2015-10-28

Reading

Android

Beta release (v2.1.133-beta-2015-10-26) published October 26th. Promoted to production October 28th. Crash reporting is already proving useful.
Lots of volunteer contributions lately.

iOS

Ramping up to release internal Alpha soon
Closer to being able to evaluate API usage impact

Web

Team has been on offsite - catching up with backlog. Web team has switched to its own release model for its projects to manage changes going out to production: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Release_process

Content Services

Continuing to move to Parsoid instead of mobileview. The restrictions of this move are:

   * Having a harder time getting to the full URL of the spokenWikipedia article audio files. If anyone knows the right Parsoid calls to get the content of a File: page, like
   * no srcset attributes in <img> tags. We're relying on Parsoid to fix this. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88827

Reading Infrastructure

Block: Need security review for php-session-serializer and SessionManager, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116413 for details
Block: ApiSandbox is still ultimately blocked on whoever owns oojs-ui for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91148
- Block: Language is *still* requested to comment on said Datetime widget, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/216909/
Not going to pretend https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110274 (CI) will ever be a blocker anymore, we'll just redo the unit tests

Infrastructure

Technical Operations

Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102039
Blocked by: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87036 need help testing the Dallas deployment server
Updates:

   * work on multi-instance Cassandra is ongoing
   * Starting to move cronjobs off of terbium for the migration to trusty (e.g. HHVM finalization),

Release Engineering

Blocking:
- T114694 Create deployment for wikimedia/portals: ongoing discussion on task, we're mostly ready
Blocked by: (none)
Updates:
- Deployment tooling implementation continues
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/
  - Documentation (for user centric docs) sprint this week
- Investigating caching options for dependencies on isolated CI instances
- MW release 1.26 Nov 20-ish
- Continuing to dogfood arc/Differential
  - Starting a weekly meeting to address pitfalls/concerns

Services

RESTBase:

some Cassandra health issues, working on them now

QG - High-traffic API

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115876
imageinfo - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116840
textextracts - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115876

QG - EventBus

currently defining events - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116247
would like to emit events from MW-core - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116786

QG - API-driven front-end

basic server-side serviceworker support at https://github.com/gwicke/node-serviceworker
need to benchmark it and implement caching support

Analytics

Event Logging problems caused delays in data getting to analytics-store, backfilled as of yesterday, reports should be re-run for October 14 and 22 through 27
Pageview API had some storage problems and hiccups but we removed hourly resolution and it's up and available, go nuts! :)
We're looking at alternative data stores for the Pageview API (Druid and Elastic Search mostly, or a hybrid)
new pageview definition statistics are starting to be dumped on ... dumps: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/ (empty until it rsyncs)

Security

Revscoring review should be done this week, AuthManager/SessionManager scheduled for this week
Reviewing a bunch of CORS issues

Editing

Language

Blocking: Still https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/216909/
Niklas working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86385 (was blocker/high priority)
CX Suggestion work continue. More features coming this/next week!

Parsing

Gradual deployment strategy for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89331.
- First step is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/246148/ (disables empty-
- removal and uses CSS to preserve existing rendering; use Parsoid to identify templates relying on <empty>-li behavior + work with those template authors to address them)
- Exploring visual diff solutions that we can get reliable metrics on for mass testing to detect problems -- we are likely going to use a combination of techniques: one to get a numeric metric that is reliable, and a separate one for visualization.
We'll start working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88827 to get srcsrc attributes for image tags (VE, mobile services depend on this)
We'll also start work on adding support for reading TemplateData during serialization (VE depends on this)
cscott has been hacking away on https://github.com/cscott/node-mediawiki-express to support ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114457 )

Collaboration

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116700 - Issue with converting a specific post from HTML to wikitext with Parsoid - Parsoid team is already looking into it.
Working on the artificial primary key for Flow wiki and external references, for DB team.
Will soon be working on finishing Flow work for External Store
Work on the changes for cross-DC memcached is in progress
Other than that, working on various things, especially notifications and anti-spam

Advancement

Fundraising Tech

About to throw the switch on CiviCRM upgrade
Assessing backup processors for December campaign
More work on fundraising-focused CentralNotice features

Research

Revscoring blocked on privacy/security (security review)