Analytics/Reportcard/Architecture-Meeting-Notes 2012-01-19

Attendance

• Asher
• Diederik
• Andrew Otto
• Robla

• Need to make sure we don't underestimate the problem and the amount of work.

Database Design

• Asher: hash index?
• You don't need to worry about managing uniqueness.
• Would be better to do a composite key on the columns you need, rather than combining them into a hash

history

• Nimish did work to make it easy to get metrics via API in JSON or XML.
  • this isn't a big deal to start over
• Eric Zachte has a bunch of scripts to extract data.
• Sam did some work (might be a a lot).
  • Exposes database as webservice via mediawiki

API

In web.py or other framework, or as MediaWiki extension?

Let's do MediaWiki

Decisions

• use new db schema
• rewrite scripts in python or whatever, but make use of what we can as soon as we can.
• make things as modular as possible.
• Use MediaWiki extension for API.