Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140428

who: Chad, Brad, Bryan, Nik, Rob, Aaron, Dan, Greg, Antoine, Faidon, Ori, Tim regrets: ?

New quarterly planning process / backlog
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog/Process

Bug escalation

 * (nothing from greg)

SecurePoll

 * Nothing new to report from Brad. Hoping to have the UI for the creation form on Labs sometime this week.

Performance

 * Ori mostly tied up with EventLogging migration from db1047 to db1048 & onboarding milimetric / qchris / nuria as project maintainers.
 * GeoIP cookie now sets domain= to top level domain
 * MultimediaViewer discussions
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan#Timeline
 * HHVM: trusty host (osmium) is being (re)provisioned today
 * Aaron: Pool counter support for thumb.php requests; use slave DB connections for LocalFile cache misses; fixes to Profiler and TransactionProfiler classes, Range support for img_auth.php in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127466/, still thinking about thumbnail cache RfC, working on bad example extension for performance workshop

Deployment tooling / RelEng

 * Quarterly Review on the 30th, ie Wednesday
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_and_QA_Team/Quarterly_review,_April_2014
 * There is now a slave db replicating into beta cluster (thanks Reedy)
 * Bryan is working on killing the .git dir sync / fixing Special:Version for extensions
 * This is a blocker to trebuchet or other sync methods that mess with .git from the stage server to the cluster

Search

 * Started building index on all remaining wikis. Pass one almost done.  Pass two will be faster.
 * Switching group0 wikis to new highlighter Tuesday
 * Swift plugin complete, deploying to Central/Archiva/etc this evening