Re: [Wikitech-l] 2016-05-04 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

On 5 May 2016 9:24 a.m., "Grace Gellerman" ggellerman@wikimedia.org wrote:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-05-04

= 2016-05-04 =

== Technology ==

=== Release Engineering ===

For all:

• T128190 - Migration of browsertests* Jenkins jobs to selenium* jobs

Hi Zeljko, Can you clarify what you need help with here? Is it merging patches/updating empty columns on that table/other?

Which tests are failing? Jon

** The migration of browsertests* to selenium* is almost complete,

however,

Željko needs people to claim their failing browser tests. See the task for more information.

*** The task has a table, but it's not clear what you want people to do (are you just asking about the rows with missing "contact from browsertests.yaml" fields)?

For operations:

• T126594 - Disable HHVM fcgi server on CI slaves

• Need help from ops to review and merge these two patches (we dont need

HHVM running as a daemon on CI boxes):

** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269946/

** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269947/

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133911 - Bump quota of Nodepool

instances (contintcloud tenant)

** More instances needed. Clarified with Chase last week: pending Andrew. No urgency.

• Two related tasks, each have patches that are needed to streamline the

scap3 migration:

** T133211 - Automate the generation deployment keys (keyholder-managed

ssh

keys)

*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/284418/

** T132747 - scap::target shouldn't allow users to redefine the user's key

*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/285519/

=== Security ===

• Reviews:

** json-schema done, AuthManger done (no more comments, a few minor things before all patches are +1'ed)

** Starting on T129584 this week

• Starting work on AuthService next week (heads up to Services, we'll

probably be scheduling a few meetings with you) (Marko: ack && yay!)

• Ops: ping again on T128819

=== Services ===

(Marko cannot attend today, sorry)

• RESTBase

** working on storing all auth checks locally (now we are calling the MW API every time)

• EventBus / Change propagation

** started using it in production for the summary endpoint today

** more dependency updates to follow soon

• Cassandra move to 2.2.6 soon

** first up: maps cluster

• use Scap3 -

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085299.html

=== Technical Operations

• '''Blocking''':

** none

• '''Blocked''':

** none

• '''Updates''':

** May 15 (Chrome SPDY removal deadline). Getting HTTP/2 working fully deployed till then

** started using letsencrypt for various small services

== Product ==

=== Reading ===

• Most of Reading engineering is at an offsite today, I believe.

==== Reading Infrastructure ====

• AuthManager core patches are just waiting for security +1s. Work is

ongoing on extensions; CentralAuth, LdapAuthentication, ConfirmEdit could use reviews if anyone is interested.

=== Editing ===

==== Collaboration ====

• '''Blocking''':

** External store work. External Store deployed everywhere on Beta with

no

complications. Work on this continues. We now need to set up a second External Store on Beta for Flow, to test the migration.

• '''Blocked''':

** Work on Flow dumps continuing on the ops side. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89398 .

• '''Updates''':

** Continuing notification work on:

*** Cross-wiki notifications coming by default on May 12th!

*** Echo email formatter

*** Work continues on the new Echo MVC architecture

==== Parsing ====

• We got our first visual diff test run comparing Tidy with HTML5depurate.

Results @ http://mw-expt-tests.wmflabs.org/ ... Making notes @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy ... We will use this as the basis for figuring out what things might break if we replace Tidy today and what needs fixing and where.

• Scott has been working with Ops to get OCG kinks ironed out.

==== Language ====

• '''Blocking''':

** Apertium->Jessie. Yet to finalize plan and proceed.

• '''Blocked''':

• '''Updates''':

** cxserver service will be migrated to scap3 deployment soon.

** Translate (twn, meta,..) now using Apertium MT from cxserver.

== Discovery ==

• '''Blocking''': none

• '''Blocked''': none

• Preparing for ElasticSearch 2.0 migration

• Results for A/B test on portal language link location published:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Test_of_Language_De...

• TextCat A/B test launching soon

• Portal A/B test adding descriptions to project links to start this week

• WDQS redeployed, some performance issues

• Graphs have ability to use WDQS directly now

• Team offsite in 2 weeks (17-21)

==Analytics ==

*Scaling of pageview API , more work than anticipated

*Working new domain analytics.wikimedia.org, wikistats 2.0 migration, meeting with research to map early states of project

*Still trouble with jenkins

== Fundraising Tech ==

• coding new PayPal integration

• pulling in lots of CiviCRM upstream changes

• making CentralNotice fail gracefully in odd cache edge cases

• Casey hanging out with reading offsite

• more work towards replacing ActiveMQ

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