How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to
find out!
Read on Phabricator at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/219/
Incidents
1 documented incident in December. [1] In previous years, December
typically had 4 or fewer documented incidents. [3]
On 4/2/21 6:33 am, Strainu wrote:
One thing that puzzles me in that ticket is this phrase from Mark
Traceur: "It might be better to look at something (slightly) more
modern, like the upload dialog in core". Does anyone know what that
dialog is? AFAIK the uploader in core (Special:Upload)
Hi,
We're currently in the process of upgrading the MediaWiki servers to
Debian Buster and expect a performance regression to come with it.
The cause appears to be better Spectre[1] mitigations in the Buster 4.19
kernel, which we can't disable. Most of the effect is seen in code that
ends
Are the Gerrit permission requests that techcom used to handle going to the
new forum or another team?
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, 12:20 pm Kate Chapman, wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I’m pleased to announce that the Technical Decision Making Process[0]
> proposed as an evolution of the Wikimedia Technical
That comment may be referring to improving the core uploader so the
extension can be depreciated.
Has UW gone under a code stewardship request?
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, 8:33 am Strainu, wrote:
> As the deafening silence of this thread probably shows, a discussion is
> not really possible. The WMF
As the deafening silence of this thread probably shows, a discussion is not
really possible. The WMF has had 0 interest in making uploads easier in the
last few years.
To be fair, faced with furios opposition from the Commons community for
even basic improvements such as allowing imports from
Hello,
The last blocker for 1.36.0-wmf.29 is:
* MemcachedPeclBagOStuff: Serialization of 'Closure' is not allowed
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273242
It comes from the extension FeaturedFeeds which attempt to serialize
some User objects in the cache. An issue we already identified
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2021-02-03#2021-02-03
= 2021-02-03 =
== Callouts ==
* [RelEng] After several failed attempts to rollout wmf.28, we abandoned
the release and moved on to wmf.29. This was done because (1) wmf.29 is a
superset of code in wmf.28 (2) we need a stable
