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 -
 * 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
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55808 Regression in parse (dealing with )
 * 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 mwcore-l@wikimedia.org has been setup by itops during meeting.
 * public/private?
 * list (with archives) or just an alias
 * bikeshed: name of list?
 * google groups based list with membership restricted to wikimedia.org organization members
 * https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#!aboutgroup/mwcore-l