Scrum of scrums/2018-01-03

2018-01-03

Callouts

• Ops/DBAs. Reminder that s5 will have readonly time on 9th January as s8 will become the online wikidata shard. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181645, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177208
• Search PF would like somebody from performance/MediaWiki team to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183101 we’ve got some fails on LinksUpdate which blocked search index update which makes Wikidata items invisible in search (~50 items)

Audiences

Readers

iOS native app

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Releasing 5.7.4 this week - minor bug fixes related to article loading, new navigation bar behavior
  • Continuing work on 5.8 - synced reading lists

Reading Infrastructure

• Blocked by: Ops on puppet code review:
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/397623/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/395694/
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • vacation
  • working on T167400 (WP0 piracy) + T174993 (vandalism)

Maps

• Blocked by: None
• Blocking: none
• Updates:
  • Everyone has been on vacation

Contributors

Global Collaboration

• Blocked by: Security on response to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144467
• Blocking: Ops on Flow dumps; Matt is working on it
• Updates:
  • A bunch of bug fixes for Special:RecentChangesLinked
  • Roan working on refactoring the change_tag schema (inspired by Cenarium and Ladsgroup), will write a small RFC later this week

Community Tech

• GlobalPreferences is almost ready.
• Analyzing new proposals.

Technology

Analytics

• Wikistats UI launch, working on bugs filed by community members.
• Working on TLS and kafka with brandon for the ciphers we will use
• Working on new APIs to report pageview data by country
• Blogpost about wikistats launch
• Some troubles on dbstore (the analytics box that holds the wiki-replicas). We might need to order new hardware
• We order 8 new boxes for cluster which brings total to 50 nodes
• Started work on geowiki project (editors per country, internal data only) users of this project are mostly internal (Asaf’s team)

Technical Operations

• Blocked by:
  • None
• Blocking
  • None
• Updates:
  • Very quiet week, most everyone on vacation.

Services

• Blockers: none
• Updates:
  • Very quite because of vacations and holidays
  • Mathoid storage in Cassandra 3 cluster populated, transition blocked by renderer bugs
  • Preparing next round of Cassandra reshapes

Fundraising Tech

• Deploying (and debugging) stuff we held back for the fundraiser
• CiviCRM enhancements
• Writing some python code to help with banner impression stats collection
• More thoughts on how to replace our kafkatee -> payments cluster log parser system: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179841

Release Engineering

• Blocked by
  • None
• Blocking
  • None?
• Updates
  • wmf.15 going out this week

Performance

• Blocked by: none
• Blocking: none
• Updates
  • HHVM hangs resulted in increased save times over the holiday weekend: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183889
  • Addressing a couple of edge cases in Thumbor, little general impact
  • Mostly quiet (holidays)

Search Platform

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
• Would like somebody from performance team to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183101 we’ve got some fails on LinksUpdate which blocked search index update which makes Wikidata items invisible in search (~50 items)
• Working on fixes for completion suggester & redirects namespaces
• Investigating ElasticSearch phonetic search (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182708)
• Wikidata search fixes for delay & space handling will be deployed with .15
• Working on refactoring search profiles to make them more config-like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183279
• Collecting feedback for Wikidata fulltext & prefix search rankings

Scoring Platform

• Blocked by: No blockers, thanks to great RelEng and Ops work!
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • switching ORES to stretch
  • continuing Extension:ORES refactoring (Collab/Roan are looped in)