Scrum of scrums/2016-07-13

= 2016-07-13 =

Reading Infrastructure

 * No update, but there will be a follow up meeting on Echo auth impl bug 20-July-2016 (multistakeholder bug)

Reading Web

 * No update, working on language switcher on mobile web

iOS native app

 * 5.0.5 is currently in beta - heading to regression on Tuesday
 * Setup new plan to incrementally improve regression testing
 * Development of 5.1 is in progress
 * Planning of 5.2 is in progress
 * Discovery implemented https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139378 to enable iOS to do https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130889
 * Filed ticket to start work on a real time trending API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140102

Mobile Content Service

 * Getting close to having public endpoints for the random and aggregated feed endpoints. Removing blockers for that.
 * Service had been flapping quite a bit lately. Log files indicate heap memory issues.

Community Tech

 * Investigating cross-wiki watchlist, how to implement back-end
 * Refered to ArchComm as RFC
 * Will be deploying PageAssessments to English WIkipedia soon (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments)
 * Also will be switching English Wikipedia to UCA collation with numerical sorting

Collaboration

 * Blocked: None
 * Blocking: No change
 * Update
 * Finished rollout out bundling and re-sorting changes. Had a couple issues:
 * We forgot to change Alerts/Messages to Alerts/Notices, so had to do a SWAT for this. This had complications initially: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160707-Echo
 * We learned yesterday there was a bug in Echo that was causing users to have inconsistent state, which prevented login. This was fixed yesterday: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160712-EchoCentralAuth

Multimedia

 * Blocked: None?
 * Blocking: None?
 * Update: None?

Language

 * Blocked: None?
 * Blocking: None?
 * Update: None?

Parsing

 * Blocked: service-runner migration
 * Blocking: None?
 * Update: Services is helping with migrating Parsoid to the service-runner framework. Parsoid deployments are on hold till that time. Migration to node v4, jessie, scap3 will follow that migration.

VisualEditor

 * Blocked: None.
 * Blocking: None known.
 * Update: Lots of work on bugs and regressions this week; https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/298392/ / T129360 in MobileFrontend is the remaining focus.

Services

 * Blocking: None
 * Blocked: None
 * Updates
 * Node security upgrade: RB, AQS and SCB on Nodejs 4.4.6, Parsoid pending move to Jessie
 * RESTBase Cassandra cluster upgraded to 2.2.6
 * Preparing deploy of new feed API end points (ex: featured article / image) with Reading. ETA likely this week.
 * Parsoid move to service-runner - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90668
 * Currently testing in BetaCluster
 * Ping for Ops: need to coordinate the transition in prod

Fundraising Tech

 * Civi upgrade complete
 * CentralNotice deployed
 * Upgrading payments to MW 1.26
 * Building out new servers
 * Kafka sampling problem solved
 * No blockers

TechOps

 * Blocking
 * None
 * Blocked
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135483 - HHVM crashes - raised to UBN! after issue recurrence. Currently no one owns the ticket.
 * Updates
 * About 25% of the MediaWiki clusters run on jessie, we will start reimaging old servers during this quarter, a schedule will be announced.
 * Enabled TCP Fast Open on some caching clusters
 * Insecure POST traffic cutoff: All external traffic is prohibited, but labs is still permitted (with a 20% failure rate)

Security

 * Node.js dependencies are now being checked nightly for disclosed vulnerabilities; Darian will be manually creating Phab tickets about this initially, with automation to follow
 * Request security reviews: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Security_reviews
 * A security release will be prepared soon, possibly July 20
 * Reviews: Tool Labs Console (cont.)

Wikidata / WMDE

 * Daniel is working on multi-content revisions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595
 * Continuing work on structured data support for commons
 * Preparing deploy of RevisionSlider to test wikis and then as a beta feature on German Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140232

Discovery

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * Logstash upgrade postponed to Jul 18th, 19-22 UTC
 * Initiated discussion on using ? in searches: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discovery/Handling_question_marks_in_search_queries
 * Geosearch (near*:) is ready to roll out in production: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139378 in 1.28.0-wmf.10
 * Started discussion on new wikipedia.org portal layout: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_updated_page_layout
 * Geoshapes in graphs and (soon) maps: http://data.wmflabs.org/wiki/Regional_maps

RelEng

 * Blocking
 * None
 * Bocked
 * None
 * Updates
 * New gerrit update needs testing: https://gerrit-new.wikimedia.org/r/
 * wmf.9 was reverted, wmf.10 will get pushed to group0 and group1 today on a short schedule
 * Retrospective to come https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160712-EchoCentralAuth

Architecture

 * ArchCom weekly meetings today:
 * 1pm PDT Planning meeting (private): E227
 * 2pm PDT Discussion (public) IRC #wikimedia-office: E228
 * Topic: T589 - image and oldimage tables
 * Anything stalled? Comment in Phab here: Z425