Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20131223

who: Brad, Nik, Bryan, Greg, Dan, RobLa, Chris, Jorm

Team standups

 * email?
 * IRC?

Bug escalation

 * 58157 - "IndexPager::buildQueryInfo" database query error when selecting namespace on Special:Contributions
 * pinged sean
 * Parsoid is blocking 99792 (long-standing bug where multiple reflist templates in a page has caching issues) and followups 99793 and 99794. How can we get them to unblock?

Search

 * So many deployments last few weeks….. Just finished first pass of commons.
 * Some concern around Job Queue length.
 * Capacity planning numbers looking good. 54% of updates, 43% of pages.

DevOps / Performance
. (Only) two failures! - Make ProfilerSimple.php not collate statistics. Will allow us to track variance, not just means. - Add getModules method to MediaTransformOutput or MediaHandler interface, allowing handlers to specify JavaScript and CSS that should be loaded to support media contents on the page.
 * Travis CI runs MediaWiki unit tests with HHVM on each commit:
 * Apt now uses upstream LogStash packages (Faidon). Needs initiative.
 * Requests:


 * “release early”: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Greg_(WMF)/dev_deploy_flow
 * Old version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_process_improvement/7-8_July_2011_Meeting
 * Random performance-related patch that could use review: 101490 -- Ori will review!

Beta / CI
Antoine is out this week

Puppet installed PHP packages and then required a service restart (apache on one machine, mw-job-runner on another). Alexandros pushed out a change that required this.

Security

 * 1.22.1 moved to Jan 13th (at M&M’s request)

Scholarships

 * Deployed production site on 2013-12-17.
 * Thanks to Ori and Chad for their help!
 * Site is dormant until 2014-01-06 when application period begins
 * Have a growing number of small bug fixes waiting to be deployed sometime next week

SecurePoll
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SecurePoll

Quarterly review
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Quarterly_review,_January_2014
 * Google Spreadsheet (for now)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Ideas_List