Scrum of scrums/2016-01-13

2015-01-13

Reading

Android

• v2.1.137 beta published. Includes a new native article toolbar and lower memory usage.

Reading Infrastructure

• Nothing blocked this week.
• SessionManager and bot passwords should be going out next week.

Discovery

• Working on load test for Dallas cluster
• Load spikes on weekend for ES getting worse, cause not clear yet, investigating ( https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/elasticsearch )
  • Did some brainstorming, discovered queries generating a lot of ES calls to handle variants, with very low success rate. Will investigate removing them.
• Finalizing data models for TextCat language detection library, security review next
• Testing for upgrading WDQS to Blazegraph 2.0 once it's released
• No blockers

Community Tech

• Working on assessment report for Community Wishlist Top 10 results: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10/Status_draft
  • Would like feedback from Wikidata, Multimedia, Analytics, and Collaboration before publishing
• Working on dead link rescuing bot - talking with Tool Labs and IA
• Waiting on feedback from Kunal on Gadgets 2.0
• Wrapping up work on PageAssessments extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments

Infrastructure

RelEng

• Blocking: nothing
• Blocked on: nothing
• Updates:
  • Differential migration discussion at WikiDev16 went really well, very positive, no roadblocks placed
  • Scap3 discussion at WikiDev16 also really positive, looking for more early adopters

Technical Operations

• Blocking: nothing
• Blocked on: nothing
• Updates:
  • Started work on the new Quarter goals

Services

• moved to Node 4.2 - RESTBase, Mobile Content Service, Mathoid

• in progress: Graphoid and Citoid

• working on enabling pre-generation for Mobile Content Service

Security

• Should get to Kartographer this week
• Several patches to deploy this week
• Schedule your reviews!

Fundraising Tech

• cleaning up after December
• updating CiviCRM extensions to use new core features

Editing

VisualEditor

• Blocking: nothing
• Blocked on: nothing
• Updates:
  • Single Edit Tab work nearing completion. Planned to release to one wiki next week if all goes well for validation before larger rollout.
  • Note the OOUI breaking release from yesterday (in -wmf.11); no known impacts.

Parsing

• Blocking: nothing
• Blocked on: nothing
• Updates
  • Hoping to finish up (this week) puppetizing testing infrastructure on ruthenium
  • Coordinating with reading and services to reduce size of HTML payload.

Multimedia

• Blocking: nothing
• Blocked on: nothing
• Updates:
  • Christmas A/B test for cross-wiki upload tool inconclusive. Not sure what's next happening.

Language

• Blocking: nothing
• Blocked on: nothing

Collaboration

• Mostly Echo stuff. Cross-wiki notification stuff is getting closer.
• MediaWiki-Vagrant code for cross-wiki notifications is implemented and almost merged. This will also facilitate other local multi-wiki testing, e.g. Flow.
• Flow Nuke fix merged.