Scrum of scrums/2014-06-18

Task Wall
Mingle

Docs
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

Notable action items

 * EventLogging data that had been lost can be recovered, but it is a difficult process. Contact analytics if you need this to happen.
 * Platform requests followup and a bug filed from Wikipedia Zero for |card 108

Language

 * #80 (TTMServer+ElasticSearch) still stuck on Niklas and prioritization
 * We are working with Ops and Antoine to deploy content translation service, cxserver, to beta labs
 * http://cxserver-beta.wmflabs.org (not yet fully working)

QA

 * Porting browser test builds to WMF Jenkins
 * Not blocked on anything

Ops
New DC
 * Engineering goals first draft here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Site_Operations_and_Site_Architecture
 * Racks & first switches/routers/servers installed, waiting for connectivity
 * Tax exempt status acquired, procurement is unblocked


 * Mail being moved this week
 * LVS esams expansion is done, no issues
 * Content Translation
 * Initial discussion with the Language team with Mark/Faidon
 * Alex got assigned on a more permanent basis


 * apt repo for third-parties (Filippo)
 * Phabricator - Chase making good progress
 * Floor move in ULSFO proceeding, no eta yet
 * Experiments in using VMs for misc production servers proceeding
 * 14 new Hadoop DataNodes in procurement queue for approval
 * Kafka
 * Kafka tuning experiments wrapping up.  1 Kafka broker can now handle all varnish log traffic!
 * May upgrade to 0.8.1.1

Analytics

 * EventLogging data lost can be recovered, looking for whether or not people need that to happen
 * Continuing work on Wikimetrics
 * Mobile Web jobs had stopped running due to permissions problems, that's fixed now

Mobile Web

 * #116 finished
 * #115 done

Security

 * Lots of security bugs, a few on the cluster
 * Mantle / Flow templates review in progress

VisualEditor
#116 is done #100 is in progress, Trevor is working on a big rewrite that should be ready for review later today #97 is in progress, Timo is discovering IE is even more horrible than we thought #84 is being worked on by Parsoid #99 is done
 * Cards:

Platform

 * nothing new, wall is up to date, as best I can tell
 * EXCEPT, card 108 (dependency from Zero on us, need something more/bug report specifically)

Growth
Items of interest:


 * Fix Wikimedia overrides of core messages (WikimediaMessages)
 * Add icon support to .mw-ui-button (Core)

These could use cross-team review but are not blocked yet.