Scrum of scrums/2016-06-08

2016-06-08

Product

Editing

Collaboration

• Blocked - None
• Blocking - Working on External Store on Beta
• Updates
  • Expanding our API to fetch notifications by specific pages.
  • Working on expandable Echo bundles
  • Split Flow Vagrant role to mitigate some issues with Flow having a lot of MediaWiki-Vagrant dependencies.

Language

• Blocked: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Work on ContentTranslation, Compact Language Links continue.

Parsing

• Parsoid use of service-runner: working with Marko to deal with final steps (puppet updates, testing in beta cluster).
• Followup RFC for Tidy replacement scheduled today (Wed, Jun 8).
• Released Parsoid 0.5.1 debian package last week.

Multimedia

• Not blocked, not blocking
• New repository set up for experimental new extension for file annotations
• UploadWizard fixes moving along apace
• Gallery slideshow patch looking nicer, proceeding

Reading

Reading Infrastructure

• AuthManager goes live this week! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-June/085871.html

Reading Web

• Fixing issues with lazy loading images and refs
• AB test of Popups extension ("Hovercards") on hu.wiki in progress (50% now)

Android

• Beta release this past Monday (6/6). https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010250.html
• Working hard on the feed. No dependencies on other teams for this for the moment.
• On the horizon (Q3): UI updates for cohesiveness and ease of use.

Mobile Content Service

• Deployed first three feed-related endpoints. Not publicly available yet. Use labs instance if needed. Still adjusting response format.

Community Tech

• Testing PageAssessments on Beta Labs (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments)
• Working on CopyPatrol tool on Tool Labs (https://tools.wmflabs.org/plagiabot/)
• No blockers

iOS

• No update

Technology

Analytics

• We're blocking the Release team on its goal to move deployment to scap3, we're trying to prioritize and get it done but it might not fit until early next quarter.
• Pageview API is still throwing 500 errors despite the throttling down to 10 requests per second, we've had an update to the AQS compaction (and an update to SSDs from spinning slowpokes) under testing for a while, so far the numbers look about an order of magnitude better.
• Ongoing: normalizing and loading all history from all mediawiki dbs into Druid
• The team will be at its offsite next week, and Madhu and Dan will be at Wikimania, Andrew taking vacation after the offsite. Our offsite is in Berlin and we're working out of WMDE's offices, so if they need us for any in-person hacking, we're there :)

Technical Operations

• Blocking
  • Language Engineering on Parallel corpora dumps https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127793
• Blocked
  • None
• Updates
  • ORES is deployed in production. Try it out in http://ores.wikimedia.org
  • Got a few problems with services on SCB today
  • A jessie appserver passed smoke tests, we are moving towards upgrading the mw* fleet to jessie now.
  • GTID 100% deployed on core dbs. Labs/analytics/dbstore needs work.
  • Insecure POST block still coming up June 12 (this weekend)

Services

• service cluster services outage today
  • approx 15 mins
  • stil under investigation
• Cassandra partial outage last week during move to 2.2.6
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160531-RESTBase
• MathML by default
  • hit some initial bumps, should be good now

Security

• Two usability bugs for Extension:OATHAuth in progress (T136988, T136989)
• Two-factor usability survey on hold until after AuthManager is enabled
• Fix for T129738 will be deployed this week
• Reviews: Use of wheels for deployment by Analytics

Research

• Wikilabels downtime -- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160531-wikilabels

Discovery

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• ElasticSearch 2.3 upgrade is finished
• TextCat demo: https://tools.wmflabs.org/textcatdemo/
• Portal now has language detection and sorting
• Investigation of how long the typical portal session is: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134301

Wikidata

• Working on MediaInfo and support for structured data on commons
• Deploying ArticlePlaceholder to 3 more wikis tomorrow (June 9) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135624 (guwiki, lvwiki, nnwiki)

RelEng

• Blocking: None as far as we know
• Blocked: Reading Infra - AuthManager (blocks 1.27 release)
• Updates:
  • REMINDER! Migrate your things to scap3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1824/
    • What have you touched? Please migrate! :)
  • Phabricator update going out this week (was postponed): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135068

Fundraising tech

• Trying to get payments onto 1.26 before 1.25 EOLs
  • pondering what to do for the future, including even divorcing DonationInterface from MW entirely
• Testing new processor in Israel, Japan and Ukraine
• Ready to test new PayPal integration method
• Enhancing fraud & dos mitigation measures
• more work to get off ActiveMQ
• CentralNotice
  • potential translation bug rendering banners: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137247
  • listing old cookies to unset or migrate to LocalStorage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132640