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Scrum of scrums/2017-01-04

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Product

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Reading

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Web

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Android

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Reading Infrastructure

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Mobile Content Service (MCS)

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iOS native app

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  • Last Week
    • Released 5.3.3
    • Continued work on 5.4
    • Fixed bugs found in 5.3.3
  • This week
    • Release 5.3.4
    • Continue work on 5.4 - Nearby, Login enhancements

Community Tech

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  • Blocking/Blockers: None
  • Wikimania scholarships application has been updated and deployed
  • Beginning to do investigative work on top 10 from the wishlist this week

(I'll be skipping the meeting today, sorry!)

Editing

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Parsing

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  • Not blocking anyone or no blockers on anyone as far as I know
  • Preparing for Dev Summit sessions
  • Will soon start work on supporting audio/video in Parsoid
  • Work ongoing with language variants ( had to revert a patch in core because of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153761 )

UI Standardization

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Collaboration

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  • Blocked: None
  • Blocking: None
  • Updates
    • userExpLevel RecentChanges filter
    • Other than that, mostly bug fixes to Echo and Flow, including Flow DB inconsistency fixes

Technology

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Analytics

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Security

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Technical Operations

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  • Blocked:
    • None
  • Blocking:
    • None
  • Updates:
    • LabsDB goal successful
    • Kubernetes goal successful
    • Ganglia/Prometheus goal successful
    • Work starting on the data center switchover preparation

Performance

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  • Blocking/blockers: none
  • Started work on defining alerts for performance regressions
  • Implemented PoolCounter support in Thumbor, undergoing review

Discovery

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Wikidata

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  • Preparing for the Dev Summit in SF. The Wikidata team is looking forward to meet you all!
  • Gaining speed again after holiday weeks. Working hard on federation (ground work for structured Commons) as well as Lexemes (for Wiktionary).
  • RfC: Drafted an alternative for the deprecated PHPUnit::assertTag: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69122
  • Slow progress on phasing out UsageException: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153359 Given that it was deprecated just a few days ago we do not consider this high-priority at the moment.

Fundraising Tech

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  • Reviewing payment processor performance and fraud rates
  • Reviewing banner impressions anomalies (neatly explained by internet.org proxies in Ireland)
  • CiviCRM bug fixes and minor version upgrade
  • little holiday scramble to deploy phpmailer CVE fixes
    • Does security or releng want to look into using an automated composer.lock version vulnerability checker, e.g. https://security.sensiolabs.org/api ?
      • Darian says ^^^ is already in place for mediawiki core, and he can help us set it up for all the fundraising components.