Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140428

who: Chad, Brad, Bryan, Nik, Rob, Aaron, Dan, Greg, Antoine, Faidon, Ori, Tim regrets: ?

Nothing new to report from Brad. Hoping to have the UI for the creation form on Labs sometime this week.

Ori mostly tied up with EventLogging migration from db1047 to db1048 & onboarding milimetric / qchris / nuria as project maintainers.
GeoIP cookie now sets domain= to top level domain
MultimediaViewer discussions
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline
HHVM: trusty host (osmium) is being (re)provisioned today
Aaron: Pool counter support for thumb.php requests; use slave DB connections for LocalFile cache misses; fixes to Profiler and TransactionProfiler classes, Range support for img_auth.php in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127466/ , still thinking about thumbnail cache RfC, working on bad example extension for performance workshop

Quarterly Review on the 30th, ie Wednesday
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_and_QA_Team/Quarterly_review,_April_2014
There is now a slave db replicating into beta cluster (thanks Reedy)
Bryan is working on killing the .git dir sync / fixing Special:Version for extensions
- This is a blocker to trebuchet or other sync methods that mess with .git from the stage server to the cluster

Started building index on all remaining wikis. Pass one almost done. Pass two will be faster.
Switching group0 wikis to new highlighter Tuesday
Swift plugin complete, deploying to Central/Archiva/etc this evening