Scrum of scrums/2016-02-03

2015-02-03

Product

Reading

Web

• New related pages desktop design pushed, will measure engagement
• Instrumentation in prep for language switcher change [analytics]
• new user page designs on mobile web beta going live
• Extension:Gather - PageImages showing non-free images - meeting scheduled to iron out API request/response format to first try in Related Articles on web to adjust output

Android

• New beta coming soon with improved memory usage for images and support for animations. Also includes A/B testing for CirrusSearch (T125393).

iOS

• Will be integrating "top articles" feature using pageviews API
• Looking forward to mobileview API change from web team to get article namespaces!

Reading Infrastructure

• Nothing much this week. SessionManager should be coming back into master once wmf.12 is verified not to break stuff.

Community Tech

• No update.

Editing

Collaboration

• Blocking:
  • Dry run patch for external store migration is merged. Now we need to set External Store up on Beta, then test the dry run patch there: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119567
• Blocked:
  • Flow dump generation on dumps.wikimedia.org: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511
• Updates:
  • We're still working on human-readable names for cross-wiki notifications: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121936
  • MediaWiki presence at FOSDEM went well.

Language

• No update.

Multimedia

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• Updates:
  • Work on image tweaks extension continues; may need input later.

Parsing

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: Need input from Collaboration, see below.
• Updates:
  • ruthenium updated to jessie and node 4.2 with almost everything puppetized (thanks to ops, Marko, Ori). Tests look good. Need to run separate memory load tests before making a decision to move production parsoid to node 4.2
  • Need input from collaboration team about https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124837 (migrating Flow to talk with RESTBase) since it will simplify support when we remove inlined data-mw from Parsoid HTML (I consider this ticket a weak blocker)
    • Matt: Should we schedule a meeting about this? Sure .. let us do it this week.
  • Will work with services team to finalize REST API versioning policy this week -- last chance to provide input on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124365 ... Policy will be applied when Parsoid HTML version is changed after inlined data-mw is moved out of Parsoid HTML
  • Heads up (VE, Language, Flow): We might be able to deploy templatedata-based serialization of transclusions next week (depends on reviews this week).
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/264043/ if you want to test your respective clients against it ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/264043/16/tests/mocha/templatedata.js and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/264043/16/tests/mockAPI.js has tests that spec behavior if you want to take a closer look)

VisualEditor

• Blocking: none known
• Blocked:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58337 being worked on in review from Krinkle for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/259771/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/265878/ and so https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/265879/
• Updates:
  • Released yesterday (wmf.12), editing via jQuery.IME (thanks to Language for their support); table editing improvements (move columns/rows; copy-paste multiple cells; make/unmake tables sortable/wikitable; cell and table contexts)
  • wmf.13 will contain a split up version of OOUI; see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113677 for work on this and some numbers. This is not a breaking change except for non-MediaWiki users of OOUI like VE, for whom we'll flag this.

Discovery

• Data import from analytics to ES started
• Working on integrating completion suggester for all prefix searches (will involve some small API changes in SearchEngine)
• TextCat is ready for inclusion in mediawiki/vendors, waiting for final security signoff
• Preparing for A/B test to use opening_text instead of text in morelike query, to improve performance
• Upgrading Wikidata Query Service to Blazegraph 2.0, so far working ok but some weird exceptions, investigating
• Blocking: none
• Blocked: security final signoff for textcat

Technology

Analytics

• Dashiki: implemented limn-like layout, will end-of-life most limn dashboards soon
• Event Logging: problems were largely due to large tables, getting better as we're trimming some of those
• Wikimetrics: finished program metrics feature, deploying soon
• Jobs to count Uniques based on the Last-Access cookie are being productionized, will be available soon
• Bot convention thread on analytics-l concluded with us asking non-human user agents to include the word "Bot", for analytics purposes. We'll communicate that here soon: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy

Performance

• No update.

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Phase out antimony.wikimedia.org, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123718
  • /var/log/phd/damons.log growing on iridium, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124651
• Blocked: none
• Updates:
  • 1.27.0-wmf.11 was skipped (and burned in effigy)
  • 1.27.0-wmf.12 delayed by staging issues yesterday but train is starting today
    • fun firefighting due to /srv/mediawiki-staging being wiped out
    • wmf.12 does not contain SessionManager due to an outstanding bug that remains unreproducible
  • scap 3.0 tagged and packaged! thanks ops!
  • Finishing up work on puppet scap provider

Research

• No update.

Security

• No update.

Services

• Decommissioning parsoid-lb.wikimedia.org around Feb 22 -- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110474

• use RESTBase instead

• RESTBase

• added streaming support
• refactor: separating out the framework part of RESTBase
• minor tweaks and bug fixes

• EventBus

• enabled on all wikis (module private ones)
• final tweaks to the schemas - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124741

Technical Operations

• No update.

Advancement

Fundraising Tech

• Adam Wight and Andrew Green taking the month off fr-tech to work on Education Program extension
• Got CI jobs running against paymentswiki branch of mediawiki (voting) with 1.27 non-voting (thank you releng)
• more CiviCRM enhancements
• fixes and enhancements for backup credit card processor
• prep for Latin America fundraising expansion
• investigating banner impression data outage that started yesterday (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125676)