User:Catrope/Weekly reports/2011-08-29

Monday August 29

Mostly worked on HTTPS: made WMF-deployed extensions protocol-relative-URL-proof. Core had been done last week (r95651, r95652, r95653, r95656, r95659, r95663)
Tried to debug segmentation faults on the cluster by configuring Apache to produce core dumps. Hit a few snags and eventually gave up, because I couldn't get it to work properly and didn't feel like spending more time on it. Details in server admin log
Fixed extension breakage caused by my fix for bug 29246 (r95674)
Wrote up draft presentation proposal for WCN 2011, agreed to discuss with Timo on Tuesday
Guided Neil through the UploadWizard / Wiki Loves Monuments deployment
Deployed Narayam bug fixes

RL2 work at the WMNL office in Utrecht
- Created Gadget definition: namespace and made the gadget table mirror the contents of pages in that namespace (r957694, r95768, r95786, r95787)
- Added the ability for extensions to make pages immovable to MediaWiki core, needed for the Gadget definition: namespace (r95753, r95756)
- Other RL2 backend work (r95740, r95747, r95749, r95750, r95751)
- Submitted WCN proposal after Timo signed off on it
Scheduled deployments for Wednesday: UploadWizard, MoodBar (maybe) and HTTPS.
Got Ryan to schedule UDP logger setup for Wednesday
Agreed with Timo and Siebrand to come into the WMNL office again on Thursday

Received e-mail from Alolita asking me to write these reports, reverse-engineered reports for Monday and Tuesday
Addressed code review comments on r95663 (HTTPS fix from Monday; addressed in r95885) and r95753 (RL2 commit from Tuesday; addressed in r95856){{
Reviewed and tested Timo's RL2 commits from yesterday
Disabled statistics generation for the account creation improvement project because Lennart said he didn't need them any more
Random bits of code review: r95586, r95605, r95582, r95631, r79941, r95714, r95573, r95578, r95572 (that last one was huge)
UploadWizard bugfix review and deployment
WikimediaIncubator fixes deployment
HTTPS fixes deployment, fixed a bug pointed out in Brion's CR
- Ryan deployed HTTPS to wikimediafoundation.org and Commons. Agreed to deploy to meta on Monday, will schedule later
MoodBar deployment
Debugged issue with Arabic translation in UploadWizard not updating
- Tracked it down to LocalisationUpdate
- Fixed error that caused LU to never update messages for LiquidThreads, was a bug but not causing the one I was looking for
- Fixed permissions issues that occurred when running LU by hand
- Filed RT ticket about permissions issues (RT #1406)
- Agreed with Ryan that I would fix some parts of the LU setup on Friday, then document everything in RT so he can puppetize it
Looked into some OOM errors that I thought came from ResourceLoader, but didn't. Included a goose chase to find the wmerrors logs
- Planned to document wmerrors stuff on wikitech on Friday

Slow day due to exhaustion from yesterday's 10-hour work day plus 200-mile drive :)

Filed RT ticket for fenari breakage discovered by Sam
Moved LocalisationUpdate setup on the cluster from hume to fenari and documented the new setup on wikitech
Helped Peter work around an issue with how MediaWiki interacts with the new version of libxml2 in lucid (XML_PARSE_HUGE)
Fixed i18n issue with UploadWizard (spaces in Arabic text breaking stuff)
Reviewed Ryan's commit of his maintenance script live hack (for HTTPS) and merged it to trunk
Tried to fix SSH key issue with the new LocalisationUpdate setup, came up with a solution but needed to run it by Tim. Decided to do so on Monday
Scheduled HTTPS deployment to meta for Tuesday
Documented wmerrors on wikitech as promised
Deployed fix for UploadWizard bug 30696 because someone asked me nicely

Attended Wiki Takes Leeuwarden (a Wiki Loves Monuments event) on my own time.