Scrum of scrums/2017-05-24

= 2017-05-24 =

Call outs:

 * Analytics is working on a script for purging EventLogging Mysql (for those of you who don't expect that, please talk to us :).

contact: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering

iOS

 * Last Week
 * 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
 * Analytics https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164801
 * Update `In the news` feed logic and design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148739
 * Other bug fixes & enhancements
 * This Week
 * 5.5 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2602/
 * Places search updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159733
 * Update `Top Read` feed design: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165510
 * Places accessibility: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159733
 * Other bug fixes & enhancements

Android

 * Dmitry, Rita at the hackathon. Mostly a testing and tech debt paydown week.
 * Beta release planned for late this week.
 * Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/

Wikimedia Deutschland

 * Very slow week. Many attended the Hackathon in Vienna, many still in Vienna for WikiCite. This Thursday is a public holiday, Friday typically a day off.
 * Wikidata team makes progress on the Lexeme UI.

Analytics

 * Missed past 2 weeks - Apologies.
 * Last week we were in offsite + hackathon (2) - Yearly and preliminary quarterly goals have been discussed/agreed.
 * Ongoing: EventLogging to Hive code is in code review, we should have some tests soon.
 * Vetting Last_access_uniques for global sites (*.wikimedia.org) is taking us long time because of unexpected data issues.
 * We just deployed Event Logging with better bot detection (bot events are not stored in Mysql anymore).
 * Reportcards updated to mark notable data events.
 * Pageview data in Druid is now updated hourly (less than 2 hours late).
 * Pivot (data visualisation for Druid) is not Opensource anymore, we need to find a replacement.
 * We are working on a script for purging EventLogging Mysql (for those of you who don't expect that, please talk to us :).
 * Druid and pivot currently not working due to upgrade.

Technical Operations

 * Blocking: none
 * Blockers: none
 * Updates:
 * BBR rollout https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147569
 * Progress on asia DC continues

Services

 * Blockers: none
 * NOT ATTENDING. nothing to report due to hackathon and vacations

Fundraising Tech

 * More code cleanup and de-duplication as we move stuff from mediawiki extension to libraries
 * Fixing behavior of fraud filters on connection failure
 * CentralNotice deployment delayed on oojs-core library dependency, Andrew Green is talking to editing about a bugfix release
 * More Civi integration with third party email house

Language

 * No blockers/blocking.
 * Work on ContentTranslation migration to OOjs UI continue.

Parsing

 * The preprocessor patch that tweaks language variant handling got merged and is riding the train this week ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Language_conversion/Preprocessor_fixups )
 * We are ready to pursue using CSS to style Parsoid cite output without wiki messages (that are used currently for the Cite extension) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156351 )
 * Linter fixes probably done this week ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/350958/ ), and if all goes well, we mght be able to reenable Linter on large wikis within the next 2 weeks.
 * Once this week's train rolls out everywhere, we will be ready to merge and test Parsoid's red link (and redirect and disambig) support -- if all goes well, this might land within the next 2 weeks.

Blocking

 * Coordinating with Ops about a Flow dump issue

Updates

 * Continued work on RC Filters UX, especially regarding namespace filters
 * Work on Echo patches at the hackathon
 * Notification blacklist to block certain senders from notifying you. This won't be in production (other than testwiki) anytime soon, but we're working on getting it ready to test
 * Improvements to edit-user-talk notification, to also notify for subpages

Discovery

 * No blockers
 * Recovering from Hackaton/offsite/travel
 * Working on upgrade to Elastic 5.3
 * Working on ML-enabled search ranking infrastructure

CommTech

 * Rolling out LoginNotify to Test Wiki (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LoginNotify)
 * Fixed bugs in PageTriage extension at Hackathon
 * Polishing CodeMirror and getting community feedback (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror)
 * No blockers