Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

2013-06-15 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:09 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Greg Grossmeier wrote: * On Tuesday VisualEditor team will enable an A/B test, where half of new accounts created on English Wikipedia will get VisualEditor enabled by default. This is to test performance and features

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Deployment Highlights - Week of June 17th

2013-06-15 Thread Neil Harris
On 15/06/13 08:09, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:09 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Greg Grossmeier wrote: * On Tuesday VisualEditor team will enable an A/B test, where half of new accounts created on English Wikipedia will get VisualEditor enabled by default.

[Wikitech-l] [labs] bots project is turning to testing environment of tools project

2013-06-15 Thread Petr Bena
Hi Most of you already know that, but I will repeat it once more, so that everyone who is using bots project is aware of that. Since tool labs (project tools on wikimedia labs) is now serving the purpose which bots project on labs initially served for, we decided to convert bots project to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla: Tips and Best Practices

2013-06-15 Thread Andre Klapper
On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 00:16 -0400, MZMcBride wrote: Andre Klapper wrote: From this week on I'm going to regularly blog about small not so easy to discover functionality in Bugzilla. It's based on conversations with Wikimedia users developers in the last months. That's you! ;) The first

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] [labs] bots project is turning to testing environment of tools project

2013-06-15 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Most of you already know that, but I will repeat it once more, so that everyone who is using bots project is aware of that. Since tool labs (project tools on wikimedia labs) is now serving the purpose which bots project on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla: Tips and Best Practices

2013-06-15 Thread MZMcBride
Andre Klapper wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 00:16 -0400, MZMcBride wrote: Andre Klapper wrote: From this week on I'm going to regularly blog about small not so easy to discover functionality in Bugzilla. It's based on conversations with Wikimedia users developers in the last months. That's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] [labs] bots project is turning to testing environment of tools project

2013-06-15 Thread Petr Bena
All right, I have nothing against that. I will poke Coren as well, because he should be at least informed about his kind of things, and if he has no objectives we can change this plan and create new separate environment soonish On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:

[Wikitech-l] Bikeshed 5: The Painter Strikes Back

2013-06-15 Thread Tyler Romeo
So I was wondering how people would feel about adding a coding convention for the use of is_null() in PHP code. It's 10 times slower than doing === null, which is a bit trivial in context, but nonetheless a fact, and it's also a bit easier to read, especially when doing the inverse (i.e., doing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikeshed 5: The Painter Strikes Back

2013-06-15 Thread Brian Wolff
On 6/16/13, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: So I was wondering how people would feel about adding a coding convention for the use of is_null() in PHP code. It's 10 times slower than doing === null, which is a bit trivial in context, but nonetheless a fact, and it's also a bit easier

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikeshed 5: The Painter Strikes Back

2013-06-15 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: As for performance. 10x out of context doesn't mean much (How much slower is 10x. If we changed all 681 instances to the other one, are we talking about a difference of 1 microsecond in absolute time? Or is 10x an actually