Scrum of scrums/2014-01-21
Task Wall
editDocs
editNotable action items
edit- Language needs help from the VE team for upcoming sprint
- Mobile apps needs review on a core patch (see below)
- Analytics needs ops review on pageview drop drom Dec (See below)
Language
editAmir Aharoni
- Working on content translation
- Next sprint -- need help from VE team
- ULS extension inadvertently disabled in production/repaired
- Will impact ops/deployment
- 58 is not currently blocking
Mobile Apps
edit- Patch to core merged
- Follow up needs to be reviewed - improves captcha error reporting from API
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108088/ (core)
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108089/ (ConfirmEdit)
- Google Glass Mingle integration ongoing
Wikipedia Zero
edit- 53 "WO dashboards" - on hold, Christian tasked on other high priority item
- 64 "New Overlay" - mobile web handling gracefully, card can be closed
- 65 "Android Integration" - submitted part 1 of Y for Android, going through review, will be submitting more
- 66 "iOS Integration" - will work once done with #65
- 2 "ESI headers" - ESI fix not coming for approximately 6 months, using VCL hacks for the time being, but exploring <img> tags as ESI-like workaround
- 3 "Support SSL" - Mark revising VCL patch to hack in SSL support for W0, plan will be to continue using this approach for the foreseeable future
- 57 "Firefox OS exploraton" - Bugzilla and email dialogue with Timo and Roan ongoing.
Ops
edit- Tampa outage fun
- New datacenter selection moving along
- ulsfo procurement going forward, ramp up tentatively starting next week (pending vendor issues)
- check_ganglia packaged and being used
- useful CLI for querying metrics from ganglia
- hadoop and kafka icinga alerts finally under control
- Hadoop and Hive now available for testing on mediawiki-vagrant!
- Work needed to assist PDF sprint (see ops@ & RT)
- Varnish & Zero discussions
- Discussions about JVM app deployment system. Nik and Otto plan to start working on a test setup in labs soon.
Analytics
edit- Page view December drop analyzed and needs ops review (#69)
- MediaWiki oauth deployed to Limn/WikiMetrics
- Limn impacted by Tampa cable cut
- Should be fixed now
- Charles Salvia just joined WMF on Analytics team
- csalvia in IRC, charles@wikimedia.org
Platform
editGreg
- LDAP replication to EQIAD is fixed/should be fixed soon
- Bugzilla is being upgraded in early February (moving to EQIAD from Tampa)
- Bryan Davis will announce the Logstash awesomeness soon
Security
editChris
- Analytics waiting for Kafka
- Hadoop review may be more important
Growth
editProgress on getting started/patches merged Sam Smith (London) started
QA
editPast:
- Script to monitor fatals on beta labs merged and deployed
Future:
- Still working on uploads API monitor script
- Support calls for bogus failures in browser test Jenkins still in process
- Browser tests for VE in MobileFrontend
Blocked(?)
- VisualEditor still not updated correctly on beta labs since repo name changed (NB
- NB this is now resolved
Flow
editLaunch to 2 enwiki projects January 28