Scrum of scrums/2017-08-30

2017-08-30

Callouts

• Selenium Ruby framework deprecation at the end of October
  • Announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088653.html12:31:12
• trebuchet is to scheduled be removed at quarter's end. It's effectively replaced by scap. Salt (the foundation upon trebuchet is built) will be removed too. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164780
• IE8-on-XP support being dropped. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163251
• Ganglia is being moved behind LDAP authentication for security reasons plus deprecation https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/374320/
• eqiad frack refresh preparation in progress, temptative transition scheduled for Sept. 20th. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174218
• Search Platform would like somebody from Ops who knows dumps to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/373354/

Audiences

Readers

Multimedia

• 3D work continuing as usual - have some deploy bumps to pave over
• Onboarding 1 engineer and 1 PM, will take up some of our productivity

iOS

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Working on 5.6.1 with minor bug fixes ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ ), goes to public beta this week
  • Next up is 5.6.7 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ )

Discovery

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Running search result thumbnails AB test this/next week

Reading Infrastructure

• adding article concatenation support to Collection extension

Contributors

Global Collaboration

Language

• No Blocker/Blocking.
• CX-VE work continue.
• Preparing for cxserver deployment (with lots of changes/improvements!)
• New MT service in review: Matxin.

Collaboration

• Updates:
  • ChangesList filters
    • RCFilters: Minimize saved query before comparison (task T174193)
    • WLFilters: set default values (task T171134)
    • RCFilters: Adjust highlight for seen/unseen states in Watchlist (task T171235)
    • WLFilters: Fix seen/unseen filters (task T171127)
    • RCFilters: Enable 'View newest' (task T163426)
    • RCFilters: Hide saved queries from anonymous users (task T173992)
    • WLFilters: avoid querying the DB when filters are in conflict (task T171132)
    • Various bug fixes
• Blockers
  • Resolved a Flow issue that was blocking dumps (task T172025)

Community Tech

• Post-deployment fixes to LoginNotify and CodeMirror
• Working on GlobalPreferences and ArticleCreationWorkflow

Technology

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

• No blocker/blocking
• Trying to optimize things for December (db writes, fs access, etc)
• More work on handling donations where the user returns with no session cookies
• More work on main CC processor - new API and audit file format

MediaWiki Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Selenium Ruby framework deprecation announce: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088653.html 12:31:12
    • End of October deprecation date.
  • Team kanban: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2769/query/rAdBKbHGnFVu/

Research

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Scoring Platform

• Blocked by:
  • Bit of ops support to help us diagnose file handle starvation during stress testing. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174402. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169246
• Blocking:
  • Moving our service over to a new, dedicated cluster.

• Updates:
  • Thresholds feature is announced and ready for testing, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/68/more_better_model_information_and_threshold_optimizations/
  • Over the next few weeks, we're finalizing a schema for commenting on or judging almost any wiki artifact: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/meta_ores_schema
  • Working to formally identify our stakeholders. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES/Stakeholders

Search Platform

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Continuing work on ML-assisted ranking
  • A/B tests for interleaved results and human-graded relevancy concluded, analyzing results next
  • Fixed issue with punctuation and Chinses language (T172653)
  • Categories to RDF code merged, need review for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/373354/ from somebody who knows dumps
  • WDQS logs now go to logstash
  • Sent inquiry to wiki communities about extending the list of namespaces searched by default (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473)
• Analyzed some unexpected behavior of searchin Japanese: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173650

Security

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: None
• Updates:
  • Completed auditing tables which are being replicated to labs for consistency with privacy policy
  • Reviews
    • • Adhoc review of CentralNotice
      • vue.js
      • ArticleCreationWorkflow

Services

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Came back from an offsite
  • Rolling out job event production to all wikis today
  • Continuing to set up the new Cassandra 3 cluster
  • Will be very slowly preparing for node.js upgrade, so will soon create some tasks for service owners to access the complexity of it

Technical Operations

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • trebuchet is to scheduled be removed at quarter's end. It's effectively replaced by scap. Salt (the foundation upon trebuchet is built) will be removed too.
  • IE8-on-XP support being dropped. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163251
  • Ganglia is being moved behind LDAP authentication for security reasons
  • eqiad frack refresh preparation in progress, tentative transition scheduled for Sept. 20th. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174218

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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