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Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140519

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who: Greg, Brad, Nik, Antoine, Chad, Aaron, Chris, Tim, RobLa, Bryan regrets: Dan, Ori

Planning edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#MediaWiki_Core

^^ that needs to be filled in, and will be filled in with random things from our backlog: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog

...barring substantive feedback from y’all

Unscheduled work edit

    • Examples: thumbnail work, recent changes log

Discussion of the time cost of SWAT for Nik and the general usefulness of “20% time” by core to do things like this that help the community and the Foundation.

SWAT discussion edit

  • shellbugs are crazy varied in effect
  • mine previous bugs from reedy/others for obvious categories
  • mini SWAT deploy training
    • (Greg will schedule the general ‘how to deploy’ session with Sarah today)

Escalation edit

  • https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53770 aka “"The target filename is invalid" when trying to move/delete specific file on Commons”
    • You do not have permission to move this page, for the following reason: The target filename is invalid
    • Brian W commented today

HHVM edit

Testing jobrunners and other maintenance scripts on production server osmium Bugs filed upstream and most were already fixed Tidy needs to be ported; MaxSem has volunteered to port this


Search edit

  • Nik not widely available for next two weeks (Conference and @WMDE)
  • After that start rolling out Cirrus as primary to more wikis
    • Japanese Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Commons good candidates because we have happy users there
    • Chad will start doing it sooner with the “smaller” ones
  • We have a bunch of plugin deploys backlogged on Nik’s travel
    • Switching Hebrew from hebrew analyzer to unicode normalization
    • Highlighter version bump
    • Can I help you with any of this while you’re out? Can continue discussion outside meeting.
  • GeoData work (to replace Solr) is going live everywhere on Wednesday.

SecurePoll edit

Dan’s arranged a meeting with Philippe and James on Wednesday to catch up with them and see what needs improving.


Trusted User Form edit

RelEng/Deploy edit

  • fancy new Deployments calendar (thanks to mwalker at the hackathon)
  • Getting Mukunda going
  • Deploy training tbs(cheduled)

Security edit

  • bug 65501 (fixed now, thanks brad!)
  • Hadoop review done
  • CentralAuth role on vagrant

Phabricator edit

  • Playing around with Chris’ OAuth code for MW.
    • Gonna install in labs phab + pointed at beta cluster
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