https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-01-03
= *2018-01-03* =
== Callouts ==
* 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 ==
=== Readers ===
==== iOS native app ====
* 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 ====
* Blocked by: Ops on puppet code review:
**
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/397623/
**
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/395694/
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** vacation
** working on T167400 (WP0 piracy) + T174993 (vandalism)
==== Maps ====
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
- Everyone has been on vacation
=== Global Collaboration ===
* 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 ===
* GlobalPreferences is almost ready.
* Analyzing new proposals.
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* 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 ===
* Blocked by:
** None
* Blocking
** None
* Updates:
** Very quiet week, most everyone on vacation.
=== Services ===
* 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 ===
* 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 ===
* Blocked by
** None
* Blocking
** None?
* Updates
** wmf.15 going out this week
=== Performance ===
* 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 ===
* 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 ===
* 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)