Thank you so much, Luca and Nuria, for updating Superset and providing
these details! Superset is noticeably easier to use!!

Warm regards,
Kate

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Kate Zimmerman (she/they)
Head of Product Analytics
Wikimedia Foundation


On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 7:47 AM Luca Toscano <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I want to add some info about why it took so long to deploy this new
> version. The Superset upstream project is currently into the Apache
> incubator (https://incubator.apache.org/), that requires projects to be
> in line with the Apache foundation guidelines. The Superset dev struggled a
> lot to release the first Apache-licensed version of Superset, and we
> preferred not to deploy anything to our infrastructure that was in the
> process of changing license (we had a bad experience in the past).
> Moreover, we have filed several issues and pull requests to github, some of
> them still not merged (few upstream devs, a lot of bugs). If you want a
> complete list, please check https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211706,
> I'll keep the summary up to date.
>
> We also created a staging environment for Superset, so that we will be
> able in the future to test new versions (and file bug reports in advance)
> without affecting the version currently deployed in production. We are
> currently using our own "patched" version of Superset (
> https://github.com/wikimedia/incubator-superset/tree/wikimedia) but
> ideally in the future it would be great to use the official releases
> without any backport. We are not there yet :)
>
> Last but not the least, we are aware of the annoying bug upon first user
> login (a horrible python stacktrace) that requires a manual fix: it should
> be fixed upstream now, but the change is big to backport at the moment
> (since it is located into a separate package, FlaskAppBuilder, that
> requires a major version bump) so we preferred not to delay the deployment
> of 0.32 further. We hope to fix it in the next release :)
>
> If you guys encounter problems or bugs please report them to us, so we'll
> be able to follow up with upstream!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luca
>
> Il giorno mer 15 mag 2019 alle ore 21:17 Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]>
> ha scritto:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Superset is now been upgraded, there are notable fixes on this version
>> and now you can go crazy creating histograms cause they actually work.
>>
>> An example: histogram of response sizes as reported by varnish last week:
>> https://bit.ly/2vYB966
>>
>> Also, there is a new dataset available called edit_hourly that is the
>> edit equivalent of pageview_hourly.
>>
>> Examples of graphs on top of this data:
>>
>> Pages created per project last month (in content namespaces):
>> https://bit.ly/2LUdBua
>>
>> Edits per platform in Indonesia and Arabic Wikipedia last month:
>> https://bit.ly/2JlKNIG
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nuria
>>
>> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:57 AM Luca Toscano <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> as FYI I am going to upgrade Superset tomorrow (May 15th) to 0.32. This
>>> will involve moving to a new host based on Debian Buster and Python 3.7, so
>>> the move will require some time and it will be hopefully fully done early
>>> during the EU morning.
>>>
>>> Tracking task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211706
>>>
>>> Luca (on behalf of the Analytics team)
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