Scrum of scrums/2013-10-15

Attendees
Adam Basso, Arthur Richards, Chris McMahon, Christian Aistleitner, Dan Andreescu, Diederik van Liewe, Greg Grossmeier, Matthew Flaschen, S Page, Toby Negrin, Andrew Otto, Jon Robson, Amir Aharoni

Agenda

 * 1) Opening Comments - Arthur
 * 2) Updates

Wikipedia Zero (Mobile Partnerships)
Adam Basso


 * What's going on
 * Introduction of Netmapper


 * Upcoming
 * Edge Side Includes (Ops)
 * Cache variability in Varnish (Ops)


 * Blockers
 * Reducing Lists of IPs for Wikimedia Servers (Ops)


 * Open Issues
 * Will changes made to Opera browser request handling impact analytics? Yes! (Analytics)

Flow
S Page


 * What's going on
 * Flow has been prototyping and developing on labs machines


 * Upcoming
 * Dependencies on Visual Editor and Parsoid need to be worked out (VE, Parsoid)
 * Storage is also a concern -- both Parsoid and Analytics have been thinking about Cassandra; sync up (Parsoid, Analytics)


 * Blockers, Open Issues
 * None

Languages
Amir Aharoni


 * What's going on
 * Update of main page
 * Releasing language bundle


 * Upcoming
 * Google translate analytics -- proposal is to run some PHP scripts to get data -- simple but may have performance impact (Analytics, Ops)


 * Blockers, Open Issues
 * None

Quality Assurance
Chris McMahon


 * What's going on
 * top issue: Investigate cause of VE test failures in Chrome not Firefox. Root cause might be race conditions under slow connections in Chrome (VE Team)
 * Review existing and add cross-browser tests for Flow (Flow)
 * Pair with Language team on browser tests (Language)
 * Refactor common code for tests to a Ruby gem (tentative, in progress)
 * Tentatively committed to Google Code-In with ECT team (Quim/Community)
 * Work with volunteer contributions from QA mail list community (Community)
 * Assorted miscellaneous issues always come up: Mobile, maintenance etc.


 * Upcoming, Blockers, Open Issues
 * None

Analytics
Dan Andreescu


 * What's going on
 * Testing Hadoop cluster by importing hourly PVs from webstatscollector
 * Location leaking
 * Bringing up Kafka message bus for log delivery


 * Upcoming, Blockers
 * None


 * Open Issues
 * We need to discuss udp2log EOL options (Ops, TBD)

Growth
Matt Flaschen
 * What's going on
 * Getting started iteration (A/B testing)


 * Upcoming
 * Getting started Web API (unscheduled but likely)
 * Some Tech Debt (guided tour) to pay off
 * Some API changes need to be communicated to the community


 * Blockers, Open Issues
 * None

Mobile
Jon Robson'


 * What's going on
 * Bug fixes
 * Some work with mobile web
 * 'keep going' CTA - (Growth)
 * Graphs around quarterly goals
 * Released feature X
 * Upcoming (Beta)
 * Abuse Filter Report
 * More API Requests


 * Upcoming, Blockers, Open Issues
 * None

Platform
Greg Grossmeier


 * What's going on
 * Quarterly review today!
 * Search is being deployed
 * RFC stuff formalized


 * Upcoming (Quarter)
 * More search (Ops)
 * RFC Meetings (Greg -- time/date)
 * Dev/Ops beta labs and/or QA gets called for these projects
 * OAuth
 * Security
 * Performance work


 * Blockers, Open Issues
 * None