Scrum of scrums/2016-09-14
2016-09-14
editProduct
editReading
editReading Web
editCurrent sprint:
- Related pages preparation for mobile web deployments
- Shipped wikidata descriptions in mobile web to all but top 6 wikis
Mobile Content Service
edit- Working on follow-up tasks from last week's Android app outage:
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160907-Android
- Set up monitoring tests for individual feed endpoints https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145223
- Communicate steps on how to switch the app to use different backend servers.
- Investigate Icinga alert setup if the app experiences unusually high crash rates.
- Heads-up: New service developement starting soon for new RESTBase service to get Trending edits: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading_web_trending_service/
Android native app
editCurrent sprint: 91 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/
- navigation overhaul: primary dev work is complete; now updating per design feedback.
- beta release this week (probably)
iOS native app
editCurrent release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/
- 5.2
- Adding iOS 10 Support
- Today Widgets - Top Read & Continue Reading and basic iOS 10 compatibility
- Dropping iOS 8 support
- Released to beta, releasing with iOS 10 Tuesday September 13
Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/
- Bug fix release for 5.2, scope still in discussion
Reading Infrastructure
edit- no blocking/blocked
Community Tech
edit- Blocking: none
- Blocked: none
- Working with Performance team to optimize refreshLinks job for PageAssessments roll-out to enwiki (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145473)
- Finished work on Google OCR tool for WikiSource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR
- Web interface: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-google-ocr/
- Gadget: https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GoogleOCR.js
- Working with DBAs on improving CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141951)
- Working on Education Program Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546
Editing
editCollaboration
edit- Blocking
- Continuing work on Flow caching rewrite
- Blocked
- Updates
- Major work on seen time for Echo notifications. It is now a single global time, so when you open any notification popup, the time is updated globally.
- Continued work on using MessagePoster to allow for posting to wikitext or Flow boards more easily. NewUserMessage updated to use this, PageTriage is next.
Language
edit- Blocking: None
- Blocked: None
- Updates:
- Content Translation work continue.
- Apertium ready for Jessie migration, test this week, deployment likely next week.
Analytics
edit- Blocking: None
- Blocked: None
- Updates:
- Kasocki : Working on automating tests with jenkins
- New AQS cluster data is loaded, load-tests still to be run, then production integration
- Edit reconstruction: data for simplewiki is ready to be sent to Erik (not perfect, still improving), performance optimisations on the go for big wikis to run
- Pivot (druid based UI) is being productionized to be accessible for WMF staff (LDAP)
- Participation in A/B testing design - Looking good
Services
edit- Blocking: none
- Blocked: none
- Updates:
- Services config deploys via scap3 on the way
- Depooling and repooling services during deployment, instructions would be sent soon
- Change Propagation replaced RESTBaseUpdateJobs, extension undeployed
- EventBus deprecated events are not produced any more
Technical Operations
edit- Blocking: none
- none
- Blocked:
- none
- Updates:
- Migrated to a new puppetmaster infrastructure for production, should make next DC switchover easier (among other things)
- TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter), please work around this for deployments
- wikitech features will get a deprecation announcement soon
- Partial traffic to thumbor to be enabled this week
- apertium reviews for LE are done. Migration of apertium service to SCB to happen next week.
- appserver migration to jessie ongoing. CODFW done, EQIAD to happen next
- New DBA, Manuel onboarded.
Discovery
edit- No blockers
- BM25 A/B test is turned off, preliminary results ok, waiting for analysis
- Working on multiwiki indexes, public comments sought at:
- Added ASCII-folding for French (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429)
- Had SPARQL workshop, materials at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Workshop
- Had Discernatron lunch, a lot of useful feedback
- Working on deploying codfw servers for WDQS
Interactive team
edit- <mapframe> to be deployed on non-large wikis soon
Fundraising Tech
edit- Investigating low response to WLM CentralNotice campaign in South Korea
- Fixing CentralNotice MariaDB strict mode violations
- Finishing up queue work
- More donor data cleanup in CiviCRM - language preferences, placeholder emails and addresses
RelEng
edit- Blocking
- no
- Blocked
- no
- Updates
- Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
- Changes to beta cluster puppetmaster cherry-pick process Coming Soon™ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135427