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
[edit]Team gaps: Python, front end, ops-type stuff, C++
Outside dependencies
[edit]- Flow
- Zero config
- Wikidata
Liaison-ing
[edit]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]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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