Scrum of scrums/2015-02-25

Facilitating: Grace Gellerman

Wikidata

• What has your team done since we last met?
  • enabled access to interwiki links via Wikidata for Wikibooks
  • worked further on UI redesign
  • support for query development
  • meetup with Query team in Berlin

• What will your team do before we meet again?
  • more for UI redesign
  • Wikidata Vagrant improvements
  • Further working on unit support

• Is anything slowing your team down or getting in their way?
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85913 !!
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/180418/ (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86176) ->Krinkle
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89169

MW Core

• More work on re-enabling Logstash on prod cluster; config patch currently blocked on review
• WQS team visited Wikidata in Berlin
• WQS closing in on selecting a new backend solution
• GlobalUserPage deployed to all wikis
• utfnormal being extracted as a Composer managed library by Kunal with help from Brion
• AuthStack AuthManager RfC being worked on; hope to announce on wikitech-l this week
• Progress continues on Multi-DC project

Apps

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90228 Investigate building a Node.js service for mobile apps content: this is a simpler spike. We met with Services. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87824 is now dependent on this, and has been removed from the SoS board as it would come later.
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90606 Avoid cache fragmenting URLs for Share a Fact shares: Adam B emailed Brandon and Faidon

Editing

• VE performance work proceeding
• Parsoid is fixing bugs, Alexandros is working no Zotero, all moving forward
• Roan in Europe the next 2 weeks
• James F in NYC tomorrow and Friday

Parsoid

• Timing stats enabled in production for Parsoid for the wt2html and html2wt api endpoints. Nothing unexpected showing up.
• Parsoid can now handle one more (last one?) unspported templated table-cell scenarios that were an uneasy fit with HTML DOM semantics ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88495 ) -- change deployed Monday, Feb 23rd.
• Next Monday (March 2), we will push a change to production that changes the DOM spec for <ref> tags ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88290 , Unmerged patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/191593/ ). Announcement made on wikitext-l. VE will be deploying changes this week to accept new output. Content translation: please confirm that you are aware of and can handle this change.

RelEng/QA

• Need some help from Core on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89180 (Aaron said he would be looking at this issue this week --bd808)
  • Patch to review is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/192480/
• Otherwise working on Hackathon, long-term projects and one-off stuff.
• Note: Chris will be on vacation next week, Dan Duvall (marxarelli) will be here for RelEng/QA

Fundraising Tech

• PCI consultant in till tomorrow snooping for improper treatment of credit card info
• Usual FR stuff
  • processor planning
  • internal dash
  • DonationInterface cleanup
  • trying to reduce impact of CentralNotice: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1fVRy6Qu9lejEQd75ww7n6piTRDQx0d_lzg82J_v-_Jc/edit?usp=sharing
• Awight getting antsy about CI for CiviCRM ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78100 and its chain of blocked-by tasks)

Multimedia

• No blockers as far as I know
• Sentry work continues
• New UW browser tests pretty much all merged and set to go; very exciting; thanks Chris

Security

• Need multimedia input on T89745 / T89744 (blockers for the next release), T90300 as there's time
• T78730 is in progress; will return to Aphlict soon for release eng

Ops

• T76986 RESTBase production hardware - 5 of 6 ready - moving along - one faulty controller
• T76308 Zotero not running in production - Alex says he will have time this week it has moved along but not very fast
• codfw mediawiki installations
• SSL optimization/changes

Language

• T54728 Need performance review of Special:SupportedLanguages
• T88538 Index change for CX, added tracker bug, unclear how the process goes from that
• We are going to experiment. We are planning to show invite to try CX when users are creating new articles.

Services

• RESTBase is live!: https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc
  • about 40% smaller raw HTML, storage space for all pages & different content types
  • currently finalizing testing / setting up change tracking / adding the other hundreds wikis, prod announcement to follow likely end of this week
  • helping with virtual rest service integration in MW core, so that VE, mobile & others can start hitting it
• Service infrastructure: Announced https://github.com/wikimedia/service-runner and working with apps team on https://github.com/wikimedia/service-template-node
• Looking into generic puppet module / packaging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89901, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89900, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88585
• Helping Yuri with graphoid deployment (also some citoid) -- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90487

Mobile Web

• Server-side HTML templates in core
• Client-side HTML templates stalled in review
• More WikiGrok and Collections work
  • Hoping to hear about WDQS updates
• Still need Bug T88449 fixed (button styles differ between OOjs UI and mediawiki UI)

Zero

• Graphoid service implemented and ready to be puppetized/prod-deployed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90487
• Requested Analytics to create a public API or static URL to get pageview counts per country per language per (desktop|mobile) per (wikipedia|wikinews|...) -- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90759

Analytics

• VE analysis continues, failure type graph shows responseUnknown errors: https://edit-analysis.wmflabs.org/adhoc.html#ve-failures.tsv
• Event Logging backfilling continues, slowly but surely
• Started work on Uniques - need some help with VCL, meeting with bblack on Friday but sooner is better