https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-09-07
= 2016-09-07 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
Q2 FY 2016-2017 (October - December 2016) goals drafted:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Readi…
==== Reading Web ====
Current sprint:
* Lazy loaded images fixes
* Related pages improvements
* Shipping wikidata descriptions in mobile web to some wikis
* Disabled lazy loaded references, plan to analyze data
==== Mobile Content Service ====
* Services team added ChangeProp for Wikidata descriptions to
mobile-sections endpoint in addition to the /page/summary endpoint. :)
==== Android native app ====
Current sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2178/
Next sprint: to be created
* Navigation overhaul continues
==== iOS native app ====
Current release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1736/
Next release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/
* 5.1 was released (iPad explore & article layout, find in page), as was
5.1.1 with crash fixes
* Working on 5.2 (iOS 10 Today Widgets - Top Read & Continue Reading) -
Released to beta, target to be released with iOS 10
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* blocked: waiting on Security to validate the approach in
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/306133/
** AB emailed bawolff during today's SoS, CC'ing dpatrick, anomie, tgr
* blocking: none
=== Community Tech ===
* Numeric sorting has been deployed to English Wikipedia, investigating
other languages
* PageAssessments has been deployed to English Wikivoyage, will do a
functional roll-out this afternoon
* Working on cross-wiki watchlist backend
* No blockers
=== Security ===
* Darian on PTO Sept. 6-9
** E-mail security(a)wikimedia.org for urgent issues
** E-mail security-team(a)wikimedia.org for non-urgent issues
* Security reviews outstanding for this week:
** Youdao MT (Brian is handling)
=== Analytics ===
* Andrew demoing Event Bus events flowing through kasocki (kafka ->
socket.io interface) in the CREDIT showcase, after this meeting
* Luca put up
https://yarn.wikimedia.org which allows all folks with LDAP
to access yarn logs for hadoop jobs
* some problems loading pageview data left a couple of days behind, Joseph
reran those jobs and that data is now loaded
* rotating scrum of scrums participation from now on: Nuria, Dan, Marcel,
Joseph
* tentative: the new AQS cluster ready by next week
* tentative: edit history reconstructed by next week, Erik Z will vet it
but if others are interested, let us know
** as a reminder, this is all data collected in mediawiki databases,
reconstructed as an append-only event store
** logging table was mined for page deletes and moves, user deletes,
renames, rights changes, and blocks
** archive table and revision table were merged and their user and page
fields historified (values at the time of the event were reconstructed)
** everything is written under a single denormalized schema of the form
{metadata, data that was modified (page|user|revision)}
=== Services ===
* New format for the section transform API
**
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Transforms/post_transform_section_c…
* Change-Prop processing transclusions now
* Wikidata description added to summary endpoint
* Some optimisations in feeds endpoint
* Config deploys with scap3 under way
=== Editing ===
==== Language ====
* Blocked: Waiting for updates on security review of Youdao MT.
* Blocking: None.
* Updates:
** Work on ContentTranslation (template handling) continue.
** Kartik fixing last bits in Apertium packaging.
==== Parsing (No one around to attend meeting, update below) ====
* Waiting on feedback from VE team for the Parsoid's native implementation
of the <gallery> extension (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/264026/ )
* Work ongoing to support language variants for read view in Parsoid.
* Work ongoing with the refactoring of parser tests framework (merging the
php unit and parser tests scripts)
* Patch implementing magic-word based opt-out of global user pages awaiting
review (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/303912/ )
==== Collaboration ====
* '''Blocking''':
** Continuing work on Flow caching rewrite for multi-DC. This is being
reviewed now both within-team and by Aaron.
* '''Blocked'':
* '''Updates''':
** Continuing work on MessagePoster.
=== RelEng ===
* Blocking
** Add section for long-running tasks on the Deployment page (specially
for database maintenance)
*** greg had to take a half day yesterday, will catch up on it today
***
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144661
* Blocked
** Move contint1001 to production network with public IP -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140257
*** Public IP is Blocked on ops
=== Technical Operations ===
* '''Blocked'''
** None
* '''Blocking'''
** None
* Updates
** varnish 4 upgrade process ongoing
** labsdbs will probably be reimaged and the entire service restructured in
the next Quarter
=== ArchCom ===
* Full status:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ArchComStatus
* Last week: [[
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E266|E266]]
* This week [[
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E269|E269]]
** Ad hoc ArchCom office hour
*** Briefly touching on Shadow Namespaces ([[Phab:T91162]])
*** (last minute addition) [[Phab:T141938]]: Wikimedia Developer Summit
Program
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Switched over four queues from ActiveMQ to Redis
* monitoring for hiccups, working on switching remaining three
* pushing more code into library that doesn't depend on MediaWIki or
Drupal/CiviCRM
* fixing a couple GeoIP issues in CentralNotice
* more polishing for CiviCRM batch de-duplication
=== Discovery ===
* No blockers
* BM25 A/B test is on
* Working on multiwiki indexes
* Turned off "did you mean" on wikidata due to it not being very useful
* SPARQL Workshop on September 8th:
https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/SPARQL_workshop
* Discernatron & BM25 demo / luncheon on Sept 13th (remote-friendly, except
food)
* CREDIT demos today
=== Interactive team ===
* <maplink> is now available on all wikis
* maps got WDQS support (Demoing
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Smalyshev_(WMF)/Govmap at CREDIT)