Just a note that I have really appreciated these overviews and I hope they keep going strong !
DJ On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:15 PM Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote: > 📘 Read on Phabricator at > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/live/1/post/141/ > ------- > > How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence? Read on to find out! > > - Month in numbers. > - Current problems. > - Highlighted stories. > > ## 📊 *Month in numbers* > > * 7 documented incidents. [1] > * 30 new Wikimedia-prod-error tasks created. [2] (17 new in Jan, and 18 in > Dec.) > * 27 Wikimedia-prod-error tasks closed. [3] (16 closed in Jan, and 20 in > Dec.) > > There are in total 177 open Wikimedia-prod-error tasks today. (188 in Feb, > 172 in Jan, and 165 in Dec.) > > ## 📉 *Current problems* > > There’s been an increase in how many application errors are reported each > week. And, we’ve also managed to mostly keep up with those each week, so > that’s great! > > But, it does appear that most weeks we accumulated one or two unresolved > errors, which is starting to add up. I believe this is mainly because they > were reported a day after the branch went out. That is, if the same issues > had been reported 24 hours earlier in a given week, then they might’ve > blocked the train as a regression. > > → https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/ > > Below is breakdown of unresolved prod errors since last quarter. (I’ve > omitted the last three weeks.) > > By month: > > - February: 5 reports (1.33-wmf.16, 1.33-wmf.17, 1.33-wmf.18). > - January: 3 reports (1.33-wmf.13, 1.33-wmf.14). > - December 2018: 5 reports (1.33-wmf.9). > - November 2018: 3 reports (1.33-wmf.2). > - October 2018: 1 report (1.32-wmf.26). > - September 2018: 2 reports (1.32-wmf.20). > > By steward and software component: > > Core Platform: > * Parser: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216664. > * Revision backend: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214035, > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212428. > > Growth: > * Echo: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217079. > * Flow: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212742, > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204793. > * Page deletion: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203913. > > Wikidata: > * Wikibase: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217329, > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215380, > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213483. > * WikibaseLexeme: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207479, > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200906. > * WikibaseQualityConstraints: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212282. > > Performance: > * Lib-rdmbs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212284. > > Multimedia: > * MediaWiki uploading: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208539. > > Fundraising-Tech: > * CentralNotice: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209741. > > (Nobody - pending code ownership process): > * ImageMap extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217087. > * Nuke extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212690. > > ## *️⃣ *Fixed exposed fatal error on Special:Contributions* > > Previously, a link to Special:Contributions could pass invalid options to a > part of MediaWiki that doesn’t allow invalid options. Why would anything > allow invalid options? Let’s find out. > > Think about software as an onion. Software tends to have an outer layer > where everything is allowed. If this layer finds illegal user input, it has > to respond somehow. For example, by informing the user. In this outer > layer, illegal input is not a problem in the software. It is a normal thing > to see as we interact with the user. This outer layer responds directly to > a user, is translated, and can do things like “view recent changes”, “view > user contributions” or “rename a page”. > > Internally, such action is divided into many smaller tasks (or functions). > For example, a function might be “get talk namespace for given subject > namespace”. This would answer “Talk:” to “(Article)”, and “Wikipedia_talk:” > to “Wikipedia:”. When searching for edits on My Contributions with > “Associated namespaces” ticked, this function is used. It is also used by > Move Page if renaming a page together with its talk page. And it’s used on > Recent Changes and View History, for all those little “talk” links next to > each page title and username. > > If one of your edits is for a page that has no discussion namespace, what > should MediaWiki do? Show no edits? Skip that edit and tell the user “1 > edit was hidden”? Show normally, but without a talk link? That decision is > made by the outer layer for a feature, when it catches the internal > exception. Alternatively, it can sometimes avoid an exception by asking a > different question first – a question that cannot fail. Such as “Does > namespace X have a talk space?”, instead of “What is the talk space for > X?”. > > When a program doesn’t catch or avoid an exception, a fatal error occurs. > Thanks to D3r1ck01 for fixing this fatal error. – > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150324 > > > 💡*ProTip*: If the Jenkins build is failing for a project and you suspect > it’s unrelated to the project itself, be sure to report it to Phabricator > under “Shared Build Failure”, or use > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?project=shared-build-failure > . > > > ## 🎉 *Thanks!* > > Thank you to everyone who has helped by reporting, investigating, or > resolving problems in Wikimedia production. Including: Aaron Schulz, > Addshore, Alaa Sarhan, Amorymeltzer, Anomie, D3r1ck01, Daimona, Daniel > Kinzler, Hashar, Hoo man, Jcrespo, KaMan, Mainframe98, Marostegui, Matej > Suchanek, Ottomata, Pchelolo, Reedy, Revi, Smalyshev, Tarrow, Tgr, > Thcipriani, Umherirrender, and Volker E. > > Thanks! > > Until next time, > > – Timo Tijhof > > 🍏 *He got me invested in some kind of.. fruit company.* > > ------- > > Footnotes: > > [1] Incidents. – > > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=Incident+documentation%2F20190200&to=Incident+documentation%2F20190300&namespace=0 > > [2] Tasks created. – > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/a0yuo6bqDOrh/#R > > [3] Tasks closed. – > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/7pmQcTvTWw_4/#R > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
