Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20131223

who: Brad, Nik, Bryan, Greg, Dan, RobLa, Chris, Jorm

Team standups

• email?
• IRC?

Bug escalation

• bugzilla:58157 - "IndexPager::buildQueryInfo" database query error when selecting namespace on Special:Contributions
  • pinged sean
• Parsoid is blocking gerrit:99792 (long-standing bug where multiple reflist templates in a page has caching issues) and followups gerrit:99793 and gerrit:99794. How can we get them to unblock?

Search

• So many deployments last few weeks….. Just finished first pass of commons.
• Some concern around Job Queue length.
• Capacity planning numbers looking good. 54% of updates, 43% of pages.

DevOps / Performance

• Travis CI runs MediaWiki unit tests with HHVM on each commit:

 <https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/mediawiki-core>. (Only) two failures!

• Apt now uses upstream LogStash packages (Faidon). Needs initiative.
• Requests:

 - Make ProfilerSimple.php not collate statistics. Will allow us to track variance, not just means.
 - Add getModules() method to MediaTransformOutput or MediaHandler interface, allowing handlers to specify JavaScript and CSS that should be loaded to support media contents on the page.

• “release early”: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Greg_(WMF)/dev_deploy_flow
  • Old version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_process_improvement/7-8_July_2011_Meeting
• Random performance-related patch that could use review: gerrit:101490 -- Ori will review!

Beta / CI

Antoine is out this week

Puppet installed PHP packages and then required a service restart (apache on one machine, mw-job-runner on another). Alexandros pushed out a change that required this.

Security

• 1.22.1 moved to Jan 13th (at M&M’s request)

Scholarships

• Deployed production site on 2013-12-17.
  • Thanks to Ori and Chad for their help!
• Site is dormant until 2014-01-06 when application period begins
• Have a growing number of small bug fixes waiting to be deployed sometime next week

SecurePoll

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SecurePoll

Quarterly review

• Google Spreadsheet (for now)
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Ideas_List

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Quarterly_review,_January_2014