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User:MarkAHershberger/Weekly reports/2011-09-19

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1.18 Shepherding
This week was mostly filled with 1.18 work — watching the Mediawiki roadmap/1.18/Revision report, chasing developers down, and getting FIXMEs fixed, as well as reviewing some code myself. Since I was focused on this, my usual bugmeistering fell behind (I have a lot of bug email to catch up on, for example) and I had to bow out of handling my usual triage meeting. ( did an i18n triage in my stead.)
Talked to Ops about measuring upload speed more directly
Sumana had suggested that they might be able to measure the upload speed more directly than any information I was getting out of the API. This made sense, so I filed an RT ticket to request that some sort of monitoring be set up.
After Ops discussed the ticket, though, Mutante told me that they really didn't have the information and, worse, getting it would require setting up hosts in different places. Back to the drawing board.
Scalars upgraded
Last week Ops also upgraded the scalars to Lucid which should clear up several bugs in RT and Bugzilla. I'll get with Peter to sort this out this week.
Reviewed Niklas' fix for $namespaceGenderAliases not compatible with $wgExtraNamespaces
During my initial testing I thought that I had found a bug, but the issue was a pre-existing one, and, Niklas said I should file a bug, so I did.


Daily Log

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2011-09-12

  • FIXME and CR assignment meetings went well. We had intended to do the CR assingments on Tuesday, but we had enough momentum and finished the FIXMEs soon enough that the CR assignments just went smoothly.

2011-09-13

  • After contacting several developers personally about reviewing and fixing fixmes (following up on the pervious nights meeting, quite a bit of work was accomplished.
  • Talked to mutante on IRC about measuring upload speed directly and he said other people in Ops thought that measuring it would be tough without setting up different nodes across the world. In lieu of that, he and I talked about how my use of the information from the API could be used.
  • Reviewed Brion's updates where he remerged things and added test cases
  • Changed minor FIXME items to TODO items so they wouldn't block
  • Trying to get platonides to look at his FIXMEs


2011-09-16


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