Scrum of scrums/2016-04-27

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Product[edit]

Reading[edit]

Reading Infrastructure[edit]

  • Merge of AuthManager pending security review (n.b., old code will become no-op upon feature flag enabled later on)

Web[edit]

  • Pushed security fix for contributions page
  • Lazy loading references to beta. FYI for OPs: this may increase API requests to mobileview slightly let us know if you see anything problematic. Beta audience is small however so unlikely to be any impact.

Android[edit]

  • Blocking:

None

iOS[edit]

  • Blocking:

None

  • Blocked:

None

  • Updates:
    • 5.0.3 Code complete EOD April 26
    • 5.0.3 Regression testing start and final extrernal beta release April 27
    • 5.0.3 Expected release will be week of May 2
    • 5.1 still in planning stage - expected to get scope defined next week
    • Expect to begin work on migrating to new Auth API after next week

Mobile Content Service[edit]

  • Same as last week: planning for new feed related endpoints.

Editing[edit]

Collaboration[edit]

  • Blocking:
    • External store work. Now that data switchover is over, need to resync with Jaime.
  • Blocked:
  • Updates:
    • Continuing notification work on:
      • Special page released to explain how Notifications is configured: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration . There is also a related breaking change to a configuration variable. We took care of it for BounceHandler, which seemed to be the only affected WMF-deployed extension. But let me know if anything weird happens with notifications.
      • Moderation
      • Bundling refactoring
      • New MVC structure
      • Cross-wiki notifications coming by default in two weeks.
    • Added Vagrant roles for GlobalBlocking and TorBlock. Changed merged Monday to have GlobalBlocking return a Block object so the information is more machine-readable.

Language[edit]

  • Blocking:

None

  • Blocked:

None

  • Updates:
    • Team offsite last week
    • cxserver service can read config from cxserver repo, so updating new languages/MT pairs are easier now.

Parsing[edit]

  • Main update: Closer to being able to do visual diff testing with HTM5depurate (Tidy replacement).
  • OCG: Scott pushed a bunch of fixes y'day and might be pushing some more today. Time to reconnect with ops next week to reassess its status.

Multimedia[edit]

  • No blockers, not blocking
  • Work on annotations and 3D, some upload dialog improvements coming.

Fundraising Tech[edit]

  • looking at CentralNotice prod errors: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133765
    • maybe a ResourceLoader issue? dependency ext.CentralNotice.display not being loaded, though it should be if there are any choices
  • deployment tooling
  • full-scale fundraising underway in new LATAM countries, fr-tech monitoring errors
  • migrating ActiveMQ-specific code to backend-agnostic wrapper
  • front-end work for upcoming Israel fundraising
  • enabled audit logging on one table in production CiviCRM, preparing to enable on all

Technology[edit]

Services[edit]

Release Engineering[edit]

Security[edit]

  • Reviews: AuthManager, json-schema, cross-wiki notifications, hovercards in progress
  • Release soon
  • Ops: ping to move T128819 forward?

Technical Operations[edit]

  • Blocking:
    • None
  • Blocked:
    • None
  • Updates:
    • maps cluster updated to varnish 4
    • maps varnish clusters (4x4 boxes) deployed
    • all eqiad core DBs upgraded to MariaDB 10.x

Discovery[edit]

  • Blocking: none
  • Blocked: none
  • Preparing for ElasticSearch 2.0 migration
  • Deploying geospatial search for WDQS

Interactive[edit]

Analytics[edit]

  • Unique devices:
    • Launched unique devices API, wikitech:Analytics/Unique Devices#AQS API, Easy way to get programmatics access to unique devices data
    • Soon to announce a javascript client for API, work done as of yesterday, working in visualizations
  • Pageview API:
    • A lot of operational unanticipated work with pageview API and replacement of nodes, changing cassandra compaction strategy
  • Misc:
    • Two team members at a conference this week, otto in SF
    • Need to announce wikistats hand off from erik zachte, waiting on creation of analytics.wikimedia.org domain

Wikidata[edit]

  • Blockers: none.
  • Updates: Improving Wikidata Query Service UI. Fixing all the loose ends in Wikibase to get the MediaInfo prototype for Commons in shape.
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