Scrum of scrums/2016-03-16

= 2016-03-16 =

iOS

 * Updates:
 * 5.0.0 was released - all the new things
 * 5.0.1 was submitted - fix all the new things that crashed


 * Upcoming:
 * 5.0.1 - release (blocked on Apple review)
 * 5.0.2 - a little bit of this and that, second round of bug fixes, some small functionality tweaks
 * 5.1.0 - still in planning stage for some larger adjustments to some of the new 5.0.0 functionality


 * Blocking:
 * nothing comes to mind atm


 * Blocked:
 * 5.0.1 - release (blocked on Apple review)
 * "mw-mobilefrontend-leadsection" leaking in to mobileview lead section (broke our transform but we pushed a workaround in 5.0.1)
 * powering through 5.0.0 OTRS feedback firehose (not so much blocked as just time consuming) - digesting this feedback will inform what goes into 5.0.2 and 5.1.0
 * this also isn't really a blocker, just something we'll need to do sometime in the future - audit mobile content service output for any android-specific bits which may need to be tweaked before iOS can adopt - i doubt there will be issues, but we'll need to check

Mobile Content Service

 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Blocked:
 * potential blocker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118306 "File: pages of images stored on commons result in 404s". Would be really nice to get that one fixed before we roll out MCS usage to Android production app.
 * We need a new Android prod app release for the roll out of MCS usage in Android production app
 * Updates:
 * Considering starting roll out of MCS usage to Android production app next week since DC-switchover test is delayed until mid April. Might as well do it now.
 * Working on fixing lead paraph transformation in the service.

Reading Infrastructure

 * AuthManager is still coming! (see two weeks ago for details)
 * Behind schedule though.

Android

 * 2.1.143 beta coming soon.

Community Tech

 * Numerical category sorting - Need to get https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/272416/ merged
 * Pageview stats tool is basically finished, going to add support for redirects as well
 * Deadlink logging interface for internet archive - http://tools.wmflabs.org/deadlinks/

Collaboration

 * Blocking:
 * External Store - Continuing work. Some local stuff merged that will help with testing.
 * Blocked:
 * No new blockers. Work on dump continues
 * Updates:
 * Good feedback from cross-wiki notification roll out some far.
 * Some small issues, e.g. people feeling spammed by welcome bots from wikis they visited one time (or maybe just a load.php reference).

Language

 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Blockers:
 * None
 * Updates
 * Work on improving ContentTranslation continue.

Multimedia

 * Blocking
 * None
 * Blockers
 * None
 * Updates
 * Another A/B test for the core upload dialog (esp. regarding VisualEditor uploads) to be released soon in an effort to reduce garbage uploads, heads up

Discovery

 * Blocked:
 * Security: SVG sanitizer
 * Updates:
 * Completion suggester deployed on all wikis as default starting March 16th
 * New portal improvements deployed
 * Started weekly status updates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
 * Working on enabling encryption for search traffic
 * Preparing for A/B test of phrase match boost for search

Security

 * Deploying 2FA to wikis next week (disabled for almost all users initially)
 * Tarball release planned for next week

Research

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * Updates: none

RelEng

 * Blocking:
 * Security wants to do a release of MW, working on timing
 * Fundraising tech needs patch merged for jjb config, gerrit 277563
 * Blocked: None
 * Updates:
 * Code freeze is not happening next week, April 18th instead. See wmfall, wikitech-l announcement coming today too.

Technical Operations

 * Blocking: Research on ORES, started assigning LVS this week
 * Blocked: none
 * Updates:
 * Jobqueue woes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129517
 * Got minor services (citoid, cxserver, mathoid, graphoid, apertium, zotero) working in CODFW

Fundraising Tech

 * need one patch merged by RelEng: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/277563
 * tested backup credit card processor for an hour
 * fixing the bugs that shook out
 * burst of DonationInterface refactoring
 * draining some molasses out of the CentralNotice campaigns page
 * testing strategies to make contact merges reversable in CiviCRM

Services

 * Going to set up redirects for commons image description pages (blocker for mobile apps deployment): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118306
 * DC switch-over for RESTBase, node services happening tomorrow European morning (3 hours): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127974
 * Services already running in Dallas, Cassandra master-master replication
 * No user impact expected
 * REST API CDN caching: Most entry points now purged & cached in Varnish. Going to redirect titles with spaces to underscores next week.
 * EventBus multi-DC support discussion wrapping up: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127718
 * "Pageviews" turns out to be disliked by ad blockers; working on alternative URLs for pageview API with analytics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126947

Analytics

 * Working on goals for next quarter: will share soon with dependencies
 * Finishing up work on the request breakdown reports to replace wikistats reports: OS and Browser breakdowns