Scrum of scrums/2014-08-20

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

Notable action items

 * Elasticsearch hardware acquisition RT ticket needs some poking to get moving
 * Security waiting on QA for setting proxy in selenium tests
 * Token handling changes in core coming soon (see anomie's email)

Language Engineering

 * Team is working on second release of ContentTranslation.
 * #80: Niklas still on vacation :)
 * No dependencies.

Parsoid

 * Focus continues to be eliminating diffs between Parsoid and PHP parser rendering.
 * Tidy support has been added to parser tests -- merged into core during wikimania, Scott will work on adding that to Parsoid this week
 * Ramp up work again this week after wikimania, vacation, etc.
 * Team-member status: Subbu was away on vacation last week, Marc sick this week, Scott getting back to Parsoid hacking this week

Multimedia

 * UploadWizard refactoring is chugging along, but nothing affecting other teams yet
 * Could use some input from milimetric on one of our cards...

QA

 * Zeljko on vacation
 * Greg on vacation
 * Emily (hiring recruiter) on vacation
 * Quarterly review next week
 * Added browser tests for Cite UI in VE
 * Added Jenkins job for new Echo browser tests
 * Planning big projects for next quarter: improve Jenkins performance and more better test environments
 * Specifically, the load on the Jenkins hosts is high enough that Selenium client processes get stuck for 90+ seconds at a time. After 90 seconds with no instructions from Selenium, Sauce destroys the VM, causing a false test failure.

Ops

 * Dallas datacenter links up, Mark working on network config, hope to be able to start bringing servers up in a week or two.
 * # 119 production phabricator
 * Chase is working with Mukunda. Greg should know about how this is going?
 * Greg is on vacation. I (Chris) talked to Mukunda yesterday, he seems to be concentrating on planning the bugzilla migration over deploying Phabricator to prod. (Unless one is prereq for the other)
 * If you are curious about this mythical phabricator thing, this is how it's going:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Migration
 * http://fab.wmflabs.org/maniphest/?statuses=needsinfo%2Copen&allProjects=PHID-PROJ-y3nkcw543c4qwn73cbps#R
 * # 85 Public Debian Repo
 * From Filipo: Code review out, need to test.
 * # 127 Elasticsearch hardware
 * This ticket needs some love. https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8071
 * Will try to get ops folks to get it moving.
 * https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8071

Analytics

 * nothing to report
 * For card #131 (using new API), we think our work on the card is done and Yuri is handling the rest of the work. So I'll close the card.

Platform

 * HHVM progressing - see ori's email
 * Token handling change comming - see Brad's email

Security

 * reviews for Fundraising and Zero done.
 * Will be getting to Wikibase query engine soonish
 * Waiting on qa for setting proxy in selenium tests

Growth

 * Finishing up our first round of recommendations.
 * Completing our first browser tests.

Mobile Web

 * no external dependencies
 * team members struggling with Vagrant running really slow
 * mobile VE in production for a week now (on Wikipedias), nothing bad happened, not many users since its not default

Editing

 * No cards, yay!
 * Timo on vacation until tomorrow