Scrum of scrums/2015-08-19

= 2015 08-19

iOS
Still working on 5.0, nothing to report.

Mobile Content Service

 * Initial deployment to production environment done. Thanks to Ops and Services team. :)
 * Initiated dialogue on Analytics list about pageview definition https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2015-August/004180.html

Android

 * Working on using new Mobile Content Service routes in Android app.
 * Getting ready for a new beta release.

Web
Working on quick surveys and various bugs for performance work and wrapping up removing alpha.

Infrastructure

 * Wondering why the meeting for this is hidden on personal calendars instead of being on the Engineering calendar.
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84956 is blocked on Ops code review
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91148 is blocked on Editing, or whoever is that owns oojs-ui

Language

 * Blocked: None.
 * Blocking: None.
 * Apertium-APY memory leak issue fixed (T107270) (We're watching graph!) with help of upstream and Ops (Alex!). Thanks!
 * CX: Suggestions in Dashboard in Progress.
 * CX: Bug fixes deployed (Last week's help call: T108559) and team is working on it.

Parsing

 * Current phase of HTML normalizations to generate "scrubbed" wikitext is now close to being done.
 * Combined with VE-side patches that Scott worked on, by the end of this week, we expected a reduction in &lt;nowiki&gt; added to VE edits.
 * Several link handling fixes (in the parser as well as the serializer).
 * Arlo is reporting a serious slowdown in core parser tests run and thinks https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109183 is related ( and has a fix as well now: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/232536/ )

Collaboration

 * LiquidThreads->Flow done on MediaWiki.org!
 * Made a lot of progress on converting editors (used for new topics, new posts, editing description, etc.) to OOjs UI (almost done).
 * Had some watchlist issues, fixed now
 * Working on a new feature to allow users to enable a BetaFeature to convert their talk page to Flow, and then (if they want) back to wikitext.
 * Still working on a database change to fix issues with links table.
 * Also finishing up the change to use core's standard content model/handler functionality where possible.

Services

 * no blockers
 * MobileApps service out in prod!
 * Working on multi-DC Cassandra set up

Community Tech
Investigating 16 different community requests Most of these are related to improving various gadgets and Tool Labs tools

Some of these overlap with other teams

Working with the reading team to figure out how to give Hovercards feature parity with navigation pop-ups.

Release Engineering

 * Blocking: (none)
 * Blocked by: (none)
 * Updates:
 * Deployment tooling work continues
 * Working group chose scap3 implementation
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Cabal/2015-08-17
 * Will formulate an MVP for services deployments by this week and begin weekly sprints next week
 * Deadline for services deployment MVP is end of this quarter

Research
** start testing the new article recommendation tool (mild test): http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend ** page trace feedback collection (due Friday) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Improving_link_coverage/Release_page_traces
 * Blocking: none
 * Blocker by: none
 * Updates:

Technical Operations
** Mobileapps deployed in production ** SCB ready to start migration of services from SCA
 * Blocked: None
 * Blocking: None
 * Updates:

Analytics
(Apps don't always know the page_id of the page they're requesting; the discussion also extends to using page_title.)
 * Pageviews - we want to standardize what we count as a pageview, asking here first for feasibility. Is there a way that we can standardize how we define a pageview.
 * Loss from Kafka - 15 hours spread over 4 days.
 * Need review from Ops for second puppetization
 * Geo down?

Security

 * Internal scanning for FrTech in progress
 * reviews for Maps done; Mobile Server next

Discovery
Not blocking anyone Not being blocked Couple of tickets but nothing in particular

Fundraising Tech

 * CentralNotice:
 * Perfomance testing refactored code on beta
 * Writing module to sample banner view history without assigning readers unique IDs https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/229560/
 * Converting Amazon payments forms from sunsetting Simple Payments to Pay with Amazon
 * Investigating new integration method for credit card processing in France
 * Writing import for donations made at events