Scrum of scrums/2013-12-17

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

Notable action items

 * URGENT: Growth needs review of draft namesapce change for WP (https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/62)
 * Wikidata still blocked on finding go-to person in Ops (https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/59)
 * Wikidata blocked on review for wikidata build step (https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/61)
 * Many opsen are conducting data center tours, limited availability
 * No SoS on 24 Dec or 31 Dec due to holidays, will resume as usual on 7 Jan

QA
Chris McMahon

Since last time

 * Maintenance on regression tests, builds are green now.
 * Keeping up with VisualEditor
 * Keeping up with Flow
 * GCI/Community work

Upcoming

 * Resolve things with Mobile (https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/50)
 * More Flow

Multimedia
MarkTraceur

Since last time

 * CommonsMetadata continual improvements for exporting image metadata, will be useful for exporting to wikidata in the future
 * Refactoring MultimediaViewer (slowly) to make it nicer to use in other projects (via hooks etc.)
 * Fixed issues when interacting with VE

Before next time

 * Further improvements on CommonsMetadata
 * Hopefully starting to use mw.hook for MultimediaViewer
 * Maybe some refactoring for UploadWizard, on the road to making it useful to other projects

Slowing us down

 * Working on metrics generation has basically been an awful experience, understandably, but we're excited to see improvements on that pipeline, more automation would be awesome
 * We had some issues with VE, but could probably fix this by conversing with the frontend teams and sorting out policies for naming etc.

Language
Niklas Laxstrom
 * Done: #4 is done (measure translation characters)
 * Working on: new main page for translatewiki.net getting ready for launch (includes sandbox)
 * Hairy: Work with Roan on i18n-json continues, json support for MediaWiki extensions done soon at translatewiki.net
 * Many off until end of the year

Ops
Andrew Otto, Faidon Liambotis, Mark Bergsma
 * varnishkafka ganglia (FINALLY) merged and working.
 * hope to deploy to rest of mobile varnishes today or tomorrow


 * Mark decomissioned all Squid servers and removed squid related puppetization. No more squid!
 * much of ops currenty out touring data centers

Wikipedia Zero
Adam Baso
 * 1) 2 ESI headers - Mark and Yuri to talk to Brandon Black about whether a backported patch is hard or simple.
 * 2) 3 Support SSL - W0 this morning was talking amongst itself wondering if it would be best for the time being to implement SSL support on case-by-case basis like with X-Forwarded-By...until the hashmapper anyway.
 * 3) 17 W0 Varnish Configs - Ops and W0 need to keep the carrier-dependent configuration in place for the time being. Mark and Yuri to talk to Brandon Black about a hashmapper concept.
 * 4) 20 Handle trusted x-forward-for header - as far as we can tell, there shouldn't be additional extra work on this given our approach with Varnish. We believe this can be closed.
 * 5) 38 X-Forwarded-By review - this has been implemented, and we're doing some last minute verifications.
 * 6) 53 W0 dashboards - Toby, Chris, Dan, Yuri, and Adam spoke last week. Chris to backfill pending dashboards, Dan to email team anytime a configuration's language-project-subdomain support changes.
 * 7) 57 Firefox OS exploration - Jon and Adam have a basic proof of concept. It needs navigation. A change in core (including ResourceLoader) is the easiest way to make cache manifests work smoothly.

Wikidata
Tobi Gritschacher change needs review (Reedy): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95996/
 * We're having a sprint-break atm
 * Developers are mainly doing refactoring tasks
 * Not much development will go on from Friday on until Jan 6th
 * blocker for beta-depoyment from one repository (a.k.a. "Wikidata-Build-Step"):
 * Still blocked by ops on https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/59

Growth
Matt Flaschen
 * Draft namespace for English Wikipedia - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/97675/ - Needs review today
 * Use time of page move rather than page creation time - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94403/ - PageTriage - Needs review
 * Getting started API for listing task types (not blocked)
 * Signup

Flow
S Page Deployed on mw.org!, no outstanding dependencies