Scrum of scrums/2015-10-14

2015-10-14

Reading

Web

• RelatedArticles extension no longer depends on CustomData. Plans to deprecate need for CustomData on production.
• Test driving the Webpagetest instance from the performance team
• Offsite in Europe next week

Android

• New beta release coming this week.
• Working towards a HockeyApp resolution.

iOS

• Still working on 5.0, plan to get ball rolling for Universal Links soon
• Once 5.0 gets into beta, we'll need to start dicsussions about:
  • preview "impressions" logging
  • search + TE API usage in 5.0

Content Services

• Moving to use Parsoid content; still need some mobileview for the metadata. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108777

Reading Infrastructure

• Block: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108618 is blocked on Discovery and Analytics solidifying the first use of the monolog to kafka pipeline.
• Block: Language is still requested to comment on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/216909/
• Block: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91148 is still ultimately blocked on whoever owns oojs-ui
• Not blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110274 (CI) yet, but it's on the horizon

Community Tech

• Still discussing possible work on Gadgets 2.0
• Discussing possible uses of pagestats API

Infrastructure

Technical Operations

• Apologies, in offsite, whole team is practically unavailable for a meeting.

Release Engineering

• Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92871 (patch merged but will leave task open for a period)
• Blocked by: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115416 (Phab/Shinken/other mail being marked as spam)
• Updates:
  • Deployment tooling implementation continues
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/
    • Feature complete by this Friday
  • Continuing to migrate simple CI jobs to nodepool instances
  • Continuing to dogfood Differential while working on scap3
  • MW release 1.26 Nov 20-ish

Security

• Reviews: initial ArticlePlaceholder done, UrlShortener done; Revscoring this week
• Security release this week

Services

• Collaboration team - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115236
• AQS public endpoints - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114830
• RESTBase

• Mathoid integration - /media/math
• Mobile Content Service storage to be deployed next week
• REMINDER: deprecating bodyOnly (=> body_only) and scrubWikitext (=> scrub_wikitext) in tranform API

• API-driven front-end w/ Reading team - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111588

• Reading - Web and Reading - Apps to define their common usages
• Reading - Web will determine their best course of action (soonish?)

• Security - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112072

Analytics

• Event Logging outage this morning, still looking into it, Incident Report coming soon
• Pageview API is being loaded with data but the public endpoint is caught up in naming / structure discussions

Editing

Language

• Apologies
• Work on CX Suggestions continue.
• cxserver -> service-runner in WIP.

Collaboration

• Working with Services on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115236
• Continuing to roll out Flow opt-in to new wikis
• Continuing prep work for Echo cross-wiki
• Continuing Flow external store (blocks ops)
• Continuing Flow dumps

Fundraising Tech

• Processing new audit file formats from Amazon and Worldpay
• Deployed another batch of Central Notice performance improvements and features
• Testing data and patches migrated from CiviCRM 4.2 to 4.6

Discovery

• Working on multi-DC setup
• Launched another A/B test
• Blocked
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114694 - waiting for scap3 deployment
• Blocking
  • none