Scrum of scrums/2015-08-19

iOS
Still working on 5.0, nothing to report.

Mobile Content Service

 * Initial deployment to production environment done. Thanks to Ops and Services team. :)
 * Initiated dialogue on Analytics list about pageview definition https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2015-August/004180.html

Android

 * Working on using new Mobile Content Service routes in Android app.
 * Getting ready for a new beta release.

Web
Working on quick surveys and various bugs for performance work and wrapping up removing alpha.

Infrastructure

 * Wondering why the meeting for this is hidden on personal calendars instead of being on the Engineering calendar.
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84956 is blocked on Ops code review
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91148 is blocked on Editing, or whoever is that owns oojs-ui

Language

 * Blocked: None.
 * Blocking: None.
 * Apertium-APY memory leak issue fixed (T107270) (We're watching graph!) with help of upstream and Ops (Alex!). Thanks!
 * CX: Suggestions in Dashboard in Progress.
 * CX: Bug fixes deployed (Last week's help call: T108559) and team is working on it.

Parsing

 * Current phase of HTML normalizations to generate "scrubbed" wikitext is now close to being done.
 * Combined with VE-side patches that Scott worked on, by the end of this week, we expected a reduction in &lt;nowiki&gt; added to VE edits.
 * Several link handling fixes (in the parser as well as the serializer).
 * Arlo is reporting a serious slowdown in core parser tests run and thinks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109183 is related ( and has a fix as well now: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/232536/ )

Collaboration

 * LiquidThreads->Flow done on MediaWiki.org!
 * Made a lot of progress on converting editors (used for new topics, new posts, editing description, etc.) to OOjs UI (almost done).
 * Had some watchlist issues, fixed now
 * Working on a new feature to allow users to enable a BetaFeature to convert their talk page to Flow, and then (if they want) back to wikitext.
 * Still working on a database change to fix issues with links table.
 * Also finishing up the change to use core's standard content model/handler functionality where possible.

Community Tech

 * Investigating 16 different community requests
 * Most of these are related to improving various gadgets and Tool Labs tools
 * Some of these overlap with other teams
 * Working with the reading team to figure out how to give Hovercards feature parity with navigation pop-ups.

Services

 * no blockers
 * MobileApps service out in prod!
 * Working on multi-DC Cassandra set up

Release Engineering

 * Blocking: (none)
 * Blocked by: (none)
 * Updates:
 * Deployment tooling work continues
 * Working group chose scap3 implementation
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Cabal/2015-08-17
 * Will formulate an MVP for services deployments by this week and begin weekly sprints next week
 * Deadline for services deployment MVP is end of this quarter

Technical Operations

 * Blocked: None
 * Blocking: None
 * Updates:
 * Mobileapps deployed in production
 * SCB ready to start migration of services from SCA

Analytics

 * Pageviews - we want to standardize what we count as a pageview, asking here first for feasibility. Is there a way that we can standardize how we define a pageview.
 * (Apps don't always know the page_id of the page they're requesting; the discussion also extends to using page_title.)
 * Loss from Kafka - 15 hours spread over 4 days.
 * Need review from Ops for second puppetization
 * Geo down?

Research

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocker by: none
 * Updates:
 * start testing the new article recommendation tool (mild test): http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend
 * page trace feedback collection (due Friday) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Improving_link_coverage/Release_page_traces

Security

 * Internal scanning for FrTech in progress
 * reviews for Maps done; Mobile Server next

Discovery

 * Not blocking anyone
 * Not being blocked
 * Couple of tickets but nothing in particular

Fundraising Tech

 * CentralNotice:
 * Perfomance testing refactored code on beta
 * Writing module to sample banner view history without assigning readers unique IDs https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/229560/
 * Converting Amazon payments forms from sunsetting Simple Payments to Pay with Amazon
 * Investigating new integration method for credit card processing in France
 * Writing import for donations made at events