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: Future: Blocked(?)
 * Script to monitor fatals on beta labs merged and deployed
 * 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
 * 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