https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-09-21
= 2016-09-21 =
== Product ==
=== Editing ===
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocking
* Blocked
** Services is working with us on the ReviewStream feed we're developing.
* Updates
** Continued work on MessagePoster. PageTriage change to use it up, but
not merged yet
** Fixed moderation (e.g. when a page or topic is deleted) of Echo
notifications
** Some other Echo changes, such as to how seen time works, GENDER i18n,
and to the page-linked notification
==== Language ====
* Blocked: none
* Blocking: none
* Updates:
** Content Translation work continue; templates and other fixes.
** Jessie migration for Apertium is scheduled on October first week.
==== Parsing (Subbu not attending because of a conflict) ====
* Blocked: Parsoid's native <gallery> implementation is blocked on getting
feedback from the VE team.
* Patches in gerrit to parse language variant markup in Parsoid -- need to
resolve a few questions before we can deploy this
* Magic-word based optout of global user pages merged (__NOGLOBAL__)
* Kunal has filed an RFC to remove magic link functionality in the parser:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links
* Evaluation ongoing of a (already merged in core) PHP version of a HTML5
parser (as a potential replacement for Tidy).
=== Community Tech ===
* No blockers
* Copyvio tools for French Wikipedia
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145431
* More performance testing in hopes to get PageAssessments deployed to
English Wikipedia
* Education Programs Dashboard
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546
* Changes to CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists
* Investigating work on improving blocking and harassment prevention tools
=== Reading ===
==== Reading Web ====
* Current sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2186/
* Preparing to enable hovercards ab test in italian and russian
* Preparing to enable related articles in mobile in more wikis
* Lazy images blog post
* Next sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2221/
* Enable related articles in mobile in more wikis
==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ====
* Getting the aggregated feed endpoint working on Beta Cluster since feed
aggragation happens in RB now.
==== Android native app ====
* Current sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/
* Next sprint:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2238/
* Released to beta Monday 9/19. Plan is to get feedback, fix bugs, and
release nav overhaul to the stable app by EOM.
==== iOS native app ====
* Current release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/
** In regression
** Expected to be released Sept 21
* Next release board:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2220/
** In progress
** MIgrating iOS Feed over to the MCS
** Adding In the news and a local notification
** Expected Delivery ~3 weeks
==== Reading Infrastructure =====
* no
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Almost done getting rid of ActiveMQ!
* Fixing CentralNotice db calls for strict mode
* More refinements to CiviCRM contact de-duplication
=== RelEng ===
* Blocking
** no
* Blocked
** wmf.18 load-time regression
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146099
* Updates
** Skipping wmf.19 entirely due to undiagnosed load-time regression
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160915-MediaWi…
*** Tentative plan is to cut wmf.20 and deploy to group0 today and, if all
goes well, adjust the remainder of this week's schedule accordingly
***
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144644#2654240
** Completed Beta Cluster database migration to jessie/MariaDB 10 yesterday
** Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
** Reminder: no train week of Oct 17th (but SWATs OK)
=== Analytics ===
* Blocking: None
* Blocked: None
* Updates:
** New AQS cluster is up! Massive reduction of latency. We'll increase the
throttling threshold.
** Public Event Streams: Finalized Kasocki prototype. Considering using
server side events / streaming instead of web-sockets.
** Edit history reconstruction: Some improvements on the quality of data,
still a couple issues to fix.
** Pivot (druid based UI): More work on productionizing it using
servicerunner
** A/B testing design - Evaluating feasibility of design ideas.
** Nuria participated in the Technology off-site, very productive.
=== Technical Operations ===
* '''Blocking'''
** None
* '''Blocked'''
** None
* Updates
** TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter), please
work around this for deployments
** Will not be able to attend SoS for the same reason
** Puppet migration complete
** Varnish upload cluster upgraded to version 4. There are some caveats,
but looking good
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145661
** Apertium migration to Jessie scheduled for Oct 3
** OpenStackManager in wikitech is being deprecated. There will be
information coming your way in the next weeks.
=== Security ===
* Patch deployed for CentralAuth on monday; let us know if you experience
weirdness
* Will follow-up on Youdao review (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143185)
* Catching up on e-mail, Gerrit, and Phab traffic from last week
=== Services ===
* Blocking: none
* Blocked: none
* Updates:
** Huge RESTBase deployment, VE now usable on undeleted articles
** Change-Prop: separated transclusions topics - decrease user visibility
of lagging
** Trending service planning with reading
** Bad articles stream planning
=== Discovery ===
* No blockers
* Analyzing BM25 A/B test, if results are positive deployment will be
somewhere early October
* Working on multiwiki indexes, public comments sought at:
**
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
**
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Design
* Working on file properties indexing (size, type, dimensions, etc.)
* WDQS servers on codfw deployed, looking into how to add them to
production setup
* Portal: updated portal strings to "Read Wikipedia in your language" and
language wiki descriptions.
== Wikidata ==
* Blocker: Can not connect to the Hangout on
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/scrum-of-scrums. Get
error "HJR: 2-RNF".
* No other ;-) blockers at the moment.
* Making usage information (which page on which wiki uses which Wikidata
entity) visible to users:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103091
* Introduced batching in the job that notifies wikis about changes on
wikidata.org:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/309972,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107722
* Working on cleaning up several dependencies on legacy stuff in core, e.g.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144977
* Pushing multi content revisions forward.