Scrum of scrums/2017-09-06

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2017-09-06

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Audiences

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Readers

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  • Team is focusing on removing OCG from stack. A lot of us are currently getting up to speed with the stack there to support existing work by Baha and Gergo.

Multimedia

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  • Team is nearly staffed up and ready to roll, we'll be doing some ramping-up and prioritization over the next few weeks.

Reading Infrastructure

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  • Blocked by: Security for the ReadingLists review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174126
  • Updates:
    • ReadingLists MediaWiki extension merged, working on RESTBase half
    • Updates to On-this-day endpoint going to be deployed on Wednesday
    • Working on structured references API

Community Tech

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  • Subnet contributions patch merged, will ride the train next week
  • Preparing ArticleCreationWorkflow for deployment

Contributors

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Parsing

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  • Nothing for this week. We are coming off vacation.

UI Standardization

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  • Updates:
    • OOUI: v0.23.0 released, among changes:
      • icons: Removed obsolete icons and moved icons from alerts pack so it's leniant & more performant
      • ButtonInputWidget: Fix Safari-specific intrinsic `margin` (Volker E.)
      • WikimediaUI theme: Fix frameless indicator combination buttons' appearance (Volker E.)
  • Ongoing:

Global Collaboration

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Language
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Collaboration
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Search Platform

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Scoring Platform

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Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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Technology

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Fundraising Tech

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  • No blocker/blocking
  • Trying to optimize things for December (db writes, fs access, etc)
  • More PayPal Express Checkout tweaks
  • More CiviCRM contact de-duplication work

Security

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  • No blockers
  • Updates:
    • Looking into improving password blacklists
    • re-review of CentralNotice
    • review of vue.js up next

Services

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  • No blockers
  • Updates:
    • restbase1010 disk failure, now fixed
    • Cassandra 3 cluster almost set up, continue work on new storage implementation
    • node 8 - if you can start testing your services with it
    • All time record on REST API usage - 10k req/s

RelEng

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Technical Operations

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  • Blocked by: none
  • Blocking: none
  • Updates: