Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20130819

August 19

who: Robla, Greg, Chad, Bryan, Brian, Aaron, Chris, Brad, Nik

HTTPS

• translations needed
• OTRS queue?
  • Greg to talk with Phillippe on escalation
• Design review
  • “Always use a secure connection when logged in.”
  • ask Jared

OAuth:

• “OAuth Admin” group on mediawiki
• Any user with a confirmed email address can apply to have their OAuth application run.
  • After Chris or Aaron approve, they can have other users authenticate through the app.
• TODO: Chris to create a Hello World example (eg: post to user’s talk page or something)

Search:

• On test2wiki right now.
• Sometimes blowing up. Patch just merged to prevent that.
• Lots of bugs. Working on them. Only the blowing up one is really bad enough to not want to deploy to mediawiki.org.

Release management/QA

• Quaterly review on Wed
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_%26_QA_Team/Quarterly_review,_August_2013
• Review of extensions to be deployed

Other

• Bug 39653: Greg, any thoughts on scheduling this?
  • get to test2/mediawiki asap
  • announced rollout plan after that
• Maybe it’s just me (Brad), but this Google doc is getting slow to load. Time to archive it?
• bug 53032: Chris to add logging?