Scrum of scrums/2016-03-16
2016-03-16
editProduct
editReading
editiOS
edit- Updates:
- 5.0.0 was released - all the new things
- 5.0.1 was submitted - fix all the new things that crashed
- Upcoming:
- 5.0.1 - release (blocked on Apple review)
- 5.0.2 - a little bit of this and that, second round of bug fixes, some small functionality tweaks
- 5.1.0 - still in planning stage for some larger adjustments to some of the new 5.0.0 functionality
- Blocking:
- nothing comes to mind atm
- Blocked:
- 5.0.1 - release (blocked on Apple review)
- "mw-mobilefrontend-leadsection" leaking in to mobileview lead section (broke our transform but we pushed a workaround in 5.0.1)
- powering through 5.0.0 OTRS feedback firehose (not so much blocked as just time consuming) - digesting this feedback will inform what goes into 5.0.2 and 5.1.0
- this also isn't really a blocker, just something we'll need to do sometime in the future - audit mobile content service output for any android-specific bits which may need to be tweaked before iOS can adopt - i doubt there will be issues, but we'll need to check
Mobile Content Service
edit- Blocking:
- None
- Blocked:
- potential blocker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118306 "File: pages of images stored on commons result in 404s". Would be really nice to get that one fixed before we roll out MCS usage to Android production app.
- We need a new Android prod app release for the roll out of MCS usage in Android production app
- Updates:
- Considering starting roll out of MCS usage to Android production app next week since DC-switchover test is delayed until mid April. Might as well do it now.
- Working on fixing lead paraph transformation in the service.
Reading Infrastructure
edit- AuthManager is still coming! (see two weeks ago for details)
- Behind schedule though.
Android
edit- 2.1.143 beta coming soon.
Community Tech
edit- Numerical category sorting - Need to get https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272416/ merged
- Pageview stats tool is basically finished, going to add support for redirects as well
- Deadlink logging interface for internet archive - http://tools.wmflabs.org/deadlinks/
Editing
editCollaboration
edit- Blocking:
- External Store - Continuing work. Some local stuff merged that will help with testing.
- Blocked:
- No new blockers. Work on dump continues
- Updates:
- Good feedback from cross-wiki notification roll out some far.
- Some small issues, e.g. people feeling spammed by welcome bots from wikis they visited one time (or maybe just a load.php reference).
Language
edit- Blocking:
- None
- Blockers:
- None
- Updates
- Work on improving ContentTranslation continue.
Multimedia
edit- Blocking
- None
- Blockers
- None
- Updates
- Another A/B test for the core upload dialog (esp. regarding VisualEditor uploads) to be released soon in an effort to reduce garbage uploads, heads up
Discovery
edit- Blocked:
- Security: SVG sanitizer
- Updates:
- Completion suggester deployed on all wikis as default starting March 16th
- New portal improvements deployed
- Started weekly status updates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
- Working on enabling encryption for search traffic
- Preparing for A/B test of phrase match boost for search
Technology
editSecurity
edit- Deploying 2FA to wikis next week (disabled for almost all users initially)
- Tarball release planned for next week
Research
edit- Blocking: none
- Blocked: none
- Updates: none
RelEng
edit- Blocking:
- Security wants to do a release of MW, working on timing
- Fundraising tech needs patch merged for jjb config, gerrit 277563
- Blocked: None
- Updates:
- Code freeze is not happening next week, April 18th instead. See wmfall, wikitech-l announcement coming today too.
Technical Operations
edit- Blocking: Research on ORES, started assigning LVS this week
- Blocked: none
- Updates:
- Jobqueue woes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129517
- Got minor services (citoid, cxserver, mathoid, graphoid, apertium, zotero) working in CODFW
Fundraising Tech
edit- need one patch merged by RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/277563
- tested backup credit card processor for an hour
- fixing the bugs that shook out
- burst of DonationInterface refactoring
- draining some molasses out of the CentralNotice campaigns page
- testing strategies to make contact merges reversable in CiviCRM
Services
edit- Going to set up redirects for commons image description pages (blocker for mobile apps deployment): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118306
- DC switch-over for RESTBase, node services happening tomorrow European morning (3 hours): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127974
- Services already running in Dallas, Cassandra master-master replication
- No user impact expected
- REST API CDN caching: Most entry points now purged & cached in Varnish. Going to redirect titles with spaces to underscores next week.
- EventBus multi-DC support discussion wrapping up: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127718
- "Pageviews" turns out to be disliked by ad blockers; working on alternative URLs for pageview API with analytics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126947
Analytics
edit- Working on goals for next quarter: will share soon with dependencies
- Finishing up work on the request breakdown reports to replace wikistats reports: OS and Browser breakdowns