Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20131017

who Antoine, Greg, Brad, Bryan, RobLa, May, Chris, Ori, Chad, Aaron, Nik

SUL

• beta ssl, forceHTTPS - bug 55804

OAuth / OpenID

• Lots of bugs from MZ
  • Wiki selection - bug 55714
• xAuth / OpenID Connect / Custom

Search

• Mark given ok to deploy further, capacity permitting
  • E-mail sent to ambassadors list for volunteers (Bengali Wikipedia and Swedish Wikimedia replied within an hour)
• RT in progress for hardware, leaning towards harvesting old pmtpa boxes

Performance

• Stable font URLs for UniversalLanguageSelector via bits.wm.o/static-current/.* on 1.22wmf22 (with help from Reedy, thanks!)
  • Need to set one-year Cache-Control / Expires headers. Where to do this? (Apache? Varnish?)
    • Antoine: ask Mark. Can’t remember off-hand what is the goal.
    • Bryan: Typically that would be an Apache config (ExpiresByType) thing; I don’t know if that’s how WMF does these

• VisualEditor timing measurements for both initial Parsoid DOM load and for DOM save rolling in; still need to pipe into Ganglia.
• +1 from Roan on ResourceLoader module caching in localStorage; Roan will do more tests later this week.
• Ganglia views:
  • Bits caches time-to-first-byte info broken down by DC
  • Cookies set by various wikis’ main page
  • Number of CSS rules on the page

Other

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55808 Regression in parse (dealing with ‎<translate>)
• Bryan starting Wikimania Scholarship project
• Trusted User Verification
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90265/ (not sure what good values would be)
  • Antoine: Picking random values? You probably want to first measure/monitors those rates; Limit them once you have a clear picture.
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90385/
• MassMessage

Mailing list

• public/private?
• list (with archives) or just an alias
• bikeshed: name of list?

mwcore-l@wikimedia.org has been setup by itops during meeting.

• google groups based list with membership restricted to wikimedia.org organization members
• https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#!aboutgroup/mwcore-l