Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20130923

Sept 23rd
Who Nik, Bryan, Brad, Chris, Greg, Aaron, Chad, Tim, Antoine

Things from Faidon’s outages email:
 * Upload traffic increase
 * Tim on this one now

http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/stacked.php?m=ap_idle_workers&c=Application%20servers%20eqiad&r=year&st=1379779788&host_regex=
 * “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)

http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/graph_all_periods.php?c=Memcached%20eqiad&m=cpu_report&r=hour&s=by%20name&hc=4&mc=2&st=1379780000&g=network_report&z=large
 * 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.