User:MarkAHershberger/Weekly reports/2011-08-15


 * Upload problems
 * Last week we ran into several upload problems on Commons. Actually, Mark told me today that the problem appeared on the July 19th and Reedy's reported slowness on the 23rd is the first report I could find.  It took 4 weeks of continual complaints to get this fixed.  Mark told me he wasn't aware of the problem until the day before it was fixed.  I think one reason it stayed hidden so long is that I thought the problem was related to so many of the other bugs popping up for the new Upload Wizard deployment.  After most of those were resolved, though, it became clear that slowness was actually a problem and, on Monday I began looking at the upload rates.
 * Tomorrow, I should have enough data from my data gathering to see if uploaded mb/hr would have shown the problem with slowness. If it does, I'll be able to provide that to Ops.


 * HipHop packaging
 * After letting it sit idle for a few weeks, I resumed work on the HipHop package I was working on. I now have the packages ready and all that is required is releasing them on my ppa and requesting that Debian's php packaging team to take it over.  This will require a couple of non-intrusive patches for libevent and curl.  One frustrating bit about the hiphop binary is that it doesn't try to conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, so I had to do some work there. Another frustrating bit is that where it could create shared libraries, it instead creates static libraries the all programs it creates have to link against.