https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-05-04

= 2016-05-04 =

== Technology ==

=== Release Engineering ===

For all:

* T128190 - Migration of browsertests* Jenkins jobs to selenium* jobs

** The migration of browsertests* to selenium* is almost complete, however, Željko needs people to claim their failing browser tests. See the task for more information.

*** The task has a table, but it's not clear what you want people to do (are you just asking about the rows with missing "contact from browsertests.yaml" fields)?

For operations:

* T126594 - Disable HHVM fcgi server on CI slaves

* Need help from ops to review and merge these two patches (we dont need HHVM running as a daemon on CI boxes):

** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269946/

** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/269947/

* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133911 - Bump quota of Nodepool instances (contintcloud tenant)

** More instances needed. Clarified with Chase last week: pending Andrew. No urgency.

* Two related tasks, each have patches that are needed to streamline the scap3 migration:

** T133211 - Automate the generation deployment keys (keyholder-managed ssh keys)

*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/284418/

** T132747 - scap::target shouldn't allow users to redefine the user's key

*** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/285519/

=== Security ===

* Reviews:

** json-schema done, AuthManger done (no more comments, a few minor things before all patches are +1'ed)

** Starting on T129584 this week

* Starting work on AuthService next week (heads up to Services, we'll probably be scheduling a few meetings with you) (Marko: ack && yay!)

* Ops: ping again on T128819

=== Services ===

(Marko cannot attend today, sorry)

* RESTBase

** working on storing all auth checks locally (now we are calling the MW API every time)

* EventBus / Change propagation

** started using it in production for the summary endpoint today

** more dependency updates to follow soon

* Cassandra move to 2.2.6 soon

** first up: maps cluster

* use Scap3 - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085299.html

=== Technical Operations

* '''Blocking''':

** none

* '''Blocked''':

** none

* '''Updates''':

** May 15 (Chrome SPDY removal deadline). Getting HTTP/2 working fully deployed till then

** started using letsencrypt for various small services

== Product ==

=== Reading ===

* Most of Reading engineering is at an offsite today, I believe.

==== Reading Infrastructure ====

* AuthManager core patches are just waiting for security +1s. Work is ongoing on extensions; CentralAuth, LdapAuthentication, ConfirmEdit could use reviews if anyone is interested.

=== Editing ===

==== Collaboration ====

* '''Blocking''':

** External store work. External Store deployed everywhere on Beta with no complications. Work on this continues. We now need to set up a second External Store on Beta for Flow, to test the migration.

* '''Blocked''':

** Work on Flow dumps continuing on the ops side. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89398 .

* '''Updates''':

** Continuing notification work on:

*** Cross-wiki notifications coming by default on May 12th!

*** Echo email formatter

*** Work continues on the new Echo MVC architecture

==== Parsing ====

* We got our first visual diff test run comparing Tidy with HTML5depurate. Results @ http://mw-expt-tests.wmflabs.org/ ... Making notes @ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy ... We will use this as the basis for figuring out what things might break if we replace Tidy today and what needs fixing and where.

* Scott has been working with Ops to get OCG kinks ironed out.

==== Language ====

* '''Blocking''':

** Apertium->Jessie. Yet to finalize plan and proceed.

* '''Blocked''':

* '''Updates''':

** cxserver service will be migrated to scap3 deployment soon.

** Translate (twn, meta,..) now using Apertium MT from cxserver.

== Discovery ==

* '''Blocking''': none

* '''Blocked''': none

* Preparing for ElasticSearch 2.0 migration

* Results for A/B test on portal language link location published: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Test_of_Language_De...

* TextCat A/B test launching soon

* Portal A/B test adding descriptions to project links to start this week

* WDQS redeployed, some performance issues

* Graphs have ability to use WDQS directly now

* Team offsite in 2 weeks (17-21)

==Analytics ==

*Scaling of pageview API , more work than anticipated

*Working new domain analytics.wikimedia.org, wikistats 2.0 migration, meeting with research to map early states of project

*Still trouble with jenkins

*

== Fundraising Tech ==

* coding new PayPal integration

* pulling in lots of CiviCRM upstream changes

* making CentralNotice fail gracefully in odd cache edge cases

* Casey hanging out with reading offsite

* more work towards replacing ActiveMQ