https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-10-25
= 2017-10-25 =
== Callouts ==
* Services are running a new JobQueue test in beta cluster, so if you see
anything strange in beta - please notify
* Mukunda broke scap in beta, will get it fixed soon!
== Audiences ==
=== Readers ===
==== Multimedia ====
* Blocking: None
* Blocked by: None
* Updates: MediaInfo/Wikibase on Commons work is continuing,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177022
* UploadWizard changes for 3D legal considerations,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178513
* and discussions about MP3.
* Heads up: Mark on vacation next week, plus three days in the following
week - will respond but may be AFK
==== iOS native app ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Apps offsite last week
** 5.7.0 will be released this week (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Visual updates to
onboarding, iOS 11 support, iPhone X support
** Starting work on 5.7.1 -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3047/ and 5.8 -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2913/
==== Reading Web ====
- currently offsite-ing
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Reading lists available in beta & labs:
https://restbase-reading.wmflabs.org/en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/v1/ +
http://readinglists.wmflabs.org/api/rest_v1/#/Reading_lists
==== Discovery ====
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
* continuing work on portal automation, general clean-ups, adding SVGs
=== Contributors ===
==== Parsing ====
* Blocked by: Parsoid debian package upload blocked by change needed to the
deb-upload script (Daniel Zahn replied on IRC y'day as he was rushing to
catch a flight that the release server has changed). But, not sure if
anything is needed on our end or will Ops fix this? I can create a phab
ticket if required.
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Parsing team back from offsite (last week). Nothing significant to
report for purposes of SoS. Focusing on some perf work this week.
==== Services ====
* Blockers: none
* Updates:
** All jobs in beta cluster are processed via kafka as a test. Please
tell us if you notice anything weird
** Deprecated /titile/ and /title/{title}/ listings in REST API has
been removed
=== Community Tech ===
* Preparing for a new wishlist survey
* Deploying Unicode sections soon
=== TechOps ===
* Blocked by:
** Flow isAllowed gets actual revision text before it is needed
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172025
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Procurement for Asia datacenter has started
** We have IP addresses allocated
** Work on unifying production and CI build pipeline ongoing
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177276
** Database shard s5 split into s8 ongoing
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172679
** Work on porting varnish request stats scripts to Prometheus
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177199
** Puppet modernization ongoing
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177254
=== Search Platform ===
* Blocked by: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
* Finished removal of messaging fallbacks from Elastic indexing (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177871)
* Relaxing phrase query filter A/B finished, analyzing (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177956)
* Checked language analyzers to see whether we want to research other
morphological libraries (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652)
** See the plan in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652#3707331
* Looking at top abandoned queries (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176997)
* Extended a set of default search namespaces on several wikis (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473)
* Enabled stricter throttling on WDQS to deal with clients that issue tons
of short requests very fast
* Enabling ElasticSearch prefix search on Wikidata today
* Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS
* Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5
* Working on indexing Wikidata descriptions and adding them to fulltext
search
=== Release Engineering ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: None
* Updates:
** Mukunda broke scap in beta, will get it fixed soon! (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179013 )
** Deployment logspam is mostly quiet, except one non-deployment related
log from the tidy migration (Parsing/MW Platform know)
** Zeljko paired with Elena T. to get some Echo notification browser tests
written (nodejs/mocha framework).
** Zeljko scheduled a Tech Talk on Oct 31st to discuss/teach the nodejs
browser testing framework.
** Scap tech-debt project well underway, merged many improvements last week
** new/docker based CI: the phan job is now migrated
** Gerrit was upgraded last week (minor version)
** Working on git-lfs (large file store, for big binary blobs) support in
Gerrit for ORES and Reading teams
** Redesigned (simplified) the Phabricator login screen <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D831>gt;, should be deployed soon.
=== Security ===
* Blocked by: None
* Blocking: whowever is waiting for security reviews
* Updates:
* Node Security Project 3.0.0 being released soon (available as nsp@next);
please consider upgrading if you work on Node.js-based projects
* Reviews:
* pdfrw
* more will be scheduled soon
== Wikidata ==
* Preparing WikidataCon:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017
* We will live-stream the main tracks on Saturday and Sunday:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Remote