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-EchoCent...

==== 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-EchoCent...

=== 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]]