Scrum of scrums/2015-05-06

2015-05-06

Search Team

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Team/Meeting_Minutes
  • Ongoing improvements
    • CirrusSearch integration tests
    • WQS ontology, distributable
    • Maps tile server
    • Archiva deployment process
  • Beginning work on data collection/metrics
  • Experimenting with Scrum-derived organization of processes & subteams
• Are we blocked?
  • For tile server: Need 1 TB server, can be in labs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97638
• Are we blocking?
  • No: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/

Security

• Citoid review in progress
• Security planning with teams ongoing

Analytics

• Event Logging holes all backfilled, but graphite is not showing any EL data since some time last week, and we're getting new Icinga alerts as of right now
• In the process of fixing up our documentation (moving everything to Wikitech)

Parsing

• Been dealing with issues arising from previous week's deployment snafus.
• Continuing to focus on VE bugs for Q4.
• Nothing special to report beyond that. Already co-ordinating separately with VE and Services teams on project dependencies on a weekly basis.

Ops

• T88798 Jenkins is using php-luasandbox 1.9-1 for zend unit tests; precise should be upgraded to 2.0-8 or equivalent

• Blocker on HHVM packaging has been lifted today, moving forward with this.

• Backlog on apertium packaging from LE team
• Access to OSM postgresql in labs
• Graphite issue, task to be created

Apps

iOS

• What has your team done since we last met?
  • Still coming up with CI req's before going to RelEng

• What will your team do before we meet again?
  • (Hopefully) release Wikipedia 4.1.3.96 to the app store

• Is anything slowing your team down or getting in their way?
  • Still figuring out how to work with Reading Infra & Services vertical team-mates, but working on other stuff atm
  • Services blocking prototype service deployment due to lacking test coverage
  • Analytics code review on a patch to iOS app which changes user agent

• Are you about to put something in another team’s way?
  • Once we talk to RelEng we'll probably need some CI work, otherwise probably not

Language

• Team Offsite next week.
• Need from Ops! Reviews for Apertium packaging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/le-sprint-86/

Fundraising Tech

• Team changes
  • Dylan Kozlowski has just started, Casey Dentinger to start next Monday
  • Sherah Smith leaving us to work with Vibha on the UX team
• More DonationInterface refactoring on the road to Astropay integration
• Lots of fixes to make it easier to start working with fundraising stuff
  • Tweaks to the fundraising Vagrant role
  • making DonationInterface configuration work more like other extensions
• more work on CentralNotice mixins

Services

• Graphoid deployed
• REST API now available at main project domain
• Working with ops on expanding the RB cluster
• Waiting for App team to write basic tests for app service
• Working with Parsing on section offsets for HTML section retrieval / edit API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94890

Collaboration

We need "Perform schema change to echo_target_page changing from a 1 to 1 mapping between pages and user/notification to a 1 to many." ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94427 ) for a new Echo feature.