Scrum of scrums/2016-04-13
Product
editReading
editWeb
editBlocked on: Ops
- Need support from ops to roll out lazy loaded images to 1% of users: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127883
Blocked on parsing:
- Need support from parsing team issue impacting Wikivoyage production for past month: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121135
Quick links
- Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1873/
- Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1921/
Reading Infrastructure
edit- AuthManager core bits are basically done!
- Still hoping to get this into 1.27, so we don't have to support AuthPlugin stuff in the LTS.
- Test it at http://authmanager.wmflabs.org/
- SECURITY: We're ready for finishing up the security reviews on the AuthManager core bits.
- load.php session access errors should be coming soon, we're just waiting for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131176 to ride the train.
Android
editCurrent sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1937/
- Blocking:
- none
- Blocked:
- none
- Updates:
- Reading list (client-only) work still in progress. The finish line is in sight.
- All* Android prod app installs use the mobile content service / RESTBase as of Monday.
iOS
editCurrent Release Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1902/
- Blocking:
- none
- Blocked:
- none
- Updates:
- 5.0.3 in progress, likely deploying in 2-3 weeks
- An external beta should be sent out either end of this week or early next week
- Deploying a universal links fix Tueday at Puppet SWAT (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/281900/)
- 5.0.3 in progress, likely deploying in 2-3 weeks
Mobile Content Service
editWorkboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/
- Blocking:
- none
- Blocked:
- none
- Updates:
- Deployed fix for redirects with HTML entities in redirected title
Editing
editLanguage
edit- Blocking:
- none
- Blocked:
- none
- Updates:
- Team offsite next week;
Collaboration
edit- Blocking:
- External store work. Some progress here, will continue when Jaime is back.
- Blocked:
- Work on Flow dumps has resumed on both ops side and ours
- Updates:
- Working on support for Flow notifications being properly hidden on moderation
- Work on Echo bundling refactoring
- Work on Echo refactoring for code structure. New MVC structure
Parsing
edit- Visual diff testing with 2 mediawiki installs now ready -- doing a baseline run for sanity checking and fixing bugs and issues with different pieces
Discovery
edit- Blocking: none
- Blocked:
- Security review: PHP Json Schema validator - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426
- Scheduled for next week: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Schedule
- Security review: PHP Json Schema validator - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426
- Updates:
- Weekly status updates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
- Hackathon: Elastic-backed deleted pages search, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109561 - feedback welcome
- Caching for WDQS to be enabled today
- Communication to Elasticsearch servers now fully HTTPS.
- Geospatial search preview for WDQS: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008461.html
- On-wiki tabular (tsv/csv/...) data storage needs some feedback
Fundraising Tech
edit- No blocking/blockers
- More tests of new Latin America payment types
- Central Notice
- Deployed fix for admin UI timeouts and a couple minor bugs
- Planning how to reduce or eliminate cookie usage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131319
- Steady progress on CiviCRM logging / reversion work
Technology
editServices
edit- Blocking: none
- Blocked: none
- Updates
- found and corrected issues in MCS' redirect loop
- moved redirect-handling logic into RESTBase
- need to coordinate with MCS for deployment
- almost ready to start defaulting to MathML (Mathoid/RB) on all wikis - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78046
- DC switch-over next week!
- services to switch on Monday, 10:00 UTC
- reminder: no deploys next week
Release Engineering
edit- Blocking:
- Security release
- Chad has started looking at that, but is a little swamped
- Blocked:
- Backup phab node https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131775
- Updates
- Scap migration continues
- No deploys week of 18th
Technical Operations
edit- Blocking:
- Security on the bacula issue
- Blocked:
- None
- Updates
- codfw switchover next week
- Got a private docker repo ready for use in tool labs
- Try to start using horizon (horizon.wikimedia.org) for labs VM management instead of wikitech (testers welcomed)
Analytics
edit- Blocking: none
- Blocked: none
- Unique Devices dataset / API released
- browser reports released (not yet public, bikeshedding on domain, currently at https://browser-reports.wmflabs.org )
- Dan on vacation April 18 -> May 4
Security
edit- Working on AuthManager review. Don't plan on any substantial changes.