Scrum of scrums/2016-01-13
Appearance
2015-01-13
[edit]Reading
[edit]Android
[edit]- v2.1.137 beta published. Includes a new native article toolbar and lower memory usage.
Reading Infrastructure
[edit]- Nothing blocked this week.
- SessionManager and bot passwords should be going out next week.
Discovery
[edit]- Working on load test for Dallas cluster
- Load spikes on weekend for ES getting worse, cause not clear yet, investigating ( https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/elasticsearch )
- Did some brainstorming, discovered queries generating a lot of ES calls to handle variants, with very low success rate. Will investigate removing them.
- Finalizing data models for TextCat language detection library, security review next
- Testing for upgrading WDQS to Blazegraph 2.0 once it's released
- No blockers
Community Tech
[edit]- Working on assessment report for Community Wishlist Top 10 results: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10/Status_draft
- Would like feedback from Wikidata, Multimedia, Analytics, and Collaboration before publishing
- Working on dead link rescuing bot - talking with Tool Labs and IA
- Waiting on feedback from Kunal on Gadgets 2.0
- Wrapping up work on PageAssessments extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments
Infrastructure
[edit]RelEng
[edit]- Blocking: nothing
- Blocked on: nothing
- Updates:
- Differential migration discussion at WikiDev16 went really well, very positive, no roadblocks placed
- Scap3 discussion at WikiDev16 also really positive, looking for more early adopters
Technical Operations
[edit]- Blocking: nothing
- Blocked on: nothing
- Updates:
- Started work on the new Quarter goals
Services
[edit]- moved to Node 4.2 - RESTBase, Mobile Content Service, Mathoid
- in progress: Graphoid and Citoid
- working on enabling pre-generation for Mobile Content Service
Security
[edit]- Should get to Kartographer this week
- Several patches to deploy this week
- Schedule your reviews!
Fundraising Tech
[edit]- cleaning up after December
- updating CiviCRM extensions to use new core features
Editing
[edit]VisualEditor
[edit]- Blocking: nothing
- Blocked on: nothing
- Updates:
- Single Edit Tab work nearing completion. Planned to release to one wiki next week if all goes well for validation before larger rollout.
- Note the OOUI breaking release from yesterday (in -wmf.11); no known impacts.
Parsing
[edit]- Blocking: nothing
- Blocked on: nothing
- Updates
- Hoping to finish up (this week) puppetizing testing infrastructure on ruthenium
- Coordinating with reading and services to reduce size of HTML payload.
Multimedia
[edit]- Blocking: nothing
- Blocked on: nothing
- Updates:
- Christmas A/B test for cross-wiki upload tool inconclusive. Not sure what's next happening.
Language
[edit]- Blocking: nothing
- Blocked on: nothing
Collaboration
[edit]- Mostly Echo stuff. Cross-wiki notification stuff is getting closer.
- MediaWiki-Vagrant code for cross-wiki notifications is implemented and almost merged. This will also facilitate other local multi-wiki testing, e.g. Flow.
- Flow Nuke fix merged.