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


 * 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.  (Siebrand 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.