Scrum of scrums/2014-06-04

Task Wall
Mingle

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

Notable action items

 * QA still has two hard to repro bugs affecting browser tests, and needs some help figuring them out (maybe from platform and VE respectively?) ,
 * Growth, Multimedia, and Mobile Web have ongoing blocked dependencies on the Editor team (see wall)

Partners + Wikipedia Zero
Adam B
 * Request for New Card: Major refactors (see especially https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:%22Yurik+%253Cyurik%2540wikimedia.org%253E%22,n,z): ZeroRatedMobileAccess being split into ZeroBanner and ZeroPortal with reliance on JsonConf
 * New Card created: Avoid unprompted MediaViewer on zerodot version of Wikipedia Zero (mdot, it's all good) - Tablet redirect is slated for June 17, which plays some part in timing
 * #57 Firefox OS exploration: no movement. Incidentally, rotation bug reported. Thought: should we focus on making Wikipedia a first class search target in FFOS with the native browser?
 * #2 ESI Headers or GIFification: RFC noted in email from Sumana now, too
 * #108 memcached / httpGet config pull issue

Languge Engineering

 * Dictionary UI - done. Can be tested at http://language-stage.wmflabs.org/w/.
 * Working on Link tools in the translation editor.
 * Niklas needs to work with Nik about the Elastic Search migration. ( https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/80 )

QA

 * Zeljko is back from paternity leave
 * Working with Dan Duvall (new Automation Engineer)
 * Almost done hiring QA Tester
 * I want to discuss the next steps for browser smoke/acceptance tests for core
 * Please forward any reports of users being unexpectedly logged out, particularly from VisualEditor

Analytics

 * slight adjustment to editor numbers due to IPv6 counting problem
 * http://infodisiac.com/blog/2014/06/reassessment-of-active-editors/
 * preliminary work to use the wikipedia zero partner config from the private portal
 * started a new search for a Full Stack Engineer
 * looked into an issue where it looked like embedded CSS resources were being accessed as URIs via http (we saw these strange requests in the logs, at high rates) They seem to come from Vector Beta
 * bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66112

VisualEditor

 * Written in absentia, Roan couldn't attend today
 * Roan back to full-time starting today :)
 * Timo wrote patch for the hard part of #97; Roan to review
 * #99 stalled AFAIK; Roan might have time to review
 * Roan accidentally did some work on #84 (to fix bugs); will work on it more this week
 * Trevor still working on #100; has changed tack a little bit per request from mobile on Monday

Ops

 * Goals for next FY; now is the time to think of larger requests
 * Will be communicated/coordinated on ops@ and with other directors
 * SPDY is already on the list


 * New DC
 * first site install next week; Chris out of Ashburn


 * ulsfo move
 * Moving to a different DC floor, temporarily depooled during that time


 * rcstream, making good progress
 * HHVM, good progress on packaging front (Faidon) and MediaWiki puppet manifests (Ori, Guiseppe)
 * Hadoop moving to CDH5

RelEng

 * Yearly goals FYI: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_and_QA_Team/Goals

Platform/MW Core

 * Yearly goals FYI: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Goals

Security

 * Patch on cluster
 * reviewing wikidata Suggester

Mobile web

 * (new card) #116 Make mobile context as a second toolbar possible: When we started VE on mobile we decided to hide the context (a small popup that shows up when you click on a link/reference/other  elements). When working on editing existing references we decided it  will be easier if we instead reimplement it as a second line toolbar on  mobile. Trevor is doing the groundwork.
 * Tablet redirect on June 17, no VE in stable version of mobile yet though

Growth

 * Focusing mostly on GuidedTour improvements, both behavior and UX improvements. Includes a new light-weight module to improve performance.  Still waiting for review on getAllStyleFiles patch (#99 on wall)

Multimedia
marktraceur
 * Only one card in the wall for us, and honestly we have only ourselves to blame for not pestering Krinkle every fifteen minutes to finish it
 * Deployment to enwiki and dewiki went off without anything *objectively* bursting into flames, but be aware that thar be trolls
 * Work on Aaron's SHA1 storage patch is ongoing, once we have a big ol' pile of phpunit things covering it, it should be moving forward
 * There was also some analytics cross-team stuff re: our massive use of the eventlogging hosts. We've fixed* it.