[Wikitech-l] 2018-11-21 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-11-21 *2018-11-21=* == Callouts == * Release Engineering: No train this week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday * UI Standardization: Feedback welcome on non-proportional, aka monospace font choice for code https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209915 == Audiences == === Contributors === ==== Community Tech ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Anti-Harassment Tools ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Editing ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: ** Updates: ** Responded to Language's request for feedback ==== Growth ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Recording EventLogging events in MySQL in beta broke multiple times this past week. Perhaps caused by Neutron migration? **EditorJourney schema logging went live on Thursday for Czech and Korean wikis. **WelcomeSurvey is live on cswiki and kowiki despite 2 OOUI bugs: T209716, T209717. (help from anyone that manages OOUI would be great) ==== Language ==== * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Apertium and depenencies are updated in Production. ** New shiny graphs for cxserver (service-cxserver) at Graphana available. Helped to identify issues already! ** ContentTranslation v2 bug fixes continue. === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Android native app ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Readers Web ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** ==== Readers Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Announcements changes for English app fundraising are deployed. App devs: please test asap. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204821 ==== Multimedia ==== * Updates ** Mostly bugfixing on beta commons - hoping to invite community comment on it real soon (honest!) ** Also working on depicts and other statements ==== Parsing ==== * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: None ==== UI Standardization ==== * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Design Style Guide *** New “Resources” section https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/resources.html *** Updates on “Typography” and imagery across pages ** Accessibility: *** Wikipedia Portals freed of technical a11y hurdles == Technology == === Analytics === * Blocked by: performance of cloud replicas for sqooping all rows monthly, ongoing work and discussion at T209031 * Blocking: * Updates: ** testing Kerberos with our infrastructure on cloud VMs, progressing well ** work on Modern Event Platform's Event Intake service code going well. If you want to follow from the very early stages, see https://github.com/ottomata/eventbus ** XML dumps available in HDFS, see T202489 ** ongoing work on sanitizing Hive event database (all EventLogging data) === Cloud Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Fundraising Tech === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === MediaWiki Core Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** RFC meeting regarding session storage interface (multi-DC dependency) continuing tomorrow (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206010 ) ** PHP 7.2 tests are now voting for MediaWiki (gerrit:473312) ** Continuing to extract decisions and action items from Tech Conf session notes ** Actor table rolled out to test wikis and mediawiki.org last week, and to group 0 this week. No problems reported ** Comment table image_comment_temp merging is done, except for the WMF schema change (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209591 ). ** Externallinks indexing: DONE! (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209373 ) === Performance === * Blocked by: ** * Blocking: ** * Updates: ** === Release Engineering === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Hired Jeena Huneidi. She will be working on local development and other developer satisfaction improvements. https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/topic/foundation-optional/5GXGf… ** Blog post by Dan Duvall: Bring in 'da noise, bring in defunct. It's a zombie party! Peering into the CI cauldron – October 2018 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/127 ** Thanks to Krenair, Andrew Boggott, and Bryan Davis for helping make the Beta Cluster region migration go as smoothly as possible - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208101 ** CI Nodepool stopped yeah! #technical-debt ** Gerrit is alright. Got JavaMelody for monitoring now. InitialiseSettings.php is too big. ** Blubber build with Blubber ** Code Health: *** Experimenting with SonarQube https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207046 ** Train Health: *** Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.4 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206658 *** This week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday *** Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660 === Research === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Working on collecting more synonyms for section titles: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210085 ** Preparing to run QuickSurveys for Reader Trust: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209882 === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: None * Blocking: None * Updates: ** Work on upgrading to celery 4 is officially done ** Jade TechCom RFC discussion coming up regarding JADE storage (22nd @ 0600 UTC) ** Investigating on using redis-sentinel for ores ** Fixed scap restart check for ores-celery === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** Worked with DWIM Gadget authors to improve “wrong keyboard” detection: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138958 ** Fixed prefix search with multiple namespaces: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208255 ** Improved Blazegraph reliability: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206189 ** Setting up A/B test for new wikidata completion models: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209402 ** Working on transforming Elasticsearch explains into tensorflow code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208917 ** Working on ES 6 upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183282 ** Working on running multiple Elastic instances on the same hardware: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193654 ** Working on query parsing refactoring: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185108 === Security === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: Security Engineers are Reviewing Tasks and are expected to complete Reviews on time ** === Services === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** === Site Reliability Engineering === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking: ** None * Updates: ** ATS work (replacing varnish) ongoing. Still a long way from complete, just FYI ** zoterov2 successfully deployed in staging, production finally next ** php 7.2 installed on appservers ** A lot of reboots happening, should be transparent == Wikidata == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == German Technical Wishlist == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** == Multi-Content Revisions == * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: ** working on making AbuseFilter work with MCR: ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208769) ** discussing MCR support for File page layout: ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209878) == SoS Meeting Bookkeeping == * Updates: **