https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-09-21
= 2016-09-21 =
== Product == === Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocking * Blocked ** Services is working with us on the ReviewStream feed we're developing. * Updates ** Continued work on MessagePoster. PageTriage change to use it up, but not merged yet ** Fixed moderation (e.g. when a page or topic is deleted) of Echo notifications ** Some other Echo changes, such as to how seen time works, GENDER i18n, and to the page-linked notification
==== Language ==== * Blocked: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Content Translation work continue; templates and other fixes. ** Jessie migration for Apertium is scheduled on October first week.
==== Parsing (Subbu not attending because of a conflict) ==== * Blocked: Parsoid's native <gallery> implementation is blocked on getting feedback from the VE team. * Patches in gerrit to parse language variant markup in Parsoid -- need to resolve a few questions before we can deploy this * Magic-word based optout of global user pages merged (__NOGLOBAL__) * Kunal has filed an RFC to remove magic link functionality in the parser: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links * Evaluation ongoing of a (already merged in core) PHP version of a HTML5 parser (as a potential replacement for Tidy).
=== Community Tech === * No blockers * Copyvio tools for French Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145431 * More performance testing in hopes to get PageAssessments deployed to English Wikipedia * Education Programs Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546 * Changes to CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists * Investigating work on improving blocking and harassment prevention tools
=== Reading ===
==== Reading Web ==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2186/ * Preparing to enable hovercards ab test in italian and russian * Preparing to enable related articles in mobile in more wikis * Lazy images blog post * Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2221/ * Enable related articles in mobile in more wikis
==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Getting the aggregated feed endpoint working on Beta Cluster since feed aggragation happens in RB now.
==== Android native app ==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/ * Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2238/ * Released to beta Monday 9/19. Plan is to get feedback, fix bugs, and release nav overhaul to the stable app by EOM.
==== iOS native app ==== * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/ ** In regression ** Expected to be released Sept 21
* Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2220/ ** In progress ** MIgrating iOS Feed over to the MCS ** Adding In the news and a local notification ** Expected Delivery ~3 weeks
==== Reading Infrastructure ===== * no
=== Fundraising Tech === * Almost done getting rid of ActiveMQ! * Fixing CentralNotice db calls for strict mode * More refinements to CiviCRM contact de-duplication
=== RelEng === * Blocking ** no * Blocked ** wmf.18 load-time regression https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146099 * Updates ** Skipping wmf.19 entirely due to undiagnosed load-time regression https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160915-MediaWik... *** Tentative plan is to cut wmf.20 and deploy to group0 today and, if all goes well, adjust the remainder of this week's schedule accordingly *** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144644#2654240 ** Completed Beta Cluster database migration to jessie/MariaDB 10 yesterday ** Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th ** Reminder: no train week of Oct 17th (but SWATs OK)
=== Analytics === * Blocking: None * Blocked: None * Updates: ** New AQS cluster is up! Massive reduction of latency. We'll increase the throttling threshold. ** Public Event Streams: Finalized Kasocki prototype. Considering using server side events / streaming instead of web-sockets. ** Edit history reconstruction: Some improvements on the quality of data, still a couple issues to fix. ** Pivot (druid based UI): More work on productionizing it using servicerunner ** A/B testing design - Evaluating feasibility of design ideas. ** Nuria participated in the Technology off-site, very productive.
=== Technical Operations === * '''Blocking''' ** None * '''Blocked''' ** None * Updates ** TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter), please work around this for deployments ** Will not be able to attend SoS for the same reason ** Puppet migration complete ** Varnish upload cluster upgraded to version 4. There are some caveats, but looking good https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145661 ** Apertium migration to Jessie scheduled for Oct 3 ** OpenStackManager in wikitech is being deprecated. There will be information coming your way in the next weeks.
=== Security === * Patch deployed for CentralAuth on monday; let us know if you experience weirdness * Will follow-up on Youdao review ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143185) * Catching up on e-mail, Gerrit, and Phab traffic from last week
=== Services === * Blocking: none * Blocked: none * Updates: ** Huge RESTBase deployment, VE now usable on undeleted articles ** Change-Prop: separated transclusions topics - decrease user visibility of lagging ** Trending service planning with reading ** Bad articles stream planning
=== Discovery === * No blockers * Analyzing BM25 A/B test, if results are positive deployment will be somewhere early October * Working on multiwiki indexes, public comments sought at: ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design * Working on file properties indexing (size, type, dimensions, etc.) * WDQS servers on codfw deployed, looking into how to add them to production setup * Portal: updated portal strings to "Read Wikipedia in your language" and language wiki descriptions.
== Wikidata == * Blocker: Can not connect to the Hangout on https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/scrum-of-scrums. Get error "HJR: 2-RNF". * No other ;-) blockers at the moment. * Making usage information (which page on which wiki uses which Wikidata entity) visible to users: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103091 * Introduced batching in the job that notifies wikis about changes on wikidata.org: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/309972, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107722 * Working on cleaning up several dependencies on legacy stuff in core, e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144977 * Pushing multi content revisions forward.