Re: [Wikitech-l] Method of Testing DB Queries

They often give the same results on smallish wikis, but I wouldn't carry that over to test wikis unless lots of content and users, logging, other table data was somehow imported in. For example a tiny user table might make mysql start INNER JOINs with that table in queries where it would never do t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ori Livneh's new role on site performance

On 10/08/2013 02:59 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce that Ori Livneh will be moving into Platform Engineering as Senior Performance Engineer. This work is riffing off of the work that he's done with the Growth (nee E3) team, where a big part of his job was instrument

Re: [Wikitech-l] Method of Testing DB Queries

On 09/10/13 13:38, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Hello, > > So recently I've been trying to find a method where I could test database > queries on production data. I originally thought Tool Labs might help, but > I found out due to a bug in MySQL you can't perform EXPLAIN queries in the > database replicas

[Wikitech-l] Method of Testing DB Queries

Hello, So recently I've been trying to find a method where I could test database queries on production data. I originally thought Tool Labs might help, but I found out due to a bug in MySQL you can't perform EXPLAIN queries in the database replicas. And naturally I don't have access to the actual

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ori Livneh's new role on site performance

James Forrester wrote: >On 8 October 2013 11:59, Rob Lanphier wrote: >> I'm excited to announce that Ori Livneh will be moving into Platform >> Engineering as Senior Performance Engineer. > >​Congratulations, Ori; great news, and I look forward to continuing to >work >with you in your new rôle!​

[Wikitech-l] Sign up for the MediaWiki Architecture Summit (deadline October 22)

Hi everyone, Registration for the MediaWiki Architecture Summit is now open, and will close Tuesday, October 22, 17:00 UTC (10am PDT). Here is the essential event information: January 23-24, 2014 SPUR - 654 Mission Street San Francisco, CA, USA Please put your name/information on the following

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Summary : Incremental updates for Kiwix

Hello everyone, This summer, I was working on the project "ZIM incremental updates for Kiwix" as part of GSoC 2013, under my mentors Emmanuel Engelhart and Tommi Mäkitalo The tools zimdiff and zimpatch-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tidy - help needed

(Tangenially related: I made a proposal to eradicate Tidy some days ago over at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54617 . I didn't look into alternatives much yet – not enough free time – but http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/index.php looks prom

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ori Livneh's new role on site performance

On 8 October 2013 11:59, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm excited to announce that Ori Livneh will be moving into Platform > Engineering as Senior Performance Engineer. > ​Congratulations, Ori; great news, and I look forward to continuing to work with you in your new rôle!​ ​J. -- Ja

[Wikitech-l] Ori Livneh's new role on site performance

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce that Ori Livneh will be moving into Platform Engineering as Senior Performance Engineer. This work is riffing off of the work that he's done with the Growth (nee E3) team, where a big part of his job was instrumenting new features to measure their impact on ed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Exceptions, return false/null, and other error handling possibilities.

> Can we add an example of that usage to the status object with a note > not to follow the "return this in case of error" pattern that you > might see elsewhere in the code? It might even be worth a bit of > refactoring to get rid of the old pattern or people will still keep > finding it and copyi

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [wikimedia #5912] Upgrade PHP throughout the cluster to 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.8+wmf1 on Thursday 2013-10-08

FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Core operations via RT Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:14 PM Subject: [wikimedia #5912] Upgrade PHP throughout the cluster to 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.8+wmf1 on Thursday 2013-10-08 To: akosia...@wikimedia.org Scheduling an upgrade of PHP through the cluste

[Wikitech-l] Jenkins maintenance Oct 9th 8am UTC

Hello, Daniel Zahn and I will be rebooting gallium which is the Jenkins master. The reboot is scheduled on Oct 10th at 8am and we last for a couple hours while the server is busy fscking the huge disks. Jobs will not be processed while the server is busy, I will retrigger them manually. Sorry fo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Exceptions, return false/null, and other error handling possibilities.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 08/10/13 14:40, Erik Bernhardson wrote: >> A reviewer should be able to >> know if the error conditions are properly handled by looking at the new >> code, not by looking up all the function calls to see what they can >> possibly return. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Exceptions, return false/null, and other error handling possibilities.

Le 08/10/13 07:23, Matthew Flaschen a écrit : > > There are really two parts of the status class: > > * Setting error codes of varying severity (e.g. newGood for success, > newFatal for fatal error, error for a regular error), then letting the > caller check for them (e.g. hasMessage(), isOK and

Re: [Wikitech-l] New! mw.Title reborn

Le 07/10/13 23:33, Krinkle a écrit : > Last Friday, the mw.Title rewrite landed in master. Here's a brief summary of > the changes. For those willing to test it out in an environment similar to the production wikis, you can use the beta cluster: http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ You shoul