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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l