Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-15 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: This thread has probably reached that limit of fresh arguments. Can we continue with proper documentation, reporting and patches? We care about GitHub and we believe it is an important source of potential contributors. This

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebRequest and PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago

2013-03-15 Thread vitalif
fixing bug 32621 is a todo. The first attempt failed and some tweaks are needed to use the PathRouter to fix that bug. PathRouter allows for the use of custom paths to expand. NamespacePaths is an example of one thing you can do (say giving Help: pages a /help/ path) but you could also apply

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebRequest and PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago

2013-03-15 Thread vitalif
And what is the point of making pretty urls in case of MediaWiki? I think they're already pretty much pretty in MediaWiki :) /edit/$1 is slightly prettier than ?action=edit, but as I understand it doesn't affect anything, even like SEO. And I don't think /help/$1 is any better than /Help:$1 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-15 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi Niklas, On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:54:05AM +0200, Niklas Laxström wrote: On 14 March 2013 01:07, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: Queries are just a grep away, and setting them can be done through git as well, until we integrate that into gerrit. Except that you

[Wikitech-l] Wikiversity: Request for MediaWiki extension

2013-03-15 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Hello, I am going to teach a graduate-level course on quantum physics (quantum simulation) at the University of Hannover, Germany. At the moment, I am evaluating Wikiversity for collaboration with other lecturers and students on the creation of lecture notes. As the notes will contain a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikiversity: Request for MediaWiki extension

2013-03-15 Thread Quim Gil
Hello Hendrik, On 03/15/2013 08:15 AM, Hendrik Weimer wrote: As the notes will contain a significant amount of mathematical content, it would be extremely useful to export into LaTeX format for distributing printed copies. As far as I know, the Wiki2LaTeX extension to MediaWiki [1] provides

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikiversity: Request for MediaWiki extension

2013-03-15 Thread bawolff
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Hendrik Weimer hwei...@itp.uni-hannover.de wrote: Hello, I am going to teach a graduate-level course on quantum physics (quantum simulation) at the University of Hannover, Germany. At the moment, I am evaluating Wikiversity for collaboration with other

[Wikitech-l] Lua Performance

2013-03-15 Thread Robert Rohde
I done some testing of the performance of Lua-based templates as deployed on enwiki. This analysis is summarized at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/Lua_performance The bottom line is that Lua is fast, and often much faster than the template coding it replaces. For the

[Wikitech-l] QA weekly: LiquidTreads bug triage

2013-03-15 Thread Quim Gil
As proposed here some time ago, the focus of the next QA weekly goal will be old LiquidThreads bugs. Starting on March 18, 2013 and all week long with a dedicated session on March 19, we're cleaning up the bug reports about Extension:LiquidThreads.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikiversity: Request for MediaWiki extension

2013-03-15 Thread Max Semenik
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:08 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: That's a large extension, which means the review effort would be non-trivial (Although just looking at it, I noticed a couple lines which look suspicious). Its probably unlikely to be deployed unless people _really_ wanted

[Wikitech-l] Scaptraps in Gerrit? Add me as a reviewer!

2013-03-15 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello all, This is related to the ongoing tagging in Gerrit/Bugzilla thread, but I wanted to make it a separate one so it is more easily seen. Request: For anything in Gerrit that you feel is scaptrap worthy, please add me to the reviewers list. That way I can keep a record of them and you don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] en.planet updates stuck - need Python help (upstream problem)

2013-03-15 Thread Daniel Zahn
Thank you. Meanwhile fixed planet updates via live hack. See ticket for details. -- Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org Operations Engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Deployment Highlights - 2013-03-15 (NOW WITH LIGTNING DEPLOYS!)

2013-03-15 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello everyone, This is your weekly preview of higher-risk or general you should be aware of items for the slew of deployments coming in the near term. == During the week of March 18th: == * AFTv5 is continuing their rollout of new features and schema changes on Tuesday * E2 and E3 are

[Wikitech-l] Moving a GitHub Pull Request to Gerrit Changeset manually

2013-03-15 Thread Yuvi Panda
Hello! So I tried converting https://github.com/wikimedia/qa-browsertests/pull/1 into a Gerrit changeset (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54097/) , and was mostly successful. It is also a relatively painless process - at least for single commits. This assumes you (person doing the GitHub -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-15 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On 03/14/2013 08:36 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: And I wouldn't be too quick to celebrate the increased vendor lock-in of a large percentage of the open source community into an ecosystem of partially proprietary tools and services (the GitHub engine itself, the official GitHub applications, etc.).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment Highlights - 2013-03-15 (NOW WITH LIGTNING DEPLOYS!)

2013-03-15 Thread MZMcBride
Greg Grossmeier wrote: Read this: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lightning_deployments Hi. Looks pretty good. My only tweak was changing the IRC channel to #wikimedia-tech. It's an old and established channel and seems like a perfect fit for this. :-) We'll likely never really move away