Scrum of scrums/2013-11-05
Docs
editNotable action items
editNB these are action points that came up during the meeting; there are other blockers and important bits otherwise buried in the notes.
- QA to collaborate with VE team on VE cursor bugs (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/25)
- Language to coordinate with Sean Pringle for replag emulation in betalabs (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/30)
- Zero needs support from Ops on X-Forwarded-By stuff (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38)
- Mobile Web still blocked by Growth for Getting Started API (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/11)
Notable news
edit- Mark Bergsma on holiday for three weeks starting 2013-11-18. You have been warned.
- Trevor going on paternity leave starting on 2013-11-15
- Entire VE team abroad, 2013-11-15, two weeks (india, london), back the night before Thanksgiving
Operations
editAndrew Otto
- NB Mark B on holiday for three weeks starting 2013-11-18
- Past week:
- support state lookups in ULSFO
- ULSFO deployment complete -- traffic is flowing! serving JP, KR, Oceania
- Varnish-text deployments in ESAMS
- No Blockers/Blocking no one
Mobile Apps
editBrion Vibber
- Past
- Robots.txt update for Google -- looks ok (look for unusual load on the API cluster)
- Blockers
- Mobile Stats from analytics (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/1)
QA
editChris McMahon
- Past week:
- training for Rummana for VisualEditor QA
- beta labs maintenance, removed old/corrupt gadgets and user javascript
- research and reporting for intermittent Chrome bug seen in multiple WMF applications
- Next:
- Blocker: better Parsoid support in beta labs, will require multiple parties (VE) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/34)
- another VE QA person Jeff Hall Nov 12 (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/26)
- Flow tests(?)
- talking with Ori about the Chrome bug (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/6)
- VE cursor bugs are a hassle (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/25)
Analytics
editDan Andreescu
- Past
- W0 retooling of analytics (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/20)
- Blocking?
- Language translation metrics -- on hold (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/4)
- Mobile jobs -- needs to be scheduled (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/1)
- Kafka multicast -- not needed; another path used
Platform/RelEng/DevOps
editGreg Grossmier
- Blockers
- Git-deploy -- Ryan working on it (ops/devops) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/35)
- SSL on beta labs -- SSL Certs (Ops)
- Finalizing SSL placement -- SSL placement (Ops)
- Article transfer to beta cluster -- Ariel is busy; needs attention (Ops)
- Parsoid in beta cluster (VE/Antoine)
- Upcoming
- Logging improvements coming
- Blocking
- Googlebot -- done (Mobile Apps) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/18)
- Mobile Web -- HTTPS turned off by default (Mobile Web) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/33)
Language Engineering
editNiklas Laxstrom
- Priority changed: ULS performance (getting help from ori)
- Replication lag testing environment: we have a bug, but no solution yet (Ops -- send email to Sean Pringle) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/30)
- Measuring translation content: on hold, might be dropped
Zero
editAdam Basso
- Past
- SSL support -- in progress
- ESI headers -- may need upgrades to work -- possible delay
- X-Forwarded-By -- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/88261/9/templates/varnish/zero.inc.vcl.erb (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38)
Search
editChad Horohoe
- Continued deployment -- getting servers from Ops (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/8)
- Upcoming -- interwiki search; need design help on this (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/39)
Core Features (Flow)
editS Page
- End of this week: Flow ready for deployment on test/a few MW talk pages (RelEng)
- Parsoid patch in -- testing
Visual Editor
editRoan Kattouw
- NB Trevor going on paternity leave starting on 2013-11-15
- NB entire team abroad, 2013-11-15, two weeks (india, london), back the night before Thanksgiving
- Blocking
- QA problems (QA)
- Parsoid cache in beta labs (Ops)
- Upcoming
- VE deployed in office wiki in next couple of weeks (RelEng(?))
- Flow collaboration with Roan as Trevor is going on paternity leave
- Blocked
- OfficeWiki deploy blocked on Parsoid deploy (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/40)
- Blocking
- Cursor issues (QA)
Mobile Web
editJon Robson
- Qunit tests running now
- Echo unifications now load jscript
- Tweaks to beta -- page creation enabled
- beta cosmetic improvements
- Blocked
- keep going (Getting Started) API (growth) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/11)