Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20130923
Sept 23rd
editWho Nik, Bryan, Brad, Chris, Greg, Aaron, Chad, Tim, Antoine
Things from Faidon’s outages email:
- Upload traffic increase
- Tim on this one now
- “3) SUL cache misses & Apache load increase”
- Apache idle workers, yearly:
- Chris has a patch for this, s_maxage change (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54195)
- 4) memcached traffic increase past three weeks
- memcached monthly & yearly:
- Tim will get to this after the upload.wm traffic
- JobQueue related
- make a edit rate limit for addressing any potential issue from Max’s exercise (whether or not his was the cause)
- bump the jobqueue warning threshold? so it is actually listened to
- social issue: an alarm must be handled :-D (even if end result is to raise threshold)
- Andrew Otto is looking into this type of thing, Greg will swing back with him
Search
- Deploying to cawiki and enwikisource as seconday and itwiktionary as primary today
- Deploying to disabled wikis on Tuesday
- Updated Elasticsearch
- Bugs bugs bugs
SUL
- Mystery redirect to wikimediafoundation.org (bug 52206), seems to be coming from apache somehow.
OAuth
- Greg check in with Dan G
OpenID
- Chris is still doing security review
- Volunteer to do an instance in Labs?
- Brad helpfully volunteered :-)
- $wgOpenIDForcedProvider
- Enable it on beta with a feature switch? > ext not ready yet.
- Brad helpfully volunteered :-)