Scrum of scrums/2015-06-17

= 2015-06-17 =

Roadmap Board
Greg holds a meeting on Thursdays to surface potentially conflicting deployments. It's helpful if release cards are tagged and put in the right column at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/roadmap/.

Discovery

 * Blocking: none
 * Blockers: none
 * Updates
 * Discussing labs vs. production for WDQS
 * Showcase presented on 6/15
 * ElasticSearch outage on 6/15

Language

 * Sick; Apologies.
 * Responses to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/198696/ might be delay as Santhosh is on sick leave too.

Services

 * parsoid update jobs have been turned off
 * deploying 3 new cassandra servers
 * new hire starting this week

Fundraising Tech

 * Looking to decouple GeoIP cookie parsing from CentralNotice: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102848
 * Still trying to figure out mystery plunge in banner impressions 6/1: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101265
 * Andrew Green welcomes input on either of the above
 * Astropay: payment notification listener tested, looking at audit files
 * Writing CRM imports for more formats
 * Hoping to get Redis set up on payments cluster for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99017

Release Engineering
* Deployment working group formulated some concrete project goals for next quarter * Continuing work on identifying/refactoring/removing flaky tests * Met with TPG yesterday on plan to address testing pain points * Thanks to ops for work on OpenStackManager, allowing us to move forward with nodepool and isolated CI   * Still hiring for Automation Engineer * https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62416
 * Blocking: (none)
 * Blocked by: (none)
 * Updates:

Parsing

 * Nothing significant to report.
 * Monday deploy was cancelled because VE was broken in beta cluster.
 * salt is apparently broken which affects Parsoid deploy today -- but may have workarounds with help from ops.

Analytics

 * Event Logging looked weird in graphite but the database looks fine, we're investigating
 * Pageview API privacy discussions underway
 * Progress on moving EL to kafka

Ops

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * python-etcd ready
 * Weird salt bug, blocking parsoid deploy. Will be fixed before deploy time
 * etherpad moved to etherpad1001 Jessie VM

Security

 * working on citoid bug (thanks marko!)
 * T99941 - Ops working on it, thanks!
 * I'm working on mobile centralauth patch

Android app

 * Getting close to running Android tests on emulator in Jenkins
 * Going to ask ops to get mobileapps node.js service to be deployed to SCA (using Parsoid HTML output), sending request next couple of days: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase_services_for_apps
 * Let user choose Chinese language dialect
 * Added tabbed browsing

Collaboration Team

 * Almost done OOjs UI TOC and 'Mark as resolved'
 * Continuing work on blockers to LQT->Flow conversion
 * Continuing work on blockers to deploying Flow to a whole namespace on Catalan Wikipedia