Scrum of scrums/2015-07-22

2015-07-22

Reading

Android app

• Removed blocker for F-droid update: using Central Maven repo instead of custom Maven repo. Once we release a new stable version we should be able to get the app on F-droid updated.
• Beta app 2.0.106 released on Monday 7/20:

 * Language selection in search bar allows faster language selection
 * Added link to mobile web at bottom of page
 * More material design: Floating Action Button for ToC
 * More consistent and accurate error messages
 * Onboarding with tooltips, now also covering ShareAFact

iOS

• 4.1.7 release planned, but not for at least another couple weeks (still have work in the backlog, will update when it's closer to done/review)

Web

• Run browser tests on MobileFrontend and Gather patches (bot on wmflabs)

Services

• Working with Ops on Cassandra improvements
• RESTBase
  • various fixes / improvements
    • page delete handling
    • section API
• more secure services with firejail
• endpoint monitoring in production
• Reading / MobileApps
  • Public RESTBase endpoints for the service:
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102130
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103811
  • need https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106149 from you guys

Discovery

• Blockers:
  • Waiting for WDQS hardware
• Blocking:
  • Nothing on board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
• Updates
  • Upgraded Elastic to 1.6.0, and working toward 1.6.2. Also looking at 1.7.
  • WDQS hardware is on the way
  • Working on WDQS upgrade to latest Blazegraph, with patches from us
  • Zero-results investigation ongoing: ES suggesters, NLP, dashboard, event logging
  • Transitional docs and procedures for Nik and James

Fundraising Tech

• no blockers / blocking
• Fixing Latin American fundraising pipeline based on results of 1 hr all user banner test in Brazil
• More import formats and fields for offline donations
• Form tweaks for Japan
• Reviewing and testing big CentralNotice refactor
• Updating payments cluster to MediaWiki 1.25
• General question: best fix for git-review deprecating global config files? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Gerrit/Getting_started

Release Engineering

• Blocking: (none)
• Blocked by: operations

** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158016/

• Updates:

   * Continuing to upgrade browser-test suites to use mw-selenium 1.x
   * Co-hosting testing workshop/discussion w/ TPG next Monday @ 9am PDT
   ** See announcement on engineering@ and/or staff calendar
   * Deployment tooling work continues
   ** Tyler showed off some progress at Wikimania: http://tyler.zone/scap.gif
   * CI isolation work continues

Community Tech

• No blockers
• Working on internal processes for team
  • Hoping to get help from Team Practices
• Removing sajax from SecurePoll (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55122)
• Discussed sharing work backlog with German Chapter Community Tech Team

Collaboration

• Working on rescuing Flow text from impending destruction (external store recompression)
  • Part of the external store audit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106388
  • If you use external store, participate in this audit!