https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-02-17

= 2016-02-17 =

== Technology ==

=== Analytics === * '''*Blocking'''*: ** Discovery with a pageview API bug: T127034, Dan is working on it right now ** Multimedia with dumps parsing asks: T126808, T126809, Analytics will triage hopefully soon (within one or two weeks, but backlog is huge) * '''*Blocked'''* ** Services (known) because we need to refactor / move AQS (Analytics Query Service) out of the restbase repo * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Same as last time, nothing new is ongoing

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=== Architecture === [No update.]

=== Performance === [No update.]

=== Release Engineering === * '''*Blocking'''*: ** Nothing new * '''*Blocked'''*: ** Looking for review on Phabricator ops/puppet role cleanup. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125851 ** Looking for a merge from Ops on scap3 provider changes. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127215 * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** See wmf.14 group1 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125597 *** Save latency regression ** Progress on JS-based end-to-end (browser) tests in core. See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/256404/

=== Research === * '''*Blocking'''*: ** Nothing * '''*Blocked'''*: ** ORES still blocked on Ops. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106867 * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Reader survey test went live 16 Feb in 16:00-17:00 PST SWAT time (5:100K sampling): for QA purposes ** Reader survey at full rate will go out 17 Feb 8:00-9:00 PST, for less than 2 weeks, at a 1:500 sampling rate: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Beh...

=== Security === * '''*Blocking'''*: ** Nice to have: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125382 (Maps) * '''*Blocked'''*: ** None. * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** 2FA for wikis progressing ** Security patches

=== Services === * '''*Blocking'''*: ** Nobody * '''*Blocked'''*: ** Separate AQS off of RESTBase - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126294 *** need to schedule a time with Analytics Ops for the move ** Mathoid - SVG to PNG support *** librsvg(-dev) for Jessie * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** RESTBase: dropping listing URIs (/pagr/html/ , ...) ** Cassandra multi-instance work _still_ undergoing

=== Technical Operations === * '''*Blocking'''*: ** ORES moving into production, finally hardware is in place * '''*Blocked'''*: ** Nothing * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Ongoing discussions/work about the switchover goal ** Moved with LE cxserver to jessie and node 4.2

== Product == === Community Tech === * '''*Blocking'''*: ** Nothing * '''*Blocked'''*: ** Gadgets 2.0 - blocked on ResourceLoader cache invalidation issue (Performance team) - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269901/ * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** PageAssessments

=== Discovery === ; '''*Blocking'''*: ** none ; '''*Blocked'''*: ** none ; '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Building more analytics about user satisfaction in completion ** TextCat merged, A/B tests to follow ** WDQS Blazegraph 2.0 work still in progress, getting there ** Discussing adding caching layer, for ops attention: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126730 ** Discussing QuickSurvey with ops

==== Maps & Graphs ==== *; '''Updates'''* * Kartographer (maps) launched on beta cluster, getting ready to enable it on Wikivoyage ** VE has been helping, thanks Ed Sanders * Graphs can support WDQS, but might need caching (N.B. Operations) * Created a page-views graph - can be placed on a talk page to show corresponding view for the past N days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:PageViews

*; '''Blockers'''* * Security: need SVG sanitization lib review (Security) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125382 ** Note that Performance were thinking of shipping sanitised user-provided SVGs to clients (instead of server-rendered PNGs), which would also need this functionality. *** Are we sanitizing SVG on upload/download? Or do we always convert them in a sanbox env to PNG? **** RIght now in production we always convert in a sandbox to PNG for normal page views, and (?) don't sanitise at all for download of the original SVG (on file pages). **** We sanitize on upload, mostly show PNG's in articles. Raw svg's are served from upload.wm.o (untrusted domain)

=== Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * '''*Blocking'''*: ** Dry run patch for external store migration is merged. Now we need to set External Store up on Beta, then test the dry run patch there: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119567 * '''*Blocked'''*: ** Flow dump generation on dumps.wikimedia.org: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511 * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Human-readable name patch is almost done: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121936 ** Will be enabling cross-wiki notifications on first set of wikis soon ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/265413/)

==== Language ==== * '''*Blocking'''*: ** Apertium packages? * '''*Blocked'''*: ** None. * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** cxserver migrated to Jessie with help of Alex

==== Multimedia ==== * '''*Blocking'''*: ** None * '''*Blocked'''*: ** Thumbor deployment blocks ImageTweaks deployment. Currently not a problem, as ImageTweaks is still rough. ** Security review of ImageTweaks pending, not currently ready to go, would like it to happen sometime this quarter ideally - more updates coming. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126492 ** Illustration metrics "blocked" but not urgent. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126809 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126808 * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Labs instance with ImageTweaks and Thumbor currently up and running, a bit of a demo as to what's coming to the cluster. See http://multimedia-alpha.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ** OOUI performance issues being worked on by MatmaRex, as part of UploadWizard performance improvements.

==== Parsing ==== * '''*Blocking'''*: ** None * '''*Blocked'''*: ** None * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Work ongoing setting up mass visualdiff testing of rendering between 2 different mediawiki versions -- will appreciate help / feedback setting up mediawiki VMs (one per wiki) that closely reflects production config (extensions, skins, etc.). Currently considering vagrant, as well as manual setup (via scripts). ** Awaiting additional reviews / merge on the path to serialize HTML while using TemplateData settings (hopefully this week) -- first round of reviewing and edits done.

==== VisualEditor ==== * '''*Blocking'''*: ** None. * '''*Blocked'''*: ** Waiting on Design Research availability for user testing of Single Edit Tab integration * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Will release the Single Edit Tab integration to a single wiki next Tuesday (huwiki) and assess impact ** Working with *Performance* on assessing the performance impact of OOUI on all read pages https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/271144/ – will update next week on results. ** Otherwise, we're working on performance issues, bugs, and language support, as normal.

=== Fundraising Tech === No blockers, most work is continued from last week * Implemented updates for new CiviCRM financial tracking, filling in the last missing pieces * fixes and enhancements for backup credit card processor * prep for Latin America fundraising expansion * beefing up fraud filters

=== Reading ===

==== Android ==== * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** v2.1.141 published. Includes A/B test of readmore results.

==== Web ==== * '''*Updates*'''*:* ** Exploring surfacing references via API / lazy loading in web (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123328) - making headway

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Nothing of note this week.