Scrum of scrums/2014-11-05

Facilitating: Dan Andreescu

Currently Blocked

• Core Features on Platform, [1]
• Mobile Web on Release/QA, [2]
• Mobile Apps on Wikidata, [3]

Partners + W0

• #152 mdot/zerodot webroot Accept-Language redirects for zero-rated access: under code review

QA

• Wrapping up Flow test refactoring project
• Starting VisualEditor refactoring project
• Starting to use Ruby linter in Jenkins
• More Vagrant changes/support coming

Ops

• Yuvi officially joins ops this week
• Bugzilla migration to Phabricator date set for Nov 21.
• #150 Need to make the action logging in Swift longer - DONE (removed from wall)
• #127 elasticsearch hardware acquisition - DONE (removed from wall)
• #153 disks for logstash, in progress, Gage is working on this
• #144 Restbase deployment discussions, in progress / on hold. Springle is reviewing.
• #147 Need a more reliable Beta Labs for QA - Has been pushed to QA mailing list for discussion. Card moved to Release column.

Analytics

• standardizing event logging schema talk pages to include purge information
• labs db problems put our data warehouse effort on the critical path

Fundraising Tech

• Unforked DonationInterface is up in production CRM, fixing bugs
• CentralNotice cache footprint reduction
• Payment form tweaks
• New widgets for internal dashboard
• Starting to integrate Google Wallet / Instant Buy
• CRM features:
  • suppressing old email addresses on edit
  • customizing fundraising reports
  • adding new custom fields

Services

• Close to hiring another engineer
• RESTBase
  • General clean-up in restbase-cassandra
  • Basic secondary indexing now working
  • Deploy repo initialized at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/171162/
  • Aiming to wrap up https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/167213/ this week
  • Hardik working on declarative config for new API end points

Mobile Web

• Nik Everett is going to start working on a WIkiData query/search service for WikiGrok
• Still waiting on card #147 (new Beta Labs)
  • Follow up with Greg Grossmeier about this please, we will not be getting a 2nd beta labs in the near future.
• Templates in core

Editing

• Sucheta in SF this week
• Roan working from NYC next week
• Table editing deployed to test wikis today
• Roan working on V8 optimization based on Ori's feedback, also on instrumentation

Parsoid

• Parsoid cluster being updated to trusty and node 0.10 (thanks Alex) (prompted by a failed deploy for a timeout patch that requires node 0.10 but production Parsoid was running node 0.8)
• Pushed patches to gerrit that should let Flow remove their dependencies on data-parsoid and will let us remove it from the HTML
• I (Subbu) will be in India Nov 9 - Dec 12 (2 weeks vacation, 3 weeks working). Marc (marcoil) will be representing Parsoid at SoS next 3 Wednesdays.

Multimedia

• UploadWizard refactoring...watch for breakage
• Thumbnail chaining on beta now, going to non-Commons wikis sometime in the next week, going to Commons in like two weeks
• AaronSchulz needs to re-review the SHA-1 storage (platform!!!)

Task Wall

Mingle

Docs

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