Scrum of scrums/2016-06-22

2016-06-22

Product

Reading

iOS

• 5.0.5
  • Through regressions - a bug was found and fixed - regressions start again today
  • Expected release this week
• 5.1
  • In development - expected release early August
  • Potential blocker for release is GeoData API improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137178 We are working with Discovery to get this in for our release

Android

Still working on the feed, no blockers/blockees.

Mobile Content Service (MCS)

• Adding content format versioning to Content-Type header for better pre-generation and backwards compatibility. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138018

Reading Web

• Going to be deploying lazy images to more small/medium wikis during this last sprint

Editing

Multimedia

• Mark not present today, but wanted to add mostly empty update
• Not blocking, not blocked
• No real updates, work continues as ever

Language

• Compact Language Links deployment started in phases

Discovery

• Blocking: none
• Blocked: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135029 need help with scripts
• Portal discussion: Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend) (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458)
• TextCat A/B test running on enwiki, frwiki, eswiki, dewiki and itwiki
• Discernatorn updated: https://discernatron.wmflabs.org

Interactive

• Maps
  • Launched on Wikidata, Commons - no more referrer check, we are open to experementations
  • RU-Wikivoyage switched
  • Implementing "get geo object" service
  • In process of setting up 4 more backend servers (current production 4 backend + 16 caching)

Technology

RelEng

• No longer blocked:
  • gitblit is going away (finally) on the 29th.
    • Already announced, patches reviewed and coordinated with tech ops.
  • arcanist packaged for debian! Thanks to fgiunchedi for packaging help.
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137770
• Blocked on tech ops
  • Phase out gallium.wikimedia.org (T133300)
    • We need feedback from ops about the architecture changes proposed on phabricator
    • Tyler summarized in the most recent comment: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133300#2394279

Technical Operations

• Blocking:
  • None
• Blocked:
  • None
• Updates:
  • nodejs security release this thursday
  • labs team @wikimania, skeleton crew
  • appservers and api reimaging, live in eqiad, no outstanding issue
  • jessie jobrunner and imagescalers live
  • Decomming some 50 db hosts