Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140602

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

Escalation

 * UploadWizard broken in Beta Labs
 * Default image thumbnail stuff (square bounding boxes)

Unscheduled work

 * Bryan’s Composer work
 * Https stuff (Chris)
 * HTTPS in China?
 * Enabling Perfect forward security
 * Config cleanup

HHVM

 * Blockers for provisioning MediaWiki Puppetization on trusty:
 * twemproxy package
 * apache 2.4 module (ori)
 * php extension packages
 * hhvm package (done by faidon, needs testing, ori will test)
 * Bugs:
 * LuaSandbox segfault (another one, though possibly a dupe, needs more data-gathering) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65792
 * Wikibase bugs:
 * HHVM: Exception about the "datatypefactory" value of the resource definition https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63691
 * Under HHVM: Call to a member function getGuid on a non-object https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65698

Search

 * Nik Back!
 * Unicode normalization going out now
 * Getting three new machines now that we’ve ported GeoData to Elasticsearch
 * Lots of talking while at conference to Elasticsearch and Lucene folks
 * Suggestions for support for another dozen or so languages
 * Lucene efficiencies that _might_ improve our performance

SecurePoll

 * Brad and Dan to sync this week

RelEng

 * Finally movement on the “Get WMF Product involved with shellbugs” idea
 * Phab OAuth work is now configurable
 * The aforementioned RFC on Jenkins test isolation is now internal-public (see ops@lists)
 * Can that be forwarded to engineering@?
 * not yet
 * Emir from FB RelEng is coming to office tomorrow (Tuesday) (11-3 Pacific) talking HHVM and deployment and other fun things
 * Let me (Greg) know if you want to join the fun
 * Deployment Training on Wednesday from 11 to 12:30 (Pacific), will be recorded/streamed

Security

 * Reviewing propertysuggestor for Wikidata
 * patch on cluster

Planning
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#MediaWiki_Core https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Goals