Scrum of scrums/2016-03-23

= 2016-03-23 =

Community Tech

 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Blocked:
 * Waiting for jcrespo to do schema change for category sorting: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130692
 * Updates:
 * Pageviews Analytics tool is feature complete (http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/), talking to communities about adding links to it
 * Deadlink logging API is finished, adding integration to Cyberbot

Reading Infrastructure

 * AuthManager is still coming! (see three weeks ago for details)
 * Behind schedule though, but we think we're about there on the core patches.
 * It looks like we're getting close on the load.php thing, too.

Mobile Content Service

 * Updates:
 * Fixed issue with lead paragraph transformation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65874
 * Starting rollout of Mobile Content Service to Android production app this Thursday https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126934

Android

 * 2.1.143 beta published. Expected to be promoted to production soon.

iOS

 * Updates:
 * 5.0.1 was released today - all bug fix updates
 * Hockey app is currently much happier - less crashes


 * Upcoming:
 * Enabling handoff from Mac browser to iOS app and credentials sharing by updating a file on the server
 * No time frame for next release (but expect it within 3 weeks) - currently deciding whether to do another bug fix or do 5.1 with features


 * Blocking:
 * Nothing

Done

 * Lazy loaded images rolling to beta mobile web
 * Structured Language Overlay - trying to push it to 100% stable
 * Language Switcher button - beta for now
 * Lazy loading references

Upcoming

 * Bug fixes and tweaks to the Language Overlay
 * Ship the language switcher
 * Semi-structured sprint

Collaboration

 * Blocking:
 * External store work
 * Blocked:
 * Updates:
 * Working on support for Flow notifications being properly hidden on moderation
 * Work on the Echo special page
 * Changed MobileFrontend to reuse Echo code
 * Working on Flow bug fixes

Language

 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Blocked:
 * New MT deployments blocked due to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/277463/ (WIP)
 * Updates:
 * Work on ContentTranslation continue.

Multimedia

 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Blocked:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * UploadWizard fixes and performance stuff on the way, currently in the works
 * ImageTweaks is slow going, currently there's a patch in core that it depends on, probably won't be moving as quickly as we thought

Parsing

 * Blocking:
 * None?
 * Blocked:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Somewhat of a lull in activity last couple weeks (with vacation, time off, 20% work)
 * But, heads up for VE, CX, Flow, Reading teams about https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78676 -- been filing dependent tasks for various teams. Parsoid side of the work should mostly be ready for merge in 2-3 weeks. But, other dependent tasks need to be resolved, performance and client blockers will be considered before enabling this in production.

Fundraising Tech

 * No blocking/blockers
 * DonationInterface mw1.27 tests are failing on some i18n core change, but they're no longer voting
 * Raft of CiviCRM enhancements to make logging more robust and enable reverting contact merges
 * Testing new Latin American payment methods in previously unpestered countries
 * Pondering how to make payments use a more recent version of mediawiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130658
 * More DonationInterface refactoring

Release Engineering

 * Blocking:
 * Blocked:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * Reminder: Code freeze & Dallas switchover week of April 18
 * Trebuchet -> Scap migration! Get in touch if you need it
 * There is a super secret irc channel on freenode, cryptically named #scap3
 * scap 3.1 should be deployed soon, now with moar git-fat support. This will unblock some services switching from Trebuchet to scap.
 * scap 3.1 should be deployed soon, now with moar git-fat support. This will unblock some services switching from Trebuchet to scap.

Research and Data

 * Blocking:
 * none
 * Blocked:
 * ORES blocked on MW core code review
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ores_extension_blockers
 * What is the normal workflow for getting code reviewed?
 * typical turn-around time?
 * documentation for engaging +2 people?
 * Updates:
 * ORES downtime over the weekend
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160319-Ores
 * tl;dr pip doesn't remove old versions when installing new wheels

Security

 * Blocking:
 * Blocked:
 * Updates:
 * 2FA updates for wikitech today. 2FA available on SUL wikis to Staff next week.
 * Updates:
 * 2FA updates for wikitech today. 2FA available on SUL wikis to Staff next week.

Services

 * Blocking:
 * none
 * Blocked:
 * Ops: change-prop deploy - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128463
 * Updates:
 * RESTBase to start redirecting non-normalised titles and commons URLs
 * DC switch-over for RESTBase && node services successful - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127974
 * Mathoid and RESTBase now support PNG generation
 * Scap3: should have a guide soon for node.js services

Technical Operations

 * Blocking:
 * Services on changepropagation deploy https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128463
 * Blocked:
 * none
 * Updates:
 * All the rdb100* hosts (Redis Job Queue) have been re-imaged with Debian.
 * ORES database hosts ready, looking for some help with scap3 and ORES

Discovery

 * Blocking:
 * none
 * Blocked:
 * Ops: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127014
 * Security review: SVG sanitizer for graphs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125382
 * Updates:
 * ZRR down following completion suggester deployment: http://discovery.wmflabs.org/metrics/#failure_suggestions
 * Working on scoring improvement for search and suggester
 * Working on connection pooling for ES
 * Join #wikimedia-interactive for interactions about interactive content!