Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Proposal regarding the future of X-Wikimedia-Debug and testwiki

2016-01-26 Thread Mukunda Modell
This is very timely and relevant to a proposal I am currently working on. Everything you have proposed seems sensible and benefitial to me. Since you've breached the subject, I'm going to attempt to describe what I have been wishing for. I was literally in the middle of writing it up when I saw

[Wikitech-l] Revising Sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menu

2016-01-26 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi all, The Collaboration team is currently working on a variety of improvements and updates to the Notifications (Echo) extension.[1] One task is improving how the many different types of notifications are sorted, into the two fly-out menus. Your feedback would be especially appreciated here.

[Wikitech-l] Phabricator project naming conventions for skins

2016-01-26 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
The other day, someone came and renamed the Phabricator projects for various skins from MediaWiki-skins-Foo to just Foo. A few days later, someone else came and renamed them all back. Since I'm a member of a few of these projects, I've gotten lots of email about this, twice. (Example:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator project naming conventions for skins

2016-01-26 Thread James Forrester
On 26 January 2016 at 07:14, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > So, what should the names be? ​Policy was settled in 2014 and remains in effect: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Creating_and_renaming_projects – I'd suggest discussing there, not splitting the

[Wikitech-l] INFO: Reading web release process update

2016-01-26 Thread Jon Robson
As you may be aware, the reading team was unhappy with its current release process and shared its rationale for a different release process. This resulted in an experiment on Gather, QuickSurveys, Cards and

Re: [Wikitech-l] INFO: Reading web release process update

2016-01-26 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Thanks for this writeup (and the wiki page), Jon. Much appreciated. I only have one question/thought: > When we work on new features, we will be more mindful of +2, marking the > initial commit of a chain of commits that requires sign off from a designer > and product owner with a -2. Wouldn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] INFO: Reading web release process update

2016-01-26 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > We think this will be a better approach for everyone. Our only remaining > question is when and if to do release number bumps in future. We'll be back > with an answer about that shortly... ideas welcomed. > Who is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-26 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/25/2016 03:16 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: In the short-term, I believe a non-Wikimedia focused subgroup of ArchCom may make sense. The declining MediaWiki use outside of Wikimedia has been a longstanding problem for us, but not the biggest problem. Are there stats that show a decline? Just

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-26 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/25/2016 05:58 PM, Alex Monk wrote: On 25 January 2016 at 20:16, Rob Lanphier wrote: So: forks welcome! Any takers? At this point I'm not sure any non-Wikimedia MediaWiki contributors have the resources to do so. I think WMF employs most of the main MW