DevLog for 28 Aug 2014

Let’s see. I’m also going to attempt to include patch links wherever possible.

• Cleaned up session handling bugs in Quarry. They were previously not closing properly, causing SQLAlchemy exceptions now and then that’ll let queries die in a ‘queued’ state. This should hopefully be fixed by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156909/.
• Made https://graphite.wmflabs.org somewhat more stable again for use by Wikimedia BetaLabs folks by just blacklisting all other projects from sending data to it (with a local whitelist hack + https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156966/). This would let them use it, and they said they would find it massively useful. All this is a hack until https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8163 could be resolved and I can deploy graphite on a ‘real’ machine.
• Minor patch to my Gerrit -> IRC bot to make it strip a common prefix (‘operations/’) from change messages posted to the operations channel – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156877/. Also made one that calls jenkins-bot jerkins-bot if it -1’s your patch (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156878/) but it seems to have a bug that I can’t be bothered to debug atm.

Might spend some more time with Hive over the next few days – figured out an approach for using it from Python, and it should be fun to do so!