Scrum of scrums/2013-12-03

Docs
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

Notable action items

 * Zero to discuss deployment of Analytics dashboards (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/53)
 * Mobile web to resolve Limn Graph issues by merging Ori's patch and backfilling data (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/44)
 * Search blocked on puppet change review and open monitoring questions (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/8)
 * Zero blocked on a variety of things form ops, see below

Ops
Faidon Liambotis, Andrew Otto
 * Datacenter proposals moving along, no news.
 * Work on varnishkafka ganglia monitoring using Etsy's logster.
 * Hoping to deploy varnishkafka to a few mobile varnish hosts this week.
 * webstatscollector changes (filtering out CentralAuth requests) to deploy this week
 * #17 still blocked by ops
 * Beta labs support is a resourcing issue

Platform
Bryan Davis and Greg Grossmeir
 * Wikimania Scholarships and Logstash both got their hardware assignements from Ops since last week
 * Platform is working on puppet config for both
 * Git-deploy not going to happen in foreseeable sprint (ending ths month)
 * Search deployment modestly blocked by ops - puppet patch needs merging and open monitoring questions https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/8

QA
Chris McMahon
 * What does Multi-media need from QA? (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/51)
 * What deos mobile need from QA? (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/50)

Analytics
Dan Andreescu
 * Wikistats PV counts in high; patch needs to be reviewed/deployed
 * Wikimetrics will stay in labs
 * Mobile Web dashboards -- event logging fix from Ori will solve issue (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/44)
 * Waiting on thumbs up from W0 about dashboards; Yuri to talk to DFoy? (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/53)

Mobile Web
Jon Robson
 * Bug fixes
 * Limn graph getting resolved (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/44)
 * Problems with 500s in beta labs -- card on wall (Ops) (faidon updated bug; ops may not have capacity to debug betalabs) https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/49
 * growth dependency resolved; api merged - mobile needs to dbl check all is groovy

Growth
Matt Flaschen
 * no blockers in either direction
 * easier article creation coming up

Flow
S Page
 * got the OK from ops for deploy (tomorrow!) as well as from security - thanks!
 * cards 22, 23 deferred

VE
Roan Kattouw
 * Major deploys to 100+ wikis, small config bugs need fixing
 * VE for mobile stuff merged \o/

Zero
Yuri Astrakhan
 * Blocked by ops on card #17 (faidon will take care of it) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/17)
 * Need to deploy db change to meta - need help, but got help from Aaron
 * still blocked on card 38 (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38)
 * some progress made by ops on #2, coping with issues in varnish - ops going to upgrade to 3.0.5; no eta atm
 * #3 related to #38, ops to follow up with yuri/adam (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/3)

Niklas/Language

 * Middle of sprint
 * Fixed performance issue in one Translate API module
 * Working on plural rules, cldr has new update with different format
 * Replag: I'm working on it
 * Measuring translation: starting to work on it soon

Parsoid
Gabriel Wicke
 * More tweaks and fixes as usual: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Deployments
 * Cassandra now fairly stable with 2.0.3 release and tweaked settings; looks good for deploy this month
 * Metadata storage work using Rashomon ongoing
 * RFCs for storage API etc to be written for architecture summit
 * Variant conversion likely to be deferred until Feb/March
 * ping us on #mediawiki-parsoid if you have questions / need something