Scrum of scrums/2016-09-21
2016-09-21
editProduct
editEditing
editCollaboration
edit- 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
Language
edit- 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).
Community Tech
edit- No blockers
- Copyvio tools for French Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145431
- More performance testing in hopes to get PageAssessments deployed to English Wikipedia
- Education Programs Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546
- Changes to CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists
- Investigating work on improving blocking and harassment prevention tools
Reading
editReading Web
edit- Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2186/
- Preparing to enable hovercards ab test in italian and russian
- Preparing to enable related articles in mobile in more wikis
- Lazy images blog post
- Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2221/
- Enable related articles in mobile in more wikis
Mobile Content Service (MCS)
edit- Getting the aggregated feed endpoint working on Beta Cluster since feed aggragation happens in RB now.
Android native app
edit- Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/
- Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2238/
- Released to beta Monday 9/19. Plan is to get feedback, fix bugs, and release nav overhaul to the stable app by EOM.
iOS native app
edit- Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/
- In regression
- Expected to be released Sept 21
- Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2220/
- In progress
- MIgrating iOS Feed over to the MCS
- Adding In the news and a local notification
- Expected Delivery ~3 weeks
Reading Infrastructure =
edit- no
Fundraising Tech
edit- Almost done getting rid of ActiveMQ!
- Fixing CentralNotice db calls for strict mode
- More refinements to CiviCRM contact de-duplication
RelEng
edit- Blocking
- no
- Blocked
- wmf.18 load-time regression https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146099
- Updates
- Skipping wmf.19 entirely due to undiagnosed load-time regression https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160915-MediaWiki
- Tentative plan is to cut wmf.20 and deploy to group0 today and, if all goes well, adjust the remainder of this week's schedule accordingly
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144644#2654240
- Completed Beta Cluster database migration to jessie/MariaDB 10 yesterday
- Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
- Reminder: no train week of Oct 17th (but SWATs OK)
- Skipping wmf.19 entirely due to undiagnosed load-time regression https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160915-MediaWiki
Analytics
edit- 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 Operations
edit- Blocking
- None
- Blocked
- None
- 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.
Security
edit- 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
Services
edit- 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
Discovery
edit- 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.
Wikidata
edit- Blocker: Can not connect to the Hangout on https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/scrum-of-scrums. Get error "HJR: 2-RNF".
- No other ;-) blockers at the moment.
- Making usage information (which page on which wiki uses which Wikidata entity) visible to users: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103091
- Introduced batching in the job that notifies wikis about changes on wikidata.org: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/309972, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107722
- Working on cleaning up several dependencies on legacy stuff in core, e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144977
- Pushing multi content revisions forward.