Scrum of scrums/2013-11-05

Docs

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

Notable action items

NB these are action points that came up during the meeting; there are other blockers and important bits otherwise buried in the notes.

• QA to collaborate with VE team on VE cursor bugs (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/25)
• Language to coordinate with Sean Pringle for replag emulation in betalabs (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/30)
• Zero needs support from Ops on X-Forwarded-By stuff (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38)
• Mobile Web still blocked by Growth for Getting Started API (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/11)

Notable news

• Mark Bergsma on holiday for three weeks starting 2013-11-18. You have been warned.
• Trevor going on paternity leave starting on 2013-11-15
• Entire VE team abroad, 2013-11-15, two weeks (india, london), back the night before Thanksgiving

Operations

Andrew Otto

• NB Mark B on holiday for three weeks starting 2013-11-18
• Past week:
  • support state lookups in ULSFO
  • ULSFO deployment complete -- traffic is flowing! serving JP, KR, Oceania
  • Varnish-text deployments in ESAMS
• No Blockers/Blocking no one

Mobile Apps

Brion Vibber

• Past
  • Robots.txt update for Google -- looks ok (look for unusual load on the API cluster)
• Blockers
  • Mobile Stats from analytics (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/1)

QA

Chris McMahon

• Past week:
  • training for Rummana for VisualEditor QA
  • beta labs maintenance, removed old/corrupt gadgets and user javascript
  • research and reporting for intermittent Chrome bug seen in multiple WMF applications
• Next:
  • Blocker: better Parsoid support in beta labs, will require multiple parties (VE) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/34)
  • another VE QA person Jeff Hall Nov 12 (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/26)
  • Flow tests(?)
  • talking with Ori about the Chrome bug (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/6)
  • VE cursor bugs are a hassle (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/25)

Analytics

Dan Andreescu

• Past
  • W0 retooling of analytics (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/20)
• Blocking?
  • Language translation metrics -- on hold (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/4)
  • Mobile jobs -- needs to be scheduled (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/1)
  • Kafka multicast -- not needed; another path used

Platform/RelEng/DevOps

Greg Grossmier

• Blockers
  • Git-deploy -- Ryan working on it (ops/devops) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/35)
  • SSL on beta labs -- SSL Certs (Ops)
    • Finalizing SSL placement -- SSL placement (Ops)
  • Article transfer to beta cluster -- Ariel is busy; needs attention (Ops)
  • Parsoid in beta cluster (VE/Antoine)
• Upcoming
  • Logging improvements coming
• Blocking
  • Googlebot -- done (Mobile Apps) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/18)
  • Mobile Web -- HTTPS turned off by default (Mobile Web) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/33)

Language Engineering

Niklas Laxstrom

• Priority changed: ULS performance (getting help from ori)
• Replication lag testing environment: we have a bug, but no solution yet (Ops -- send email to Sean Pringle) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/30)
  • https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/38945
• Measuring translation content: on hold, might be dropped

Zero

Adam Basso

• Past
  • SSL support -- in progress
  • ESI headers -- may need upgrades to work -- possible delay
  • X-Forwarded-By -- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/88261/9/templates/varnish/zero.inc.vcl.erb (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38)

Search

Chad Horohoe

• Continued deployment -- getting servers from Ops (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/8)
• Upcoming -- interwiki search; need design help on this (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/39)

Core Features (Flow)

S Page

• End of this week: Flow ready for deployment on test/a few MW talk pages (RelEng)
• Parsoid patch in -- testing

Visual Editor

Roan Kattouw

• NB Trevor going on paternity leave starting on 2013-11-15
• NB entire team abroad, 2013-11-15, two weeks (india, london), back the night before Thanksgiving
• Blocking
  • QA problems (QA)
  • Parsoid cache in beta labs (Ops)
• Upcoming
  • VE deployed in office wiki in next couple of weeks (RelEng(?))
  • Flow collaboration with Roan as Trevor is going on paternity leave
• Blocked
  • OfficeWiki deploy blocked on Parsoid deploy (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/40)
• Blocking
  • Cursor issues (QA)

Mobile Web

Jon Robson

• Qunit tests running now
• Echo unifications now load jscript
• Tweaks to beta -- page creation enabled
• beta cosmetic improvements
• Blocked
  • keep going (Getting Started) API (growth) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/11)