Scrum of scrums/2018-01-03

= 2018-01-03 =

Callouts

 * Ops/DBAs. Reminder that s5 will have readonly time on 9th January as s8 will become the online wikidata shard. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181645, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177208
 * Search PF would like somebody from performance/MediaWiki team to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183101 we’ve got some fails on LinksUpdate which blocked search index update which makes Wikidata items invisible in search (~50 items)

iOS native app

 * Blocked by: none
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * Releasing 5.7.4 this week - minor bug fixes related to article loading, new navigation bar behavior
 * Continuing work on 5.8 - synced reading lists

Reading Infrastructure

 * Blocked by: Ops on puppet code review:
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/397623/
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/395694/
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * vacation
 * working on T167400 (WP0 piracy) + T174993 (vandalism)

Maps

 * Blocked by: None
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * Everyone has been on vacation

Global Collaboration

 * Blocked by: Security on response to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144467
 * Blocking: Ops on Flow dumps; Matt is working on it
 * Updates:
 * A bunch of bug fixes for Special:RecentChangesLinked
 * Roan working on refactoring the change_tag schema (inspired by Cenarium and Ladsgroup), will write a small RFC later this week

Community Tech

 * GlobalPreferences is almost ready.
 * Analyzing new proposals.

Analytics

 * Wikistats UI launch, working on bugs filed by community members.
 * Working on TLS and kafka with brandon for the ciphers we will use
 * Working on new APIs to report pageview data by country
 * Blogpost about wikistats launch
 * Some troubles on dbstore (the analytics box that holds the wiki-replicas). We might need to order new hardware
 * We order 8 new boxes for cluster which brings total to 50 nodes
 * Started work on geowiki project (editors per country, internal data only) users of this project are mostly internal (Asaf’s team)

Technical Operations

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Very quiet week, most everyone on vacation.

Services

 * Blockers: none
 * Updates:
 * Very quite because of vacations and holidays
 * Mathoid storage in Cassandra 3 cluster populated, transition blocked by renderer bugs
 * Preparing next round of Cassandra reshapes

Fundraising Tech

 * Deploying (and debugging) stuff we held back for the fundraiser
 * CiviCRM enhancements
 * Writing some python code to help with banner impression stats collection
 * More thoughts on how to replace our kafkatee -> payments cluster log parser system: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179841

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by
 * None
 * Blocking
 * None?
 * Updates
 * wmf.15 going out this week

Performance

 * Blocked by: none
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates
 * HHVM hangs resulted in increased save times over the holiday weekend: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183889
 * Addressing a couple of edge cases in Thumbor, little general impact
 * Mostly quiet (holidays)

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Would like somebody from performance team to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183101 we’ve got some fails on LinksUpdate which blocked search index update which makes Wikidata items invisible in search (~50 items)
 * Working on fixes for completion suggester & redirects namespaces
 * Investigating ElasticSearch phonetic search (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182708)
 * Wikidata search fixes for delay & space handling will be deployed with .15
 * Working on refactoring search profiles to make them more config-like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183279
 * Collecting feedback for Wikidata fulltext & prefix search rankings

Scoring Platform

 * Blocked by: No blockers, thanks to great RelEng and Ops work!
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * switching ORES to stretch
 * continuing Extension:ORES refactoring (Collab/Roan are looped in)