Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140211
Who: Brad, Bryan, Greg, Nik, Dan, Chris, Chad, Antione
Search
edit- Found huge performance issue we’ve been living with for a while. Filed upstream. Committed work around. Will cherry pick that to production tomorrow morning.
- Reindexing wikis as the deployment train hits them this week to get updates
- More performance work going into the next deployment train.
- Rack D is coming.
Deploy Tooling
edit- Accidentally started a giant flame war by asking for fabric install to cluster
- Tried to turn the attention in positive directions
- scap shell script replaced with python
- Patch in review to replace scap-1 with python
- Looking at wikiversions php code next for simplifications
- see RelEng/QA Quarterly Review coming up on Thurs
Performance
edit- Better performance for CirrusSearch!
- ULS stuff got re-merged. Riding the train on Thursday. Should be live next week.
Beta / CI
edit- see RelEng/QA Quarterly Review coming up on Thurs
- Beta: nothing exciting
- QA working on getting VisualEditor browser tests to be voting in Gerrit
- Chad+Antoine want 14.04 box for slave for hhvm jobs
Security
edit- Password length
- Working on hadoop review. Reviews requested for Flow template engine, and popups (UX)
Math 2.0
editWe need to figure something out.
- Brion volunteered to review more math changes
- He started doing this already. (YAY!)
- Math author did send a warning mail about Math breaking changes / cache issue. Unfortunately mail never made it to wikitech-l :-(
- Dan will chat to him about user requirements and what he needs from us.
- Needs folks on WMF side to help on Math / Potentially Math volunteers to test out on beta (check with Chris Mc Mahon)
Structured logging RFC
editBryan posted https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112699/ and dropped a note on the RFC talk page. Quite a bit of “new” here to digest; composer managed external libraries may be the hardest pill to swallow.
Bug escalation
edithttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57891#c10 Code review plx? - Ori to be pestered to review this
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56947 Code review plx?
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/is:open+topic:wgTitle-ugh,n,z Code review plx?