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Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140428

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who: Chad, Brad, Bryan, Nik, Rob, Aaron, Dan, Greg, Antoine, Faidon, Ori, Tim regrets: ?

New quarterly planning process / backlog

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog/Process

Bug escalation

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  • (nothing from greg)

SecurePoll

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  • Nothing new to report from Brad. Hoping to have the UI for the creation form on Labs sometime this week.

Performance

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  • Ori mostly tied up with EventLogging migration from db1047 to db1048 & onboarding milimetric / qchris / nuria as project maintainers.
  • GeoIP cookie now sets domain= to top level domain
  • MultimediaViewer discussions
  • HHVM: trusty host (osmium) is being (re)provisioned today
  • Aaron: Pool counter support for thumb.php requests; use slave DB connections for LocalFile cache misses; fixes to Profiler and TransactionProfiler classes, Range support for img_auth.php in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127466/ , still thinking about thumbnail cache RfC, working on bad example extension for performance workshop

Deployment tooling / RelEng

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  • Started building index on all remaining wikis. Pass one almost done. Pass two will be faster.
  • Switching group0 wikis to new highlighter Tuesday
  • Swift plugin complete, deploying to Central/Archiva/etc this evening