https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2018-01-03
= *2018-01-03* = == Callouts == * Ops/DBAs. Reminder that s5 will have readonly time on 9th January as s8 will become the online wikidata shard. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181645, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177208 * Search PF would like somebody from performance/MediaWiki team to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183101 we’ve got some fails on LinksUpdate which blocked search index update which makes Wikidata items invisible in search (~50 items) == Audiences == === Readers === ==== iOS native app ==== * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates: **Releasing 5.7.4 this week - minor bug fixes related to article loading, new navigation bar behavior **Continuing work on 5.8 - synced reading lists ==== Reading Infrastructure ==== * Blocked by: Ops on puppet code review: ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/397623/ ** https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/395694/ * Blocking: none * Updates: ** vacation ** working on T167400 (WP0 piracy) + T174993 (vandalism) ==== Maps ==== * Blocked by: None * Blocking: none * Updates: - Everyone has been on vacation === Global Collaboration === * Blocked by: Security on response to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144467 * Blocking: Ops on Flow dumps; Matt is working on it * Updates: ** A bunch of bug fixes for Special:Recentchangeslinked ** Roan working on refactoring the change_tag schema (inspired by Cenarium and Ladsgroup), will write a small RFC later this week === Community Tech === * GlobalPreferences is almost ready. * Analyzing new proposals. == Technology == === Analytics === * Wikistats UI launch, working on bugs filed by community members. * Working on TLS and kafka with brandon for the ciphers we will use * Working on new APIs to report pageview data by country * Blogpost about wikistats launch * Some troubles on dbstore (the analytics box that holds the wiki-replicas). We might need to order new hardware * We order 8 new boxes for cluster which brings total to 50 nodes * Started work on geowiki project (editors per country, internal data only) users of this project are mostly internal (Asaf’s team) === Technical Operations === * Blocked by: ** None * Blocking ** None * Updates: ** Very quiet week, most everyone on vacation. === Services === * Blockers: none * Updates: ** Very quite because of vacations and holidays ** Mathoid storage in Cassandra 3 cluster populated, transition blocked by renderer bugs ** Preparing next round of Cassandra reshapes === Fundraising Tech === * Deploying (and debugging) stuff we held back for the fundraiser * CiviCRM enhancements * Writing some python code to help with banner impression stats collection * More thoughts on how to replace our kafkatee -> payments cluster log parser system: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179841 === Release Engineering === * Blocked by ** None * Blocking ** None? * Updates ** wmf.15 going out this week === Performance === * Blocked by: none * Blocking: none * Updates ** HHVM hangs resulted in increased save times over the holiday weekend: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183889 ** Addressing a couple of edge cases in Thumbor, little general impact ** Mostly quiet (holidays) === Search Platform === * Blocked by: * Blocking: * Updates: * Would like somebody from performance team to look at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183101 we’ve got some fails on LinksUpdate which blocked search index update which makes Wikidata items invisible in search (~50 items) * Working on fixes for completion suggester & redirects namespaces * Investigating ElasticSearch phonetic search ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182708) * Wikidata search fixes for delay & space handling will be deployed with .15 * Working on refactoring search profiles to make them more config-like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183279 * Collecting feedback for Wikidata fulltext & prefix search rankings === Scoring Platform === * Blocked by: No blockers, thanks to great RelEng and Ops work! * Blocking: * Updates: ** switching ORES to stretch ** continuing Extension:ORES refactoring (Collab/Roan are looped in) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l