https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-07-27

= 2016-07-27 =

== Product ==

=== Reading ===

==== iOS native app ==== * 5.0.5 ** passed regression, but we foud a bug in beta. Patching and pushing a new build today. ** expected release to Apple store later this week * Development of 5.1 is in progress * Planning of 5.2 is in progress

==== Android native app ==== * Stable release containing the feed planned for Thursday * Work on navigation overhaul is underway

==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Added public feed endpoints to MCS documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/RESTBase_services_for_app...

==== Reading Web ====

==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Waiting on translatewiki to be ready for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/280945/

=== Community Tech === * Deploying numeric category sorting to testwiki today, others to follow * Working with CLs to find guinea pig wiki for PageAssessments before deploying to enwiki * Finishing work on CopyPatrol tool (https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol)

=== Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocked - None * Blocking - Florian and I are working on refactoring how ConfirmEdit handles OutputPage, in preparation for a refactoring Timo is doing. This may be a breaking change, so follow at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141300 . Otherwise, no change. * Updates ** Mention notifications: Wikimedia Germany is working on notifications for mention failures (when you apparently intended a mention, but it is not counted as one), and successful mentions. They will also allow you to mention yourself. We're coordinating with them on these tasks. ** Echo changes related to moderation. ** Warning when you leave a Flow board without saving. ** Working on updating the Echo badges.

==== Language ==== * Blocked: Apertium Jessie Packages (Tech Ops). * Updates: ** Improvements in CX and CLL (ULS) continue. ** Parallel Corpora Dumps work is restarted.

== Technology ==

=== Analytics === * edit history reconstruction algorithms done, short demo tomorrow, scaling them to handle all wikis is next * event bus schema work is approaching completion, the new schemas feed nicely into edit history and handle the requirements of the services team * work on moving refinery deployment to scap3 is ongoing * loading of the new more performant AQS cluster is progressing nicely now

=== Technical Operations === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None * Updates ** Got some problems during a network maintenance. T140770 ** Minor issues in labs with OpenLDAP memory leaks ** Working on upgrading puppetmaster infrastructure to 3.8 ** Started looking into vmod_xkey for varnish ** Planning for a parsoid host (wtp*) upgrade to jessie with Parsing. Scheduled for 1st week of August

=== Security === * Working on pingback privacy statement with Legal * Mediawiki 1.27.1 nearly complete; to be released August 3 * Mediawiki 1.27.2 tracking and prep has begun * Security releases wlll now be on a two month schedule

=== Services === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None * Updates ** Kafka upgrade to 0.9 ongoing. ** Session storage & authentication service planning and prototyping: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140813

=== Architecture / ArchCom === * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status

* Recent 2016W29: 2016-07-20 (last week) ** ArchCom Planning meeting: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E234 E234] *** Notes: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-07-20 Architecture committee/2016-07-20] ** ArchCom-RFC office hour: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E235 E235] *** Agenda: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126641 T126641]: [RFC] Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end * Upcoming 2016W30: 2016-07-27 (today) ** ArchCom Planning meeting: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E236 Phab:E236] *** Notes: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-07-27 Architecture committee/2016-07-27] ** ArchCom-RFC office hour: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E237 Phab:E237] *** Agenda: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128602 T128602 Create and deploy an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store]

=== RelEng === * Blocking ** None * Blocked ** None * Updates ** Chad proposed a new icinga alert to detect files owned by root in the mediawiki deployment repository: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/301327/ ** Zeljko on vacation until Aug 15th ** Antione going on vacation next week until Aug 21st

== Discovery == * '''Blocking''': none * '''Blocked''': none * Mostly working on refactoring & technical debt * Trey published survey of top unsuccessful searches: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Top_Unsuccessful_Sear... * Vacations * State of the Map & DataViz hackathon (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DataViz_Seattle_hackathon)

== Wikidata == * working on prototype for structured commons * Daniel working on multi-content revisions

== Fundraising Tech == * Not blocked. * EMcNaughton is on the cusp of running a dedupe script on CiviCRM--it'll still take several weeks to finish, going at a few hundred contacts per minute, but now we think that even the first iteration will catch a majority of the duplicates. * LZia might be doing some analysis on CentralNotice banner numbers, in a part-time volunteer project for WLM. She'll be the first analyst to use some of our exciting new data streams, like "banner history". * Queue overhaul is coming along steadily, no blockers.