Scrum of scrums/2015-12-02

Product

Discovery

• Language test finished, unfortunately not much user improvement found
• Cirrus logs now available at wmf_raw.CirrusSearchRequestSet on hive
• need ops help to finish https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110262
• not blocking anything

Maps & Graphs

• Vega 2.0 migration is moving forward, service is up, interactive is next
• GeoHack in Russian moved to the new maps (example) – 0.5 million tiles a day, no server effect
• BLOCKER: Services - what's the status of POST storage?
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105975 (resolved)?

Reading

Generally

• Q3 planning
• Strategic pillars set (web global south, Android social interactive reading / customized education, iOS iterative improvements for people who love to read), testing phases over coming quarter (notable: divert 1/1000 unauthenticated desktop users to mobile web, cookies-based mechanism)

Android and Mobile Content Service

• Content Service is slated to start rolling out Monday.
• Map functionality to be promoted from beta to prod next release.
• Moving long running tests from Gerrit triggers to periodic.
• Moving more content from WebView to native components.
• Wiktionary service endpoint and client implementations in progress.

Web

• Cards security review (Gergo will yield GPGMail)
• 5% mobile web beta CTA (call to action?) to be suppressed
• Browser test failures now only go to qa-alerts
• Potential image progressive loading / not srcset-based

iOS

• Gearing up for Beta w/ non WMF users
• Universal Links (phabricator:T97785??) work is "blocked" on getting a staging environment for prototyping Universal Links behavior & user flows

Reading Infrastructure

• Block: Need replies to the replies on the SessionManager security review.
  • Reply to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90895#1802168 would be nice too.
• Block: ApiSandbox is still blocked on whoever owns oojs-ui for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91148 - ACTION! let's figure out an alternative approach (James F suggests separate component in mw.Widgets)
• Two questions for Services or Multimedia or whoever: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66214#1842439 - ACTION! email thread, keep discussion on task, though

Editing

Collaboration

• Cross-wiki Echo notification work is still progressing well.
• Flow external store patch is merged. Collaboration team needs to do follow-up
• We need to follow up with DBA at some point about the Flow artificial primary keys.
• Flow dumps code are merged, now we need to work with ops to get them running and published ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511 )
• Following up on LQT->Flow conversion for ptwikibooks.
• Previous approach to cross-DC Flow support was too slow. We're going to try a different approach.
• Flow anti-spam integration also in-progress, particularly Nuke.

Language

• cxserver service-runner patch needs review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/244145/ (service team)

• yup, am aware of it, will do (Marko)
• note: we'll need to coordinate for merging and deploying this, as this change will need an op/puppet change as well

Multimedia

• Found an unfortunate i18n OOUI bug for people using mw.Widgets but not VE. Fixed in master, going to ask for a backport. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119984

Parsing

• Added async support to parsoid's html -> wikitext serialization -- required to support serialization scenarios that require template data lookup or mediawiki API calls
• Work in progress to support native tag extensions in Parsoid ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55874 )
• Using deployment lull to do some code cleanup and refactoring.
• FY16Q3 draft goals published @ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119088

VisualEditor

• Big IME support change likely to land in master today. Shouldn't impact anyone inc. Collaboration's Flow usage. (unless they use IMEs).

Fundraising Tech

• Campaign is up, making big bucks
• Nothing on fire so far
• Minor bugfixes and backup systems buildout

Technology

Services

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none

• Kafka HW

• High-volume API endpoints

• /page/summary is out in prod - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117082

• Reading team - please finalise https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/252276/

• other endpoints - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115876

• tell us your needs!

• EventBus

• making progress in tandem with Analytics
• finalising the REST proxy service's API
• basic event schemas in place
• MW event production

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/254086/
• should see the light of day soon: Beta deploy patch - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/256418/

• Misc

• AQS

• first attempt at deploying via Scap3 in Beta happening today
• Analytics team: we will need some fake data for BetaCluster domains to have a fully-working AQS instance in Beta, cf. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116206

• RESTBase

• revamp of config and module specifications in progress - https://github.com/wikimedia/restbase/pull/425

Technical Operations

• Apologies, will not be making it to the meeting
• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• Updates:
  • Yubikey for all of ops moving on
  • LDAP migration moving on
  • Migration of monitoring to shinken ongoing

Security

• Reviews: Session/Auth Manager still in progress, Cards and Thumbor this week.

Release Engineering

• Blocking: (none)
• Blocked by: (none)
• Updates:
  • Deployment tooling implementation continues
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/
    • AQS deployment to Beta Cluster this morning
  • MediaWiki 1.26 released

Research

Nothing to report