Scrum of scrums/2017-04-05

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

Call outs edit

Product edit

Reading edit

Web edit

  • Last week:
    • Reading Off-site
  • Next week:
    • Deploy PagePreviews to Hungarian and Hebrew wikipedias.
    • PagePreviews instrumentation related bugfixes.
    • Improved print styles for MobileFrontend

Android edit

Reading Infrastructure edit

iOS edit

Community Tech edit

  • Cookie blocks deployed to English Wikipedia, more wikis to follow
  • LoginNotify in testing on beta cluster
  • CodeMirror bug fixes, colour tweaks
  • Various improvements to the new XTools, nothing to show
  • No blockers

Editing edit

Parsing edit

Collaboration edit

  • RCFilters beta feature went live on plwiki, ptwiki last week; next release to trwiki, fawiki, ruwiki and frwiki next week (Apr 11); then enwiki + most non-ORES wikis on Apr 24; and all remaining wikis May 9
  • Working with Aaron H on figuring out ORES behavior for RCFilters for the next releases

Language edit

  • Work on OOjs UI migration continue.

Technology edit

Analytics edit

  • Reportcard migrated to new infra - Limn is dead
  • new AQS metrics (historical projectcounts) have a bug - still vetting before announcing
  • user agent map in EventLogging replaces user agent string (fully deployed)
  • All hadoop workers have been reimaged to jessie - masters left (next week)
  • Planning wikistats 2.0 prototype consultation (https://analytics-prototype.wmflabs.org)
  • Eventlogging MariaDB custom replication procedure has been updated (should avoid long delays between master and slave)
  • db1047 is to be decommissioned - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156844#3107357

Security edit

  • Reviews:
    • iOS 2-factor wrapping up
    • Ex:WikibaseMediaInfo
    • Ex:CodeMirror

Services edit

RelEng edit

  • Blockers:
    • May need Ops help deploying 3d2png via scap3 (worked on Beta Cluster), need some +2 in puppet

Discovery edit

  • No blockers
  • Discussing strategy for enabling live updates for completion suggester - probably starting with new pages
  • New Polish analyzers deployed, Ukrainian is next, working on Chinese
  • Working on Wikidata search improvement
  • Working on adding non-exact search capabilities to Special:Undelete
  • Working on improving noop detection plugins for Elasticsearch
  • Preparing for active-active switch

Fundraising Tech edit