Scrum of scrums/2016-05-18

= 2016-05-18 =

Web
Blocked on Ops - need ability to do a 50% roll out of lazy loaded images. BBlack is looking into this, waiting for his feedback. Popups (hovercards) A/B test to be run on Hungarian wiki - finalising pre work. UX changes to search on mobile web

iOS

 * Crash fixes

Mobile Content Service

 * Started implementing first "Explore feed" endpoints: featured article https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132764
 * Naming of feed endpoints discussion in progress at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132597. (Make your voice heard by Thursday, May 19)

Reading Infrastructure
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:SessionManager_and_AuthManager/Updating_tips
 * AuthManager core is merged! Also fixes for bundled extensions! And backported to 1.27!
 * Work continues on other WMF-deployed extensions, see T110282. Every extension that we know needs updates has a subtask there.
 * If you see in that list an extension you maintain, and have some time this week, please help out! Many of those tasks are very simple and setting up the environment / figuring out how to test would take up most of our time. You can find an update guide at
 * JsonConfig could use help from someone familiar with that extension (yurik?), see T135074. If nothing else, confirm it won't affect WMF and we can remove it from blocking T110282.
 * TranslationNotifications could use help from someone familiar with that extension (Language team?), see T110766.

Community Tech

 * Working on CopyPatrol tool (currently at http://tools.wmflabs.org/plagiabot)
 * Collaborating with TCB team on RevisionSlider tool (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider)
 * Needs Security Review - probably beginning of July
 * Still pushing on category sorting (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58041, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T8948, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128806, etc.)
 * jcrespo adding new indexes for us (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130692)

Parsing
(Subbu not going to be around .. just an update)
 * Moves afoot to migrate Parsoid cluster to Jessie / node v4 -- discussion on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135176 about options since Parsoid puppet code has hardcoded refs to upstart. This probably affects the beta cluster config as well. Working with Services and Ops.
 * Kunal has been working on Linker::link rewrite -- see email discussion on wikitech-l (Subject: Linker::link rewrite)
 * Option to split data-mw out of the HTML is now ready in Parsoid. HTML2HTML to convert between Parsoid HTML versions close to being done. Appreciate clients (CX, VE) thinking about how they want to work with the new version where data-mw is no longer inline. This eliminates the additional html2html conversion once this new version becomes the default version.
 * Tidy replacement work ongoing. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy will continue to have updates.

Language
(Apologies, Kartik not available)
 * Blockers: none
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates
 * Work on Compact Language Links out-of-beta continue.
 * apertium->jessie in progress, Kartik should update first set of packages this week.

Collaboration

 * Blocking:
 * Working on External Store on Beta.
 * Blocked:
 * Updates:
 * Continuing notification work on:
 * Cross-wiki notifications successfully released. A couple post-release bugs, but all dealt with
 * Echo HTML email formatter done

Multimedia
(MarkTraceur missed the meeting, sorry!)
 * Blocking: None
 * Blocked: None
 * Updates:
 * UploadWizard stabilising efforts
 * File annotations in a proper extension (cf. hacky wikitext and gadgets)
 * Gallery slideshow mode

Technical operations
Apologies, not gonna be around, updates:
 * blocking:
 * none
 * blocked:
 * none
 * updates:
 * deploying ORES
 * working on kubernetes on toollabs
 * varnish4 migration ongoing after some setbacks

Fundraising Tech

 * No blockers
 * Testing Paypal Express Checkout
 * PCI work on payments cluster (modsecurity)
 * Civi de-dupe work continues

Security

 * 2FA rollout today
 * Security realease (no really, for realz this time) this week

Services

 * Cassandra 2.2.6 roll-out
 * RESTBase staging today
 * Change propagation back in prod
 * RFC meeting today about it - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102476
 * RESTBase
 * started rate-limiting in prod, logging only and locally
 * will need help from Ops to set up firewall rules for global rate limiting
 * Parsoid to move to Jessie and Node 4.x likely tomorrow
 * MathML rendering default on test wiki, mw.org and dewikibooks

Release Engineering

 * Blockers: none
 * Blocking: ???
 * Updates:
 * CI outage in progress, working in #wikimedia-labs for fix
 * Scap3 breaking change email just went out
 * wmf.2 rolling to group1 (hopefully)

Analytics

 * Blockers: none
 * Blocking: nobody we know of
 * Updates:
 * kafka upgraded to 0.9
 * jenkins now knows how to build java packages and add them to archiva (a few manual steps remain, working on it)
 * Cleaning up beta feature enable graphs so limn-flow-data, limn-ee-data, and limn-language-data will all get a little cleaner in the next day or so, ping me if you're concerned
 * Druid analytics cluster is almost operational, we'll be using it for wikistats 2.0 metric computation

Wikidata

 * Blockers: none.
 * Wikidata Query Service was going down several times (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160503-Wikidata-Query-Service). Will need updated resources soon.
 * Deployed ArticlePlaceholder extension on 4 small Wikipedias (e.g. Esperanto).
 * Experimenting with Timelines on Wikidata Query Service (talk to Lydia).

Discovery

 * No blockers
 * Updating maps servers
 * Blocking: JsonConfig authentication update (Zero), backend script auth (Zero), SCAP3 for all services