Scrum of scrums/2016-07-27

= 2016-07-27 =

iOS native app

 * 5.0.5
 * passed regression, but we foud a bug in beta. Patching and pushing a new build today.
 * expected release to Apple store later this week
 * Development of 5.1 is in progress
 * Planning of 5.2 is in progress

Android native app

 * Stable release containing the feed planned for Thursday
 * Work on navigation overhaul is underway

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

 * Added public feed endpoints to MCS documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/RESTBase_services_for_apps#....2Fpage.2Frandom.2F.7Bformat.7D

Reading Infrastructure

 * Waiting on translatewiki to be ready for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/280945/

Community Tech

 * Deploying numeric category sorting to testwiki today, others to follow
 * Working with CLs to find guinea pig wiki for PageAssessments before deploying to enwiki
 * Finishing work on CopyPatrol tool (https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol)

Collaboration

 * Blocked - None
 * Blocking - Florian and I are working on refactoring how ConfirmEdit handles OutputPage, in preparation for a refactoring Timo is doing. This may be a breaking change, so follow at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141300 . Otherwise, no change.
 * Updates
 * Mention notifications: Wikimedia Germany is working on notifications for mention failures (when you apparently intended a mention, but it is not counted as one), and successful mentions. They will also allow you to mention yourself.  We're coordinating with them on these tasks.
 * Echo changes related to moderation.
 * Warning when you leave a Flow board without saving.
 * Working on updating the Echo badges.

Language

 * Blocked: Apertium Jessie Packages (Tech Ops).
 * Updates:
 * Improvements in CX and CLL (ULS) continue.
 * Parallel Corpora Dumps work is restarted.

Analytics

 * edit history reconstruction algorithms done, short demo tomorrow, scaling them to handle all wikis is next
 * event bus schema work is approaching completion, the new schemas feed nicely into edit history and handle the requirements of the services team
 * work on moving refinery deployment to scap3 is ongoing
 * loading of the new more performant AQS cluster is progressing nicely now

Technical Operations

 * Blocked
 * None
 * Blocking
 * None
 * Updates
 * Got some problems during a network maintenance. T140770
 * Minor issues in labs with OpenLDAP memory leaks
 * Working on upgrading puppetmaster infrastructure to 3.8
 * Started looking into vmod_xkey for varnish
 * Planning for a parsoid host (wtp*) upgrade to jessie with Parsing. Scheduled for 1st week of August

Security

 * Working on pingback privacy statement with Legal
 * Mediawiki 1.27.1 nearly complete; to be released August 3
 * Mediawiki 1.27.2 tracking and prep has begun
 * Security releases wlll now be on a two month schedule

Services

 * Blocked
 * None
 * Blocking
 * None
 * Updates
 * Kafka upgrade to 0.9 ongoing.
 * Session storage & authentication service planning and prototyping: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140813

Architecture / ArchCom

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status


 * Recent 2016W29: 2016-07-20 (last week)
 * ArchCom Planning meeting: E234
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-07-20
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour: E235
 * Agenda: T126641: [RFC] Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end
 * Upcoming 2016W30: 2016-07-27 (today)
 * ArchCom Planning meeting: Phab:E236
 * Notes: Architecture committee/2016-07-27
 * ArchCom-RFC office hour: Phab:E237
 * Agenda: T128602 Create and deploy an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store

RelEng

 * Blocking
 * None
 * Blocked
 * None
 * Updates
 * Chad proposed a new icinga alert to detect files owned by root in the mediawiki deployment repository: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/301327/
 * Zeljko on vacation until Aug 15th
 * Antione going on vacation next week until Aug 21st

Discovery

 * Blocking: none
 * Blocked: none
 * Mostly working on refactoring & technical debt
 * Trey published survey of top unsuccessful searches: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Top_Unsuccessful_Search_Queries
 * Vacations
 * State of the Map & DataViz hackathon (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DataViz_Seattle_hackathon)

Wikidata

 * working on prototype for structured commons
 * Daniel working on multi-content revisions

Fundraising Tech

 * Not blocked.
 * EMcNaughton is on the cusp of running a dedupe script on CiviCRM--it'll still take several weeks to finish, going at a few hundred contacts per minute, but now we think that even the first iteration will catch a majority of the duplicates.
 * LZia might be doing some analysis on CentralNotice banner numbers, in a part-time volunteer project for WLM. She'll be the first analyst to use some of our exciting new data streams, like "banner history".
 * Queue overhaul is coming along steadily, no blockers.