Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20131125

who: Bryan, Aaron, Chad, Ori, Rob, Antoine, Brad, Dan, Nik, Tim, Chris

Ideas list https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Ideas_list

Bug escalation added by greg, who’s not here:

• Bugzilla:56769 - 504 Gateway Time-out errors after creating new formulas on pt.wikipedia
• Bugzilla:57359 - Systematic 504 Gateway Time-out on commons with categories containing big TIFF pictures

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ApacheErrors

added by others:

• Bugzilla:56926 - thumb.php redirection broken when there is no 404 handler
  • Patch by Gergő Tisza for review (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/96920/)
• bugzilla:57026 - 503 when saving edits
  • Patches merged, waiting on 1.23wmf5 deploy

DevOps Sprint https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DevOps_Sprint_2013 Scap and syncfile emit timing information now Tim to merge: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/96941/

Search Going back live on Monday (back to where we were)

Performance

• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Module_storage_performance
  • “The test condition consistently wins out”, so next step is wide-scale deployment
• Working on improvements to UDP profiling & stats collection next.