Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140414
who: Bryan, Brad, CSteipp, Antoine, Tim, Dan, Nik, Aaron, Chad, Rob, Ori regrets: Greg
Bug escalation
edit- Bug 62623 - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123146/ reviewer?
Quarterly Review
edithttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Quarterly_review,_April_2014
Search
edit- Repartitioning machines - once we’re done we’ll roll out to almost all the wikis we don’t have
- Swift implementation of rolling snapshots
Performance / HHVM
edit- Tim's Convert Zend compatibility layer to HNI mega-patch merged: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/pull/2276
- Moved HHVM on Beta cluster to http://en.wikipedia.beta-hhvm.wmflabs.org ; tidied up the config hacks.
- Fix for memcache / memcached + unix domain sockets: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/pull/2450
- Fix performance issue with graphite-carbon (ulimit nofile was too low; making it higher via /etc/security/limits.d didn’t work because Upstart doesn’t respect that)
- Profiler class refactoring https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125059/
- Meeting w/Dan Foy regarding image file size & Zero; notes @ http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/pagesizezero
- TODO: investigate compression / quality settings; see if there’s an opportunity to make things slimmer
- Presentation prep: Zurich (May), meetup (later in May), Wikimania (Aug)
- HHVM test instance in eqiad should be ready tomorrow per cmjohnson / robh (https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7135)
- Fixed concurrent stat preloading for multiwrite backend
- More PoolCounter use for thumbnails (djvu)
- Broke ref cycled in FlaggedRevs
Deployment tooling / RelEng
edit- l10nupdate problem fixed; it was really a long standing scap bug
- Making progress on using scap to deploy in beta.
SecurePoll
edit- Nothing new to report from Brad
- Dan continuing to iterate with Philippe and James A and documenting this on mw.o.
ContactForm for trademark
edit- Dan promised to write a patch to change some of the strings but never got around to it. Dan passed details onto Brad just now, shouldn’t take too long.
Security
edit- Reviewing static analysis tool
- Reviewing varnishkafka
- CentralAuth getting selenium tests, OAuth migration to metawiki
Hiring
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