Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20130819

August 19

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who: Robla, Greg, Chad, Bryan, Brian, Aaron, Chris, Brad, Nik

HTTPS

  • translations needed
  • OTRS queue?
    • Greg to talk with Phillippe on escalation
  • Design review
    • “Always use a secure connection when logged in.”
    • ask Jared

OAuth:

  • “OAuth Admin” group on mediawiki
  • Any user with a confirmed email address can apply to have their OAuth application run.
    • After Chris or Aaron approve, they can have other users authenticate through the app.
  • TODO: Chris to create a Hello World example (eg: post to user’s talk page or something)

Search:

  • On test2wiki right now.
  • Sometimes blowing up. Patch just merged to prevent that.
  • Lots of bugs. Working on them. Only the blowing up one is really bad enough to not want to deploy to mediawiki.org.

Release management/QA

Other

  • Bug 39653: Greg, any thoughts on scheduling this?
    • get to test2/mediawiki asap
    • announced rollout plan after that
  • Maybe it’s just me (Brad), but this Google doc is getting slow to load. Time to archive it?
  • bug 53032: Chris to add logging?