Scrum of scrums/2018-01-03
2018-01-03
[edit]Callouts
[edit]- Ops/DBAs. Reminder that s5 will have readonly time on 9th January as s8 will become the online wikidata shard. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181645, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177208
- Search PF would like somebody from performance/MediaWiki team to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183101 we’ve got some fails on LinksUpdate which blocked search index update which makes Wikidata items invisible in search (~50 items)
Audiences
[edit]Readers
[edit]iOS native app
[edit]- Blocked by: none
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Releasing 5.7.4 this week - minor bug fixes related to article loading, new navigation bar behavior
- Continuing work on 5.8 - synced reading lists
Reading Infrastructure
[edit]- Blocked by: Ops on puppet code review:
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- vacation
- working on T167400 (WP0 piracy) + T174993 (vandalism)
Maps
[edit]- Blocked by: None
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Everyone has been on vacation
Contributors
[edit]Global Collaboration
[edit]- Blocked by: Security on response to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144467
- Blocking: Ops on Flow dumps; Matt is working on it
- Updates:
- A bunch of bug fixes for Special:RecentChangesLinked
- Roan working on refactoring the change_tag schema (inspired by Cenarium and Ladsgroup), will write a small RFC later this week
Community Tech
[edit]- GlobalPreferences is almost ready.
- Analyzing new proposals.
Technology
[edit]Analytics
[edit]- Wikistats UI launch, working on bugs filed by community members.
- Working on TLS and kafka with brandon for the ciphers we will use
- Working on new APIs to report pageview data by country
- Blogpost about wikistats launch
- Some troubles on dbstore (the analytics box that holds the wiki-replicas). We might need to order new hardware
- We order 8 new boxes for cluster which brings total to 50 nodes
- Started work on geowiki project (editors per country, internal data only) users of this project are mostly internal (Asaf’s team)
Technical Operations
[edit]- Blocked by:
- None
- Blocking
- None
- Updates:
- Very quiet week, most everyone on vacation.
Services
[edit]- Blockers: none
- Updates:
- Very quite because of vacations and holidays
- Mathoid storage in Cassandra 3 cluster populated, transition blocked by renderer bugs
- Preparing next round of Cassandra reshapes
Fundraising Tech
[edit]- Deploying (and debugging) stuff we held back for the fundraiser
- CiviCRM enhancements
- Writing some python code to help with banner impression stats collection
- More thoughts on how to replace our kafkatee -> payments cluster log parser system: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179841
Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocked by
- None
- Blocking
- None?
- Updates
- wmf.15 going out this week
Performance
[edit]- Blocked by: none
- Blocking: none
- Updates
- HHVM hangs resulted in increased save times over the holiday weekend: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183889
- Addressing a couple of edge cases in Thumbor, little general impact
- Mostly quiet (holidays)
Search Platform
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Would like somebody from performance team to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183101 we’ve got some fails on LinksUpdate which blocked search index update which makes Wikidata items invisible in search (~50 items)
- Working on fixes for completion suggester & redirects namespaces
- Investigating ElasticSearch phonetic search (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182708)
- Wikidata search fixes for delay & space handling will be deployed with .15
- Working on refactoring search profiles to make them more config-like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183279
- Collecting feedback for Wikidata fulltext & prefix search rankings
Scoring Platform
[edit]- Blocked by: No blockers, thanks to great RelEng and Ops work!
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- switching ORES to stretch
- continuing Extension:ORES refactoring (Collab/Roan are looped in)