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#Readin...

==== 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@wikimedia.org for urgent issues ** E-mail security-team@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_ch... * 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%7CE266]] * This week [[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E269%7CE269]] ** 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)