Scrum of scrums/2014-09-17

Task Wall

Mingle

Docs

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

Notable items

• Multimedia grappling with mediawiki-ui and oojs-ui issues - they need help!
• Tampa datacenter shutting down in Oct (see emails from Ops)
• Language team's content translation deployment currently blocked by Ops, mtg to unblock scheduled
• Editing team encountered issues with VE page corruption, likely many pages affected on big non-English wikis
• Fr-tech is updating CentralNotice
• Services needs ops support around deploying RESTBase

Multimedia

• Fabrice is vacationing for a wedding until Tuesday, Eloquence is our PM in the meantime
• Metrics improvements pretty much set, ty milimetric
• Prerendering of thumbnails is coming to a theatre near you Real Soon Now - only for new images, though, because there's some issue about tall vs. wide images.
• Ori is going to be a dear and review ImageMetrics, so I marked it "scheduled" (card 136)
• Why do we only keep Swift logs for only a week? We'd like to debug the outage...
• More media viewer UI fixes coming your way, should minimize the drama...sorta
• mediawiki-ui issues...using the button classes on my "more details" button screwed it up, would love some help debugging.
• aaaand oojs-ui issues. Maybe not seeing 'choose' events when an InlineMenuWidget changes.

Analytics

• https://metrics.wmflabs.org/static/public/dash/ released as a first draft of the Vital Signs dashboard

Ops

• #127 Elasticsearch hardware testing done. Now moving forward with procurement, waiting on quote for new SSDs in current machines.
• Heira support will soon be merged into production operations/puppet
• Just another reminder, Tampa datacenter will be shut down in October.

QA

• wrapping up hiring for QA Tester position
• MobileFrontend test refactoring
• Echo and Flow test refactoring
• setting up Meetup for Oct 22 apropos of Quarterly Review feedback
• wrangling old docs on mw.o
• wrangling new builds in Jenkins with jjb
• Rummana and Chris available for MMV if you need eyeballs and browsers
• Program note: Chris will not be available for much of October.
• Card 119 still in progress, worked on by D Duvall, currently low priority

Flow/Core features

(Can't attend)

• Fixing and polishing Echo alerts/notifications, had several unscheduled deploys
• We have an implementation of simple mw.ui dialog, and a spec for a full-featured one. Shahyar Ghobadpour will send mail to design list.
• beta labs more stable

Language

• Finished Sprint 74 (Content Translation)
  • Link adaptation, source attribution, logging
  • Additional languages in labs, performance, MT abuse detection
  • Unit tests for cxserver
  • Research for minimal text styling support
  • MediaWiki localization fixes and Translate bugs
• Started Sprint 75 (Content Translation)
  • UI Enhancements: cursor positioning, minimal text styling
  • Performance: client-side request caching, section heading preloading
  • Logging: publishing failure errors
  • Analytics (published articles): reporting, visualization (stretch)
  • Testing: enable automated unit tests, GWT tests
  • Deployment: BLOCKED enable es<->ca translation (both directions) on beta
• Blockers
  • Content Translation deployment currently blocked by Ops
  • Alolita and Kartik meeting with Ops tomorrow
• Requests
  • Ops Team: Please read deployment plan before meeting tomorrow

  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Deployment_Plan#CX_Deployment_Plan_for_September_2014

• • Analytics Team: may request help with EL schema review
  • Analytics Team: advice on visualization tools

Mobile apps

• iOS bug with 'debug=true' in ResourceLoader call should be resolved with this Tuesday's update
• One more iOS fix in queue to resolve iPhone 6 resolution issues

Editing

• Fun issues yesterday with VE page corruption in IE and Firefox
  • Worked around browser bugs in VE; Parsoid bugs still outstanding
  • Probably many pages affected on big non-English wikis, still figuring out cleanup strategy
• Ed in SF until tomorrow, Timo in SF until Oct 4
• Roan working on Citoid puppetization because Services doesn't have time

Fundraising Tech

• Generalize payment reconciliation
• CiviCRM continuous integration
• Exchange rate update
• FR stats dash now has some db filters hooked up
• CentralNotice updates ready to deploy: unarchive campaigns, list which campaigns a banner is used in
• Upgrading payments wiki from 1.22

Services

• sca cluster ('services cluster a') ready (thanks Alex!) -- next steps:
  • deploy mathoid (Gabriel)
  • puppetize & deploy citoid (Roan)
• RESTBase
  • Hardik continues work on secondary indexes
  • Front-end being refactored (Gabriel)
  • shooting for ready-for-deploy by end of this month
• OCG / PDF rendering: Sprint to fix issues led by Scott with help by Arlo & Gabriel
  • most major crashers fixed, some remaining but look tractable
  • should be ready for October 1st Tampa shutdown
• preparing for RESTBase deploy, likely using current test boxes (xenon, praseodymium, cerium) as they have ssds
  • chase might help
  • will need to reimage, install with puppet
  • RT ticket forthcoming

(Timo first time attending)

CI

(Timo)

• New pool of Trusty-based Jenkins slaves for running tests in node 0.10. They're opt-in for Jenkins jobs at the moment. Editing team projects and Parsoid have expressed interest. Others to follow.

With (some of) production running nodejs 0.8 still, projects running server-side should (also) stay integrated under node 0.8.

Platform

(Timo)

• ResourceLoader now wraps legacy scripts (that bypass ResourceLoader) in conditionals. Our decreasing Grade A browser and more exposed Grade C behaviour (e.g. no javascript payload) helped find this problem.
• CSSJanus is being made into a standalone project.

It was already untangled from MediaWiki code-wise but still maintained in mediawiki-core with no versioninig or releases. We're moving node-cssjanus, php-cssjanus and python-cssjanus into new repositories and sync their implementations to reach bugfix/feature/API parity.