Scrum of scrums/2019-11-20

= 2019-11-20 =

Callouts

 * SRE:
 * DBAS [general update] Upcoming s1 (enwiki) database master switch 14 Nov: T234800 [will imply a small read only window]
 * Requesting follow-up from Scoring team T233448
 * Requesting follow-up from Releng team 479139
 * Release Engineering: no train because of team offsite

iOS native app

 * Blocked by:
 * Core Platform
 * release wikidiff2 to get section titles from compare endpoint
 * counts endpoint limit increases
 * minor count endpoint failing (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Barack_Obama/history/counts/minor)
 * Updates:
 * 6.5 wrapping up bugs/development - project/view/4245
 * aiming to be in public beta Friday (11/22)

Android native app

 * Updates:
 * Our major release is all set to go out the door.: project/view/4123
 * Fundraising banner is ready and in review.
 * We have re-started work on integration with mobile-html endpoint.

Product Infrastructure

 * Updates:
 * Patches for client-side error logging and EventLogging client improvements
 * Security review followups for MachineVision
 * Reviewing MCS overhaul patches
 * Wikifeeds
 * Removed frwiki from supported TFA wikis due to T237790
 * Patch in review for upgrading to Node 10 -- just need confirmation from CPT that this won’t cause any problems

Structured Data

 * Blocked by:
 * WMDE/Wikidata: review of 548734 (T222497)
 * Blocking:
 * Search Platform: Data dumps for SDC: T221917

Parsing

 * Blocked by:
 * deployment recipe issues need resolving before we do additional live traffic deploys (T238685 and T238748)
 * (soft blocker) still working to get all parsoid clients tested against parsoid/php (Content translation and flow)
 * Updates:
 * parsoid/php is on testwiki -- see wikitech-l mail from y'day

Inuka

 * Updates:
 * PageViews instrumentation: T238029

Fundraising Tech

 * Updates:
 * CiviCRM
 * More tweaks to how we import data from our bulk mailing provider
 * Changes to our custom drupal code to accommodate using a read-only database connection for some requests.
 * Still working on button to send end-of-year summary receipt on demand T221271
 * CentralNotice
 * Trying to understand a few more oddities in the new EventLogging data pipeline. For example, how are we getting client-side FundraiserLandingPage events without corresponding server-log pageviews? T236835 ...see the section "Explaining orphaned events in new logs"
 * Finishing up initally-contractor-written feature to extend geotargeting to regions smaller than countries. T226438

Core Platform

 * Blocking:
 * Potentially Wikidata/WMDE: Mentioned 2 times in SoS already with no result: In the Data Bridge work (editing Wikidata items from Wikipedia) we have encountered problems with Special:EntityData serving stale (old) data. The problem is quite old: T128486. We are looking for a team/person with whom we could get some clarity on the current state of the cache solutions on WMF cluster, and figure out how to get  T128486 unstuck.
 * iOS
 * release wikidiff2 to get section titles from compare endpoint
 * counts endpoint limit increases
 * minor count endpoint failing (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/page/Barack_Obama/history/counts/minor)
 * Updates:
 * REST API extension interface documentation API:REST_API/Extensions

Release Engineering

 * Blocking:
 * SRE: Requesting follow-up from Releng team 479139
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: no train because of Wikimedia Technical Conference
 * This week: no train because of team offsite
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 T233856

Scoring Platform

 * Blocking:
 * SRE: Requesting follow-up from Scoring team T233448
 * Updates:
 * Team back from offsite in Austin
 * We got a laptop to Uganda via DHL in a reasonable amount of time.

Search Platform

 * Blocked by:
 * Structured Data: Data dumps for SDC: T221917
 * Blocking:
 * WMDE/Wikidata: Not critically blocked by, but pinging the team to have a look at T234431.
 * Updates:
 * New elasticsearch servers configured and in production (elastic10[53-67].eqiad.wmnet) - T230746
 * Refactor Puppet WDQS module to make it usable for WDQS and CQS T232297
 * Metrics from the WDQS updater are no longer collected T238408

Site Reliability Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Scoring Platform team:
 * Requesting follow-up from Scoring team T233448
 * Releng:
 * Requesting follow-up from Releng team 479139
 * Updates:
 * [general update] Upcoming s1 (enwiki) database master switch 14 Nov: T234800 [will imply a small read only window]

Wikidata

 * Blocked by:
 * Search Platform: Not critically blocked by, but pinging the team to have a look at T234431.
 * Not sure who, Core Platform? Mentioned 2 times in SoS already with no result: In the Data Bridge work (editing Wikidata items from Wikipedia) we have encountered problems with Special:EntityData serving stale (old) data. The problem is quite old: T128486. We are looking for a team/person with whom we could get some clarity on the current state of the cache solutions on WMF cluster, and figure out how to get  T128486 unstuck.
 * Blocking:
 * Structured Data: review of 548734 (T222497)