Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20131017
who Antoine, Greg, Brad, Bryan, RobLa, May, Chris, Ori, Chad, Aaron, Nik
SUL
- beta ssl, forceHTTPS - bug 55804
OAuth / OpenID
- Lots of bugs from MZ
- Wiki selection - bug 55714
- xAuth / OpenID Connect / Custom
Search
- Mark given ok to deploy further, capacity permitting
- E-mail sent to ambassadors list for volunteers (Bengali Wikipedia and Swedish Wikimedia replied within an hour)
- RT in progress for hardware, leaning towards harvesting old pmtpa boxes
Performance
- Stable font URLs for UniversalLanguageSelector via bits.wm.o/static-current/.* on 1.22wmf22 (with help from Reedy, thanks!)
- Need to set one-year Cache-Control / Expires headers. Where to do this? (Apache? Varnish?)
- Antoine: ask Mark. Can’t remember off-hand what is the goal.
- Bryan: Typically that would be an Apache config (ExpiresByType) thing; I don’t know if that’s how WMF does these
- Need to set one-year Cache-Control / Expires headers. Where to do this? (Apache? Varnish?)
- VisualEditor timing measurements for both initial Parsoid DOM load and for DOM save rolling in; still need to pipe into Ganglia.
- +1 from Roan on ResourceLoader module caching in localStorage; Roan will do more tests later this week.
- Ganglia views:
- Bits caches time-to-first-byte info broken down by DC
- Cookies set by various wikis’ main page
- Number of CSS rules on the page
Other
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55808 Regression in parse (dealing with <translate>)
- Bryan starting Wikimania Scholarship project
- Trusted User Verification
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90265/ (not sure what good values would be)
- Antoine: Picking random values? You probably want to first measure/monitors those rates; Limit them once you have a clear picture.
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90385/
- MassMessage
Mailing list
- public/private?
- list (with archives) or just an alias
- bikeshed: name of list?
mwcore-l@wikimedia.org has been setup by itops during meeting.
- google groups based list with membership restricted to wikimedia.org organization members
- https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#!aboutgroup/mwcore-l