Scrum of scrums/2016-11-30

= 2016-11-30 =

Android native app

 * Last week:
 * Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions
 * New fundraising announcement explore feed card in progress
 * Fixing login and editing issues
 * Next week
 * (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/)
 * More Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions (tutorial and polish)

Web

 * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-86-%F0%9F%94%AA%F0%9F%A6%83/
 * This week:
 * Stopped HoverCards A/B tests from Russian and Italian Wikipedias
 * New readers work
 * MobileFrontend regression fixes
 * Make PageImages return the image in the lead section
 * MobileFrontend tech debt
 * Trending service
 * Hovercards rewrite

iOS

 * Last Week:
 * Found and fixed notification bugs, crashes found in 5.3.0, ready for 5.3.1 release
 * Finished announcement card updates, ready for 5.3.1 release
 * Finished data layer updates, ready for beta in 5.3.2
 * Continued dynamic font size updates to the app
 * This week: 5.3.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2357/ & 5.3.2 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/
 * Ship 5.3.1 (any remaining bug fixes)
 * Beta 5.3.2

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

 * Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/
 * added Wikibase ID to mobile-sections output
 * introducing eslint as part of the node template update

Reading Infrastructure

 * working on random MediaWiki tech debt
 * not blocking
 * Still looking for reviews on the API error/warning i18n patches (see last week)

Community tech

 * Blocked: Nope
 * Blocking: Nope
 * Updates:
 * Continued improvements to Copypatrol (https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol)
 * Community wishlist survey is in voting phase: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey

Parsing

 * Blocked: Tim asked for an ops person to work with him to puppetize HTML5Depurate service; yet to hear back as of y'day
 * Tim working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151702 with Ops;
 * Arlo's work on Parsoid-native extension is now merged. Once we update the specs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/1.3.0 and chat with Services folks, we'll deploy this.
 * Kunal continuing to work on the Linter extension (scheduled to be deployed in Q3 2016-17).
 * Scott busy with Dev Summit Planning this previous (short) week, but trying to finish up patches in Parsoid to parse language variant markup.

Technical Operations

 * Will not be able to attend, apologies!
 * Blocked
 * None
 * Blocking
 * None
 * Updates
 * API outage investigation and actionables ongoing
 * Q3 Goals discussion started, please inform ops of dependencies on them
 * Goals on track, work ongoing

Analytics

 * Auditing old logs on stat1002 for deletion, including: mobile-sampled, api-usage, sampled, edits (from webrequest), glam_nara, zero. More at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84618
 * Mediawiki history reconstruction project milestone: standard metrics ran against the imported data give very similar results with much simpler queries, test dataset loaded into Druid: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#edit-history-test
 * Adding send-to-graphite functionality to Reportupdater
 * Wikistats 2.0 design starting tomorrow
 * New hire engineer will start December 12th
 * Ongoing:
 * upgrading stat boxes and other out-of-warranty boxes
 * optimizing last step of mediawiki history reconstruction
 * public event streams work
 * varnishkafka integration testing
 * reaching out to analysts and evengelizing reportupdater and pivot

Release Engineering

 * Blocked
 * None
 * Blocking
 * None?
 * Updates
 * Reminder that the deployments schedule gets weird between now and the end of the year
 * Phabricator replication should be a bit faster thanks to Mukunda
 * Scap 3.4 is out -- see the changelog for details
 * MediaWiki and extensions 1.28.0 tarball is now available

Security

 * Security Reviews
 * LoginNotify completing from last week
 * Recommendations API started this week


 * One item need code review
 * CentralAuth special pages: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/319055/

Fundraising Tech

 * Watching logs, tuning fraud settings and queue jobs
 * Tweaking internal dashboard
 * Updated thank you email
 * Parser output had some unexpected s, wondering if that changed lately
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?page=Fundraising/Translation/Thank_you_email_20161128&oldid=16108775&action=parse

Discovery

 * Load-testing crosswiki searching backend code proceeds, looks fine so far
 * New analysis of query features and performance published: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Query_Features_and_Search_Performance.pdf
 * New analysis of BM25 scoring in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500 - still working on how to best tokenize zh