Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140303

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

• Ori WFH this week

Budget stuff

Team gaps: Python, front end, ops-type stuff, C++

Outside dependencies

• Flow
• Zero config
• Wikidata

Liaison-ing

Proposed: Core Features: Chad VE: Timo Parsoid: Aaron Wikidata: Nik Analytics: Nik Fundraising: Chris S(?) Multimedia: Bryan and/or Robla Mobile Apps: Mobile Web: Zero: Language: Growth: Ori (?) Ops: Tim ? Product: Dan  :-) Design: Dan (?)

Performance

• Edit save time?
• Ori still OOO, but listening in to stay up-to-date.
• GeoIP: replace req for bits.wm.o/geoiplookup with set-cookie hdr
• Will e-mail a more granular list of HHVM todos; please indicate what you can/want to take on

Bug’s we should look at

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61742 - Architecture/Performance Review for 'Popups' extension
  • maybe bikeshed on this type of review for 5-10 minutes? Or does everyone feel like the reviews happen in a reasonable timeframe and with reasonable outcomes already?
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46014 - inconsistent revision id and html content
  • Googler responded again - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46014#c37
  • https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61953 related? (brad’s suggestion)

Deployment tooling / RelEng

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Notes/Deployment_system_requirements
• https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Ftools%2Freleng/HEAD/source%2Fdevdeployflow
• Bryan did a Thursday deploy (see emails)

Search

• Elasticsearch 1.0.1 upgrade on Thursday night
  • Will provide opportunity for performance improvements
  • Will revert everyone to Lucene search during upgrade
• Outage last Friday from poison servers
  • Merged timeouts code to help if this happens again
  • Started talking with ops about additional monitoring
  • One more puppet change to make