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

Scrum of scrums/2015-06-17

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