Scrum of scrums/2015-09-09

= 2015-09-09 =

Android

 * Production release (v2.0.110-r-2015-08-31) with link previews expected Thursday. Increased textextracts usage (about 100x more as compared to beta).
 * CI tests are up! Lots of help from hashar (Antoine Musso) and thcipriani (Tyler Cipriani).
 * Work continues on preparing page loading via the mobileapps content service

iOS

 * Ramping up to beta, but not estimating to release until at least October
 * If current UX stays, we'll be using TextExtracts on top of search generators. Will start discussions as app solidifies.
 * Beginining brainstorming/discussions around providing structured access to Main Page content

Reading Infrastructure

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91148 is still blocked on whoever owns oojs-ui
 * Not blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95864 (Ops?) or https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110274 (CI) yet, but it's on the horizon
 * (Sorry about 2 weeks ago. Google Hangouts sometimes loses audio for me, so I never heard the meeting start)

Parsing

 * Nothing really significant to report.
 * Tidy replacement continues to be WIP while we figure out if there is anything significant that might break.

Collaboration

 * Finishing up a schema change (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111084); ops is aware of this.
 * Flow opt in feature is in production, but not yet turned on.
 * Will be adding Flow dumps soon.
 * Continuing OO UI work

Language

 * Blocked: Ops/DB: T111317: Waiting for Suggestion tables to be finished.

Discovery

 * Wikidata Query Service - http://query.wikidata.org/ - announced!
 * Dashboard http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/wdqs/
 * Planning for maps announcement
 * Started A/B test on suggester
 * More research on language detection and cross-wiki search ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Language_Detection_Evaluation )
 * Updating search cluster documentation
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76497 - enabled per-IP rate limiting for CirrusSearch
 * Blocked: none
 * Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796 - proposal approved, will work on finalizing the fix
 * Team offsite 30 Sep - 2 Oct

Security

 * Reviews: avro/kafka done, QuickSurveys next, then RevScoring
 * Working with Analytics on T109724
 * Services: T100031 (Marko: just posted a reply)

Release Engineering

 * Blocking: (none)
 * Blocked by: Technical Operations
 * Need feedback on which ops/puppet modules should be excluded from Rubocop linting
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102020
 * Backporting ElasticSearch 1.7 to Precise (Done; Thanks!)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111781
 * Updates:
 * Deployment tooling implementation continues
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/
 * Implementing output/logging features and rollback this week
 * Progress on Isolated CI project
 * Base images successfully building using parts of ops/puppet
 * Will continue work to include all of mediawiki::packages and other contint::packages

Technical Operations

 * Blocking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102020 (rubocop linting), https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84956 (sentry)
 * Blocked by: none
 * Updates:
 * codfw live as Tier-2, slowly adding locations
 * mailman done today
 * schema changes policy change imminent

Research

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked by: none
 * Updates:
 * Some downtime for ORES yesterday during a deploy.  See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150908-ores

Services

 * No blocke(e|r)s
 * Code review of the Maps service in progress - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109021
 * RESTBase: support for private wikis in testing, should be in prod by the end of the week

Community Tech

 * Working on fixing broken database reports on en.wiki
 * Working on fixing Citation bot
 * Working on building parity between Hovercards and Navigation pop-ups
 * Preparing community satisfaction survey

Analytics

 * Pageview API general approach decided and agreed upon, work ongoing to merge the puppetization of the new 3-server RESTBase cluster
 * Event Logging on Kafka is nearly done, deployment is happening in phases right now
 * Ongoing work: estimated unique device counts, bot vs. spider identification in request logs, and dashiki improvements
 * (looking at security bug, Chris)

Fundraising Tech

 * Big CentralNotice deploy was a success
 * Does seem to have improved performance
 * More performance improvements in the works, including some contributions from outside of the FR team (yay!)
 * More work on Resource Loader-based banner and campaign functionality
 * Continuing work on Amazon Payments and Worldpay integration changes
 * No blockers