Scrum of scrums/2016-04-27

Reading Infrastructure

 * Merge of AuthManager pending security review (n.b., old code will become no-op upon feature flag enabled later on)

Web

 * Pushed security fix for contributions page
 * Lazy loading references to beta. FYI for OPs: this may increase API requests to mobileview slightly let us know if you see anything problematic. Beta audience is small however so unlikely to be any impact.

Android
None
 * Blocking:
 * Blocked:
 * Question for Analytics: status of VCL pageview counting fix?
 * Updates:
 * Reading lists feature nearly finished; shooting for beta release by end of week.
 * Patch in review for compatibility with AuthManager login/account creation API changes. Will need updates when Captcha support lands.
 * Task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124229
 * Patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/278035/

iOS
None None
 * Blocking:
 * Blocked:
 * Updates:
 * 5.0.3 Code complete EOD April 26
 * 5.0.3 Regression testing start and final extrernal beta release April 27
 * 5.0.3 Expected release will be week of May 2
 * 5.1 still in planning stage - expected to get scope defined next week
 * Expect to begin work on migrating to new Auth API after next week

Mobile Content Service

 * Same as last week: planning for new feed related endpoints.

Collaboration

 * Blocking:
 * External store work. Now that data switchover is over, need to resync with Jaime.
 * Blocked:
 * Work on Flow dumps continuing; Ariel is working on this, and I don't think ops is waiting on us.  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119511 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89398.
 * Updates:
 * Continuing notification work on:
 * Special page released to explain how Notifications is configured: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration . There is also a related breaking change to a configuration variable. We took care of it for BounceHandler, which seemed to be the only affected WMF-deployed extension.  But let me know if anything weird happens with notifications.
 * Moderation
 * Bundling refactoring
 * New MVC structure
 * Cross-wiki notifications coming by default in two weeks.
 * Added Vagrant roles for GlobalBlocking and TorBlock. Changed merged Monday to have GlobalBlocking return a Block object so the information is more machine-readable.

Language
None None
 * Blocking:
 * Blocked:
 * Updates:
 * Team offsite last week
 * cxserver service can read config from cxserver repo, so updating new languages/MT pairs are easier now.

Parsing

 * Main update: Closer to being able to do visual diff testing with HTM5depurate (Tidy replacement).
 * OCG: Scott pushed a bunch of fixes y'day and might be pushing some more today. Time to reconnect with ops next week to reassess its status.

Multimedia

 * No blockers, not blocking
 * Work on annotations and 3D, some upload dialog improvements coming.

Fundraising Tech

 * looking at CentralNotice prod errors: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133765
 * maybe a ResourceLoader issue? dependency ext.CentralNotice.display not being loaded, though it should be if there are any choices
 * deployment tooling
 * full-scale fundraising underway in new LATAM countries, fr-tech monitoring errors
 * migrating ActiveMQ-specific code to backend-agnostic wrapper
 * front-end work for upcoming Israel fundraising
 * enabled audit logging on one table in production CiviCRM, preparing to enable on all

Services

 * RESTBase serving redirects unless ?redirect=false is passed
 * rest.wikimedia.org is no more
 * Cassandra cluster expansion in eqiad done, codfw tbd soon-ish
 * use Scap3 - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085299.html
 * language: how are we doing with Apertium packages for Jessie?

Release Engineering

 * Blocking:
 * Blocked:
 * Updates:
 * browsertest* jobs → selenium* jobs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128190

Security

 * Reviews: AuthManager, json-schema, cross-wiki notifications, hovercards in progress
 * Release soon
 * Ops: ping to move T128819 forward?

Technical Operations

 * Blocking:
 * None
 * Blocked:
 * None
 * Updates:
 * maps cluster updated to varnish 4
 * maps varnish clusters (4x4 boxes) deployed
 * all eqiad core DBs upgraded to MariaDB 10.x

Discovery

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * Preparing for ElasticSearch 2.0 migration
 * Deploying geospatial search for WDQS

Interactive

 * Blocked: JSON schema validator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129426
 * Thanks to ops, we now have 16 varnish servers.

Analytics

 * Unique devices:
 * Launched unique devices API, Analytics/Unique Devices, Easy way to get programmatics access to unique devices data
 * Soon to announce a javascript client for API, work done as of yesterday, working in visualizations


 * Pageview API:
 * A lot of operational unanticipated work with pageview API and replacement of nodes, changing cassandra compaction strategy


 * Apps:
 * VCL changes for review regarding preview and pageview https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/285051/, doing audit found several values present on x-analytics not documented here: X-Analytics
 * Piwik data collection still disabled for iOS


 * Misc:
 * Two team members at a conference this week, otto in SF
 * Need to announce wikistats hand off from erik zachte, waiting on creation of analytics.wikimedia.org domain

Wikidata

 * Blockers: none.
 * Updates: Improving Wikidata Query Service UI. Fixing all the loose ends in Wikibase to get the MediaInfo prototype for Commons in shape.