Scrum of scrums/2015-03-18

= 2015-03-18 =

Language

 * Team is working on Content Translation.
 * Niklas updated LocalisationUpdates with Bryan Davis.
 * Need help: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92232 (involves User Preference)
 * Poke! (Sean, Aaron) for: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90704

Wikidata

 * No fatal logs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89169
 * Varnish cache on beta not invalidating properly when things in bits are updated: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65034
 * Changing a name in LDAP: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85913

Parsoid

 * Good progress with VE Q3 blocker bugs -- almost done on the Parsoid end unless more bugs surface.
 * VE and Parsoid need to sync up with dealing with inter-page copy-paste.

Security

 * Release Thurs or Monday (releng)
 * Training for fr-tech
 * Hovercard/Popups review in progress (design)
 * Initial gather review on Fri
 * T78730 temporarily on hold
 * Hiring

Multimedia

 * SHA-1 patch needs AaronS and Gilles to coordinate for progress
 * Ops, heads up, we're requesting hardware for Sentry soon.

Analytics

 * Event Logging throughput issues resolved for now

RelEng

 * Staging environment slated for (near) completion by this quarter
 * Isolated CI project moving forward to be completed by end of Q4 (July)
 * Release MW 1.25 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88709
 * Some improvements to MW-Vagrant regarding role settings, etc. to better accommodate heavy services
 * Blockage: Antoine would like to talk with Ops regarding isolated CI architecture https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92324

Services

 * Finishing up VE integration and roll-out to all wikis (gradually)
 * Working on setting up RESTBase in the beta cluster - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91102
 * Integrating the cassandra into ops/puppet; blocked on ops - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92560
 * Future deployment workflow for services - to be discussed with ops soon

Editing

 * Coordinating RESTbase roll-out with Services
 * Working on hittiing RESTbase directly once it's been rolled out
 * Citoid extension finally live on phase0 wikis, special thanks to Alexandros in ops for all the work getting the citoid service up
 * Mobile VE broken in wmf21 :( working on fixing

Mobile web

 * WikiGrok and Gather work continues
 * Gather team wants to deploy it in 2 weeks, would need security and DBA review
 * Blockage: Waiting for DBA review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177448/
 * Blockage: fun with client-side templates in core deadlocked in review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/180647/

Maps

 * Kicking off in April, see email announcements

MediaWiki Core

 * Started SULF notifications!
 * Scap now checks for leading whitespace before <?php in config files
 * RfC on Multi-Datacenter changes up for discussion today: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Master_%26_slave_datacenter_strategy_for_MediaWiki
 * l10nupdate should be finally fixed starting today

Fundraising Tech

 * CI for Civi job ready for review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/195063/
 * Debugging stuff from deploying refactored DonationInterface
 * Policy documentation for PCI compliance

Operations

 * Avoid cache fragmenting URLs for Share a Fact shares - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90606

Apps

 * Bernd bringing existing services code from GitHub into Gerrit, noted that services on-call support will be important for breaking change hotfixes in the future
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88633 Image-positioning service: team wanted to just raise the visibility on this ticket
 * Reminder: release new versions of apps on March 30

Search

 * Planning to get JavaScript Event Logging code submitted for Schema:Search sampled logging (i.e., 1 in x users will have the event logging running) in the next 1.0-2.5 weeks in order to get it running on desktop production for the last couple weeks of April