Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140519
who: Greg, Brad, Nik, Antoine, Chad, Aaron, Chris, Tim, RobLa, Bryan regrets: Dan, Ori
Planning
[edit]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#MediaWiki_Core
^^ that needs to be filled in, and will be filled in with random things from our backlog: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog
...barring substantive feedback from y’all
Unscheduled work
[edit]- Examples: thumbnail work, recent changes log
Discussion of the time cost of SWAT for Nik and the general usefulness of “20% time” by core to do things like this that help the community and the Foundation.
SWAT discussion
[edit]- shellbugs are crazy varied in effect
- mine previous bugs from reedy/others for obvious categories
- mini SWAT deploy training
- (Greg will schedule the general ‘how to deploy’ session with Sarah today)
Escalation
[edit]- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53770 aka “"The target filename is invalid" when trying to move/delete specific file on Commons”
- You do not have permission to move this page, for the following reason: The target filename is invalid
- Brian W commented today
HHVM
[edit]Testing jobrunners and other maintenance scripts on production server osmium Bugs filed upstream and most were already fixed Tidy needs to be ported; MaxSem has volunteered to port this
Search
[edit]- Nik not widely available for next two weeks (Conference and @WMDE)
- After that start rolling out Cirrus as primary to more wikis
- Japanese Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Commons good candidates because we have happy users there
- Chad will start doing it sooner with the “smaller” ones
- We have a bunch of plugin deploys backlogged on Nik’s travel
- Switching Hebrew from hebrew analyzer to unicode normalization
- Highlighter version bump
- Can I help you with any of this while you’re out? Can continue discussion outside meeting.
- GeoData work (to replace Solr) is going live everywhere on Wednesday.
SecurePoll
[edit]Dan’s arranged a meeting with Philippe and James on Wednesday to catch up with them and see what needs improving.
Trusted User Form
[edit]RelEng/Deploy
[edit]- fancy new Deployments calendar (thanks to mwalker at the hackathon)
- Getting Mukunda going
- Deploy training tbs(cheduled)
Security
[edit]- bug 65501 (fixed now, thanks brad!)
- Hadoop review done
- CentralAuth role on vagrant
Phabricator
[edit]- Playing around with Chris’ OAuth code for MW.
- Gonna install in labs phab + pointed at beta cluster