Scrum of scrums/2013-11-05

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

Notable action items
NB these are action points that came up during the meeting; there are other blockers and important bits otherwise buried in the notes.


 * QA to collaborate with VE team on VE cursor bugs (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/25)
 * Language to coordinate with Sean Pringle for replag emulation in betalabs (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/30)
 * Zero needs support from Ops on X-Forwarded-By stuff (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38)
 * Mobile Web still blocked by Growth for Getting Started API (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/11)

Notable news

 * Mark Bergsma on holiday for three weeks starting 2013-11-18. You have been warned.
 * Trevor going on paternity leave starting on 2013-11-15
 * Entire VE team abroad, 2013-11-15, two weeks (india, london), back the night before Thanksgiving

Operations
Andrew Otto
 * NB Mark B on holiday for three weeks starting 2013-11-18
 * Past week:
 * support state lookups in ULSFO
 * ULSFO deployment complete -- traffic is flowing! serving JP, KR, Oceania
 * Varnish-text deployments in ESAMS
 * No Blockers/Blocking no one

Mobile Apps
Brion Vibber
 * Past
 * Robots.txt update for Google -- looks ok (look for unusual load on the API cluster)
 * Blockers
 * Mobile Stats from analytics (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/1)

QA
Chris McMahon
 * Past week:
 * training for Rummana for VisualEditor QA
 * beta labs maintenance, removed old/corrupt gadgets and user javascript
 * research and reporting for intermittent Chrome bug seen in multiple WMF applications
 * Next:
 * Blocker: better Parsoid support in beta labs, will require multiple parties (VE) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/34)
 * another VE QA person Jeff Hall Nov 12 (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/26)
 * Flow tests(?)
 * talking with Ori about the Chrome bug (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/6)
 * VE cursor bugs are a hassle (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/25)

Analytics
Dan Andreescu
 * Past
 * W0 retooling of analytics (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/20)
 * Blocking?
 * Language translation metrics -- on hold (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/4)
 * Mobile jobs -- needs to be scheduled (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/1)
 * Kafka multicast -- not needed; another path used

Platform/RelEng/DevOps
Greg Grossmier
 * Blockers
 * Git-deploy -- Ryan working on it (ops/devops) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/35)
 * SSL on beta labs -- SSL Certs (Ops)
 * Finalizing SSL placement -- SSL placement (Ops)
 * Article transfer to beta cluster -- Ariel is busy; needs attention (Ops)
 * Parsoid in beta cluster (VE/Antoine)
 * Upcoming
 * Logging improvements coming
 * Blocking
 * Googlebot -- done (Mobile Apps) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/18)
 * Mobile Web -- HTTPS turned off by default (Mobile Web) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/33)

Language Engineering
Niklas Laxstrom
 * Priority changed: ULS performance (getting help from ori)
 * Replication lag testing environment: we have a bug, but no solution yet (Ops -- send email to Sean Pringle) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/30)
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/38945
 * Measuring translation content: on hold, might be dropped

Zero
Adam Basso
 * Past
 * SSL support -- in progress
 * ESI headers -- may need upgrades to work -- possible delay
 * X-Forwarded-By -- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/88261/9/templates/varnish/zero.inc.vcl.erb (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38)

Search
Chad Horohoe
 * Continued deployment -- getting servers from Ops (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/8)
 * Upcoming -- interwiki search; need design help on this (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/39)

Core Features (Flow)
S Page
 * End of this week: Flow ready for deployment on test/a few MW talk pages (RelEng)
 * Parsoid patch in -- testing

Visual Editor
Roan Kattouw
 * NB Trevor going on paternity leave starting on 2013-11-15
 * NB entire team abroad, 2013-11-15, two weeks (india, london), back the night before Thanksgiving
 * Blocking
 * QA problems (QA)
 * Parsoid cache in beta labs (Ops)
 * Upcoming
 * VE deployed in office wiki in next couple of weeks (RelEng(?))
 * Flow collaboration with Roan as Trevor is going on paternity leave
 * Blocked
 * OfficeWiki deploy blocked on Parsoid deploy (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/40)
 * Blocking
 * Cursor issues (QA)

Mobile Web
Jon Robson
 * Qunit tests running now
 * Echo unifications now load jscript
 * Tweaks to beta -- page creation enabled
 * beta cosmetic improvements
 * Blocked
 * keep going (Getting Started) API (growth) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/11)