Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20131104

who: Brad, Bryan, Dan, Greg, Aaron, Chris, Chad, Antoine, Tim, RobLa, Nik

Monthly report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/October

Bug escalation

• MessageCache cloning of parser breaks stuff if it happens while in the process of parsing something
  • https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56226
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92253/
• bugzilla:56485: ConfirmEdit can not whitelist non-http(s) URLs from triggering a captcha. Brad would like feedback on his proposed fix before starting to write code.
• Old API patches that could use review:
  • gerrit:62229: API: Fix setnotificationtimestamp with no pages given
  • gerrit:70749: Add API action=revisiondelete
  • gerrit:87187: API: Have action=parse indicate hidden categories
  • gerrit:88995: API: Handle "special" options in action=options
• Uncommitted DB writes (transaction from DatabaseBase::query) (caused by not running update.php?) - bugzilla:56269
  • Ask translatewiki folks to repro (Greg)

Projects checkin:

• search everything fine (Rob)
• devops sprint (Greg)
  • « Ryan deployment system » being worked on
• LinksUpdate checkin https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53687
• OAuth (Chris)
  • Gotta be advertised / blog post / social network etc..
• Scholarship (Bryan)
• Integration (Antoine)
  • second slave in prod
  • Zuul to be updated to a gearman backed version
• Performance (Ori)
  • LocalStorage for resource loader (see Ori post on wikitech-l)
  • ULS

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