https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-07-06
= 2016-07-06 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== iOS ====
* 5.0.5 has been delayed for 2 more weeks due to new regressions.
** We are restarting the entire beta process because the 5.0.5 release
diverged significan;ty from the trunk
** A new 5.0.5 with changes more recent bugfixes from the main trunk is
being redeployed to beta this week
** 5.0.5 will re-enter regression next week
* 5.1 features are being re-evaluated due to the long development time of
5.0.5
** Some 5.1 features will likely be moved to 5.2
* Discovery is helping us improe the map UI first developed on Android by
implementing some Geodata API enhancements (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139378)
==== Android ====
Finishing touches on the feed.
==== Mobile Content Service ====
* Experienced more than a dozen Nagios checker failures (timeouts) due to
increased memory usage by ORES last weekend. Got fixed on Monday.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139177
* Feed endpoint improvements:
* redirect to summary endpoint for random and TFA if possible.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139424 +
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136960
* adding date input validation for feed endpoints which accept dates
Blocked on Services team:
* We need the public feed endpoints (aggregated feed + random page) to
enable the feed functionality for a beta Android app release. This is
blocking the Android teams quarterly goal.
==== Reading Web ====
* Wikidata descriptions to mobile web stable in ca.wiki and pl.wiki
* Deployed lazy references and images to mobile web tl.wiki
* Fixing some bugs with hovercards to improve data analysis from A/B test
* Started working in improvements to language switcher in mobile web
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
=== Community Tech ==
* Deploying PageAssessments extension to test.wikipedia (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments)
* Finishing work on CopyPatrol Tool (
https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol)
** Replication lag on Tool Labs has been a major problem. We are migrating
from local DB queries to API requests to avoid the problem.
* Figuring the out the best implementation plan for switching to UCA
collation + numerical sorting for categories
* No blockers
=== Editing ===
==== Multimedia ====
*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138273#2410743 MatmaRex needs review
from *anomie, tgr, and AaronSchulz*.
* Still waiting for Thumbor deployment to carry ImageTweaks forward, Gilles
says he's working on Debian packaging
* Continuing work on FileAnnotations
* Continuing work on getting rid of fatal errors in UploadWizard
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocking - No change
* Blocked - None
* Updates
** Deployed to group 0 new enhanced Echo bunding (with the ability to
expand and collapse bundles of notifications and act on individual
notifications), changed sorting of Alerts and Messages
** Deployed new version of Special:Notifications with per-page notification
lists
==== Parsing ====
* Co-ordinating with Services to resume work on Parsoid migration to use
service-runner utility. This blocks upgrade of parsoid production cluster
to node 4.x (from 0.10) and deployment process to scap3 (from trebuchet)
* Continuing to work on a bunch of bug fixes in Parsoid.
* Work ongoing (Tim & Scott) to land a PHP HTML5 parser in core which can
serve as a default Tidy replacement solution for mediawiki.
== Wikidata ==
* Focus on refactoring the Sites mess in core, starting with:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137537, tracked in:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113034
* Core support for multilingual wikis:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114640
* Ongoing communication about Multi Content Revision support in core:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595
== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Will start working on migrating refinery to SCAP 3 tomorrow (cc: release
team)
* Ongoing work on Event Bus, scaling AQS and the Pageview API,
reconstructing mediawiki history, and loading Druid with pageview data
=== Research ===
*
ores.wikimedia.org online (woo ops).
ores.wmflabs.org will remain online
and a deprecation plan will be announced "soon"
* Major ORES downtime was exacerbated by icinga config failure (301 is a
good response and not followed by default)
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160610-ORES
* ORES extension deployed to fawiki and wikidatawiki. Large wikis coming
soon.
=== Security ===
* Other security reviews are being schedule; if you have need, please
submit your request:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Security_reviews
* A security release will be prepared soon
* Reviews: 3d2png (cont.), Tool Labs Console
=== Services ===
* out for two weeks - Wikimania + Offsite
** lots of interesting discussions
* Auth / session storage service
** discussed the plan with Darian
** will draft an Arch RfC soon
* Nodejs migration to 4.4.6
**
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138561
** scheduled for next wednesday
** test your services and update your package.json to use node v4.4.6
** especially important for SCB services
=== Fundraising tech ===
* Building and deploying new payments servers to get off precise and php 5.3
* Also upgrading mediawiki and CiviCRM, planning how we'll more closely
follow mw master
* More work towards de-duplicating donor database
* CentralNotice: don't load anything on Special: or action=edit
* Still investigating what looks like missing log entries (delivered via
Kafkatee):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132500
=== Discovery ===
* '''Blocking''': none
* '''Blocked''': none
* Hired new data analyst, she starts end of July
* TextCat A/B finished, analyzing results
* Working on enabling boxed search by coordinates with near: and
neartitle: -
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/297524/
* Logstash elasticsearch upgrade planned for July 7th (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136001). This also includes upgrade to
Kibana 4.
* Portal stats updated on June 30th
* Portal survey on why people come to Portal are published:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136874#2418095
==== Maps/Graphs =====
* Geoshapes service is integrated with WDQS and can provide both wikidata
data and shapes:
http://data.wmflabs.org/wiki/Regional_maps
=== RelEng ===
* Blocking: none?
* Blocked:
** Target architecture without gallium (email followup)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133300
* Updates
** Browser Testing survey still open
https://goo.gl/xS6mmV (phab task for
info:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131123)
** CI reduced yesterday, should be good now
** Scap3 migration - new guide posted on wikitech
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scap3/Migration_Guide
=== Technical Operations ===
* '''Blocking'''
** None
* '''Blocked'''
** By noone
* Updates
** All image scalers are now on jessie with updated librsvg, fixes plenty
of bugs (also related to changes to fonts while at it)
** Enabled TCP Fast Open on some caching clusters
** gitblit is finally dead
** Working with LE to get apertium packages reviewed/uploaded on
apt.wikimedia.org. Some 20% done