Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-04-02

2 April 2013

Misc reminders

• Reminder of Wikimedia technical search tool http://hexm.de/mw-search
  • There's a way to enable this in your preferences as search in mediawiki.org
• today's skins triage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130402
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/March

Mentorship

• Still can make it as GSOC/OPW project idea:
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Improve_the_mediawiki-bugzilla_extension_to_a_deployable_level (Mozilla + Andre?)
    • I am happy to provide support but I don't see myself suddenly as a coder or reviewer. :) -- andre
• Still can make it as OPW specific project ideas:
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Browser_Test_Automation (Željko)
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#A_proper_catalog_of_extensions (Yuri Katkov)
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Multilingual.2C_usable_and_effective_captchas (research only?)
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#System_documentation_integrated_in_source_code (does Platform want research on this? mentor?)
  • Also thinking of revamping http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub and main related pages. Mentor: could be Quim.
    • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_developer_hub

Amsterdam hackathon prep

• Anything to do?
  • Outreach for more signups by 20 April?
  • WMF sprints/trainings?
    • Quim & Sumana to think about performance & Lua stuff with Rachel

High-priority escalations?

There are 3 that Andre has considered important in the last few days.

• bug 46428 - memcache split, blocks several other items
• 46401, patch awaiting review
• the http 500 error bugs

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46428,46401,46612

• Rob to check out these escalations

this weekend, we had 3 outages, and we need to improve communication around outages, Andre says. 2 of 3 were jobqueue-related.

• where were they documented?
  • Etherpad for TechOps meeting yesterday, and short ops mailing list thread

* Recent Outages

** 2013-03-28, Thursday - 19:40-19:43 GMT

** 2013-03-29, Friday 05:00 GMT

** 2013-03-31, Sunday - 21.20 GMT

*** LVS - fix kernel leak / upgrade kernel ?

• • • Asher put in a jobqueue limit queue

• • RobLa to ask Greg to follow up

Vacations/holidays

• Sumana part of tomorrow + part of Thursday
• Guillaume out this week

me Andre:

• a few days around Amsterdam (May 24th)
• maybe Open Source Bridge Conference, Portland, June 18–21, 2013

Texas Linux Fest: deadline April 1st - http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/ , Valerie!

• maybe https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute/Presentation ?
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_Lightning_-_Qgil

Željko:

• May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• June 10-12, Selenium Conference, Boston, MA, USA
• Submitted talks/workshops for a couple of local open source conferences, waiting for reply (May 15-17, September 06-07)

Chris:

• Apr 22-25 (Google Test Automation Conference, NYC)
• May 2-5 (Telerik Test Summit Peer Conference, Austin TX)
• May 13-17 relocating, details TBD
• May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Aug 4-10 Agile2013 (not certain but likely)