Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20131104
who: Brad, Bryan, Dan, Greg, Aaron, Chris, Chad, Antoine, Tim, RobLa, Nik
Monthly report
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/October
Bug escalation
- MessageCache cloning of parser breaks stuff if it happens while in the process of parsing something
- bugzilla:56485: ConfirmEdit can not whitelist non-http(s) URLs from triggering a captcha. Brad would like feedback on his proposed fix before starting to write code.
- Old API patches that could use review:
- gerrit:62229: API: Fix setnotificationtimestamp with no pages given
- gerrit:70749: Add API action=revisiondelete
- gerrit:87187: API: Have action=parse indicate hidden categories
- gerrit:88995: API: Handle "special" options in action=options
- Uncommitted DB writes (transaction from DatabaseBase::query) (caused by not running update.php?) - bugzilla:56269
- Ask translatewiki folks to repro (Greg)
Projects checkin:
- search everything fine (Rob)
- devops sprint (Greg)
- « Ryan deployment system » being worked on
- LinksUpdate checkin https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53687
- OAuth (Chris)
- Gotta be advertised / blog post / social network etc..
- Scholarship (Bryan)
- Integration (Antoine)
- second slave in prod
- Zuul to be updated to a gearman backed version
- Performance (Ori)
- LocalStorage for resource loader (see Ori post on wikitech-l)
- ULS
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