User:Catrope/Weekly reports/2012-01-02

Monday January 2

• Worked on a hacky proof of concept for server-side magic word parsing

Tuesday January 3

• 20%
  • Applied patches for bug 25697 and bug 26354 (r107875, r107883)
  • Reviewed r107123
  • Investigated and restarted stuck job runners
  • Fixed the job queue check in Nagios (gerrit 1766)
• ResourceLoader
  • Talked to Tim about plans to move message parsing from jQueryMsg to the server
  • Wrote up a more detailed plan in a wikitech-l post
• AFTv5
  • Fixed issue with ClickTracking data format (r107903), have yet to deploy this

Wednesday January 4

• AFTv5
  • Deployed yesterday's ClickTracking data format fix
  • Found out logrotate had been truncating the clicktracking log file every morning, destroying AFTv5 clicktracking data
  • Submitted a fix for the logrotate behavior (gerrit 1691) and got Ariel to deploy it
  • Used ClickTracking to track bucketing on the live site for a little while, concluded that the bucketing is distributed correctly
  • Enabled ClickTracking for impressions and inits
• Reviewed and deployed MoodBar and MarkAsHelpful changes
• 20%
  • 1.19 CR
  • Reverted r107066 and redid it in r108078
• ResourceLoader
  • Assessed the state of the RL2 project with Timo on Skype, updated the wiki page
  • Fixed a few client-side loader bugs with Timo on Skype and Etherpad (r108105)
  • Discussed approach for asynchronous script loading in the head, decided to write a test case tomorrow

Thursday January 5

• 20%
  • Did some preliminary reorganization of the Gerrit hooks needed to make specialized lint checks for MediaWiki commits possible. Only half-finished because I don't know Python well enough (gerrit 1794)
• ResourceLoader
  • Tested asynchronous script loading from the head in a bunch of browsers and found that all support it
    • But later, Timo discovered a regression in Opera. Will look into fixing that tomorrow
  • Implemented async script loading from the head in ResourceLoader, hidden behind an experimental setting (r108184)

Friday January 6

• ResourceLoader
  • Fixed legacy script support, was reported broken on TranslateWiki (r108220, r108222)
  • Fixed jqueryMsg errors seen on TranslateWiki (r108230, r108231, r108236)
  • Fixed Opera bug in yesterday's async loading code (r108235)