https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-08-16
= 2017-08-16 =
contact:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering
== Callouts ==
* Releng: Trebuchet's days are numbered. If you care about these projects
please get in touch with #RelEng
** These are the last remaining trebuchet projects:
*** iegreview
*** scholarships
*** ocg
*** dropwizard
* Wikidata: * For weeks we see thousands of hard to track user-facing Lua
errors, see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039. We believe
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171166 might fix it, but need help by
devs willing to touch LuaSandbox build.
== Wikidata ==
* Callout: For weeks we see thousands of hard to track user-facing Lua
errors, see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039. We believe
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171166 might fix it, but need help by
devs willing to touch LuaSandbox build.
=== Readers ===
==== Web ====
* Completing roll out of Page previews to all projects but enwiki and
dewiki (likely to be stalled until post Wikimania)
* RelatedArticles now renders articles in footer rather than side bar. (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165991)
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** MCS gets geo coordinates from action API instead of Parsoid.
** Got rid of action=mobilview API calls for regular pages.
=== Reading Discovery ====
* Updates
** Working on search thumbnail AB test
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149811
=== Contributors ===
==== Collaboration ====
* Most of our team was at Wikimania.
* However, we continued work on RC Filters and Echo
* Echo: Merged a "Mark all as read" patch from community member and worked
on additional patches (e.g. edit-user notification)
* RCFilters: Small fixes
* Flow: In-progress work on a feature to allow you to add inline Flow
discussion linked to specific text.
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
*2 team members in wikimania, 2 on family leave, 1 of our team members
coming back next week from parental leave. Not a lot happened.
*We figured out issue with timeouts in varnishkafka, there was one host
running too new of a version of kafka API
*Still working on purging eventlogging data, moving to cluster some data
out of MySQL (will make DBAs happy). Couple tables that are about 0.5 tb.
*Ordering new hosts to replace eventlogging MYSQL hosts using some budget
we will not need for the new Kafka cluster.
*Edit History Reconstruction, made a snapshoot custom for Neil (editing
data analysts) to calculate metrics on.
*Wikimetrics had stop working due to some recent changes to labs db
connection limits, fixed that.
=== Services ===
* Blockers: none
* Updates:
** Wiped out Parsoid HTML cache in preparation for Cassandra 3 upgrade
*** Elevated VE latencies for a while while new storage is populated
=== Technical Operations ===
* '''Blocked''':
** by noone
* '''Blocking''':
** none
* '''Updates''':
** Wikimania + Debconf week, not much happened.
=== Community Tech ===
*Updates: CodeMirror and LoginNotify are still coming!
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* looking into db replication lag - it'll get up to like 5000 sec behind,
but restarting mysql on the replicated copy will make it catch up in less
than a minute
* continuing new API work with main credit card processor
* updating our interrupted-donation-resolver to work generically so we can
use it for PayPal express checkout
* refinements to CiviCRM<->bulk mailer data flows
* CentralNotice clone campaign feature almost ready for CR
=== Scoring platform ===
*Blocked
**Feeling the pain of no git-fat in labs deployments (our git repos are
huge!)
***https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171758
***Releng, can this be prioritized?
*Updates
**New ORES model information available at
https://ores-misc.wmflabs.org.
Demo coming soon.
***Mostly an FYI for Collab Team
=== Release Engineering ===
* Last projects moving to scap3
**These have patches but deployment window scheduled:
*** [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129154 iegreview]
*** [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129134 scholarships]
** No idea about:
*** [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129142 ocg]
*** [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170839 dropwizard metrics(???)] -
Speak up now or forever hold your peace (we'll delete it)