https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-10-25

= 2017-10-25 =

== Callouts == * Services are running a new JobQueue test in beta cluster, so if you see anything strange in beta - please notify * Mukunda broke scap in beta, will get it fixed soon!

== Audiences ==

=== Readers ===

==== Multimedia ==== * Blocking: None * Blocked by: None * Updates: MediaInfo/Wikibase on Commons work is continuing, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177022 * UploadWizard changes for 3D legal considerations, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178513 * and discussions about MP3. * Heads up: Mark on vacation next week, plus three days in the following week - will respond but may be AFK

==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Apps offsite last week ** 5.7.0 will be released this week ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ ) - Visual updates to onboarding, iOS 11 support, iPhone X support ** Starting work on 5.7.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3047/ and 5.8 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2913/

==== Reading Web ==== - currently offsite-ing

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Reading lists available in beta & labs: https://restbase-reading.wmflabs.org/en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/v1/ + http://readinglists.wmflabs.org/api/rest_v1/#/Reading_lists

==== Discovery ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: * continuing work on portal automation, general clean-ups, adding SVGs

=== Contributors ===

==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: Parsoid debian package upload blocked by change needed to the deb-upload script (Daniel Zahn replied on IRC y'day as he was rushing to catch a flight that the release server has changed). But, not sure if anything is needed on our end or will Ops fix this? I can create a phab ticket if required. * Blocking: * Updates: ** Parsing team back from offsite (last week). Nothing significant to report for purposes of SoS. Focusing on some perf work this week.

==== Services ==== * Blockers: none * Updates: ** All jobs in beta cluster are processed via kafka as a test. Please tell us if you notice anything weird ** Deprecated /titile/ and /title/{title}/ listings in REST API has been removed

=== Community Tech === * Preparing for a new wishlist survey * Deploying Unicode sections soon

=== TechOps === * Blocked by: ** Flow isAllowed gets actual revision text before it is needed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172025 * Blocking: * Updates: ** Procurement for Asia datacenter has started ** We have IP addresses allocated ** Work on unifying production and CI build pipeline ongoing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177276 ** Database shard s5 split into s8 ongoing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172679 ** Work on porting varnish request stats scripts to Prometheus https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177199 ** Puppet modernization ongoing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177254

=== Search Platform === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: * Finished removal of messaging fallbacks from Elastic indexing ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177871) * Relaxing phrase query filter A/B finished, analyzing ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177956) * Checked language analyzers to see whether we want to research other morphological libraries (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652) ** See the plan in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171652#3707331 * Looking at top abandoned queries ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176997) * Extended a set of default search namespaces on several wikis ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473) * Enabled stricter throttling on WDQS to deal with clients that issue tons of short requests very fast * Enabling ElasticSearch prefix search on Wikidata today * Working on porting Selenium tests from Ruby to JS * Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.5 * Working on indexing Wikidata descriptions and adding them to fulltext search

=== Release Engineering === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Mukunda broke scap in beta, will get it fixed soon! ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179013 ) ** Deployment logspam is mostly quiet, except one non-deployment related log from the tidy migration (Parsing/MW Platform know) ** Zeljko paired with Elena T. to get some Echo notification browser tests written (nodejs/mocha framework). ** Zeljko scheduled a Tech Talk on Oct 31st to discuss/teach the nodejs browser testing framework. ** Scap tech-debt project well underway, merged many improvements last week ** new/docker based CI: the phan job is now migrated ** Gerrit was upgraded last week (minor version) ** Working on git-lfs (large file store, for big binary blobs) support in Gerrit for ORES and Reading teams ** Redesigned (simplified) the Phabricator login screen < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D831%3E, should be deployed soon.

=== Security === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: whowever is waiting for security reviews * Updates: * Node Security Project 3.0.0 being released soon (available as nsp@next); please consider upgrading if you work on Node.js-based projects * Reviews: * pdfrw * more will be scheduled soon

== Wikidata == * Preparing WikidataCon: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017 * We will live-stream the main tracks on Saturday and Sunday: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Remote