Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140519

who: Greg, Brad, Nik, Antoine, Chad, Aaron, Chris, Tim, RobLa, Bryan regrets: Dan, Ori

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

^^ that needs to be filled in, and will be filled in with random things from our backlog: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog

...barring substantive feedback from y’all

Unscheduled work
Discussion of the time cost of SWAT for Nik and the general usefulness of “20% time” by core to do things like this that help the community and the Foundation.
 * Examples: thumbnail work, recent changes log

SWAT discussion

 * shellbugs are crazy varied in effect
 * mine previous bugs from reedy/others for obvious categories
 * mini SWAT deploy training
 * (Greg will schedule the general ‘how to deploy’ session with Sarah today)

Escalation

 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53770 aka “"The target filename is invalid" when trying to move/delete specific file on Commons”
 * You do not have permission to move this page, for the following reason: The target filename is invalid
 * Brian W commented today

HHVM
Testing jobrunners and other maintenance scripts on production server osmium Bugs filed upstream and most were already fixed Tidy needs to be ported; MaxSem has volunteered to port this

Search

 * Nik not widely available for next two weeks (Conference and @WMDE)
 * After that start rolling out Cirrus as primary to more wikis
 * Japanese Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Commons good candidates because we have happy users there
 * Chad will start doing it sooner with the “smaller” ones
 * We have a bunch of plugin deploys backlogged on Nik’s travel
 * Switching Hebrew from hebrew analyzer to unicode normalization
 * Highlighter version bump
 * Can I help you with any of this while you’re out? Can continue discussion outside meeting.
 * GeoData work (to replace Solr) is going live everywhere on Wednesday.

SecurePoll
Dan’s arranged a meeting with Philippe and James on Wednesday to catch up with them and see what needs improving.

RelEng/Deploy

 * fancy new Deployments calendar (thanks to mwalker at the hackathon)
 * Getting Mukunda going
 * Deploy training tbs(cheduled)

Security

 * bug 65501 (fixed now, thanks brad!)
 * Hadoop review done
 * CentralAuth role on vagrant

Phabricator

 * Playing around with Chris’ OAuth code for MW.
 * Gonna install in labs phab + pointed at beta cluster