Wikimedia Platform Engineering/MediaWiki Core Team/Check-ins/20140303

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

  • Ori WFH this week

Budget stuff[edit]

Team gaps: Python, front end, ops-type stuff, C++

Outside dependencies[edit]

  • Flow
  • Zero config
  • Wikidata


Liaison-ing[edit]

Proposed: Core Features: Chad VE: Timo Parsoid: Aaron Wikidata: Nik Analytics: Nik Fundraising: Chris S(?) Multimedia: Bryan and/or Robla Mobile Apps: Mobile Web: Zero: Language: Growth: Ori (?) Ops: Tim ? Product: Dan  :-) Design: Dan (?)

Performance[edit]

  • Edit save time?
  • Ori still OOO, but listening in to stay up-to-date.
  • GeoIP: replace req for bits.wm.o/geoiplookup with set-cookie hdr
  • Will e-mail a more granular list of HHVM todos; please indicate what you can/want to take on

Bug’s we should look at[edit]

Deployment tooling / RelEng[edit]


Search[edit]

  • Elasticsearch 1.0.1 upgrade on Thursday night
    • Will provide opportunity for performance improvements
    • Will revert everyone to Lucene search during upgrade
  • Outage last Friday from poison servers
    • Merged timeouts code to help if this happens again
    • Started talking with ops about additional monitoring
    • One more puppet change to make

SecurePoll[edit]