Scrum of scrums/2014-01-21

Task Wall
Mingle

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

Notable action items

 * Language needs help from the VE team for upcoming sprint
 * Mobile apps needs review on a core patch (see below)
 * Analytics needs ops review on pageview drop drom Dec (See below)

Language
Amir Aharoni
 * Working on content translation
 * Next sprint -- need help from VE team
 * ULS extension inadvertently disabled in production/repaired
 * Will impact ops/deployment
 * 58 is not currently blocking

Mobile Apps

 * Patch to core merged
 * Follow up needs to be reviewed - improves captcha error reporting from API
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108088/ (core)
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108089/ (ConfirmEdit)
 * Google Glass Mingle integration ongoing

Wikipedia Zero

 * 1) 53 "WO dashboards" - on hold, Christian tasked on other high priority item
 * 2) 64 "New Overlay" - mobile web handling gracefully, card can be closed
 * 3) 65 "Android Integration" - submitted part 1 of Y for Android, going through review, will be submitting more
 * 4) 66 "iOS Integration" - will work once done with #65
 * 5) 2 "ESI headers" - ESI fix not coming for approximately 6 months, using VCL hacks for the time being, but exploring tags as ESI-like workaround
 * 6) 3 "Support SSL" - Mark revising VCL patch to hack in SSL support for W0, plan will be to continue using this approach for the foreseeable future
 * 7) 57 "Firefox OS exploraton" - Bugzilla and email dialogue with Timo and Roan ongoing.

Ops

 * Tampa outage fun
 * New datacenter selection moving along
 * ulsfo procurement going forward, ramp up tentatively starting next week (pending vendor issues)
 * check_ganglia packaged and being used
 * useful CLI for querying metrics from ganglia
 * hadoop and kafka icinga alerts finally under control


 * Hadoop and Hive now available for testing on mediawiki-vagrant!
 * Work needed to assist PDF sprint (see ops@ & RT)
 * Varnish & Zero discussions
 * Discussions about JVM app deployment system. Nik and Otto plan to start working on a test setup in labs soon.

Analytics

 * Page view December drop analyzed and needs ops review (#69)
 * MediaWiki oauth deployed to Limn/WikiMetrics
 * Limn impacted by Tampa cable cut
 * Should be fixed now
 * Charles Salvia just joined WMF on Analytics team
 * csalvia in IRC, charles@wikimedia.org

Platform
Greg
 * LDAP replication to EQIAD is fixed/should be fixed soon
 * Bugzilla is being upgraded in early February (moving to EQIAD from Tampa)
 * Bryan Davis will announce the Logstash awesomeness soon

Security
Chris
 * Analytics waiting for Kafka
 * Hadoop review may be more important

Growth
Progress on getting started/patches merged Sam Smith (London) started

QA
Past: Script to monitor fatals on beta labs merged and deployed Future: Still working on uploads API monitor script Support calls for bogus failures in browser test Jenkins still in process Browser tests for VE in MobileFrontend Blocked(?) VisualEditor still not updated correctly on beta labs since repo name changed (NB
 * NB this is now resolved

Flow
Launch to 2 enwiki projects January 28