Scrum of scrums/2015-07-22

= 2015-07-22 =

Android app
* Language selection in search bar allows faster language selection * Added link to mobile web at bottom of page * More material design: Floating Action Button for ToC * More consistent and accurate error messages * Onboarding with tooltips, now also covering ShareAFact
 * Removed blocker for F-droid update: using Central Maven repo instead of custom Maven repo. Once we release a new stable version we should be able to get the app on F-droid updated.
 * Beta app 2.0.106 released on Monday 7/20:

iOS

 * 4.1.7 release planned, but not for at least another couple weeks (still have work in the backlog, will update when it's closer to done/review)

Web

 * Run browser tests on MobileFrontend and Gather patches (bot on wmflabs)

Services

 * Working with Ops on Cassandra improvements
 * RESTBase
 * various fixes / improvements
 * page delete handling
 * section API
 * more secure services with firejail
 * endpoint monitoring in production
 * Reading / MobileApps
 * Public RESTBase endpoints for the service:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102130
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103811
 * need https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106149 from you guys

Discovery

 * Blockers:
 * Waiting for WDQS hardware
 * Blocking:
 * Nothing on board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * Updates
 * Upgraded Elastic to 1.6.0, and working toward 1.6.2. Also looking at 1.7.
 * WDQS hardware is on the way
 * Working on WDQS upgrade to latest Blazegraph, with patches from us
 * Zero-results investigation ongoing: ES suggesters, NLP, dashboard, event logging
 * Transitional docs and procedures for Nik and James

Fundraising Tech

 * no blockers / blocking
 * Fixing Latin American fundraising pipeline based on results of 1 hr all user banner test in Brazil
 * More import formats and fields for offline donations
 * Form tweaks for Japan
 * Reviewing and testing big CentralNotice refactor
 * Updating payments cluster to MediaWiki 1.25
 * General question: best fix for git-review deprecating global config files? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Gerrit/Getting_started

Release Engineering
** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158016/ * Continuing to upgrade browser-test suites to use mw-selenium 1.x   * Co-hosting testing workshop/discussion w/ TPG next Monday @ 9am PDT ** See announcement on engineering@ and/or staff calendar * Deployment tooling work continues ** Tyler showed off some progress at Wikimania: http://tyler.zone/scap.gif * CI isolation work continues
 * Blocking: (none)
 * Blocked by: operations
 * Updates:

Community Tech

 * No blockers
 * Working on internal processes for team
 * Hoping to get help from Team Practices
 * Removing sajax from SecurePoll (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55122)
 * Discussed sharing work backlog with German Chapter Community Tech Team

Collaboration

 * Working on rescuing Flow text from impending destruction (external store recompression)
 * Part of the external store audit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106388
 * If you use external store, participate in this audit!