Scrum of scrums/2016-09-21
2016-09-21Edit
CollaborationEdit
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Services is working with us on the ReviewStream feed we're developing.
- Updates
- Continued work on MessagePoster. PageTriage change to use it up, but not merged yet
- Fixed moderation (e.g. when a page or topic is deleted) of Echo notifications
- Some other Echo changes, such as to how seen time works, GENDER i18n, and to the page-linked notification
- Blocked: none
- Blocking: none
- Updates:
- Content Translation work continue; templates and other fixes.
- Jessie migration for Apertium is scheduled on October first week.
Parsing (Subbu not attending because of a conflict)Edit
- Blocked: Parsoid's native <gallery> implementation is blocked on getting feedback from the VE team.
- Patches in gerrit to parse language variant markup in Parsoid -- need to resolve a few questions before we can deploy this
- Magic-word based optout of global user pages merged ()
- Kunal has filed an RFC to remove magic link functionality in the parser: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links
- Evaluation ongoing of a (already merged in core) PHP version of a HTML5 parser (as a potential replacement for Tidy).
Reading WebEdit
Mobile Content Service (MCS)Edit
- Getting the aggregated feed endpoint working on Beta Cluster since feed aggragation happens in RB now.
Android native appEdit
iOS native appEdit
Reading Infrastructure =Edit
Fundraising TechEdit
- Almost done getting rid of ActiveMQ!
- Fixing CentralNotice db calls for strict mode
- More refinements to CiviCRM contact de-duplication
AnalyticsEdit
- Blocking: None
- Blocked: None
- Updates:
- New AQS cluster is up! Massive reduction of latency. We'll increase the throttling threshold.
- Public Event Streams: Finalized Kasocki prototype. Considering using server side events / streaming instead of web-sockets.
- Edit history reconstruction: Some improvements on the quality of data, still a couple issues to fix.
- Pivot (druid based UI): More work on productionizing it using servicerunner
- A/B testing design - Evaluating feasibility of design ideas.
- Nuria participated in the Technology off-site, very productive.
Technical OperationsEdit
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter), please work around this for deployments
- Will not be able to attend SoS for the same reason
- Puppet migration complete
- Varnish upload cluster upgraded to version 4. There are some caveats, but looking good https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145661
- Apertium migration to Jessie scheduled for Oct 3
- OpenStackManager in wikitech is being deprecated. There will be information coming your way in the next weeks.
- Patch deployed for CentralAuth on monday; let us know if you experience weirdness
- Will follow-up on Youdao review (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143185)
- Catching up on e-mail, Gerrit, and Phab traffic from last week
- Blocking: none
- Blocked: none
- Updates:
- Huge RESTBase deployment, VE now usable on undeleted articles
- Change-Prop: separated transclusions topics - decrease user visibility of lagging
- Trending service planning with reading
- Bad articles stream planning
DiscoveryEdit
- No blockers
- Analyzing BM25 A/B test, if results are positive deployment will be somewhere early October
- Working on multiwiki indexes, public comments sought at:
- Working on file properties indexing (size, type, dimensions, etc.)
- WDQS servers on codfw deployed, looking into how to add them to production setup
- Portal: updated portal strings to "Read Wikipedia in your language" and language wiki descriptions.
