Scrum of scrums/2016-09-14

= 2016-09-14 =

Reading Web
Current sprint:
 * Related pages preparation for mobile web deployments
 * Shipped wikidata descriptions in mobile web to all but top 6 wikis

Mobile Content Service

 * Working on follow-up tasks from last week's Android app outage:
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160907-Android


 * Set up monitoring tests for individual feed endpoints https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145223
 * Communicate steps on how to switch the app to use different backend servers.
 * Investigate Icinga alert setup if the app experiences unusually high crash rates.
 * Heads-up: New service developement starting soon for new RESTBase service to get Trending edits: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading_web_trending_service/

Android native app
Current sprint: 91 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/
 * navigation overhaul: primary dev work is complete; now updating per design feedback.
 * beta release this week (probably)

iOS native app
Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/
 * 5.2
 * Adding iOS 10 Support
 * Today Widgets - Top Read & Continue Reading and basic iOS 10 compatibility
 * Dropping iOS 8 support
 * Released to beta, releasing with iOS 10 Tuesday September 13

Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/
 * Bug fix release for 5.2, scope still in discussion

Reading Infrastructure

 * no blocking/blocked

Community Tech

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * Working with Performance team to optimize refreshLinks job for PageAssessments roll-out to enwiki (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145473)
 * Finished work on Google OCR tool for WikiSource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR
 * Web interface: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-google-ocr/
 * Gadget: https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GoogleOCR.js
 * Working with DBAs on improving CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141951)
 * Working on Education Program Dashboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546

Collaboration

 * Blocking
 * Continuing work on Flow caching rewrite
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Major work on seen time for Echo notifications. It is now a single global time, so when you open any notification popup, the time is updated globally.
 * Continued work on using MessagePoster to allow for posting to wikitext or Flow boards more easily. NewUserMessage updated to use this, PageTriage is next.

Language

 * Blocking: None
 * Blocked: None
 * Updates:
 * Content Translation work continue.
 * Apertium ready for Jessie migration, test this week, deployment likely next week.

Analytics

 * Blocking: None
 * Blocked: None
 * Updates:
 * Kasocki : Working on automating tests with jenkins
 * New AQS cluster data is loaded, load-tests still to be run, then production integration
 * Edit reconstruction: data for simplewiki is ready to be sent to Erik (not perfect, still improving), performance optimisations on the go for big wikis to run
 * Pivot (druid based UI) is being productionized to be accessible for WMF staff (LDAP)
 * Participation in A/B testing design - Looking good

Services

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * Updates:
 * Services config deploys via scap3 on the way
 * Depooling and repooling services during deployment, instructions would be sent soon
 * Change Propagation replaced RESTBaseUpdateJobs, extension undeployed
 * EventBus deprecated events are not produced any more

Technical Operations

 * Blocking: none
 * none
 * Blocked:
 * none
 * Updates:
 * Migrated to a new puppetmaster infrastructure for production, should make next DC switchover easier (among other things)
 * TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter), please work around this for deployments
 * wikitech features will get a deprecation announcement soon
 * Partial traffic to thumbor to be enabled this week
 * apertium reviews for LE are done. Migration of apertium service to SCB to happen next week.
 * appserver migration to jessie ongoing. CODFW done, EQIAD to happen next
 * New DBA, Manuel onboarded.

Discovery

 * No blockers
 * BM25 A/B test is turned off, preliminary results ok, waiting for analysis
 * Working on multiwiki indexes, public comments sought at:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design
 * Added ASCII-folding for French (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429)
 * Had SPARQL workshop, materials at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Workshop
 * Had Discernatron lunch, a lot of useful feedback
 * Working on deploying codfw servers for WDQS

Interactive team

 * to be deployed on non-large wikis soon

Fundraising Tech

 * Investigating low response to WLM CentralNotice campaign in South Korea
 * Fixing CentralNotice MariaDB strict mode violations
 * Finishing up queue work
 * More donor data cleanup in CiviCRM - language preferences, placeholder emails and addresses

RelEng

 * Blocking
 * no
 * Blocked
 * no
 * Updates
 * Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
 * Changes to beta cluster puppetmaster cherry-pick process Coming Soon™ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135427