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
  • 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
  • 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

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.