Scrum of scrums/2016-01-13

= 2015-01-13 =

Android

 * v2.1.137 beta published. Includes a new native article toolbar and lower memory usage.

Reading Infrastructure

 * Nothing blocked this week.
 * SessionManager and bot passwords should be going out next week.

Discovery

 * Working on load test for Dallas cluster
 * Load spikes on weekend for ES getting worse, cause not clear yet, investigating ( https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/elasticsearch )
 * Did some brainstorming, discovered queries generating a lot of ES calls to handle variants, with very low success rate. Will investigate removing them.
 * Finalizing data models for TextCat language detection library, security review next
 * Testing for upgrading WDQS to Blazegraph 2.0 once it's released
 * No blockers

Community Tech

 * Working on assessment report for Community Wishlist Top 10 results: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10/Status_draft
 * Would like feedback from Wikidata, Multimedia, Analytics, and Collaboration before publishing
 * Working on dead link rescuing bot - talking with Tool Labs and IA
 * Waiting on feedback from Kunal on Gadgets 2.0
 * Wrapping up work on PageAssessments extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAssessments

RelEng

 * Blocking: nothing
 * Blocked on: nothing
 * Updates:
 * Differential migration discussion at WikiDev16 went really well, very positive, no roadblocks placed
 * Scap3 discussion at WikiDev16 also really positive, looking for more early adopters

Technical Operations

 * Blocking: nothing
 * Blocked on: nothing
 * Updates:
 * Started work on the new Quarter goals

Services

 * moved to Node 4.2 - RESTBase, Mobile Content Service, Mathoid
 * in progress: Graphoid and Citoid


 * working on enabling pre-generation for Mobile Content Service

Security

 * Should get to Kartographer this week
 * Several patches to deploy this week
 * Schedule your reviews!

Fundraising Tech

 * cleaning up after December
 * updating CiviCRM extensions to use new core features

VisualEditor

 * Blocking: nothing
 * Blocked on: nothing
 * Updates:
 * Single Edit Tab work nearing completion. Planned to release to one wiki next week if all goes well for validation before larger rollout.
 * Note the OOUI breaking release from yesterday (in -wmf.11); no known impacts.

Parsing

 * Blocking: nothing
 * Blocked on: nothing
 * Updates
 * Hoping to finish up (this week) puppetizing testing infrastructure on ruthenium
 * Coordinating with reading and services to reduce size of HTML payload.

Multimedia

 * Blocking: nothing
 * Blocked on: nothing
 * Updates:
 * Christmas A/B test for cross-wiki upload tool inconclusive. Not sure what's next happening.

Language

 * Blocking: nothing
 * Blocked on: nothing

Collaboration

 * Mostly Echo stuff. Cross-wiki notification stuff is getting closer.
 * MediaWiki-Vagrant code for cross-wiki notifications is implemented and almost merged. This will also facilitate other local multi-wiki testing, e.g. Flow.
 * Flow Nuke fix merged.