Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20131104

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

Monthly report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/October

Bug escalation
 * MessageCache cloning of parser breaks stuff if it happens while in the process of parsing something
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56226
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92253/
 * 56485: ConfirmEdit can not whitelist non-http(s) URLs from triggering a captcha. Brad would like feedback on his proposed fix before starting to write code.
 * Old API patches that could use review:
 * 62229: API: Fix setnotificationtimestamp with no pages given
 * 70749: Add API action=revisiondelete
 * 87187: API: Have action=parse indicate hidden categories
 * 88995: API: Handle "special" options in action=options
 * Uncommitted DB writes (transaction from DatabaseBase::query) (caused by not running update.php?) - 56269
 * Ask translatewiki folks to repro (Greg)

Projects checkin:
 * search everything fine (Rob)
 * devops sprint (Greg)
 * « Ryan deployment system » being worked on
 * LinksUpdate checkin https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53687
 * OAuth (Chris)
 * Gotta be advertised / blog post / social network etc..
 * Scholarship (Bryan)
 * Integration (Antoine)
 * second slave in prod
 * Zuul to be updated to a gearman backed version
 * Performance (Ori)
 * LocalStorage for resource loader (see Ori post on wikitech-l)
 * ULS

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