[Wikitech-l] 2016-11-30 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-11-30 = 2016-11-30 = == Product == === Reading === ==== Android native app ==== * Last week: ** Continuing Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions ** New fundraising announcement explore feed card in progress ** Fixing login and editing issues * Next week (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2352/): ** More Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions (tutorial and polish) ====Web==== * Current sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading-web-sprint-86-%F0%9F%94%AA%F0… * This week: ** Stopped HoverCards A/B tests from Russian and Italian Wikipedias ** New readers work ** MobileFrontend regression fixes ** Make PageImages return the image in the lead section ** MobileFrontend tech debt ** Trending service ** Hovercards rewrite ====iOS==== * Last Week: ** Found and fixed notification bugs, crashes found in 5.3.0, ready for 5.3.1 release ** Finished announcement card updates, ready for 5.3.1 release ** Finished data layer updates, ready for beta in 5.3.2 ** Continued dynamic font size updates to the app * This week: 5.3.1 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2357/ & 5.3.2 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2281/ ** Ship 5.3.1 (any remaining bug fixes) ** Beta 5.3.2 ==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * Board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-content-service/ * added Wikibase ID to mobile-sections output * introducing eslint as part of the node template update ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * working on random MediaWiki tech debt * not blocking * Still looking for reviews on the API error/warning i18n patches (see last week) === Community tech === * Blocked: Nope * Blocking: Nope * Updates: * Continued improvements to Copypatrol ( https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol) * Community wishlist survey is in voting phase: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey == Editing == === Parsing === * Blocked: Tim asked for an ops person to work with him to puppetize HTML5Depurate service; yet to hear back as of y'day * Tim working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151702 with Ops; * Arlo's work on Parsoid-native <gallery> extension is now merged. Once we update the specs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/1.3.0 and chat with Services folks, we'll deploy this. * Kunal continuing to work on the Linter extension (scheduled to be deployed in Q3 2016-17). * Scott busy with Dev Summit Planning this previous (short) week, but trying to finish up patches in Parsoid to parse language variant markup. == Technology == === Technical Operations === * Will not be able to attend, apologies! * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None * Updates ** API outage investigation and actionables ongoing ** Q3 Goals discussion started, please inform ops of dependencies on them ** Goals on track, work ongoing === Analytics === * Auditing old logs on stat1002 for *deletion*, including: mobile-sampled, api-usage, sampled, edits (from webrequest), glam_nara, zero. More at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84618 * Mediawiki history reconstruction project milestone: standard metrics ran against the imported data give very similar results with much simpler queries, test dataset loaded into Druid: https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#edit-history-test * Adding send-to-graphite functionality to Reportupdater * Wikistats 2.0 design starting tomorrow * New hire engineer will start December 12th * Ongoing: ** upgrading stat boxes and other out-of-warranty boxes ** optimizing last step of mediawiki history reconstruction ** public event streams work ** varnishkafka integration testing ** reaching out to analysts and evengelizing reportupdater and pivot === Release Engineering === * '''Blocked''' ** None * '''Blocking''' ** None? * '''Updates''' ** Reminder that the [ https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html deployments schedule gets weird] between now and the end of the year ** Phabricator replication should be a bit faster thanks to Mukunda ** Scap 3.4 is out -- see the [ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MSCA/browse/release/debian/chan…] for details ** MediaWiki and extensions 1.28.0 tarball is now available === Security === * Security Reviews * LoginNotify completing from last week * Recommendations API started this week * One item need code review * CentralAuth special pages: https://gerrit.wikimedia.o <https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/>3 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/>rg/r/#/c/319055/ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.o3rg/r/#/c/319055/> === Fundraising Tech === * Watching logs, tuning fraud settings and queue jobs * Tweaking internal dashboard * Updated thank you email ** Parser output had some unexpected <br>s, wondering if that changed lately ** https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?page=Fundraising/Translation/Thank_you… === Discovery === * Load-testing crosswiki searching backend code proceeds, looks fine so far * New analysis of query features and performance published: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Query_Features_and_Search_Performan… * New analysis of BM25 scoring in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147500 - still working on how to best tokenize zh