Scrum of scrums/2016-03-23

2016-03-23

Product

Community Tech

• Blocking:
  • None
• Blocked:
  • Waiting for jcrespo to do schema change for category sorting: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130692
• Updates:
  • Pageviews Analytics tool is feature complete (http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/), talking to communities about adding links to it
  • Deadlink logging API is finished, adding integration to Cyberbot

Reading

Reading Infrastructure

• AuthManager is still coming! (see three weeks ago for details)
  • Behind schedule though, but we think we're about there on the core patches.
• It looks like we're getting close on the load.php thing, too.

Mobile Content Service

• Updates:
  • Fixed issue with lead paragraph transformation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65874
  • Starting rollout of Mobile Content Service to Android production app this Thursday https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126934

Android

• 2.1.143 beta published. Expected to be promoted to production soon.

iOS

• Updates:
  • 5.0.1 was released today - all bug fix updates
  • Hockey app is currently much happier - less crashes

• Upcoming:
  • Enabling handoff from Mac browser to iOS app and credentials sharing by updating a file on the server
  • No time frame for next release (but expect it within 3 weeks) - currently deciding whether to do another bug fix or do 5.1 with features

• Blocking:
  • Nothing

Web

Done

• Lazy loaded images rolling to beta mobile web
• Structured Language Overlay - trying to push it to 100% stable
• Language Switcher button - beta for now
• Lazy loading references

Upcoming

• Bug fixes and tweaks to the Language Overlay
• Ship the language switcher
• Semi-structured sprint

Editing

Collaboration

• Blocking:
  • External store work
• Blocked:
• Updates:
  • Working on support for Flow notifications being properly hidden on moderation
  • Work on the Echo special page
  • Changed MobileFrontend to reuse Echo code
  • Working on Flow bug fixes

Language

• Blocking:
  • None
• Blocked:
  • New MT deployments blocked due to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/277463/ (WIP)
• Updates:
  • Work on ContentTranslation continue.

Multimedia

• Blocking:
  • None
• Blocked:
  • None
• Updates:
  • UploadWizard fixes and performance stuff on the way, currently in the works
  • ImageTweaks is slow going, currently there's a patch in core that it depends on, probably won't be moving as quickly as we thought

Parsing

• Blocking:
  • None?
• Blocked:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Somewhat of a lull in activity last couple weeks (with vacation, time off, 20% work)
  • But, heads up for VE, CX, Flow, Reading teams about https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78676 -- been filing dependent tasks for various teams. Parsoid side of the work should mostly be ready for merge in 2-3 weeks. But, other dependent tasks need to be resolved, performance and client blockers will be considered before enabling this in production.

Fundraising Tech

• No blocking/blockers
• DonationInterface mw1.27 tests are failing on some i18n core change, but they're no longer voting
• Raft of CiviCRM enhancements to make logging more robust and enable reverting contact merges
• Testing new Latin American payment methods in previously unpestered countries
• Pondering how to make payments use a more recent version of mediawiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130658
• More DonationInterface refactoring

Technology

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • ???
• Blocked:
  • None
• Updates:
  • Reminder: Code freeze & Dallas switchover week of April 18
  • Trebuchet -> Scap migration! Get in touch if you need it
    • There is a super secret irc channel on freenode, cryptically named #scap3
    • scap 3.1 should be deployed soon, now with moar git-fat support. This will unblock some services switching from Trebuchet to scap.

Research

Research and Data

• Blocking:
  • none
• Blocked:
  • ORES blocked on MW core code review
    • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ores_extension_blockers
    • What is the normal workflow for getting code reviewed?
      • typical turn-around time?
      • documentation for engaging +2 people?
• Updates:
  • ORES downtime over the weekend
    • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160319-Ores
    • tl;dr pip doesn't remove old versions when installing new wheels

Security

• Blocking:
  • ???
• Blocked:
  • ???
• Updates:
  • 2FA updates for wikitech today. 2FA available on SUL wikis to Staff next week.

Services

• Blocking:
  • none
• Blocked:
  • Ops: change-prop deploy - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128463
• Updates:
  • RESTBase to start redirecting non-normalised titles and commons URLs
  • DC switch-over for RESTBase && node services successful - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127974
  • Mathoid and RESTBase now support PNG generation
  • Scap3: should have a guide soon for node.js services

Technical Operations

• Blocking:
  • Services on changepropagation deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128463
• Blocked:
  • none
• Updates:
  • All the rdb100* hosts (Redis Job Queue) have been re-imaged with Debian.
  • ORES database hosts ready, looking for some help with scap3 and ORES

Discovery

• Blocking:
  • none
• Blocked:
  • Ops: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127014
  • Security review: SVG sanitizer for graphs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125382
• Updates:
  • ZRR down following completion suggester deployment: http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#failure_suggestions
  • Working on scoring improvement for search and suggester
  • Working on connection pooling for ES
  • Join #wikimedia-interactive for interactions about interactive content!