Scrum of scrums/2017-10-25
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2017-10-25
[edit]Callouts
[edit]- Services are running a new JobQueue test in beta cluster, so if you see anything strange in beta - please notify
- Mukunda broke scap in beta, will get it fixed soon!
Audiences
[edit]Readers
[edit]Multimedia
[edit]- Blocking: None
- Blocked by: None
- Updates: MediaInfo/Wikibase on Commons work is continuing, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177022
- UploadWizard changes for 3D legal considerations, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178513
- and discussions about MP3.
- Heads up: Mark on vacation next week, plus three days in the following week - will respond but may be AFK
iOS native app
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Apps offsite last week
- 5.7.0 will be released this week ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Visual updates to onboarding, iOS 11 support, iPhone X support
- Starting work on 5.7.1 -https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3047/ and 5.8 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2913/
Reading Web
[edit]- currently offsite-ing
Reading Infrastructure
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Reading lists available in beta & labs: https://restbase-reading.wmflabs.org/en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/v1/ + http://readinglists.wmflabs.org/api/rest_v1/#/Reading_lists
Discovery
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- continuing work on portal automation, general clean-ups, adding SVGs
Contributors
[edit]Parsing
[edit]- Blocked by: Parsoid debian package upload blocked by change needed to the deb-upload script (Daniel Zahn replied on IRC y'day as he was rushing to catch a flight that the release server has changed). But, not sure if anything is needed on our end or will Ops fix this? I can create a phab ticket if required.
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Parsing team back from offsite (last week). Nothing significant to report for purposes of SoS. Focusing on some perf work this week.
Services
[edit]- Blockers: none
- Updates:
- All jobs in beta cluster are processed via kafka as a test. Please tell us if you notice anything weird
- Deprecated /titile/ and /title/{title}/ listings in REST API has been removed
Community Tech
[edit]- Preparing for a new wishlist survey
- Deploying Unicode sections soon
TechOps
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Flow isAllowed gets actual revision text before it is needed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172025
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Procurement for Asia datacenter has started
- We have IP addresses allocated
- Work on unifying production and CI build pipeline ongoing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177276
- Database shard s5 split into s8 ongoing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172679
- Work on porting varnish request stats scripts to Prometheus https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177199
- Puppet modernization ongoing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177254
Search Platform
[edit]- Blocked by: none
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Finished removal of messaging fallbacks from Elastic indexing (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177871)
- Relaxing phrase query filter A/B finished, analyzing (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177956)
- Checked language analyzers to see whether we want to research other morphological libraries (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652)
- See the plan in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652#3707331
- Looking at top abandoned queries (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176997)
- Extended a set of default search namespaces on several wikis (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473)
- Enabled stricter throttling on WDQS to deal with clients that issue tons of short requests very fast
- Enabling ElasticSearch prefix search on Wikidata today
- Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS
- Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5
- Working on indexing Wikidata descriptions and adding them to fulltext search
Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocked by: None
- Blocking: None
- Updates:
- Mukunda broke scap in beta, will get it fixed soon! ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179013 )
- Deployment logspam is mostly quiet, except one non-deployment related log from the tidy migration (Parsing/MW Platform know)
- Zeljko paired with Elena T. to get some Echo notification browser tests written (nodejs/mocha framework).
- Zeljko scheduled a Tech Talk on Oct 31st to discuss/teach the nodejs browser testing framework.
- Scap tech-debt project well underway, merged many improvements last week
- new/docker based CI: the phan job is now migrated
- Gerrit was upgraded last week (minor version)
- Working on git-lfs (large file store, for big binary blobs) support in Gerrit for ORES and Reading teams
- Redesigned (simplified) the Phabricator login screen <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D831>, should be deployed soon.
Security
[edit]- Blocked by: None
- Blocking: whowever is waiting for security reviews
- Updates:
- Node Security Project 3.0.0 being released soon (available as nsp@next); please consider upgrading if you work on Node.js-based projects
- Reviews:
- pdfrw
- more will be scheduled soon
Wikidata
[edit]- Preparing WikidataCon: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017
- We will live-stream the main tracks on Saturday and Sunday: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Remote