Scrum of scrums/2016-10-12

Product

Reading

Goals section: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Reading

iOS native app

Current Release Build: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2220/ Since we last met:

• Notification UI is complete
• Feed based off of MCS and persisting to YapDatabase is almost complete
• Bug fixes & event logging fixes landed
• Working with Apple on fixing Siri integration

Before we meet again:

• Connect notification UI to data source - enable notifications
• Add notifications preferences to onboarding & feed
• Release a beta

No blockers

Android native app

• Current sprint (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-app-android-sprint-93-neptunium/):
  • Start on Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
  • v2.4.158 beta coming soon
  • Alpha builds fixed
  • CI screenshot regression testing
  • Languages with three letter codes enabled

• Next sprint:
  • More Q2 goals...

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• adding a few more languages to feed endpoints (mainly news, maybe TFA): Sv, Fr
• next gen of content endpoint: references only endpoint
• updated scap3 deploy host from tin to generic deployment server name

Reading Web

Since last met:

• Wrapped up the remaining sprint work

Until the next time we meet:

• Fix some Event Logging issues with Hovercards
• Move lead section before the infobox on mobile
• Clean up the old language button

Blocked on:

• We need input from the Performance team regarding "UC Mini should not be supported by ResourceLoader" (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147369)

Reading Infrastructure

• no blocking
• blocked on WMDE adding query modification hooks to WatchedItemQueryService which can replicate ApiQueryBaseBeforeQuery/ApiQueryBaseAfterQuery/ApiQueryBaseProcessRow

Editing

Collaboration

• Blocking: Hopefully nobody?
• Blocked:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143743 disagrements between Collab (Stephane), Analytics (Otto) and Services (Marko, Petr) about approach, probably going to organize a meeting
• Update:
  • Flow beta feature was disabled on all wikis due to breakage. Slowly re-enabling now, beginning with frwikiquote today
  • UI standardization improvements in Echo, thanks Volker!
  • Fixing some small bugs in PageTriage

Language

• Blocked:
  • Help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145650 is needed, this affects translatewiki.net

Technology

Analytics

• Not blocking nor blocked
• Update:
  • Recruiting - Still screening, tasks sent to some applicants.
  • Pivot (UI over Druid, analytics datastore) is now available behind LDAP - Fast access to pageviews (more datasets to come)
  • Kasocki - Discution around using SocketIO,WebSockets or SSE (in ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130651)
  • We started work to replace last instance of Limn by Dashiki (limn1)
  • Old aqs machines are now spares.

Services

• Blocked: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Node 4.6.0 security release: please test your services.

Architecture / ArchCom

• Last week (E287): Magic Links deprecation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145604
• This week (E316): CREDITS file: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status

Release Engineering

• Blocking:
  • nobody
• Blocked:
  • Ops: looking at throttle rate for nodepool/Openstack (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/315214/)
• Updates:
  • Reminder: RelEng at offsite in DC next week. No train deploys. Other deploys (like SWAT) ok.

Wikidata

• No blockers.
• Working on new network graph and diagram renderers for the Wikidata Query Service: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142179
• Working on referencing entities on foreign Wikibase repositories (Commons will reference Wikidata items): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007
• Expanding client side integration with new Lua and parser formatter function: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142940
• We heard people being busy keeping up with changes in core (stuff being deprecated and removed). Not all are happy with the frequency breaking changes are done currently.

Fundraising Tech

• Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign
• One CentralNotice bug closed, one still happening: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952
  • Andrew's pretty sure it's a MessageCache thing
  • Added logging, got some logs from the beta cluster
  • Getting some help from Aaron and Timo, but any other suggestions are welcome
• Cleaning up any remaining references to ActiveMQ