Shell requests/status

Last update on: 2012-10-monthly

2011-04-01

Site requests that require shell access to the servers are mostly handled by Rob Halsell and a few dedicated volunteers. Priyanka Dhanda is going to join the team and help out where possible.

2011-05-01

Mark Hershberger organized triage meetings specifically for shell bugs, with Priyanka Dhanda, Rob Halsell and CT Woo. Priyanka and Rob have been moving through the backlog of issues filed there.

2011-06-01

The backlog of shell bugs was on the agenda for the Berlin hackathon, and the team continued to hold dedicated triage sessions. Priyanka Dhanda also started to work on a process to streamline configuration changes, especially for popular requests.

2011-07-01

Priyanka Dhanda continued to process shell requests, after it appeared that a harmonization of wiki configuration options wouldn't be a significant time saver.

2011-07-26

As of this writing, there are 69 open requests.

2011-08-01

Sam Reed took over maintenance of shell requests. He added a new "ops" keyword to differentiate between requests that require shell access (which he can process), and other requests that can only be processed by someone with root access ("ops"). As of July 26, there were only 69 remaining shell requests, and that number keeps decreasing.

2011-08-16

There are 60 open requests as of this writing. There's also a new "ops" keyword for requests that require root access.

2011-08-24

AbuseFilter was globally enabled by default on all wikis (read more).

2011-08-31

Sam Reed continued to go through the backlog of shell requests and to process them. He notably enabled the AbuseFilter extension on all Wikimedia wikis.

2011-09-30

Sam Reed continued to go through the backlog of shell requests and to process them. Because of the number of new requests, the backlog has remained around 60 open requests.

2011-10-31

Sam Reed continued to follow up on and fulfill shell requests.

2012-01-24

Currently at 71 open (query for latest number), 3072 total resolved since the beginning of tracking (query for latest number), 2616 total fixed (query for latest number), 30 resolved since January 1 (query for January)

2012-02-06

Currently at 67 open (query for latest number), 3089 total resolved since the beginning of tracking (query for latest number), 2633 total fixed (query for latest number), 36 resolved/fixed since January 1 (query for January) and 8 resolved in February so far (query for February)

2012-03-21

Currently at 80 open (query for latest number), 3135 total resolved since the beginning of tracking (query for latest number), 2670 total fixed (query for latest number), and 28 resolved in March so far (query for March)

2012-04-30

Currently at 77 open (query for latest number), 3187 total resolved since the beginning of tracking (query for latest number), 2717 total fixed (query for latest number), and 46 resolved in April so far (query for April)

2012-07-03

Currently at 76 open (query for latest number), 3293 total resolved since the beginning of tracking (query for latest number), 2818 total fixed (query for latest number), and 53 resolved in June (query for June)

2012-07-monthly

Currently at 73 open (query for latest number), 3333 total resolved since the beginning of tracking (query for latest number), 2853 total fixed (query for latest number), and 39 resolved in July (query for July)

2012-09-monthly

Currently at 85 open (query for latest number), 3392 total resolved since the beginning of tracking (query for latest number), 2905 total fixed (query for latest number), and 39 resolved in September (query for September)

2012-10-monthly

Currently at 92 open (query for latest number), 3414 total resolved since the beginning of tracking (query for latest number), 2924 total fixed (query for latest number), and 38 resolved in October (query for October)