Scrum of scrums/2017-08-16
2017-08-16
editcontact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering
Callouts
edit- Releng: Trebuchet's days are numbered. If you care about these projects please get in touch with #RelEng
- These are the last remaining trebuchet projects:
- iegreview
- scholarships
- ocg
- dropwizard
- These are the last remaining trebuchet projects:
- Wikidata:
- For weeks we see thousands of hard to track user-facing Lua errors, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039. We believe https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171166 might fix it, but need help by devs willing to touch LuaSandbox build.
Wikidata
edit- Callout: For weeks we see thousands of hard to track user-facing Lua errors, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039. We believe https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171166 might fix it, but need help by devs willing to touch LuaSandbox build.
Readers
editWeb
edit- Completing roll out of Page previews to all projects but enwiki and dewiki (likely to be stalled until post Wikimania)
- RelatedArticles now renders articles in footer rather than side bar. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165991)
Reading Infrastructure
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- MCS gets geo coordinates from action API instead of Parsoid.
- Got rid of action=mobilview API calls for regular pages.
Reading Discovery =
edit- Updates
- Working on search thumbnail AB test https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149811
Contributors
editCollaboration
edit- Most of our team was at Wikimania.
- However, we continued work on RC Filters and Echo
- Echo: Merged a "Mark all as read" patch from community member and worked on additional patches (e.g. edit-user notification)
- RCFilters: Small fixes
- Flow: In-progress work on a feature to allow you to add inline Flow discussion linked to specific text.
Technology
editAnalytics
edit- 2 team members in wikimania, 2 on family leave, 1 of our team members coming back next week from parental leave. Not a lot happened.
- We figured out issue with timeouts in varnishkafka, there was one host running too new of a version of kafka API
- Still working on purging eventlogging data, moving to cluster some data out of MySQL (will make DBAs happy). Couple tables that are about 0.5 tb.
- Ordering new hosts to replace eventlogging MYSQL hosts using some budget we will not need for the new Kafka cluster.
- Edit History Reconstruction, made a snapshoot custom for Neil (editing data analysts) to calculate metrics on.
- Wikimetrics had stop working due to some recent changes to labs db connection limits, fixed that.
Services
edit- Blockers: none
- Updates:
- Wiped out Parsoid HTML cache in preparation for Cassandra 3 upgrade
- Elevated VE latencies for a while while new storage is populated
- Wiped out Parsoid HTML cache in preparation for Cassandra 3 upgrade
Technical Operations
edit- Blocked:
- by noone
- Blocking:
- none
- Updates:
- Wikimania + Debconf week, not much happened.
Community Tech
edit- Updates: CodeMirror and LoginNotify are still coming!
Fundraising Tech
edit- looking into db replication lag - it'll get up to like 5000 sec behind, but restarting mysql on the replicated copy will make it catch up in less than a minute
- continuing new API work with main credit card processor
- updating our interrupted-donation-resolver to work generically so we can use it for PayPal express checkout
- refinements to CiviCRM<->bulk mailer data flows
- CentralNotice clone campaign feature almost ready for CR
Scoring platform
edit- Blocked
- Feeling the pain of no git-fat in labs deployments (our git repos are huge!)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171758
- Releng, can this be prioritized?
- Feeling the pain of no git-fat in labs deployments (our git repos are huge!)
- Updates
- New ORES model information available at https://ores-misc.wmflabs.org. Demo coming soon.
- Mostly an FYI for Collab Team
- New ORES model information available at https://ores-misc.wmflabs.org. Demo coming soon.
Release Engineering
edit- Last projects moving to scap3
- These have patches but deployment window scheduled:
- No idea about:
- ocg
- dropwizard metrics(???) - Speak up now or forever hold your peace (we'll delete it)