Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/checkin-20131028

who
Greg, Brad, Bryan, Chris, Chad, Aaron, Ori, Robla, Tim, Nik, Antoine

Scrum of Scrum items

 * https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards?favorite_id=1099&view=Wall
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55709 “texvc failure due to missing MW cgroup”
 * Aaron will review the changeset

OAuth/OpenID

 * Only documentation stuff left (bug 56021, and Extension:OAuth in general), then should meet UX’s requirements
 * Add mw.org help link to grants management page and clean up language there (maybe simplify the revoke form)

Search

 * The great catastrophe
 * --rebuild passed to reindexing script would : 1) delete current index 2) build index. => downtime \O/
 * For some reason still didn’t see all the wikis so built them today
 * Chad on interwiki search
 * Nik on job queue and fallout from catastrophe and various bugs
 * Andrew Otto looking at Ganglia (the numbers are lying)
 * Some machines coming but not space for all

Performance

 * Graphite module coming along. Draft in Gerrit (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92271/). Positive response from Faidon. Still a lot left to do.
 * localStorage patch has +1s from Roan and Timo; someone needs to pull the trigger. I’ll poke Roan today.
 * bawolff’s patch has comments from Tim, Aaron & Niklas; I need to suck it up and spend some quality time making sure I grok it and then see it through to getting merged.
 * Annoying curl_multi issue fixed in SwiftCloudFiles...thumbnail purges are much faster now

DevOps... er Deployments Sprint

 * See backlog: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DevOpsBacklog
 * First standup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DevOpsStandUps

RFCs and Architecture Summit

 * Selection committee meeting last week

HHVM
successful if we end up with a page on MediaWiki.org or Wikitech that is effective at eliciting contributions from interested parties.
 * Invite sent for triage session on Wednesday, but the time might have to change.
 * The goal of this meeting is to produce a list of all TODOs for HHVM, and to identify and prioritize items that would unblock contributions from the rest of engineering and the developer community at large. I'd consider it
 * If you’re interested and didn’t get an invite, let Ori or Chad know and they’ll add you

Bug Escalation

 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53227 “Stale non-slow maintenance Special pages on Wikimedia wikis: bi-weekly updateSpecialPages.php no longer successfully running”