Scrum of scrums/2014-05-14

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Partners / Wikipedia Zero

 * #57 Firefox OS Exploraton: no progress from Adam's side
 * #2 ESI headers or GIFification
 * zero.wikimedia.org private configs now being pulled automatically
 * #108 memcached / httpGet config pull: NEW card, there's a (mostly isolated) issue with configs being pulled, may need Platform's help
 * #109 Refreshing bots: refreshing bot zombie clones are back. Whack-a-mole, X-Frame-Options, or both?

Language

 * The team has agreed on the caching architecture with Gabriel in a meeting in Spain. In this sprint we are implementing this in labs and we'll need ops Gabriel to review that it's something that is a correct step towards production.
 * Migration of translation memory to ElasticSearch - Niklas L. is working on it, now on vacation. It's in progress and will need assistance from Nik E., but not immediately.

Analytics

 * replication lag back to normal on s1-analytics-slave db1047
 * event logging back to normal
 * (not really analytics) in Zurich, halfak made https://github.com/halfak/MediaWiki-OAuth to help python mw oauth integration

QA

 * Zeljko out last week and this week for parental leave
 * Porting Jenkins jobs to WMF/Sauce is on hold until Z returns
 * Big refactor of VE tests to avoid logging and and avoid relying on existing target pages in test env
 * Hired new Release Engineer
 * New Automation engineer starts in late May

Platform

 * not much :)

RelEng

 * Yay Mukunda!

Multimedia
marktraceur
 * Starting work on a thumbnailing solution that involves chaining...should massively improve performance
 * jQuery 1.9 compliance coming up in UW and TMH, possibly pending upstreams
 * More media viewer releases for three weeks, then we'll be on by default everywhere unless everything explodes. *knock on wood*
 * Something about OOJS and IE8. I blame Krinkle. See #97

VisualEditor

 * Slow week due to Zurich
 * cscott (Parsoid team) in town this week and next, sitting next to Roan. Scott and Roan to work on VE transaction system
 * James F in Europe this week
 * #87: Ed has written https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133238/, just needs review now
 * #100: Trevor making slow but steady progress
 * #97, #99: Roan to ping Timo, both have been traveling; Timo has been doing jQuery 1.9 stuff
 * #84: In progress, somewhat stalled until Moriel's image rewrite lands

Ops

 * New DC - CODFW
 * Design & procurement underway


 * Multimedia
 * More imagescaler issues; multimedia investigating


 * On-going expansion of LVS @ esams
 * Late this week/early next


 * rcstream
 * Collaborating with MWCore (Ori) to deploy this


 * Error pages w/ Design, Platform - https://trello.com/c/b9yj929t/99-four-oh-fours
 * Sync up with mobile


 * IPSet MediaWiki patch - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131758/

Growth
Continuing work on anonymous editor acquisition experiment; will probably be deployed tomorrow. Non-linear tours blocked within-team on logging discussions. mw.cookie almost done; will probably be merged this week. No change to inter-team blockers.