Scrum of scrums/2016-04-13

Product

Reading

Web

Blocked on: Ops

• Need support from ops to roll out lazy loaded images to 1% of users: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127883

Blocked on parsing:

• Need support from parsing team issue impacting Wikivoyage production for past month: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121135

Quick links

• Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1873/
• Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1921/

Reading Infrastructure

• AuthManager core bits are basically done!
  • Still hoping to get this into 1.27, so we don't have to support AuthPlugin stuff in the LTS.
  • Test it at http://authmanager.wmflabs.org/
  • SECURITY: We're ready for finishing up the security reviews on the AuthManager core bits.
    • Main: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/195297/
    • API: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/265201/
    • UI: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/240052/
• load.php session access errors should be coming soon, we're just waiting for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131176 to ride the train.

Android

Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1937/

• Blocking:
  • none
• Blocked:
  • none
• Updates:
  • Reading list (client-only) work still in progress. The finish line is in sight.
  • All* Android prod app installs use the mobile content service / RESTBase as of Monday.

iOS

Current Release Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1902/

• Blocking:
  • none
• Blocked:
  • none
• Updates:
  • 5.0.3 in progress, likely deploying in 2-3 weeks
    • An external beta should be sent out either end of this week or early next week
  • Deploying a universal links fix Tueday at Puppet SWAT (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/281900/)

Mobile Content Service

Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/

• Blocking:
  • none
• Blocked:
  • none
• Updates:
  • Deployed fix for redirects with HTML entities in redirected title

Editing

Language

• Blocking:
  • none
• Blocked:
  • none
• Updates:
  • Team offsite next week;

Collaboration

• Blocking:
  • External store work. Some progress here, will continue when Jaime is back.
• Blocked:
  • Work on Flow dumps has resumed on both ops side and ours
• Updates:
  • Working on support for Flow notifications being properly hidden on moderation
  • Work on Echo bundling refactoring
  • Work on Echo refactoring for code structure. New MVC structure

Parsing

• Visual diff testing with 2 mediawiki installs now ready -- doing a baseline run for sanity checking and fixing bugs and issues with different pieces

Discovery

• Blocking: none
• Blocked:
  • Security review: PHP Json Schema validator - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426
    • Scheduled for next week: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Schedule
• Updates:
  • Weekly status updates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
  • Hackathon: Elastic-backed deleted pages search, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109561 - feedback welcome
  • Caching for WDQS to be enabled today
  • Communication to Elasticsearch servers now fully HTTPS.
  • Geospatial search preview for WDQS: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008461.html
  • On-wiki tabular (tsv/csv/...) data storage needs some feedback
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120452 & https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/281331/

Fundraising Tech

• No blocking/blockers
• More tests of new Latin America payment types
• Central Notice
  • Deployed fix for admin UI timeouts and a couple minor bugs
  • Planning how to reduce or eliminate cookie usage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131319
• Steady progress on CiviCRM logging / reversion work

Technology

Services

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• Updates
  • found and corrected issues in MCS' redirect loop
  • moved redirect-handling logic into RESTBase
    • need to coordinate with MCS for deployment
  • almost ready to start defaulting to MathML (Mathoid/RB) on all wikis - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78046
  • DC switch-over next week!
    • services to switch on Monday, 10:00 UTC
    • reminder: no deploys next week

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • Security release
  • Chad has started looking at that, but is a little swamped
• Blocked:
  • Backup phab node https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131775
• Updates
  • Scap migration continues
  • No deploys week of 18th

Technical Operations

• Blocking:
  • Security on the bacula issue
• Blocked:
  • None
• Updates
  • codfw switchover next week
  • Got a private docker repo ready for use in tool labs
  • Try to start using horizon (horizon.wikimedia.org) for labs VM management instead of wikitech (testers welcomed)

Analytics

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• Unique Devices dataset / API released
• browser reports released (not yet public, bikeshedding on domain, currently at https://browser-reports.wmflabs.org )
• Dan on vacation April 18 -> May 4

Security

• Working on AuthManager review. Don't plan on any substantial changes.