Scrum of scrums/2015-04-01

= 2015-04-01=

Analytics
Done: EL: events that are too long are not being sent as varnish (not varnishncsa) cannot process them:  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91347 Issues with ganglia setup in labs and puppet are resolved, they were preventing us from running puppet in our instances. Webrequest tables in hadoop /hive now include processed user agents and parsed x-nalytics fields for easy querying Working on usage of scala/spark on the cluster VE data coming in for analysis, still gathering data Will do: More spark/scala setup on cluster VE analysis of incoming Eventlogging data Working on getting metrics for mobile sessions for apps waiting on CR of the last-access-cookie changes on varnish: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/196009/

Wikidata

 * What has your team done since we last met?
 * rolled out new header design (not finished yet)
 * further work towards getting usage tracking in shape for rollout


 * Is anything slowing your team down or getting in their way?
 * No fatal logs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89169

Apps

 * Android app update went live, iOS update coming soon

Mobile Web
Added documentation for client-side HTML templating in core (mustache) - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:HTML_templates#mw.template_.28client-side.29 Gather (user article lists) will be turned on on English Wikipedia today

Search

 * Code review and updates continues on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90518 Schema:Search: patches submitted for Core, CirrusSearch at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/199179/ and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/199178/

Language

 * Content Translation continue; Deployment in 5 more wikis this week.
 * Need to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54728 by Tim/Springle/Aaron
 * SWAT patch need attention for tomorrow: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,201131,n,z Aaron/Anomie

RelEng
Q4 roadmap: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93955
 * Ongoing work on staging environment
 * Isolated CI (thanks for reaching out to Antoine, ops!)
 * Deployment working group documenting current deployment process/tooling
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94619
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94618
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89945
 * Browser test dashboard

Parsoid

 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/200732/ needs review from Ops (I've already added bblack as reviewer)
 * Spending some time with code cleanup this week
 * No other blockers

Security

 * Release is out!
 * Training soon
 * Working on Graphoid review
 * Team building / hiring / etc
 * Ops -

MediaWiki Core

 * This team (and Multimedia) is no more! Now we have:
 * Availability (Aaron and Gilles)
 * MediaWiki API (Brad, Kunal, Mark, Gergo, Bryan [when not pretending to be a PM])
 * Performance (Ori) <-- hiring for FE performance
 * Search (Nik, Stas, James) <-- hiring here too
 * Security (Chris) <-- still more hiring
 * Tim has joined the Parsoid team which will at some point be called the Parsing team

MWAPI
Not going to lie, we're just getting started, not sure I can say anything helpful.
 * Mark delving into OAuth - harassing VE people about OOUI documentation as usual, but no other blockers
 * Kunal continues to focus on SUL Finalization
 * Brad continues to work on AuthManager RfC implementation (and all the normal Brad stuff)

Ops

 * T92324 Review Jenkins isolation architecture with Antoine
 * T72068 Jenkins: Re-enable lint checks for Apache config in operations-puppet
 * T88798 Jenkins is using php-luasandbox 1.9-1 for zend unit tests; precise should be upgraded to 2.0-7+wmf2.1 or equivalent
 * T88366 Some traffic is not identified as Zero in Varnish

Fundraising Tech

 * Getting help on fundraising vagrant role
 * interviewing candidates
 * no blockers

Collaboration

 * T91805: pluggable talk page poster for mediawiki.feedback

Services

 * Primarily focused on controlling the rate of storage growth in RESTBase
 * Limiting the number of revisions stored
 * Investigating compression
 * Graphoid deploy - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90487 (blocked by https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93881).