Scrum of scrums/2016-07-13

2016-07-13

Product

Reading

Reading Infrastructure

• No update, but there will be a follow up meeting on Echo auth impl bug 20-July-2016 (multistakeholder bug)

Reading Web

• No update, working on language switcher on mobile web

iOS native app

• 5.0.5 is currently in beta - heading to regression on Tuesday
• Setup new plan to incrementally improve regression testing
• Development of 5.1 is in progress
• Planning of 5.2 is in progress
• Discovery implemented https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139378 to enable iOS to do https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130889
• Filed ticket to start work on a real time trending API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140102

Mobile Content Service

• Getting close to having public endpoints for the random and aggregated feed endpoints. Removing blockers for that.
• Service had been flapping quite a bit lately. Log files indicate heap memory issues.

Community Tech

• Investigating cross-wiki watchlist, how to implement back-end
  • Refered to ArchComm as RFC
• Will be deploying PageAssessments to English WIkipedia soon (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments)
• Also will be switching English Wikipedia to UCA collation with numerical sorting

Editing

Collaboration

• Blocked: None
• Blocking: No change
• Update
  • Finished rollout out bundling and re-sorting changes. Had a couple issues:
    • We forgot to change Alerts/Messages to Alerts/Notices, so had to do a SWAT for this. This had complications initially: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160707-Echo
    • We learned yesterday there was a bug in Echo that was causing users to have inconsistent state, which prevented login. This was fixed yesterday: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160712-EchoCentralAuth

Multimedia

• Blocked: None?
• Blocking: None?
• Update: None?

Language

• Blocked: None?
• Blocking: None?
• Update: None?

Parsing

• Blocked: service-runner migration
• Blocking: None?
• Update: Services is helping with migrating Parsoid to the service-runner framework. Parsoid deployments are on hold till that time. Migration to node v4, jessie, scap3 will follow that migration.

VisualEditor

• Blocked: None.
• Blocking: None known.
• Update: Lots of work on bugs and regressions this week; https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/298392/ / T129360 in MobileFrontend is the remaining focus.

Discovery

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: none
• Logstash upgrade postponed to Jul 18th, 19-22 UTC
• Initiated discussion on using ? in searches: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discovery/Handling_question_marks_in_search_queries
• Geosearch (near*:) is ready to roll out in production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139378 in 1.28.0-wmf.10
• Started discussion on new wikipedia.org portal layout: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout
• Geoshapes in graphs and (soon) maps: http://data.wmflabs.org/wiki/Regional_maps

Technology

Services

• Blocking: None
• Blocked: None
• Updates
  • Node security upgrade: RB, AQS and SCB on Nodejs 4.4.6, Parsoid pending move to Jessie
  • RESTBase Cassandra cluster upgraded to 2.2.6
  • Preparing deploy of new feed API end points (ex: featured article / image) with Reading. ETA likely this week.
  • Parsoid move to service-runner - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90668
    • Currently testing in BetaCluster
    • Ping for Ops: need to coordinate the transition in prod

Fundraising Tech

• Civi upgrade complete
• CentralNotice deployed
• Upgrading payments to MW 1.26
• Building out new servers
• Kafka sampling problem solved
• No blockers

TechOps

• Blocking
  • None
• Blocked
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135483 - HHVM crashes - raised to UBN! after issue recurrence. Currently no one owns the ticket.
• Updates
  • About 25% of the MediaWiki clusters run on jessie, we will start reimaging old servers during this quarter, a schedule will be announced.
  • Enabled TCP Fast Open on some caching clusters
  • Insecure POST traffic cutoff: All external traffic is prohibited, but labs is still permitted (with a 20% failure rate)

Security

• Node.js dependencies are now being checked nightly for disclosed vulnerabilities; Darian will be manually creating Phab tickets about this initially, with automation to follow
• Request security reviews: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Security_reviews
• A security release will be prepared soon, possibly July 20
• Reviews: Tool Labs Console (cont.)

Wikidata / WMDE

• Daniel is working on multi-content revisions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595
• Continuing work on structured data support for commons
• Preparing deploy of RevisionSlider to test wikis and then as a beta feature on German Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140232

RelEng

• Blocking
  • None
• Bocked
  • None
• Updates
  • New gerrit update needs testing: https://gerrit-new.wikimedia.org/r/
  • wmf.9 was reverted, wmf.10 will get pushed to group0 and group1 today on a short schedule
    • Retrospective to come https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160712-EchoCentralAuth

Architecture

• ArchCom weekly meetings today:
  • 1pm PDT Planning meeting (private): Phab:E227
  • 2pm PDT Discussion (public) IRC #wikimedia-office: Phab:E228
    • Topic: Phab:T589 - image and oldimage tables
• Anything stalled? Comment in Phab here: Phab:Z425