Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Meetings

August 19
who: Robla, Greg, Chad, Bryan, Brian, Aaron, Chris, Brad, Nik

HTTPS
 * translations needed
 * OTRS queue?
 * Greg to talk with Phillippe on escalation
 * Design review
 * “Always use a secure connection when logged in.”
 * ask Jared

OAuth:
 * “OAuth Admin” group on mediawiki
 * Any user with a confirmed email address can apply to have their OAuth application run.
 * After Chris or Aaron approve, they can have other users authenticate through the app.
 * TODO: Chris to create a Hello World example (eg: post to user’s talk page or something)

Search:
 * On test2wiki right now.
 * Sometimes blowing up. Patch just merged to prevent that.
 * Lots of bugs. Working on them.  Only the blowing up one is really bad enough to not want to deploy to mediawiki.org.

Release management/QA
 * Quaterly review on Wed
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_%26_QA_Team/Quarterly_review,_August_2013
 * Review of extensions to be deployed

Other
 * Bug 39653: Greg, any thoughts on scheduling this?
 * get to test2/mediawiki asap
 * announced rollout plan after that
 * Maybe it’s just me (Brad), but this Google doc is getting slow to load. Time to archive it?
 * bug 53032: Chris to add logging?