https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27
Product[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=1 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=1 ]Reading[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=2 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=2 ]Reading Infrastructure[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=3 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=3 ]
- Merge of AuthManager pending security review (n.b., old code will become no-op upon feature flag enabled later on)
Web[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=4 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=4 ]
- Pushed security fix for contributions page - Lazy loading references to beta. FYI for OPs: this may increase API requests to mobileview slightly let us know if you see anything problematic. Beta audience is small however so unlikely to be any impact.
Android[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=5 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=5 ]
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- *Blocked*: - Question for Analytics: status of VCL pageview counting fix? - *Updates*: - Reading lists feature nearly finished; shooting for beta release by end of week. - Patch in review for compatibility with AuthManager login/account creation API changes. Will need updates when Captcha support lands. - Task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124229 - Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/278035/
iOS[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=6 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=6 ]
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- *Updates*: - 5.0.3 Code complete EOD April 26 - 5.0.3 Regression testing start and final extrernal beta release April 27 - 5.0.3 Expected release will be week of May 2 - 5.1 still in planning stage - expected to get scope defined next week - Expect to begin work on migrating to new Auth API after next week
Mobile Content Service[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=7 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=7 ]
- Same as last week: planning for new feed related endpoints.
Editing[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=8 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=8 ]Collaboration[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=9 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=9 ]
- *Blocking*: - External store work. Now that data switchover is over, need to resync with Jaime. - *Blocked*: - Work on Flow dumps continuing; Ariel is working on this, and I don't think ops is waiting on us. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89398 . - *Updates*: - Continuing notification work on: - Special page released to explain how Notifications is configured: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration . There is also a related breaking change to a configuration variable. We took care of it for BounceHandler, which seemed to be the only affected WMF-deployed extension. But let me know if anything weird happens with notifications. - Moderation - Bundling refactoring - New MVC structure - Cross-wiki notifications coming by default in two weeks. - Added Vagrant roles for GlobalBlocking and TorBlock. Changed merged Monday to have GlobalBlocking return a Block object so the information is more machine-readable.
Language[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=10 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=10 ]
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- *Updates*: - Team offsite last week - cxserver service can read config from cxserver repo, so updating new languages/MT pairs are easier now.
Parsing[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=11 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=11 ]
- Main update: Closer to being able to do visual diff testing with HTM5depurate (Tidy replacement). - OCG: Scott pushed a bunch of fixes y'day and might be pushing some more today. Time to reconnect with ops next week to reassess its status.
Multimedia[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=12 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=12 ]
- No blockers, not blocking - Work on annotations and 3D, some upload dialog improvements coming.
Fundraising Tech[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=13 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=13 ]
- looking at CentralNotice prod errors: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133765 - maybe a ResourceLoader issue? dependency ext.CentralNotice.display not being loaded, though it should be if there are any choices - deployment tooling - full-scale fundraising underway in new LATAM countries, fr-tech monitoring errors - migrating ActiveMQ-specific code to backend-agnostic wrapper - front-end work for upcoming Israel fundraising - enabled audit logging on one table in production CiviCRM, preparing to enable on all
Technology[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=14 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=14 ]Services[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=15 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=15 ]
- RESTBase serving redirects unless ?redirect=false is passed - rest.wikimedia.org is no more - Cassandra cluster expansion in eqiad done, codfw tbd soon-ish - use Scap3 - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085299.html - language: how are we doing with Apertium packages for Jessie?
Release Engineering[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=16 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=16 ]
- Blocking: - Blocked: - Updates: - browsertest* jobs → selenium* jobs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128190
Security[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=17 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=17 ]
- Reviews: AuthManager, json-schema, cross-wiki notifications, hovercards in progress - Release soon - Ops: ping to move T128819 forward?
Technical Operations[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=18 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=18 ]
- *Blocking*: - None - *Blocked*: - None - *Updates*: - maps cluster updated to varnish 4 - maps varnish clusters (4x4 boxes) deployed - all eqiad core DBs upgraded to MariaDB 10.x
Discovery[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=19 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=19 ]
- *Blocking*: none - *Blocked*: none - Preparing for ElasticSearch 2.0 migration - Deploying geospatial search for WDQS
Interactive[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=20 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=20 ]
- *Blocked*: JSON schema validator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426 - Thanks to ops, we now have 16 varnish servers.
Analytics[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=21 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=21 ]
- Unique devices: - Lauched unique devices API, https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#AQS_API https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Analytics/Unique_Devices&action=edit&redlink=1, Easy way to get programmatics access to unique devices data - Soon to announce a javascript client for API, work done as of yesterday, working in visualizations
- Pageview API: - A lot of operational unanticipated work with pageview API and replacement of nodes, chaging cassandra compaction strategy
- Apps: - VCL changes for review regarding preview and pageview https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/285051/, doing audit found several values present on x-analytics not documented here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Analytics#Keys https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=X-Analytics&action=edit&redlink=1 - Piwik data collection still disabled for iOS
- Misc: - Two team members at a conference this week, otto in SF - Need to announce wikistats hand off from erik zachte, waiting on creation of analytics.wikimedi.org domain
Wikidata[edit https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&veaction=edit&vesection=22 | edit source https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-27&action=edit§ion=22 ]
- Blockers: none. - Updates: Improving Wikidata Query Service UI. Fixing all the loose ends in Wikibase to get the MediaInfo prototype for Commons in shape.
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