Scrum of scrums/2016-06-22
2016-06-22
editProduct
editReading
editiOS
edit- 5.0.5
- Through regressions - a bug was found and fixed - regressions start again today
- Expected release this week
- 5.1
- In development - expected release early August
- Potential blocker for release is GeoData API improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137178 We are working with Discovery to get this in for our release
Android
editStill working on the feed, no blockers/blockees.
Mobile Content Service (MCS)
edit- Adding content format versioning to Content-Type header for better pre-generation and backwards compatibility. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138018
Reading Web
edit- Going to be deploying lazy images to more small/medium wikis during this last sprint
Reading Infrastructure
editEditing
editMultimedia
edit- Mark not present today, but wanted to add mostly empty update
- Not blocking, not blocked
- No real updates, work continues as ever
Language
edit- Compact Language Links deployment started in phases
Discovery
edit- Blocking: none
- Blocked: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029 need help with scripts
- Portal discussion: Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458)
- TextCat A/B test running on enwiki, frwiki, eswiki, dewiki and itwiki
- Discernatorn updated: https://discernatron.wmflabs.org
Interactive
edit- Maps
- Launched on Wikidata, Commons - no more referrer check, we are open to experementations
- RU-Wikivoyage switched
- Implementing "get geo object" service
- In process of setting up 4 more backend servers (current production 4 backend + 16 caching)
Technology
editRelEng
edit- No longer blocked:
- gitblit is going away (finally) on the 29th.
- Already announced, patches reviewed and coordinated with tech ops.
- arcanist packaged for debian! Thanks to fgiunchedi for packaging help.
- gitblit is going away (finally) on the 29th.
- Blocked on tech ops
- Phase out gallium.wikimedia.org (T133300)
- We need feedback from ops about the architecture changes proposed on phabricator
- Tyler summarized in the most recent comment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133300#2394279
- Phase out gallium.wikimedia.org (T133300)
Technical Operations
edit- Blocking:
- None
- Blocked:
- None
- Updates:
- nodejs security release this thursday
- labs team @wikimania, skeleton crew
- appservers and api reimaging, live in eqiad, no outstanding issue
- jessie jobrunner and imagescalers live
- Decomming some 50 db hosts