Scrum of scrums/2015-06-24

2015-06-24

Roadmap

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/1109/

Reading

iOS

• Release 4.1.5 this morning EDT! No longer crashing on startup in Norway (and potentially other countries).

Android

• Expect beta release today or tomorrow. Production release ~ a week later.
  • Tabbed browsing will be feature flagged to beta release only

Web

• No cross team dependencies

Fundraising tech

• Worked on this past week:
  • Refactoring CentralNotice bannerController and the API offered to banners (related to performance improvements and work towards logging a sample of banner history)
  • Queuing changes for improved isolation for PCI requirements
  • A/B testing data in FR dashboard
  • Upgrade version of wm-core on payments wiki
  • Tweaks, details and minor bugfixes: Astropay, Global Collect, CIVI, popups and layout on payment
• Next week: more of the same + some FR dash features
• No blockers, no known blocking coming up

Security

• Wikihiero review done, WikibaseQuality in progress
• T101739 finished, thanks ops!
• New security bug process documented - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_deploy_code#Security_patches

Discovery

• Blocking: none
• Blockers: none
• Updates
  • New team member: Bob Flagg, Relevancy Engineer
  • Incoming team member: Mikhail Popov
  • Brainstorming improving responses to future Elastic problems
  • Brainstorming plans for Q1 goal: reducing "zero search results" (or "recall") rates

Release Engineering

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

   * Thanks to ops for helping us to remove NFS dependencies in Beta Cluster and Integration slaves
   * Beginning implementation of next gen deployment tooling based on outcomes of deployment working group discussions
   * Breakthrough on nodepool setup for CI isolation (woot!)
   * Working on Gerrit/Zuul jobs that will run a subset of browser (end-to-end) tests for MW extensions
   ** Also new "user factory" feature in MW-Selenium to help with creating account fixtures
   * Still hiring for Automation Engineer
     * https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62416

Services

• New hire - Petr!
• Setting up new RESTBase / Cassandra nodes - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102015
  • hit SSD timeout issues on all new nodes, investigation in progress
• finishing up the quarterly goal - section edit API - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94890
• Language team - let's talk about basing CXServer on service-runner - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101272

Editing

Parsing

• Blockers: none
• Updates:
  • Semantic accuracy in round trip testing now at 99.95%

Collaboration

• All real blockers to LQT->Flow migration on MediaWiki.org have been resolved. We would like ops to look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101583 so we don't need to worry about luasandbox disappearing, but it's not really a blocker currently.
• Mark as resolved is done
• OOjs UI work continuing
• Only one remaining blocker to putting Flow on a Catalan Wikipedia namespace.

Analytics

• Short 30 minute Event Logging loss of data while we were testing migration from ZeroMQ to Kafka. We're backfilling the data
• We're auditing Event Logging schemas so we can delete old and unneeded data, have reached out to all the owners

Technical Operations

• Big Labs NFS outage last week
• Postmortem live; multiple corrective actions taken
• HTTPS deployment progressing. HSTS at 14d now, optimizing/securing further.
• RESTBase + Cassandra woes (combination of hardware issues & premature/poorly planned upgrades)