[Wikitech-l] Failed jobs will never run again

2015-07-02 Thread Henning Vreyborg
Hi there, it seems that failed jobs will never be executed again. My extension creates jobs that talk with an external server via soap. This connection might fail (e.g. server maintenance) which then means that my job fails and needs to be reexecuted later. On my wiki I am running

[Wikitech-l] The end of the Roadmap Phabricator project

2015-07-02 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello all, First, some history and context: The #roadmap project[0] in our Phabricator instance was set up by Erik M as a trial way of tracking upcoming releases, deployments, and generally new things of note, as these previously weren't tracked in one place. It has a workboard[1] that is is

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming in October: Seattle GNU/Linux conference

2015-07-02 Thread Pine W
The 2015 Seattle GNU/Linux conference (SeaGL) call for proposals is now open. I've submitted a proposal for a 50-minute workshop regarding how to edit Wikipedia, and may submit more proposals in collaboration with my colleagues in Cascadia Wikimedians. I'm sure that SeaGL would be happy to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-07-02 Thread Gergő Tisza
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: I am also interested in the answer to Nemo's question about whether this is the first piece of proprietary software ever entering use in the Wikimedia projects land? Translatewiki has been using Yandex for a while

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-07-02 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 02/07/2015 21:55, Legoktm ha scritto: I am also interested in the answer to Nemo's question about whether this is the first piece of proprietary software ever entering use in the Wikimedia projects land? Also Qualtrics

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-07-02 Thread David Gerard
On 2 July 2015 at 20:55, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: I am also interested in the answer to Nemo's question about whether this is the first piece of proprietary software ever entering use in the Wikimedia projects land? [not actually relevant, but since you ask ...] First

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-07-02 Thread Jackmcbarn
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: So it appears that ContentTranslation will be contacting a third-party, closed source service? Are users going to be informed that this is the case? What data is being sent? I am also interested in the answer to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-07-02 Thread Dan Garry
On 2 July 2015 at 12:55, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: I am also interested in the answer to Nemo's question about whether this is the first piece of proprietary software ever entering use in the Wikimedia projects land? The iOS app uses system libraries provided by the iOS SDK

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] The end of the Roadmap Phabricator project

2015-07-02 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: Let me know if you have any concerns, I don't think all (or even the main) use cases of #roadmap are covered by the proposal. * #user-notice is much more noisy. A #roadmap task is describing a significant new piece of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-07-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
FYI https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects has a list; it means the wikis themselves (MediaWiki), not stuff around them. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data and Developer Hub protoype

2015-07-02 Thread Isarra Yos
On 26/06/15 21:21, Quim Gil wrote: Note that probably the complementary side of your frustration is the frustration of designers and others trying to improve Wikimedia and its projects, only to find a strong resistance to change almost every time that fresh ideas are proposed. In our case here,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-07-02 Thread Legoktm
On 07/01/2015 06:50 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: Il 02/07/2015 03:28, Legoktm ha scritto: I noticed: Yandex coming up soon! under ContentTranslation. Are there more details about what this means? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89844 I think Thanks for the pointer. After some more digging, I