Scrum of scrums/2015-06-17

2015-06-17

Roadmap Board

Greg holds a meeting on Thursdays to surface potentially conflicting deployments. It's helpful if release cards are tagged and put in the right column at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/roadmap/.

Discovery

• Blocking: none
• Blockers: none
• Updates
  • Discussing labs vs. production for WDQS
  • Showcase presented on 6/15
  • ElasticSearch outage on 6/15

Language

• Sick; Apologies.
• Responses to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/198696/ might be delay as Santhosh is on sick leave too.

Services

• parsoid update jobs have been turned off
• deploying 3 new cassandra servers
• new hire starting this week

Fundraising Tech

• Looking to decouple GeoIP cookie parsing from CentralNotice: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102848
• Still trying to figure out mystery plunge in banner impressions 6/1: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101265
  • Andrew Green welcomes input on either of the above
• Astropay: payment notification listener tested, looking at audit files
• Writing CRM imports for more formats
• Hoping to get Redis set up on payments cluster for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99017

Release Engineering

• Blocking: (none)
• Blocked by: (none)
• Updates:

   * Deployment working group formulated some concrete project goals for next quarter
   * Continuing work on identifying/refactoring/removing flaky tests
   * Met with TPG yesterday on plan to address testing pain points
   * Thanks to ops for work on OpenStackManager, allowing us to move forward with nodepool and isolated CI
   * Still hiring for Automation Engineer
     * https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62416

Parsing

• Nothing significant to report.
• Monday deploy was cancelled because VE was broken in beta cluster.
• salt is apparently broken which affects Parsoid deploy today -- but may have workarounds with help from ops.

Analytics

• Event Logging looked weird in graphite but the database looks fine, we're investigating
• Pageview API privacy discussions underway
• Progress on moving EL to kafka

Ops

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• python-etcd ready
• Weird salt bug, blocking parsoid deploy. Will be fixed before deploy time
• etherpad moved to etherpad1001 Jessie VM

Security

• working on citoid bug (thanks marko!)
• T99941 - Ops working on it, thanks!
• I'm working on mobile centralauth patch

Android app

• Getting close to running Android tests on emulator in Jenkins
• Going to ask ops to get mobileapps node.js service to be deployed to SCA (using Parsoid HTML output), sending request next couple of days: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase_services_for_apps
• Let user choose Chinese language dialect
• Added tabbed browsing

Collaboration Team

• Almost done OOjs UI TOC and 'Mark as resolved'
• Continuing work on blockers to LQT->Flow conversion
• Continuing work on blockers to deploying Flow to a whole namespace on Catalan Wikipedia