Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140310
who: Nik Everett, Bryan, Aaron, Antoine, RobLa, Tim, CSteipp, Dan, Chad, Greg
Budget stuff
edit- more jobrunners?
- refreshLinks hitting DB with lot of write queries
- searchindex might it the master as well
- elasticsearch servers
- for labs too
- performance testing?
- using tampa? we’ve decom’d all the apaches now ;-)
- use new DC
- services
- docs and training for the various APIs
Performance
edit- Ori is working on branching Apache request-handling on cookie
- MaxSem has a patch for porting Wikidiff2 to HHVM
- Lock contention fixes for User preferences and TMH transcode table
- WhatLinksHere schema change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117373/
- Anyone want to do https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57176 ?
- Antoine working on HHVM integration in labs; Ori will review <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117931/>
- Started with Chad to set up an HHVM build node for Jenkins, didn’t finish last week
Bugs we should look at
edit- Not a bug filed, but lsearchd is a little wonky.
- !log entry from earlier: enwiki search indexes don't look happy. sporadic reports of "search request timed out" from users, cpu usage pretty high. possibly unrelated but logs getting spammed with: "Retry, temporal error for query..."
Deployment tooling / RelEng
edit- setup quarterly meeting to review post-mortems
- SWAT team finalization
- Roan, Matt Walker, Nik, MaxSem, Ori
- See thread about removing old versions of mw and l10n cache (when)
- See Gerrit Commit Wars thread on wikitech-l ;)
- Preferably don’t, unless you’ve got time to read 96 e-mails.
Search
edit- Upgrade to 1.0.1 went well
- Working on budget for more servers
- Going to simulate more load to look for issues
- Kicked off design work today
SecurePoll
edit- Brad working on HTMLForm
- Dan and James A to brainstorm requirements for the voter eligibility requirements and workflow
Security
edit- Bug 62497 - Review needed (Aaron?)
- Jenkins PHPUnit segfaulting on the password hash patch - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/77645/
Quarterly review
edit- coming up in a month
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Ideas_list