Scrum of scrums/2014-09-10
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edit- Work continues on Content Translation for end of September release
Link adaptation, server logging, publishing attribution, MT abuse, UI enhancements, reference handling, unit tests, performance, language enablement
- Quarterly review last week (slides and notes not posted yet):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_quarterly_reviews
- Alolita and Kartik working with Ops on CX deplyment issues related to service integrations
- Niklas tried out Nik's code for translation memory result scoring
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158361/
- Niklas reviewed and wrote tests for a few Translate bugs
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158146/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/158147/
- Pau, Runa and Amir held rountable with Content Translation users
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHu3vdlE1X8
- Amir fixed several RTL bugs:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159070/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159185/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159060/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159044/
- Beta hiccups continue to cause delays in development/testing.
Fundraising Tech
edit- Getting new FR/Analytics hire Ellery Wulczyn into the system
- Continuing work on CRM (email tracking, build/test automation, modularizing our components)
- Continuing work on FR stats dashboard
- Generic auditing / reconciliation from payment providers.
Multimedia
edit- Thumbnail pre-rendering is pretty much ready to go
- Gergo has filed the request for extension review for ImageMetrics
- Bunch more Media Viewer crap raining down on us, plus UploadWizard refactoring, so Mark will be stuck in that hole for the next few weeks
- Betalabs SSL issues persist - would be helpful to see those fixed.https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68387
Ops
edit- #127 Elasticsearch hardware tests coming along (slowly)
- Tampa datacenter will be shut down early October.
QA
edit- Hacking Jenkins
- Hacking beta labs
- Apologies for any outages or other weirdness
- Browser tests are fairly stable right now, so the timing is actually pretty good
- Gearing up for significant changes in the upcoming quarter
- Performance enhancements to Jenkins
- Creating additional shared test environments besides beta labs
- Reviving QA community outreach/talks/training
Analytics
edit- Just working on Wikimetrics and Dashiki, no dependencies
- One Limn instance had problems getting datafiles, if it happens to you just let Dan (milimetric) know (it's some weird DNS caching problem)
Parsoid
edit- Nothing major to report
- Scott still in PDF rendering land to try to get it moved over so that the tampa center can be shut down
- Continuing work on PHP parser and Parsoid rendering compatibility -- will get VE folks to do some review of cite css experiments
Flow
edit- hubbub over Echo changes, Flow feedback.
- dev affected by beta labs instability: getaddrinfo failures (bug 68125), last night everything 404'd (bug 70648)
- heads up: wgContentHandlerUseDB=true rolling out, some miscreant can use the MediaWiki web API to change the contentformat of a page to flow-board, jsonschema, etc.
Security
edit- Patches (soon) on cluster
- Ops - wikidata conversation about libraries
- reviews for ImageMetrcis, Graph, and RecentActivityFeed
Editing
edit- Nothing big going on
- Working on eliminating dependency on Rangy
- Starting to integrate substance.io's table editing code
- Trevor working on MW skin for OOjs UI based on design team designs
- Ed in SF until Sep 18
- Timo in SF for 3 weeks starting Monday (Sep 15)
Platform
edit- hhvm - lua bug, lots more production servers soon
Services
edit- Mathoid deployment moving along thanks to Alex: [1]
- The storage service & API front-end will be merged in RESTBase
- Hardik working on secondary indexes
- Gabriel working on cleaning up the front-end handlers & moving them to a declarative configuration (please let us know if that's readable!)
- Starting on Parsoid integration
Zero
edit- Waiting for <graph> ext review