Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140602
who: Brad, Rob, Chad, Chris, Bryan, Greg, Tim, Faidon, Dan, Antoine, Ori, Aaron, Nik
Escalation
edit- UploadWizard broken in Beta Labs
- Default image thumbnail stuff (square bounding boxes)
Unscheduled work
edit- Bryan’s Composer work
- Https stuff (Chris)
- HTTPS in China?
- Enabling Perfect forward security
- Config cleanup
HHVM
edit- Blockers for provisioning MediaWiki Puppetization on trusty:
- twemproxy package
- apache 2.4 module (ori)
- php extension packages
- hhvm package (done by faidon, needs testing, ori will test)
- Bugs:
- LuaSandbox segfault (another one, though possibly a dupe, needs more data-gathering) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65792
- Wikibase bugs:
- HHVM: Exception about the "datatypefactory" value of the resource definition https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63691
- Under HHVM: Call to a member function getGuid() on a non-object https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65698
Search
edit- Nik Back!
- Unicode normalization going out now
- Getting three new machines now that we’ve ported GeoData to Elasticsearch
- Lots of talking while at conference to Elasticsearch and Lucene folks
- Suggestions for support for another dozen or so languages
- Lucene efficiencies that _might_ improve our performance
SecurePoll
edit- Brad and Dan to sync this week
RelEng
edit- Finally movement on the “Get WMF Product involved with shellbugs” idea
- Phab OAuth work is now configurable
- The aforementioned RFC on Jenkins test isolation is now internal-public (see ops@lists)
- Can that be forwarded to engineering@?
- not yet
- Can that be forwarded to engineering@?
- Emir from FB RelEng is coming to office tomorrow (Tuesday) (11-3 Pacific) talking HHVM and deployment and other fun things
- Let me (Greg) know if you want to join the fun
- Deployment Training on Wednesday from 11 to 12:30 (Pacific), will be recorded/streamed
Trusted User Form
editSecurity
edit- Reviewing propertysuggestor for Wikidata
- patch on cluster
Planning
edithttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#MediaWiki_Core https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Goals