[Wikitech-l] 2017-08-30 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-08-30 = 2017-08-30 = == Callouts == * Selenium Ruby framework deprecation at the end of October ** Announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088653.html12:… * trebuchet is to scheduled be removed at quarter's end. It's effectively replaced by scap. Salt (the foundation upon trebuchet is built) will be removed too. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164780 * IE8-on-XP support being dropped. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163251 * Ganglia is being moved behind LDAP authentication for security reasons plus deprecation https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/374320/ * eqiad frack refresh preparation in progress, temptative transition scheduled for Sept. 20th. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174218 * Would like somebody from Ops who knows dumps to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/373354/ == Audiences == === Readers === ==== Multimedia ==== * 3D work continuing as usual - have some deploy bumps to pave over * Onboarding 1 engineer and 1 PM, will take up some of our productivity ==== iOS ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Working on 5.6.1 with minor bug fixes ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ ), goes to public beta this week ** Next up is 5.6.7 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) ==== Discovery ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Running search result thumbnails AB test this/next week ====Reading Infrastructure ==== * adding article concatenation support to Collection extension === Contributors === ==== Global Collaboration ==== ===== Language ===== * No Blocker/Blocking. * CX-VE work continue. * Preparing for cxserver deployment (with lots of changes/improvements!) * New MT service in review: Matxin. ===== Collaboration ===== * Updates: ** ChangesList filters *** RCFilters: Minimize saved query before comparison ({{phabricator|T174193}}) *** WLFilters: set default values ({{phabricator|T171134}}) *** RCFilters: Adjust highlight for seen/unseen states in Watchlist ({{phabricator|T171235}}) *** WLFilters: Fix seen/unseen filters ({{phabricator|T171127}}) *** RCFilters: Enable 'View newest' ({{phabricator|T163426}}) *** RCFilters: Hide saved queries from anonymous users ({{phabricator|T173992}}) *** WLFilters: avoid querying the DB when filters are in conflict ({{phabricator|T171132}}) *** Various bug fixes * Blockers ** Resolved a Flow issue that was blocking dumps ({{phabricator|T172025}}) === Community Tech === * Post-deployment fixes to LoginNotify and CodeMirror * Working on GlobalPreferences and ArticleCreationWorkflow == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Fundraising Tech === * No blocker/blocking * Trying to optimize things for December (db writes, fs access, etc) * More work on handling donations where the user returns with no session cookies * More work on main CC processor - new API and audit file format === MediaWiki Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Performance === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Selenium Ruby framework deprecation announce: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088653.html 1 2:31:12 *** End of October deprecation date. ** Team kanban: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2769/query/rAdBKbHGnFVu/ === Research === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: ** Bit of ops support to help us diagnose file handle starvation during stress testing. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174402. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169246 * Blocking: ** Moving our service over to a new, dedicated cluster. * Updates: ** Thresholds feature is announced and ready for testing, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/68/more_better_model_info… ** Over the next few weeks, we're finalizing a schema for commenting on or judging almost any wiki artifact: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/meta_ores_schema ** Working to formally identify our stakeholders. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES/Stakeholders === Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Continuing work on ML-assisted ranking ** A/B tests for interleaved results and human-graded relevancy concluded, analyzing results next ** Fixed issue with punctuation and Chinses language (T172653) ** Categories to RDF code merged, need review for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/373354/ from somebody who knows dumps ** WDQS logs now go to logstash ** Sent inquiry to wiki communities about extending the list of namespaces searched by default (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473) * Analyzed some unexpected behavior of searchin Japanese: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173650 === Security === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: * Completed auditing tables which are being replicated to labs for consistency with privacy policy * Reviews: ** Adhoc review of CentralNotice ** vue.js ** ArticleCreationWorkflow === Services === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Came back from an offsite ** Rolling out job event production to all wikis today ** Continuing to set up the new Cassandra 3 cluster ** Will be very slowly preparing for node.js upgrade, so will soon create some tasks for service owners to access the complexity of it === Technical Operations === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** trebuchet is to scheduled be removed at quarter's end. It's effectively replaced by scap. Salt (the foundation upon trebuchet is built) will be removed too. ** IE8-on-XP support being dropped. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163251 ** Ganglia is being moved behind LDAP authentication for security reasons ** eqiad frack refresh preparation in progress, tentative transition scheduled for Sept. 20th. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174218 == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: