2015-01-20

Reading

Beta has been rolled out to over 1000 testers, there have been 422 installs to date
- Is there a way to measure beta API usage (i.e. CPU time?)
Investigating using pageviews/top API as part of iOS "Explore" feature. Main blocker is filtering out things like non-main namespace, main page, Special: Search, etc.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123442 (Dan: Joseph commented on this)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118841 ? (Dan: this might be a misunderstanding, this sanitization is internal for privacy protection)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121912 (Dan: redirects are quite confusing, I have some reading to do on this and it's hard to carve out time right now. But this is a priority)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124082 (Dan: I'll comment on the ticket)

Block: Could use a quick security look at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/264309/.
Hey Mobile people: Authmanager is replacing API action=login with action=clientlogin, and action=createaccount is going to completely change. We're currently aiming at end of February for the deployment.
- See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/265201/ for details, then talk to Brad if you have questions.

ORES serving ~100 external requests per minute
ORES moving to new meso-level (Labs < Meso < Prod) support -- blocked on Ops time to set up machines
- See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106867 -- working with Yuvi to flesh out sub-tasks -- need to know who to CC

kartographer, Ex:ORES, TextCat reviews in progress
Patch to parser/stripmarkers (T110143) deploying today. Contact Security if you see an issue with Xml::escapeTagsOnly.

Blocking: none
Blocked: none
Updates:
- scap 3.0 will be tagged soon
  - finalizing changes to simplify configuration deployment
  - also working on puppet provider

Blocking: Research on ORES
Blocked by: none
Updates:
- RESTBase/Kernel security incident
- OTRS upgrade on Jan 28th to be rescheduled for Feb 2nd
- HHVM 3.11 packaging moving on, almost done

Event Logging replication to analytics-store has been slow for a long time. Right now it's behind by about 3 days for a lot of major schemas. The problem is not obvious but we're on it.
Geowiki stopped updating on December 18th because one of the servers it was using was read-only, that's now fixed
Piwik has been optimized and is working reasonably well with the 15.wikipedia.org website, other **low** traffic apps/sites can use piwik now if they wish (already talking to reading about doing this with their iOS client)

No blockers
Not blocking anyone (as far as I know)
Updates:
- QR today (done)
- RT test server (ruthenium) being updated to jessie and node 4.2
  - Needs puppetization fixes to migrate upstart files to systemD
- Parsoid node 4.2 testing with a focus on memory usage / GC behavior

Delay in adding parallel corpora tables for Content Translation
- seems to be resolving now such that we are going to add them ourselves

Cross-wiki notification Beta Feature now on test and test2.
Coordinating on Flow dumps from production. Ariel is working on this - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511

Investigating queue outages during December campaign
Updating DonationInterface session handling to work with 1.27
- Trying to figure out how to run CI tests against the core branch deployed in payments, with 1.27 as non-voting
More CiviCRM enhancements

Portal A/B test is running
Working on Dallas cluster load tests, so far it doesn't appear to hold the peak load, more work is needed
WDQS Blazegraph 2.0 testing successful, will upgrade when GA is released. Started to work on geospatial search implementation.
Quarterly review this Thursday
Waiting for security review on TextCat