Wikimedia Platform Engineering/Wikimedia MediaWiki API Team/Meeting Minutes/2015-04-07

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2015-04-07[edit]

Status[edit]

(no discussion of items here, add to “To Discuss” if something needs discussion)

  • Brad
    • Working on unit tests for AuthManager.
    • Slightly stuck on the User-class/password question from the mailing list, more feedback would help.
    • Reviewing lots of code.
  • Gergo
    • looking for feedback on T74469/T94885
    • Sentry stuff: UploadWizard error logging goes live this week, need help on orchestration part from someone with more puppet/salt knowledge
      • Will discuss with Bryan
  • Kunal
  • Mark
    • Out
  • Bryan
    • Wrapping up Q3 review meeting prep for Platform
    • Working on logging config and backports (shhh don't tell anybody I'm coding)
  • Other

To Discuss[edit]

  • Agenda/Minutes
  • Who’s our victim for attending Scrum-of-Scrums?
    • Bryan to cover this week. Ask Mark about future.
  • Do we care about keeping track of everyone’s vacations and other unavailabilities, and if so how should we do it?
    • Kevin will talk to Rob
    • Options:
      • In here, like MW Core did?
      • Officewiki page?
      • Get a team calendar set up?
  • Brad suggests we should try to make it a “strong suggestion” that we get asked to review new api.php modules, at least for code deployed to the cluster.
    • Having the API team as stewards of the api.php makes sense
    • devs: let them know via mailing list that API team is available to help (Bryan to draft email)
    • PMs in features area: Maybe informative email from Damon (Bryan to ghostwrite)
    • Should API team have representation on ArchCom? (Bryan to ask Robla, or delegate to Kevin)
  • Discuss patches for blocked issues: Are devs writing code for known-blocked tasks, or are tasks getting blocked after the code is written?
    • Some of each
    • Kevin just wanted to raise awareness of the issue. No action items.
  • Bryan may not be at next week’s meeting

SUL status (can we help?)[edit]

  • Just code reviews

What is Blocked on Core/API[edit]

What is blocking us (which should go to Scrum-of-Scrums)[edit]

  • Maybe that AuthManager will need HHVM patch adc98c20 to work on HHVM, no idea what the timeline might be on getting that into our HHVM. We’re a good way from actually being blocked on it though.
  • Wikidata issue blocking a bunch of ours:
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