Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017-12-13 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

[Bryan Davis]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Grace Gellerman
 wrote:
> *https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-12-13

I missed getting the Cloud Services update into the etherpad, but it
was pretty boring:

* Team offsite and KubeCon/CloudNativeCon last week in Austin

Bryan
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[Wikitech-l] 2017-12-13 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

[Grace Gellerman]

*https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-12-13
*

*= **2017-12-1**3** =*
== Callouts ==
* s8 database master switchover scheduled for 9th January
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181645 [please keep in callouts until
Jan 9th]
* LDAP update for user thiemowmde needed:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181130
* Kafka jumbo cluster (eqiad) ready for testing connections via TLS. This
new version of kafka enables consumption via given timestamp - Discovery
will use it for wdqs. Aiming to switch some of our clients this week.

== Audiences ==
=== Readers ===
 iOS native app 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Released 5.7.2 (high priority fix for
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69015 ) (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ios-app-v5.7.2/ )
** Continuing work on 5.7.3 (Faster article loading, other minor
enhancements) for release before the end of the year (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2913/ )
** Continuing work on 5.8 (Reading Lists) for release next year (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3131/ )

 Android native app 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
* Released 2.7.221 to production
** fully configurable feed, On This Day cards in feed, new Randomizer,
new Black theme.
* Continuing to work on performance improvements with large numbers of
reading list pages.

 Reading Web 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
* Still working on chromium service. Almost finished performance testing.
* Re-enabling page previews A/B test to collect data to influence a
decision on performance.

 Reading Infrastructure 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Reading lists is in production
** will look at patrolling support for WP0 piracy next
** Media endpoint pretty getting ready to be exposed
** Finalizing touches for summary endpoint (in Beta Cluster) but may need
more adjustments for when to return 204 (No Content).
** Getting close for references endpoint

 Multimedia 
* Blocked by: N/A
* Blocking: N/A
* Updates
** 3D: A few changes to be made, on track to deploy sometime soon after the
holidays.
** MediaInfo: Prototyping and wireframing currently underway for first
features.

 Discovery 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** lots of new portal automation documentation
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/396407/

= Maps =
* Blocked by: N/A
* Blocking: N/A
* Updates:
** Frontend Mediawiki maps integration came in #1 in Community Wishlist:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Tracking
** Other: Paul Norman re-elected to OpenStreetMap Foundation board

=== Contributors ===
 Editing 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

 Parsing 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

 Global Collaboration 
* Blocked by: Security on re-review of
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144467
* Blocking: Ops on Flow dumps still; Matt comes back on Monday and he's the
expert
* Updates:
** Nothing of note, mostly been fixing regressions recently
** Matt comes back on Monday (Dec 18)

 Contributors Design 
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:


 UI Standardization 
** No OOUI release this and upcoming weeks till January
* Ongoing:
** OOUI & based products:
*** 'constructive' flag in has been dropped entirely, please replace code
remainders with 'progressive'. Will go in effect in 1st release 2018.
*** icons: Work on icon set to be more harmonious and align to WikimediaUI
Style Guide https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177432 finishing up
*** Consider changing :hover tools and menu background to use Accent90.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166560
** Unify SVG markup across Foundation products
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178867
** Continuous work and per-project SVGO based optimizations

=== Community Tech ===
* Wrapping up our survey, tightening loose ends from this year.


== Technology ==
=== Analytics ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:
** Load testing druid prior to launch of wikistats 2.0 - It provides good
enough concurrentcy and response times. Last snapshot of data for
wikistats2 is of the quality we like. Aiming to announce launch this
Thursday: https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/bm.wikipedia.org
** Working on new set of APIs to power map visualizations, pageviews per
country monthly
** Kafka jumbo cluster ready for testing connections via TLS, this new
version of kafka enables consumption via given timestamp. Discovery will
use it for wdqs. Aiming to switch some of our clients this week
** Notebook1002 got recommissined as a kafka host - Almost there (hard
drives issues)
** Superset is productionized - We are testing it internally in the teasm
and will anounce soon

=== Cloud Services ===
* Blocked by:
* Blocking:
* Updates:

=== Fundraising Tech ===
* Blocked by: nothing
* Blocking: nothing
* Updates:
** Fundraiser going pretty smoothly (knock wood)
** Trawling logs for errors to