Scrum of scrums/2015-06-03

=2015-06-03=

Wikidata

 * What has your team done since we last met?
 * rolled out usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis. going well.
 * What will your team do before we meet again?
 * code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions that were created by a team of students that worked with us. needs to go live soon.
 * Is anything slowing your team down or getting in their way?
 * we need review and deploy of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98743 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98742
 * Are you about to put something in another team’s way?
 * nope

Collaboration

 * Continued LQT -> Flow conversion on MediaWiki.org. Problem with notifications has been resolved and deployed, and four additional pages have been converted to Flow
 * Continued work on converting parts of Flow to OO UI
 * Added OAuth support to Flow

Language

 * Apologies; Sick kid.
 * Updates?
 * Automatic Wikidata link!
 * cxserver will use logstash. In near future, moving to service runner (T101272)
 * Deployed in more wikis!
 * Need?
 * Marko is checking why https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/213840 doesn't log to logstash-beta (and also why restbase doing same..)
 * Blocked?
 * None.

Parsing

 * Deployed subst: support in the Parsoid API on Monday -- VE can now use it to provide PST support for editors.
 * Nothing more to report -- no blockers.

Fundraising Tech

 * Testing Astropay integration in production
 * Queue refactor continues, switching from Memcache to Redis for pseudo-FIFO
 * CentralNotice mixins work continues
 * Internal dashboard new features work picking up again

Search & Discovery

 * Blocking https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/
 * None
 * Concerns about EventLogging capacity, but we need to figure out our criteria first
 * Blocked by:
 * Ops: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101233
 * Ongoing work (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Team/Meeting_minutes/2015-06-01#Checkins)
 * EventLogging for Wikipedia Portal
 * Defining metrics for search quality
 * Maps: hardware, queries, conference
 * Need access to an up to date db server, ops knows about this (blocker task above)
 * Hiring and budget
 * Wikidata query service enhancements
 * CirrusSearch enhancements

Analytics

 * Working on an Intermediate hourly pageview aggregate, we will base the pageview API on this
 * Trying to get a really good idea of EL capacity, blocked a bit on getting a machine similar to eventlog1001.eqiad.wmnet to test on

Release Engineering

 * Blocked: none
 * Blockers: none
 * Updates
 * Deployment working group
 * Working with Reading on fixing browser tests
 * Many changes in team process (thanks for the offsite TPG!)
 * Regular pairings within team to diffuse siloed knowledge
 * Sharing the load of triage on a team that has no budget for PMs (or anyone for that matter) :/
 * Will hopefully yield a team where any one member is more responsive to other team needs (CI, QA, deployment, etc.)

Services
Graphoid is waiting on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101093
 * Nothing to report this week
 * Hackathon + Team off-site
 * Parsoid v1 API update jobs turning off: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93291
 * Mathoid: we'd need some kind of browser-rendering tests
 * Blocked on services:

Technical Operations

 * Not much to report since last week
 * Blocking: Maps - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101233
 * Blocked by: Noone

Reading
Release engineering:
 * We need some way to mark tests that are failing but who's fix is going to take a long time to reduce noise -  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101062
 * Beta labs caching differences from production https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99096

Security

 * Reviews: Wikidata Quality extensions are in progress
 * Ops: I need help with T94570