Scrum of scrums/2013-12-03

Docs

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

Notable action items

• Zero to discuss deployment of Analytics dashboards (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/53)
• Mobile web to resolve Limn Graph issues by merging Ori's patch and backfilling data (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/44)
• Search blocked on puppet change review and open monitoring questions (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/8)
• Zero blocked on a variety of things form ops, see below

Ops

Faidon Liambotis, Andrew Otto

• Datacenter proposals moving along, no news.
• Work on varnishkafka ganglia monitoring using Etsy's logster.
• Hoping to deploy varnishkafka to a few mobile varnish hosts this week.
• webstatscollector changes (filtering out CentralAuth requests) to deploy this week
• #17 still blocked by ops
• Beta labs support is a resourcing issue

Platform

Bryan Davis and Greg Grossmeir

• Wikimania Scholarships and Logstash both got their hardware assignements from Ops since last week
  • Platform is working on puppet config for both
• Git-deploy not going to happen in foreseeable sprint (ending ths month)
• Search deployment modestly blocked by ops - puppet patch needs merging and open monitoring questions https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/8

QA

Chris McMahon

• What does Multi-media need from QA? (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/51)
• What deos mobile need from QA? (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/50)

Analytics

Dan Andreescu

• Wikistats PV counts in high; patch needs to be reviewed/deployed
• Wikimetrics will stay in labs
• Mobile Web dashboards -- event logging fix from Ori will solve issue (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/44)
• Waiting on thumbs up from W0 about dashboards; Yuri to talk to DFoy? (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/53)

Mobile Web

Jon Robson

• Bug fixes
• Limn graph getting resolved (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/44)
• Problems with 500s in beta labs -- card on wall (Ops) (faidon updated bug; ops may not have capacity to debug betalabs) https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/49
• growth dependency resolved; api merged - mobile needs to dbl check all is groovy

Growth

Matt Flaschen

• no blockers in either direction
• easier article creation coming up

Flow

S Page

• got the OK from ops for deploy (tomorrow!) as well as from security - thanks!
• cards 22, 23 deferred

VE

Roan Kattouw

• Major deploys to 100+ wikis, small config bugs need fixing
• VE for mobile stuff merged \o/

Zero

Yuri Astrakhan

• Blocked by ops on card #17 (faidon will take care of it) (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/17)
• Need to deploy db change to meta - need help, but got help from Aaron
• still blocked on card 38 (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/38)
• some progress made by ops on #2, coping with issues in varnish - ops going to upgrade to 3.0.5; no eta atm
• #3 related to #38, ops to follow up with yuri/adam (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/3)

Niklas/Language

• Middle of sprint
  • Fixed performance issue in one Translate API module
  • Working on plural rules, cldr has new update with different format
  • Replag: I'm working on it
  • Measuring translation: starting to work on it soon

Parsoid

Gabriel Wicke

• More tweaks and fixes as usual: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Deployments
• Cassandra now fairly stable with 2.0.3 release and tweaked settings; looks good for deploy this month
• Metadata storage work using Rashomon ongoing
• RFCs for storage API etc to be written for architecture summit
• Variant conversion likely to be deferred until Feb/March
• ping us on #mediawiki-parsoid if you have questions / need something