Scrum of scrums/2014-09-10

Task Wall
Mingle

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

Language
Link adaptation, server logging, publishing attribution, MT abuse, UI enhancements, reference handling, unit tests, performance, language enablement https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_quarterly_reviews https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158361/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/158146/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/158147/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHu3vdlE1X8 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159070/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159185/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159060/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159044/
 * Work continues on Content Translation for end of September release
 * Quarterly review last week (slides and notes not posted yet):
 * Alolita and Kartik working with Ops on CX deplyment issues related to service integrations
 * Niklas tried out Nik's code for translation memory result scoring
 * Niklas reviewed and wrote tests for a few Translate bugs
 * Pau, Runa and Amir held rountable with Content Translation users
 * Amir fixed several RTL bugs:
 * Beta hiccups continue to cause delays in development/testing.

Fundraising Tech

 * Getting new FR/Analytics hire Ellery Wulczyn into the system
 * Continuing work on CRM (email tracking, build/test automation, modularizing our components)
 * Continuing work on FR stats dashboard
 * Generic auditing / reconciliation from payment providers.

Multimedia

 * Thumbnail pre-rendering is pretty much ready to go
 * Gergo has filed the request for extension review for ImageMetrics
 * Bunch more Media Viewer crap raining down on us, plus UploadWizard refactoring, so Mark will be stuck in that hole for the next few weeks
 * Betalabs SSL issues persist - would be helpful to see those fixed.https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68387

Ops

 * #127 Elasticsearch hardware tests coming along (slowly)
 * Tampa datacenter will be shut down early October.

QA

 * Hacking Jenkins
 * Hacking beta labs
 * Apologies for any outages or other weirdness
 * Browser tests are fairly stable right now, so the timing is actually pretty good
 * Gearing up for significant changes in the upcoming quarter
 * Performance enhancements to Jenkins
 * Creating additional shared test environments besides beta labs
 * Reviving QA community outreach/talks/training

Analytics

 * Just working on Wikimetrics and Dashiki, no dependencies
 * One Limn instance had problems getting datafiles, if it happens to you just let Dan (milimetric) know (it's some weird DNS caching problem)

Parsoid

 * Nothing major to report
 * Scott still in PDF rendering land to try to get it moved over so that the tampa center can be shut down
 * Continuing work on PHP parser and Parsoid rendering compatibility -- will get VE folks to do some review of cite css experiments

Flow

 * hubbub over Echo changes, Flow feedback.
 * dev affected by beta labs instability: getaddrinfo failures (bug 68125), last night everything 404'd (bug 70648)
 * heads up: wgContentHandlerUseDB=true rolling out, some miscreant can use the MediaWiki web API to change the contentformat of a page to flow-board, jsonschema, etc.

Security

 * Patches (soon) on cluster
 * Ops - wikidata conversation about libraries
 * reviews for ImageMetrcis, Graph, and RecentActivityFeed

Editing

 * Nothing big going on
 * Working on eliminating dependency on Rangy
 * Starting to integrate substance.io's table editing code
 * Trevor working on MW skin for OOjs UI based on design team designs
 * Ed in SF until Sep 18
 * Timo in SF for 3 weeks starting Monday (Sep 15)

Platform

 * hhvm - lua bug, lots more production servers soon

Services

 * Mathoid deployment moving along thanks to Alex:
 * The storage service & API front-end will be merged in RESTBase
 * Hardik working on secondary indexes
 * Gabriel working on cleaning up the front-end handlers & moving them to a declarative configuration (please let us know if that's readable!)
 * Starting on Parsoid integration

Zero

 * Waiting for ext review