Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140602

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

Bryan’s Composer work
Https stuff (Chris)
- HTTPS in China?
- Enabling Perfect forward security
- Config cleanup

Blockers for provisioning MediaWiki Puppetization on trusty:
- twemproxy package
- apache 2.4 module (ori)
- php extension packages
- hhvm package (done by faidon, needs testing, ori will test)
Bugs:
- LuaSandbox segfault (another one, though possibly a dupe, needs more data-gathering) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65792
- Wikibase bugs:
  - HHVM: Exception about the "datatypefactory" value of the resource definition https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63691
  - Under HHVM: Call to a member function getGuid() on a non-object https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65698

Nik Back!
Unicode normalization going out now
Getting three new machines now that we’ve ported GeoData to Elasticsearch
Lots of talking while at conference to Elasticsearch and Lucene folks
- Suggestions for support for another dozen or so languages
- Lucene efficiencies that _might_ improve our performance

Finally movement on the “Get WMF Product involved with shellbugs” idea
Phab OAuth work is now configurable
The aforementioned RFC on Jenkins test isolation is now internal-public (see ops@lists)
- Can that be forwarded to engineering@?
  - not yet
Emir from FB RelEng is coming to office tomorrow (Tuesday) (11-3 Pacific) talking HHVM and deployment and other fun things
- Let me (Greg) know if you want to join the fun
Deployment Training on Wednesday from 11 to 12:30 (Pacific), will be recorded/streamed