Scrum of scrums/2016-09-14

2016-09-14

Product

Reading

Reading Web

Current sprint:

• Related pages preparation for mobile web deployments
• Shipped wikidata descriptions in mobile web to all but top 6 wikis

Mobile Content Service

• Working on follow-up tasks from last week's Android app outage:
• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160907-Android

• Set up monitoring tests for individual feed endpoints https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145223
• Communicate steps on how to switch the app to use different backend servers.
• Investigate Icinga alert setup if the app experiences unusually high crash rates.
• Heads-up: New service developement starting soon for new RESTBase service to get Trending edits: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading_web_trending_service/

Android native app

Current sprint: 91 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/

• navigation overhaul: primary dev work is complete; now updating per design feedback.
• beta release this week (probably)

iOS native app

Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/

• 5.2
• Adding iOS 10 Support
  • Today Widgets - Top Read & Continue Reading and basic iOS 10 compatibility
• Dropping iOS 8 support
• Released to beta, releasing with iOS 10 Tuesday September 13

Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/

• Bug fix release for 5.2, scope still in discussion

Reading Infrastructure

• no blocking/blocked

Community Tech

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• Working with Performance team to optimize refreshLinks job for PageAssessments roll-out to enwiki (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145473)
• Finished work on Google OCR tool for WikiSource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR
  • Web interface: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-google-ocr/
  • Gadget: https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GoogleOCR.js
• Working with DBAs on improving CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141951)
• Working on Education Program Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546

Editing

Collaboration

• Blocking
  • Continuing work on Flow caching rewrite
• Blocked
• Updates
  • Major work on seen time for Echo notifications. It is now a single global time, so when you open any notification popup, the time is updated globally.
  • Continued work on using MessagePoster to allow for posting to wikitext or Flow boards more easily. NewUserMessage updated to use this, PageTriage is next.

Language

• Blocking: None
• Blocked: None
• Updates:
  • Content Translation work continue.
  • Apertium ready for Jessie migration, test this week, deployment likely next week.

Analytics

• Blocking: None
• Blocked: None
• Updates:
  • Kasocki : Working on automating tests with jenkins
  • New AQS cluster data is loaded, load-tests still to be run, then production integration
  • Edit reconstruction: data for simplewiki is ready to be sent to Erik (not perfect, still improving), performance optimisations on the go for big wikis to run
  • Pivot (druid based UI) is being productionized to be accessible for WMF staff (LDAP)
  • Participation in A/B testing design - Looking good

Services

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• Updates:
  • Services config deploys via scap3 on the way
  • Depooling and repooling services during deployment, instructions would be sent soon
  • Change Propagation replaced RESTBaseUpdateJobs, extension undeployed
  • EventBus deprecated events are not produced any more

Technical Operations

• Blocking: none
  • none
• Blocked:
  • none
• Updates:
  • Migrated to a new puppetmaster infrastructure for production, should make next DC switchover easier (among other things)
  • TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter), please work around this for deployments
  • wikitech features will get a deprecation announcement soon
  • Partial traffic to thumbor to be enabled this week
  • apertium reviews for LE are done. Migration of apertium service to SCB to happen next week.
  • appserver migration to jessie ongoing. CODFW done, EQIAD to happen next
  • New DBA, Manuel onboarded.

Discovery

• No blockers
• BM25 A/B test is turned off, preliminary results ok, waiting for analysis
• Working on multiwiki indexes, public comments sought at:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design
• Added ASCII-folding for French (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429)
• Had SPARQL workshop, materials at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Workshop
• Had Discernatron lunch, a lot of useful feedback
• Working on deploying codfw servers for WDQS

Interactive team

• <mapframe> to be deployed on non-large wikis soon

Fundraising Tech

• Investigating low response to WLM CentralNotice campaign in South Korea
• Fixing CentralNotice MariaDB strict mode violations
• Finishing up queue work
• More donor data cleanup in CiviCRM - language preferences, placeholder emails and addresses

RelEng

• Blocking
  • no
• Blocked
  • no
• Updates
  • Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
  • Changes to beta cluster puppetmaster cherry-pick process Coming Soon™ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135427