https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-08-03

= 2016-08-03 = == Product == === Reading ===

==== iOS native app ====

* 5.0.5 was released last week. ** Reduced crash rate by 90% ** Several problems were identified after release and scheduled for 5.0.6

* 5.0.6 is going through regression today ** Shold be released by end of week ** Working with beta testers to verify fixes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v5.0.6-hotfix/

* 5.1 is in Development ** Major features are iPad and Find in Page https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1736/query/open/

==== Android native app ==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2091/ * Next sprint (not yet full) : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2142/ * Working on navigation overhaul, not blocked/blocking anyone to our knowledge.

==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Updating link handling * Adding namespace and last modifier information to mobile-sections responses. * Added a few more languages to 'In the news' feed.

==== Reading Web ==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2115/ * Next sprint (not yet full) : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2126/ * Mobile web language switcher button moving from bottom to top (with a tip if user uses button on bottom of page which will remain for another several sprints) * Lazy loaded images for mobile web shipping approximately next 2-4 weeks

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Nothing to flag for now.

=== Community Tech === * Rolling out UCA collation + numeric sorting to English Wikipedia ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136150) ** Currently testing for German Wikipedia ( https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Kategorie:UCA-Sortierung) * Making improvements to InternetArchiveBot * Had more meetings to hash out plan for cross-wiki watchlists ** Would you please add +tgr to any related tix? Mainly in thinking about multiple watchlist support *down the road* (not now, understood that's not part of your charter right now) ** Will probably need a dedicated database shard/hardward

=== Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked - None * Blocking - Finishing up the ConfirmEdit work ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141300 ) which is blocking ResourceLoader changes. Shouldn't require any action from you. * Updates ** Nothing major to flag ** Some internal Echo-related improvements

==== Language ==== * Blocked: ** [TechOps/DB] Investigate increase in "readonly" saving errors in Content Translation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141090 - Need more guidance on what Language Team can do here. ** [Analytics] Suddenly outrageous higher pageviews for main pages https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141506 - Very important in statistics of Compact Language Links. *** Analytics response: we're happy to prioritize any infrastructure issues that come out of this, but right now it needs more research attention, Tilman and others are looking into it * Blocking: None * Updates: ** CX Dumps available soon ** Bug fixes for CX/CLL continue ** Apertium->Jessie in progress; Still lots of packages to go.

==== Parsing ==== * Ongoing migration of Parsoid cluster to Jessie and Node v4 (courtesy Alexandros Kosiaris & Marko Obrovac). All Parsoid deploys on hold until that finishes. * Ongoing work on a bunch of projects, but nothing worth updating here at this point.

=== Discovery === * No blockers * Working on implementing bm25 searching * Bugfixes for cross-wiki search (sections & namespaces) * Refactoring & cleanup of CirrusSearch code * Set up continuos cleanup process via cron (saneitizer) * Stripping the question mark (?) from search queries is on the train this week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133711)

== Technology == === Analytics === * new AQS cluster is loaded back to February, when we get all the way back to last July we'll switch over ** analytics-l thread on how much history to keep in Pageview API: ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2016-July/005317.html ) * Mediawiki history reconstruction algorithm scaled to handle enwiki, now being productionized to do all wikis. NOTE to ops / DBAs: we will reach out to you on the list to make sure it's ok to hit analytics-store (dbstore1002 I think) like this * refinery deployment with scap is being tested tomorrow: [[Phab:T129151]] * EventLogging fixed to handle kafka restarts more graciously, being tested in beta right now

=== Research === * ORES incident during deployment ** https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160801-ORES ** deployment to beta didn't show issues due to differences in configuration between beta and prod

=== Technical Operations === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None * Updates ** Upgrading parsoid infrastructure to debian jessie, node 4.x ** There is going to be an varnish XKEY meeting ** prometheus work is ongoing ** thumbor is being introduced as a service in the infrastructure

=== Security === * Mediawiki 1.27.1 release delayed to next week * captcha improvements ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125132 *** Matt mentions that Collaboration team owns users and logins *** Matt is also doing some captcha refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141300 ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141490

=== Services === * Parsoid in beta migrated to Jessie and Node 4, prod happening this week, 2 nodes already migrated * Session storage / Auth service - discussion ongoing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140813 * Maps Cassandra cluster: need to move it to 2.2.6 * Service-runner supports building deploy repo on Mac OS X now

=== Architecture / ArchCom === ** **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status ** Last week: ArchCom meetings 2016W30: 2016-07-27 (Wed) *** 1pm PDT (20 UTC) Planning meeting: [[Phab:*E236]]* *** 2pm PDT (21 UTC) IRC #wikimedia-office: [[Phab:*E237]]* ***** [[Phab:T128602]] - *Create and deploy an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store ** This week: ArchCom meetings 2016W31: 2016-08-03 (Wed) *** 1pm PDT (20 UTC) Planning meeting: [[Phab:E250]] *** 2pm PDT (21 UTC) IRC #wikimedia-office [[Phab:*E251]]* ***** [[Phab:T128351]]: Notifications in core*

=== RelEng === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None? * '''Updates''' ** New Scap release that uses logstash_checker.py coming—live on beta already test please ** Lots of folks out this week, next week less folks out.

== Wikidata == * structured commons demo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#It.27s_alive... * deploying ArticlePlaceholder on more wikis (cywiki - Welsh) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140725

== Fundraising Tech == * upgraded to mw 1.27 running on new hardware * Installing new Redis cluster to replace ActiveMQ * Rewriting queue code to work with Redis * CiviCRM performance tuning * CentralNotice cookie cleanup