Scrum of scrums/2016-06-29

= 2016-06-29 =

iOS

 * 5.0.5 - found a regression on Monday, fixing and testing in beta for the rest of the week. Expecting to deploy next week
 * 5.1 (no changes)
 * In development - expected release early August
 * Potential blocker for release is GeoData API improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137178 We are working with Discovery to get this in for our release (blocker INTERACTIVE TEAM)

Android

 * Feed work continues -- will ship to beta channel optimistically by end of this week, otherwise sometime next week

Mobile Content Service

 * Will need the services team to activate the feed endpoints in the public REST API before shipping the feed (but work is still in progress)

Reading Web

 * Image lazy loading on mobile web fawiki and ukwiki
 * Image lazy loading plus reference lazy loading coming soon to mobile web tlwiki (approx 30-June-2016 or 4-5 July 2016)
 * Wikidata article descriptions added to top of page on mobile web cawiki, coming to mobile web plwiki 30-June-2016
 * Mobile main pages were errantly getting desktop formatting in some places for a while, now fixed

Reading Infrastructure

 * waiting for Language to say whether they will take T111486 (Update Translate to use AuthManager)

Parsing

 * Parsoid:
 * Over last couple weeks, working on a bunch of link rendering / serialization issues (mostly edge cases) in Parsoid
 * About to resume work on native implementation of extension -- Arlo has an initial patch in gerrit which needs a round of updates. Should unblock multimedia & VE work on gallery support once this is done.
 * At Wikimania hackathon, Scott worked on an update to support a more detailed Templatedata format field for serializing transclusions -- this is not finalized yet and the spec needs to stabilize before this can land.
 * Core parser:
 * Tim working on a side-by-side preview tool to let editors see how a page would look with Tidy and with HTML5depurate - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/296182/ ... feedback welcome, especially on the UI aspects or desirable features. Please take a look and leave comments on the patch.

Technical Operations

 * Blocking
 * None
 * Blocked
 * by noone
 * Updates
 * Slow week, wikimania
 * Some work with interactive/discovery on maps
 * some non user affecting changes in our firewalling setup
 * Working with LE to review/upload on apt.wikimedia.org apertium related packages

Security

 * One usability bugs for Ex::OATHAuth in progress (T138423) (help reproducing appreciated)
 * Two-factor usability survey prep continues
 * Reviews: 3d2png
 * Three additional reviews will have feedback added this week: T130233, T129175, T132934

RelEng

 * Blocking
 * None?
 * Blocked
 * Gallium phase out questions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133300
 * Pasted some IRC talk from chase
 * Other input welcome
 * CI Documentation publication: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137890
 * Mostly needs some network expertise
 * Scandium disk space: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138955
 * Updates
 * Train is back on track, wmf.8 to group1 today
 * 1.27 release is out (yay!)
 * Scap3 migrations continue (if you have questions, ask us! :))

Analytics

 * Rebooting stat boxes and analytics cluster to upgrade kernel (security patch)
 * Working on testing a much faster way to load Cassandra directly from Hadoop
 * Cleaning up mediawiki page and user history is still ongoing
 * Andrew, Madhu, and Nuria will be out until next week

Discovery

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * TextCat A/B test still running
 * New research on typing in wrong character set: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Typing_on_the_Wrong_Keyboard%E2%80%94Russian_and_English
 * Testing software upgrade for logstash.wikimedia.org at kibana4.wmflabs.org - backward incompatible upgrade
 * WDQS now deployed with scap3
 * Everybody's welcome to rate query relevance in Discernatron: https://discernatron.wmflabs.org/

Interactive Team

 * Wikidata Query service support in geo shapes service is being deployed
 * Heavy maps refactoring - might have broken cached pages and will need a regen
 * Need to start deploying shared GeoShapes & tabular data soonish
 * RELENG: please make configuration for services available to devs, not just ops
 * blocking
 * Potential blocker for release is GeoData API improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137178 We are working with Discovery to get this in for our release (blocker INTERACTIVE TEAM)

WIkidata

 * Blockers: See T107595.
 * Most of the team attended Wikimania.
 * Relevant discussions about our plans for a Wikidata-powered Wiktionary: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T986
 * WMF support for multi content revisions was promised: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595