[Wikitech-l] 2017-01-18 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-01-18 = 2017-01-18 = == Product == === Reading === ==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/ * Working on: ** Clicking on references is broken (Broken in the Android app; a Parsoid change caused this) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155070 ** Improving regression testing ====Android==== * Last week: ** Dev summit and all hands ** Start on improving offline support quarterly goal ** New account creation broken in API 25 T155535 ** Investigate reverted edit notifications failure * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ): ** Work towards release of Wikidata description editing ** Continue on improved offline experience ==== iOS native app ==== * Last Week ** Dev summit, All hands, released 5.3.4 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2396/ ** Continued work on 5.4 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/ * This week ** Continue work on 5.4 - Places, Login enhancements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/ ==== Web ==== * Last week: ** Dev summit and all hands ** Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-89-%F0%9F%8E%82/ * Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2426/ ** Deploy Wikidata description and Related Articles on enwiki mobile === Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked - * Blocking - * Updates ** Main patch for RecentChanges page UI finished and merged (Adding new interface for review filters to RecentChanges). ** Add userExpLevel filter in the RCFilters UI ** Continuing related work to this, including backend. ** Some meetings at Dev Summit about ReviewStream (part of Edit Review Improvements) and WikiLabels admin interface ** Flow consistency fixes == Technology == === Analytics === Updates: * Continuing with the work to replace front end and backend of http://stats.wikimedia.org : Wikistats 2.0, a mjor development is that we will be able to import the edit history from labs rather than prod dbs, huge advantage as this data is redacted and already public.* * Working on launching RCStream replacement, review stream plus several other real time streams. Will start working with collaboration on augmented ORES recent changes stream. * Started work on processing user_agent field on eventlogging tables, it will be a json string like {"OS_Family": "Windows", "Browser_family":"Chrome"....} * Found issue with Heap on cluster, set up alarms, will be solved with update to cloudera's newest * Still waiting for hardware for pageview API, getting closer === Release Engineering === * '''Bocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None? * '''Updates''' ** Deployment is back to normal, train is on schedule: https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/ ** Scap 3.5 release eminent, changelog will be sent, check on beta please === Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** Node 6 upgrade is coming: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149331 *** RESTBase updated, great improvement in memory consumption *** Parsoid today *** SCB tomorrow *** MCS, CXServer, EventStreams - if you have something to deploy - do it TODAY! === Discovery === * No blockers * Continuing work on crosswiki searches * Special:Search refactoring merged in * Started work on improving wikidata search * Started preparing for upgrade to ElasticSearch 5 * Added app links to portal homepage == German Technical Wishlist == * Collecting what we learned at the Dev Summit * Decided to not render URLs in the Electron PDF export any more https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152393 * Can we help investigating why Kartographer does not work with flagged revs, to support German Wikipedia? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151665 == Wikidata == * Slow week, key people are still in the US * Currently focusing on backend services for federation ("Wikidata on Commons") https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007 == Fundraising Tech == * CentralNotice banner impressions in pivot: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#banner-impressions-hourly * More work to prevent unintended duplicate donations * More CiviCRM customization moved to a real Civi extension * Easing import of employer matching gifts * Examining contractor fileshare change * Casey training on ops-y stuff with Jeff and preparing to announce a job opening