https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-09-14
= 2016-09-14 =
== Product ==
=== Reading ===
==== Reading Web ====
Current sprint:
* Related pages preparation for mobile web deployments
* Shipped wikidata descriptions in mobile web to all but top 6 wikis
==== Mobile Content Service ====
* Working on follow-up tasks from last week's Android app outage:
*
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160907-Android
- * Set up monitoring tests for individual feed endpoints
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145223
- * Communicate steps on how to switch the app to use different backend
servers.
- * Investigate Icinga alert setup if the app experiences unusually high
crash rates.
* Heads-up: New service developement starting soon for new RESTBase service
to get Trending edits:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/reading_web_trending_service/
==== Android native app ====
Current sprint: 91 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2216/
* navigation overhaul: primary dev work is complete; now updating per
design feedback.
* beta release this week (probably)
==== iOS native app ====
Current release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2150/
* 5.2
* Adding iOS 10 Support
** Today Widgets - Top Read & Continue Reading and basic iOS 10
compatibility
* Dropping iOS 8 support
* Released to beta, releasing with iOS 10 Tuesday September 13
Next release board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2188/
* Bug fix release for 5.2, scope still in discussion
==== Reading Infrastructure ====
* no blocking/blocked
=== Community Tech ===
* Blocking: none
* Blocked: none
* Working with Performance team to optimize refreshLinks job for
PageAssessments roll-out to enwiki (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145473)
* Finished work on Google OCR tool for WikiSource:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR
** Web interface: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-google-ocr/
** Gadget: https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GoogleOCR.js
* Working with DBAs on improving CentralAuth for cross-wiki watchlists (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141951)
* Working on Education Program Dashboard
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125546
=== Editing ===
==== Collaboration ====
* Blocking
** Continuing work on Flow caching rewrite
* Blocked
* Updates
** Major work on seen time for Echo notifications. It is now a single
global time, so when you open any notification popup, the time is updated
globally.
** Continued work on using MessagePoster to allow for posting to wikitext
or Flow boards more easily. NewUserMessage updated to use this, PageTriage
is next.
==== Language ====
* Blocking: None
* Blocked: None
* Updates:
** Content Translation work continue.
** Apertium ready for Jessie migration, test this week, deployment likely
next week.
=== Analytics ===
* Blocking: None
* Blocked: None
* Updates:
** Kasocki : Working on automating tests with jenkins
** New AQS cluster data is loaded, load-tests still to be run, then
production integration
** Edit reconstruction: data for simplewiki is ready to be sent to Erik
(not perfect, still improving), performance optimisations on the go for big
wikis to run
** Pivot (druid based UI) is being productionized to be accessible for WMF
staff (LDAP)
** Participation in A/B testing design - Looking good
=== Services ===
* Blocking: none
* Blocked: none
* Updates:
** Services config deploys via scap3 on the way
** Depooling and repooling services during deployment, instructions would
be sent soon
** Change Propagation replaced RESTBaseUpdateJobs, extension undeployed
** EventBus deprecated events are not produced any more
=== Technical Operations ===
* '''Blocking''': none
** none
* '''Blocked''':
** none
* '''Updates''':
** Migrated to a new puppetmaster infrastructure for production, should
make next DC switchover easier (among other things)
*** TechOps offsite happening week of Sept 25 (last week of quarter),
please work around this for deployments*
** wikitech features will get a deprecation announcement soon
** Partial traffic to thumbor to be enabled this week
** apertium reviews for LE are done. Migration of apertium service to SCB
to happen next week.
** appserver migration to jessie ongoing. CODFW done, EQIAD to happen next
** New DBA, Manuel onboarded.
=== Discovery ===
* No blockers
* BM25 A/B test is turned off, preliminary results ok, waiting for analysis
* 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
* Added ASCII-folding for French (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144429)
* Had SPARQL workshop, materials at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Workshop
* Had Discernatron lunch, a lot of useful feedback
* Working on deploying codfw servers for WDQS
==== Interactive team ====
* <mapframe> to be deployed on non-large wikis soon
=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Investigating low response to WLM CentralNotice campaign in South Korea
* Fixing CentralNotice MariaDB strict mode violations
* Finishing up queue work
* More donor data cleanup in CiviCRM - language preferences, placeholder
emails and addresses
=== RelEng ===
* Blocking
** no
* Blocked
** no
* Updates
** Reminder: no deploys week of Sept 26th
** Changes to beta cluster puppetmaster cherry-pick process Coming Soon™
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135427
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