Scrum of scrums/2017-08-30

= 2017-08-30 =

Callouts

 * Selenium Ruby framework deprecation at the end of October
 * Announcement: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088653.html12:31:12
 * trebuchet is to scheduled be removed at quarter's end. It's effectively replaced by scap. Salt (the foundation upon trebuchet is built) will be removed too. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164780
 * IE8-on-XP support being dropped. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163251
 * Ganglia is being moved behind LDAP authentication for security reasons plus deprecation https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/374320/
 * eqiad frack refresh preparation in progress, temptative transition scheduled for Sept. 20th. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174218
 * Search Platform would like somebody from Ops who knows dumps to review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/373354/

Multimedia

 * 3D work continuing as usual - have some deploy bumps to pave over
 * Onboarding 1 engineer and 1 PM, will take up some of our productivity

iOS

 * Blocked by: none
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * Working on 5.6.1 with minor bug fixes ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2898/ ), goes to public beta this week
 * Next up is 5.6.7 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2899/ )

Discovery

 * Blocked by: none
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 * Updates:
 * Running search result thumbnails AB test this/next week

Reading Infrastructure

 * adding article concatenation support to Collection extension

Language

 * No Blocker/Blocking.
 * CX-VE work continue.
 * Preparing for cxserver deployment (with lots of changes/improvements!)
 * New MT service in review: Matxin.

Collaboration

 * Updates:
 * ChangesList filters
 * RCFilters: Minimize saved query before comparison
 * WLFilters: set default values
 * RCFilters: Adjust highlight for seen/unseen states in Watchlist
 * WLFilters: Fix seen/unseen filters
 * RCFilters: Enable 'View newest'
 * RCFilters: Hide saved queries from anonymous users
 * WLFilters: avoid querying the DB when filters are in conflict
 * Various bug fixes
 * Blockers
 * Resolved a Flow issue that was blocking dumps

Community Tech

 * Post-deployment fixes to LoginNotify and CodeMirror
 * Working on GlobalPreferences and ArticleCreationWorkflow

Analytics

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Cloud Services

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Fundraising Tech

 * No blocker/blocking
 * Trying to optimize things for December (db writes, fs access, etc)
 * More work on handling donations where the user returns with no session cookies
 * More work on main CC processor - new API and audit file format

MediaWiki Platform

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Performance

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Release Engineering

 * Blocked by: none
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 * Updates:
 * Selenium Ruby framework deprecation announce: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088653.html 12:31:12
 * End of October deprecation date.
 * Team kanban: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2769/query/rAdBKbHGnFVu/

Research

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Scoring Platform
** Moving our service over to a new, dedicated cluster.
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 * Bit of ops support to help us diagnose file handle starvation during stress testing. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174402. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169246
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 * Updates:
 * Thresholds feature is announced and ready for testing, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/68/more_better_model_information_and_threshold_optimizations/
 * Over the next few weeks, we're finalizing a schema for commenting on or judging almost any wiki artifact: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/meta_ores_schema
 * Working to formally identify our stakeholders. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES/Stakeholders

Search Platform

 * Blocked by: none
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * Continuing work on ML-assisted ranking
 * A/B tests for interleaved results and human-graded relevancy concluded, analyzing results next
 * Fixed issue with punctuation and Chinses language (T172653)
 * Categories to RDF code merged, need review for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/373354/ from somebody who knows dumps
 * WDQS logs now go to logstash
 * Sent inquiry to wiki communities about extending the list of namespaces searched by default (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170473)
 * Analyzed some unexpected behavior of searchin Japanese: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173650

Security
* Completed auditing tables which are being replicated to labs for consistency with privacy policy * Reviews:
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 * Blocking: None
 * Updates:
 * Adhoc review of CentralNotice
 * vue.js
 * ArticleCreationWorkflow

Services

 * Blocked by: none
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 * Updates:
 * Came back from an offsite
 * Rolling out job event production to all wikis today
 * Continuing to set up the new Cassandra 3 cluster
 * Will be very slowly preparing for node.js upgrade, so will soon create some tasks for service owners to access the complexity of it

Technical Operations

 * Blocked by: none
 * Blocking: none
 * Updates:
 * trebuchet is to scheduled be removed at quarter's end. It's effectively replaced by scap. Salt (the foundation upon trebuchet is built) will be removed too.
 * IE8-on-XP support being dropped. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163251
 * Ganglia is being moved behind LDAP authentication for security reasons
 * eqiad frack refresh preparation in progress, tentative transition scheduled for Sept. 20th. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174218

Wikidata

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German Technical Wishlist

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