https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-07-13
= 2016-07-13 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* No update, but there will be a follow up meeting on Echo auth impl bug
20-July-2016 (multistakeholder bug)
==== Reading Web ====
* No update, working on language switcher on mobile web
==== iOS native app ====
* 5.0.5 is currently in beta - heading to regression on Tuesday
* Setup new plan to incrementally improve regression testing
* Development of 5.1 is in progress
* Planning of 5.2 is in progress
* Discovery implemented
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139378 to enable
iOS to do
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130889
* Filed ticket to start work on a real time trending API:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140102
==== Android native app ====
==== Mobile Content Service ====
* Getting close to having public endpoints for the random and aggregated
feed endpoints. Removing blockers for that.
* Service had been flapping quite a bit lately. Log files indicate heap
memory issues.
=== Community Tech ===
* Investigating cross-wiki watchlist, how to implement back-end
** Refered to ArchComm as RFC
* Will be deploying PageAssessments to English WIkipedia soon (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments)
* Also will be switching English Wikipedia to UCA collation with numerical
sorting
=== Editing ===
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocked: None
* Blocking: No change
* Update
** Finished rollout out bundling and re-sorting changes. Had a couple
issues:
*** We forgot to change Alerts/Messages to Alerts/Notices, so had to do a
SWAT for this. This had complications initially:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160707-Echo
*** We learned yesterday there was a bug in Echo that was causing users to
have inconsistent state, which prevented login. This was fixed yesterday:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160712-EchoCen…
==== Multimedia ====
* Blocked: None?
* Blocking: None?
* Update: None?
==== Language ====
* Blocked: None?
* Blocking: None?
* Update: None?
==== Parsing ====
* Blocked: service-runner migration
* Blocking: None?
* Update: Services is helping with migrating Parsoid to the service-runner
framework. Parsoid deployments are on hold till that time. Migration to
node v4, jessie, scap3 will follow that migration.
==== VisualEditor ====
* Blocked: None.
* Blocking: None known.
* Update: Lots of work on bugs and regressions this week;
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/298392/ / T129360 in MobileFrontend is
the remaining focus.
== Technology ==
=== Services ===
'''Blocking'''
** None
'''Blocked'''
** None
* Node security upgrade: RB, AQS and SCB on Nodejs 4.4.6, Parsoid pending
move to Jessie
* RESTBase Cassandra cluster upgraded to 2.2.6
* Preparing deploy of new feed API end points (ex: featured article /
image) with Reading. ETA likely this week.
* Parsoid move to service-runner -
*https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90668*
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90668>
** Currently testing in BetaCluster
**Ping for Ops: need to coordinate the transition in prod
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Civi upgrade complete
* CentralNotice deployed
* Upgrading payments to MW 1.26
* Building out new servers
* Kafka sampling problem solved
* No blockers
=== TechOps ===
'''Blocking'''
** None
* '''Blocked'''
**
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135483 - HHVM crashes - raised to
UBN! after issue recurrence. Currently no one owns the ticket.
* Updates
** About 25% of the MediaWiki clusters run on jessie, we will start
reimaging old servers during this quarter, a schedule will be announced.
** Enabled TCP Fast Open on some caching clusters
** Insecure POST traffic cutoff: All external traffic is prohibited, but
labs is still permitted (with a 20% failure rate)
=== Security ===
* Node.js dependencies are now being checked nightly for disclosed
vulnerabilities; Darian will be manually creating Phab tickets about this
initially, with automation to follow
* Request security reviews:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Security_reviews
* A security release will be prepared soon, possibly July 20
* Reviews: Tool Labs Console (cont.)
===Wikidata / WMDE===
* Daniel is working on multi-content revisions
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595
* Continuing work on structured data support for commons
* Preparing deploy of RevisionSlider to test wikis and then as a beta
feature on German Wikipedia
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140232
=== Discovery ===
* '''Blocking''': none
* '''Blocked''': none
* Logstash upgrade postponed to Jul 18th, 19-22 UTC
* Initiated discussion on using ? in searches:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discovery/Handling_question_marks_in_search…
* Geosearch (near*:) is ready to roll out in production:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139378 in 1.28.0-wmf.10
* Started discussion on new
wikipedia.org portal layout:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout
* Geoshapes in graphs and (soon) maps:
http://data.wmflabs.org/wiki/Regional_maps
=== RelEng ===
* '''Blocking'''
** None
* '''Bocked'''
** None
* '''Updates'''
** New gerrit update needs testing:
https://gerrit-new.wikimedia.org/r/
<https://gerrit-new.wikimedia.org/r/>
** wmf.9 was reverted, wmf.10 will get pushed to group0 and group1 today on
a short schedule
*** Retrospective to come
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160712-EchoCen…
=== Architecture ===
* ArchCom weekly meetings today:
** 1pm PDT Planning meeting (private): [[Phab:E227]]
** 2pm PDT Discussion (public) IRC #wikimedia-office: [[Phab:E228]]
*** Topic: [[Phab:T589]] - image and oldimage tables
* Anything stalled? Comment in Phab here: [[Phab:Z425]]