Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140310

who: Nik Everett, Bryan, Aaron, Antoine, RobLa, Tim, CSteipp, Dan, Chad, Greg

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

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

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..."

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.

Brad working on HTMLForm
Dan and James A to brainstorm requirements for the voter eligibility requirements and workflow

Bug 62497 - Review needed (Aaron?)
Jenkins PHPUnit segfaulting on the password hash patch - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/77645/