[Wikitech-l] 2016-10-12 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-10-12 == Product == === Reading === Goals section: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q2_Goals#Readi… ==== iOS native app ==== Current Release Build: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2220/ Since we last met: - * Notification UI is complete - * Feed based off of MCS and persisting to YapDatabase is almost complete - * Bug fixes & event logging fixes landed - * Working with Apple on fixing Siri integration Before we meet again: * Connect notification UI to data source - enable notifications * Add notifications preferences to onboarding & feed * Release a beta No blockers ==== Android native app ==== * Current sprint ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile-app-android-sprint-93-neptuniu…) : * Start on Q2 goals for Wikidata descriptions * v2.4.158 beta coming soon * Alpha builds fixed * CI screenshot regression testing * Languages with three letter codes enabled * Next sprint: * More Q2 goals... ==== Mobile Content Service (MCS) ==== * adding a few more languages to feed endpoints (mainly news, maybe TFA): Sv, Fr * next gen of content endpoint: references only endpoint * updated scap3 deploy host from tin to generic deployment server name ==== Reading Web ==== Since last met: * Wrapped up the remaining sprint work Until the next time we meet: * Fix some Event Logging issues with Hovercards * Move lead section before the infobox on mobile * Clean up the old language button Blocked on: * We need input from the Performance team regarding "UC Mini should not be supported by ResourceLoader" (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T147369) ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * no blocking * blocked on WMDE adding query modification hooks to WatchedItemQueryService which can replicate ApiQueryBaseBeforeQuery/ApiQueryBaseAfterQuery/ApiQueryBaseProcessRow === Community Tech === === Editing === ==== Collaboration ==== * Blocking: Hopefully nobody? * Blocked: ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143743 disagrements between Collab (Stephane), Analytics (Otto) and Services (Marko, Petr) about approach, probably going to organize a meeting * Update: ** Flow beta feature was disabled on all wikis due to breakage. Slowly re-enabling now, beginning with frwikiquote today ** UI standardization improvements in Echo, thanks Volker! ** Fixing some small bugs in PageTriage ==== Language ==== * Blocked: ** Help with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145650 is needed, this affects translatewiki.net === Discovery === == Technology == === Analytics === *Not blocking nor blocked *Update: Recruiting - Still screening, tasks sent to some applicants. Pivot (UI over Druid, analytics datastore) is now available behind LDAP - Fast access to pageviews (more datasets to come) Kasocki - Discution around using SocketIO,WebSockets or SSE (in ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130651) We started work to replace last instance of Limn by Dashiki (limn1) Old aqs machines are now spares. === Services === * Blocked: none * Blocking: none * Updates: ** Node 4.6.0 security release: please test your services. === Architecture / ArchCom === * Last week (E287): Magic Links deprecation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145604 * This week (E316): CREDITS file: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/Status === Release Engineering === * Blocking: ** nobody * Blocked: ** Ops: looking at throttle rate for nodepool/Openstack ( https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/315214/) * Updates: ** Reminder: RelEng at offsite in DC next week. No train deploys. Other deploys (like SWAT) ok. === Security === === Services === === Technical Operations === == Wikidata == * No blockers. * Working on new network graph and diagram renderers for the Wikidata Query Service: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142179 * Working on referencing entities on foreign Wikibase repositories (Commons will reference Wikidata items): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007 * Expanding client side integration with new Lua and parser formatter function: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142940 * We heard people being busy keeping up with changes in core (stuff being deprecated and removed). Not all are happy with the frequency breaking changes are done currently. == Fundraising Tech == * Winter is coming... Annual reminder to please postpone risky rollouts till after December's fundraising campaign * One CentralNotice bug closed, one still happening: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144952 ** Andrew's pretty sure it's a MessageCache thing ** Added logging, got some logs from the beta cluster ** Getting some help from Aaron and Timo, but any other suggestions are welcome * Cleaning up any remaining references to ActiveMQ