Scrum of scrums/2016-04-13

= 2016-04-13 =

Web
Blocked on: Ops https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127883 Blocked on parsing: Need support from parsing team issue impacting Wikivoyage production for past month: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121135
 * Need support from ops to roll out lazy loaded images to 1% of users:

Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1873/ Next sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1921/

Reading Infrastructure

 * AuthManager core bits are basically done!
 * Still hoping to get this into 1.27, so we don't have to support AuthPlugin stuff in the LTS.
 * Test it at http://authmanager.wmflabs.org/
 * SECURITY: We're ready for finishing up the security reviews on the AuthManager core bits.
 * Main: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/195297/
 * API: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/265201/
 * UI: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/240052/
 * load.php session access errors should be coming soon, we're just waiting for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131176 to ride the train.

Android
Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1937/
 * Blocking:
 * none
 * Blocked:
 * none
 * Updates:
 * Reading list (client-only) work still in progress. The finish line is in sight.
 * All* Android prod app installs use the mobile content service / RESTBase as of Monday.

iOS
Current Release Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1902/
 * Blocking:
 * none
 * Blocked:
 * none
 * Updates:
 * 5.0.3 in progress, likely deploying in 2-3 weeks
 * An external beta should be sent out either end of this week or early next week
 * Deploying a universal links fix Tueday at Puppet SWAT (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/281900/)

Mobile Content Service
Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/
 * Blocking:
 * none
 * Blocked:
 * none
 * Updates:
 * Deployed fix for redirects with HTML entities in redirected title

Language

 * Blocking:
 * none
 * Blocked:
 * none
 * Updates:
 * Team offsite next week;

Collaboration

 * Blocking:
 * External store work. Some progress here, will continue when Jaime is back.
 * Blocked:
 * Work on Flow dumps has resumed on both ops side and ours
 * Updates:
 * Working on support for Flow notifications being properly hidden on moderation
 * Work on Echo bundling refactoring
 * Work on Echo refactoring for code structure. New MVC structure

Parsing

 * Visual diff testing with 2 mediawiki installs now ready -- doing a baseline run for sanity checking and fixing bugs and issues with different pieces

Services

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * Updates
 * found and corrected issues in MCS' redirect loop
 * moved redirect-handling logic into RESTBase
 * need to coordinate with MCS for deployment
 * almost ready to start defaulting to MathML (Mathoid/RB) on all wikis - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78046
 * DC switch-over next week!
 * services to switch on Monday, 10:00 UTC
 * reminder: no deploys next week

Fundraising Tech

 * No blocking/blockers
 * More tests of new Latin America payment types
 * Central Notice
 * Deployed fix for admin UI timeouts and a couple minor bugs
 * Planning how to reduce or eliminate cookie usage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131319
 * Steady progress on CiviCRM logging / reversion work

Release Engineering

 * Blocking:
 * Security release
 * Chad has started looking at that, but is a little swamped
 * Blocked:
 * Backup phab node https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131775
 * Updates
 * Scap migration continues
 * No deploys week of 18th

Technical Operations

 * Blocking:
 * Security on the bacula issue
 * Blocked:
 * None
 * Updates
 * codfw switchover next week
 * Got a private docker repo ready for use in tool labs
 * Try to start using horizon (horizon.wikimedia.org) for labs VM management instead of wikitech (testers welcomed)

Analytics

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * Unique Devices dataset / API released
 * browser reports released (not yet public, bikeshedding on domain, currently at https://browser-reports.wmflabs.org )
 * Dan on vacation April 18 -> May 4

Security

 * Working on AuthManager review. Don't plan on any substantial changes.

Discovery

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked:
 * Security review: PHP Json Schema validator - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426
 * Scheduled for next week: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Schedule
 * Updates:
 * Weekly status updates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
 * Hackathon: Elastic-backed deleted pages search, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109561 - feedback welcome
 * Caching for WDQS to be enabled today
 * Communication to Elasticsearch servers now fully HTTPS.
 * Geospatial search preview for WDQS: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008461.html
 * On-wiki tabular (tsv/csv/...) data storage needs some feedback
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120452 & https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/281331/