Scrum of scrums/2013-12-10

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

Notable action items

 * W0 having discussion with ops on Thursday RE all open dependencies
 * W0 to coordinate with Analytics RE dashboards (#53)
 * Mobile web to determine QA needs during next week's quarterly planning (#51)
 * Various VE/Language dependencies around jsonification stuff (#58)
 * VE blocked on design!
 * Wikidata blocked by Ops on finding a go-to person (#59)
 * Language blocked by Analytics on reviewing a patchset RE measuring google translations (#4)
 * Mobile web blocked by Ops on moving forward with WAP deprecation (#54)

Wikipedia Zero
Adam Basso
 * #2 ESI Headers - Adam & Yuri talking with Ops on Thursday
 * #3 Support SSL - Adam & Yuri talking with Ops on Thursday
 * #17 W0 Varnish Configs - this is complete; nonetheless, Adam & Yuri talking with Ops on Thursday and hope to determine if we can remove extensive if-elseifs in VCL
 * #20 Handle trusted x-forward-for header: Adam & Yuri talking with Ops on Thursday
 * #38 X-Fowarded-By review - Adam & Yuri talking with Ops on Thursday
 * #53 W0 dashboards - Dan Foy talking with Toby soon
 * #55 Click-to-view & cache variance - Dan Foy talking with BizOps team about whether this is a must-have feature; also, Adam & Yuri to talk with Ops on Thursday

Core Features (Flow)
S Page
 * Not attending, deploying later today! (card #24)
 * Excellent security review feedback, thanks.

QA
Chris McMahon
 * Since last time: sorted a number of issues, I removed a number of cards from the wall.
 * Upcoming: multiple meetings with Mobile team for activities and priorities
 * Impediments: nothing new or unusual.
 * Want to support mobile right now since Michelle is gone.
 * Jeff meeting with Tomasz later this week.
 * Mobile web to put together desires for QA during next week's quarterly planning

Security
Chris Steipp
 * Glam wiki going out sometime soon, possible swift impact, Antoine notified about it.

Platform
Bryan Davis, Greg Grossmeier
 * Scholarships puppet config has been created and applied to zirconium
 * Scholarships dns change and app deploy waiting pending security review
 * Logstash puppet config in progress:
 * Elasticsearch running on logstash100[1-3] and monitored in ganglia
 * Logstash package in apt
 * Working on a logstash class to configure
 * Scholarships should complete security review this week
 * Hope to deploy next Thursday
 * Logstash will continue move forward

Ops
Andrew Otto
 * Jeff Gage starting this Wednesday!
 * Ops folks visiting many datacenters this week
 * Getting volunteers to clean up and prepare labs instances for migration to eqiad, limited success.
 * New varnish builds being deployed this week for some bugfixes
 * Upgrading MySQL to 5.5.34 on most boxes (was 5.5.30)
 * varnishkafka deployed to 3 mobile hosts, woo! http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?r=day&cs=&ce=&tab=v&vn=varnishkafka&hide-hf=false
 * will deploy to remaining mobile hosts this week, or early next.
 * Magnus now started work on kafkatee, a kafka -> udp2log format consumer. Should be drop in replacement for udp2log.
 * Nodejs upgraded to 0.10 for Parsoid (et al) then rolled back to 0.8 due to memory leak
 * Multiple performance/error issues being debugged at the same time

Analytics

 * Deployed MediaWiki OAuth to Wikimetrics (we only use it for pseudo-authentication for now).
 * Deployed the webstatscollector update and vetted the results. The new data shows a decrease in pageviews, but it seems to be an organic one.
 * Special page in CentralAuth was being counted, now it's not


 * Still waiting on W0 for how to move forward with dashboards (#53)

VisualEditor

 * i18n migration
 * Migrating i18n storage from PHP to JSON
 * Migrating VE standalone to use jquery.i18n with JSON (so it's actually standalone)
 * Filed bugs in jquery.i18n with language team (#58)
 * VE team to implement LocalisationUpdate support for JSON
 * nodejs upgrade (Parsoid)
 * Parsoid team ran into problems with nodejs upgrade to 0.10, Gabriel (Parsoid) and Faidon (ops) sorting it out
 * Rob still helping mobile team with VE alpha
 * Timo doing CI stuff
 * Blocked on design for a lot of things...

Wikidata
Lydia Pintscher
 * Goto person in ops? Looking for performance hints (#59)
 * Going to email Erik, Ken and Faidon.

Growth
Matthew Flaschen
 * Draft namespace for English Wikipedia
 * Getting started API for ??? task types
 * Signup

Language
Niklas Laxstrom
 * Starting work on i18n file formats with VE
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Localisation_format
 * #30 Replag environment on labs has been set up, might have questions later
 * http://replag.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * #4 Translation measurement, patch in gerrit, would like review ;)
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99633/

Mobile Web
Jon Robson
 * Still awaiting feedback from ops on WAP deprecation questions (#54)
 * Ongoing 500 errors on betalabs (#49)
 * Work on Limn graph issues scheduled for this iteration (#44)
 * Want some post deployment help from QA group to make sure things are ok.
 * Will be doing quarterly planning soon, will hammer out specifically what is wanted from QA