2016-05-04

Technology

For all:

- The migration of browsertests* to selenium* is almost complete, however, Željko needs people to claim their failing browser tests. See the task for more information.
  - The task has a table, but it's not clear what you want people to do (are you just asking about the rows with missing "contact from browsertests.yaml" fields)?

For operations:

T126594 - Disable HHVM fcgi server on CI slaves
Need help from ops to review and merge these two patches (we dont need HHVM running as a daemon on CI boxes):
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269946/
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269947/

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133911 - Bump quota of Nodepool instances (contintcloud tenant)
- More instances needed. Clarified with Chase last week: pending Andrew. No urgency.

Two related tasks, each have patches that are needed to streamline the scap3 migration:
- T133211 - Automate the generation deployment keys (keyholder-managed ssh keys)
  - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/284418/
- T132747 - scap::target shouldn't allow users to redefine the user's key
  - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/285519/

Reviews:
- json-schema done, AuthManger done (no more comments, a few minor things before all patches are +1'ed)
- Starting on T129584 this week
Starting work on AuthService next week (heads up to Services, we'll probably be scheduling a few meetings with you) (Marko: ack && yay!)
Ops: ping again on T128819

(Marko cannot attend today, sorry)

RESTBase
- working on storing all auth checks locally (now we are calling the MW API every time)
EventBus / Change propagation
- started using it in production for the summary endpoint today
- more dependency updates to follow soon
Cassandra move to 2.2.6 soon
- first up: maps cluster
use Scap3 - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085299.html

Blocking:
- none
Blocked:
- none
Updates:
- May 15 (Chrome SPDY removal deadline). Getting HTTP/2 working fully deployed till then
- started using letsencrypt for various small services

AuthManager core patches are just waiting for security +1s. Work is ongoing on extensions; CentralAuth, LdapAuthentication, ConfirmEdit could use reviews if anyone is interested.

Blocking:
- External store work. External Store deployed everywhere on Beta with no complications. Work on this continues. We now need to set up a second External Store on Beta for Flow, to test the migration.
Blocked:
- Work on Flow dumps continuing on the ops side. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89398 .
Updates:
- Continuing notification work on:
  - Cross-wiki notifications coming by default on May 12th!
  - Echo email formatter
  - Work continues on the new Echo MVC architecture

We got our first visual diff test run comparing Tidy with HTML5depurate. Results @ http://mw-expt-tests.wmflabs.org/ ... Making notes @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy ... We will use this as the basis for figuring out what things might break if we replace Tidy today and what needs fixing and where.
Scott has been working with Ops to get OCG kinks ironed out.

Blocking:
- Apertium->Jessie. Yet to finalize plan and proceed.
Blocked:
Updates:
- cxserver service will be migrated to scap3 deployment soon.
- Translate (twn, meta,..) now using Apertium MT from cxserver.

Blocking: none
Blocked: none
Preparing for ElasticSearch 2.0 migration
Results for A/B test on portal language link location published: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Test_of_Language_Detection_and_Primary_Link_Resorting.pdf
TextCat A/B test launching soon
Portal A/B test adding descriptions to project links to start this week
WDQS redeployed, some performance issues
Graphs have ability to use WDQS directly now
Search Team offsite in 2 weeks (17-21)

Scaling of pageview API , more work than anticipated
Working new domain analytics.wikimedia.org, wikistats 2.0 migration, meeting with research to map early states of project
Still trouble with jenkins