Scrum of scrums/2016-04-13

Product edit

Reading edit

Web edit

Blocked on: Ops

Blocked on parsing:

Quick links


Reading Infrastructure edit

Android edit

Current 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 edit

Current 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/)


Mobile Content Service edit

Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/

  • Blocking:
    • none
  • Blocked:
    • none
  • Updates:
    • Deployed fix for redirects with HTML entities in redirected title

Editing edit

Language 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


Fundraising Tech edit

  • No blocking/blockers
  • More tests of new Latin America payment types
  • Central Notice
  • Steady progress on CiviCRM logging / reversion work


Technology edit

Services 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:
  • 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.