Scrum of scrums/2016-12-21

= 2016-12-21 =

iOS native app

 * Last Week
 * Shipped 5.3.2 (Dynamic text size, data layer update, performance enhancements) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/
 * More performance enhancements & bug fixes
 * Started work on this day in history MCS endpoint
 * Started work on 5.4 (Nearby, Login updates) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2326/
 * This week
 * Monitor 5.3.2 release, fix any remaining issues, release 5.3.3 on Thursday
 * Continue work on 5.4

Android native app

 * Last week:
 * More bug fixes for new release
 * Released v2.4.184 to prod
 * Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
 * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/ ):
 * Holiday
 * Work towards release of Wikidata description editing

Web

 * Current Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2405/
 * Mostly finishing up work left from last week
 * Allow users who have the NavPopups gadget to use PagePreviews
 * Start working towards Wikipedia branding on the mobile site
 * Next week: chilling

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

 * Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1323/query/open/
 * Deployed (last week):
 * Emitted etags have double quotes now. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150886
 * To be deployed next year:
 * Add additional information to file and user pages clients can use for rendering
 * Ordered news link to have "most relevant" article in a news story appear first in list
 * Working on:
 * Adding isDisambiguation flag

Reading Infrastructure

 * working on tech debt mostly
 * not blocking
 * blocked:
 * WMDE on the last API i18n patch before we can move to hard deprecation: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/321464/

Community Tech

 * Blockers: None
 * Blokced: Nope
 * Special page for looking at page assessments data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PageAssessments is deployed to all wikis
 * Wikimania scholarships app was updated for the next iteration and will be deployed in January when the deploy freeze ends
 * A draft proposal about setting up a Tool Labs Standards committee: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_Labs_standards_committee
 * Continue to roll out improvements to Programs Dashboard

Discovery

 * No blockers
 * Continuing work on crosswiki searching, refactoring Special:Search and allowing extensions to define query keywords
 * Added ICU folding to hewiki
 * Added support for returning interwiki results driven by language detection via API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142795
 * Updated portal stats on Dec 12th (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546)
 * Wikidata Query Service now supports triple pattern fragments: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual#Linked_Data_Fragments_endpoint

Interactive

 * Published Terms of Use for maps: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Maps_Terms_of_Use
 * Structured data is live, and seems to be working with minor bugs
 * Fun demos:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Weather_barchart
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Graph:US_Map_state_highlight

Collaboration

 * Blockers: None
 * Blocked: None
 * Updates:
 * Continued work on getting new RC page finished and merged.
 * Various bug fixes, e.g. to Echo
 * Coordinating about Deferred Changes
 * Finishing up processing the Flow survey results

Services

 * Blockers: none
 * Updates:
 * Trending service deployed and completely functional. Check it out!
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Feed/trendingEdits
 * All scb services config deploys are on scap3 now
 * Separated API cluster from appservers cluster
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152074
 * Moved RESTBase/Parsoid background updates to codfw
 * Team availability update:
 * Marko is around until NY and on vacation the week after
 * Petr is on vacation for 2 weeks
 * Eric and Gabriel and on vacation next week

Technical Operations

 * Blocked
 * By none
 * Blocking
 * None
 * Updates
 * Start of Q4 will probably have a DC switchover in it. Goal for Ops (and other teams) in next quarter is automating and streamlining it more
 * preliminary support for encryption when talking to backend appservers is here
 * Ubuntu Precise Pangolin will be fully phased out by end of next quarter in both labs and production. Services/apps will have to migrate or cease to be.

Fundraising Tech

 * CiviCRM: data hygiene fixes
 * finding and batch refunding unintended duplicate donations, brainstorming ways to prevent more
 * investigated Ireland missing impressions, suspect rural network speeds are the culprit
 * internal dashboard fixes
 * fixed mobile style for backup payment processor

Analytics

 * Culmination of 8 months of work, standard metrics computed on reconstructed mediawiki history: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/standard-metrics/
 * Newly updated mediawiki history beta pivot data cube: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#mediawiki-history-beta
 * stat1001 was replaced with thorium, and stat1001 is being decommissioned
 * Thanks very much for the reviews to the mediawiki-Dashiki extension, I'll be looking to deploy that and JsonConfig to meta early next quarter (any advice appreciated, but the docs seem comprehensive)
 * Starting to clean up datasets.wikimedia.org structure (adding readmes and keeping everything the same via symlinks)

Research

 * Showcase featuring Tor users and Wikipedia Quality Dynamics today at 11:30AM PST, 19:30 UTC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrlu5qTgyA