Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20131118

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

Bug Escalation: 31369 Non-canonical HTTPS URLs quietly redirect to HTTP, Still “highest” priority? 13953 Global CSS/JS. Proposed patch (link). Legoktm would appreciate feedback on whether this should this be incorporated into CentralAuth or as a separate extension? 51174 Scap broken for deploying new versions of MediaWiki due to ExtensionMessage file not being created

Auth Systems 57081 Do we need to support the optimal UX for IE < 8? CORS would make this bug easy.
 * Antoine: James Forrester (?) used (still) maintain a list of browsers version supported and features grades
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility

Search Another train wreck today. Will cancel deployments. Got to schedule switching it back on and fallout. Interwiki search may actually split into two separate features, “interwiki search” (for the power users) and “enhanced search” (better name needed, but refers to using interwiki data to add search features such as displaying relevant images, relevant links to other languages, etc)

Release Engineering + DevOps Sprint https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DevOps_Sprint_2013 Quarterly review tomorrow Logstash is ready to play with on labs, being feed with beta cluster logs. (See user/pass on officewiki) outages (12 in 12 days) - post mortems

Code review? Our favorite math extension work, reviews?

49169 Validate TeX input for all renderers, not just texvc

48032 Math extension doesnt support many languages (Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil)
 * Patch is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90748, some OCAML rewrite which probably nobody can properly review. Antoine recommendation: reimplement in something we support (C, java, PHP, python)..

Antoine: physikerwelt has done lot of Math related stuff recently but barely anyone to review :/