Scrum of scrums/2013-11-19

Docs

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

Notable action items

• W0 awaiting ops approval on X-Forwarded-By header work - https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38
• Mobile Web still blocked by GettingStarted API from Growth team - https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/11
• Mobile Web affected by ULS bug from Language team - https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/45
• Language still blocked on emulating replag in dev environment; have been corresponding with SPringle - https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/30
• Flow has ongoing architecture review form ops; awaiting more feedback - https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/46

W0

Adam Basso

• (Ops approval + Analytics follower) X-Forwarded-By header work with Faidon (Ops) - Faidon, Yuri, Adam to figure out short/med/long term options
• (Ops implement vhost portion + Analytics follower) Landing page for m.wikipedia.org and zero.wikipedia.org with Apache vhosts coming up in the next (hopefully) 1-2 weeks- Yuri to work with Faidon
• (Mobile Apps approval and knowledge transfer) Firefox OS Wikipedia app bugfixes and deploy - needs to be done by tomorrow to make quarterly cutoff for inclusion in base OS. Yuri likely person to deploy in mediawiki-config tomorrow pending today's review.. Adam to talk with Brion.

Parsoid

Gabriel Wicke

• Had quarterly planning meeting
• Deployed twice: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Deployments
• Public & cached parsoid service at http://parsoid-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org/, implementing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid#The_Parsoid_web_API
• Platform still blocked on article transfer to betalabs by ops, pending available resources - https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/37

Ops

Faidon Liambotis and Andrew Otto

• Varnish serving all traffic since Nov 11th; a few issues found & fixed
• Swift migrated to eqiad (last part of production traffic)
• An outage a day this past week - see ops@ list for post-mortems (soon on wikitech, hopefully)
• ulsfo deployment paused, back to procurement to workaround network/vendor issues
• Assisting in the PDF sprint (see separate update by Matt)

• aka "collectoid" or "ocg" (offline content generation)

• Labs

• New contractor (Mike Hoover) hired to assist with migrating to eqiad

• Analytics nodes reshuffled into multiple rows for redundancy, still a few issues to deal with:

• analytics1013 and analytics1021 seem to have the same IP assigned, Chris J is looking into it.
• Need publicly routable IPv6 for analytics1021 and analytics1022 Kafka Brokers.

• Lots of RFPs for Datacenters being reviewed.
• New search servers racked, working with Nik to get Elasticsearch ready on them.

• Search outage caused by chain of bad assumptions, lsearchd (Lucene) currently turned back on for all wikis until issues are resolved.

• Card 30 -- unblocked
• Card 37 -- still blocked on resources
• Card 19 -- done

PDF Handler

Matt Walker

• Goal is deploying to beta cluster this week; will need another week to deploy

Growth

Matt Flaschen

• Progress on keep going (refactoring); API module next
• Planning for next project -- supporting article creation workflow

Mobile Apps

Brion Vibber

• Firefox OS Wikipedia App work (W0 taking responsibility, have high priority bugs to fix this week to make quarterly cutoff)

Language

Niklas Laxstrom

• Team at conference

Analytics

Dan Andreescu

• Geowiki info leak resolved
• Ongoing -- migrating Wikimetrics to production (ops)
• Cards are in progress

Mobile

Jon Robson

• Team at language summit; mostly bug fixing
• Exposed bug with ULS (Language)
• Working on Limn issue with Analytics (Analytics)

Core features (Flow)

S Page

• mediawiki.org deploy early December
• Parsoid intergration going well
• Ops review needed -- pass bug to Faidon(Ops)