates:
  • Deployment tooling implementation continues
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/
    • RESTBase deployed with scap3 on Beta Cluster this morning
  • Investigating caching options for dependencies on isolated CI instances
  • MW release 1.26 Nov 20-ish

Services

• RESTBase

• now using x-client-ip sent by Varnish instead of XFF
• AQS public API going live tomorrow
• Mobile Content Service storage going in prod this week

• EventBus

• minimal prototype in progress - https://github.com/wikimedia/restevent
• RFC meeting next week
• tomorrow meeting about event schemas
• first use case: change propagation

• API driven front-end - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111588

• https://github.com/gwicke/element-match: < 2ms processing the 32 <figures> in Obama
• next:

• define page component interfaces (-> parsoid)
• define / implement shared node / serviceworker API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116126
• start composing a skin

• Security - take a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116147

Security

• Revscoring review in progress
• Secure code and sdlc trainings being scheduled
• Static analysis tool comparison and lots of privacy conversations in progress

Analytics

• awesome new EL data in logstash: https://logstash.wikimedia.org/#/dashboard/elasticsearch/eventlogging-errors
• pageview API will be deployed tomorrow
• data lost in EL last week will be backfilled today and tomorrow, along with a new faster mysql inserter

Discovery

• Working on multi-DC setup
• A/B tests for common terms extended
• Working on portal (www.wikipedia.org), launched first A/B test
• Start working on Relevancy Lab (link?)
• Blocked
  • none
• Blocking
  • none

Maps

• About to update DB, will need to expire Varnish caches - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109776
• Need info about mobile/desktop Varnish setup (Brandon)
• Yuri back working on Graphs
• Maps are ready to move from Beta to production performance-wise for mobile maps

Advancement

Fundraising Tech

• Testing CiviCRM upgrade
• CRM logging, import and reporting improvements
• Migrating on-wiki scripts used in CentralNotice banners to RL modules
• Final tweaks for new Worldpay integration