Re: [Wikitech-l] Is simplicity is the key to success of Echo and Watchlist?

2014-09-01 Thread Jon Robson
On 1 Sep 2014 16:09, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr +1 :) Svetlana, I'm not quite sure what you are proposing here. I understand you want to integrate them but I'm not sure why or how. Echo gives notifications such as changes in user permissions which do not have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standardising icons across projects

2014-08-28 Thread Jon Robson
3) I am going to aim to agree on a standard icon HTML markup for mediawiki ui. We still have an issue with the fact that everyone is using different HTML markup to create icons. After reviewing all our current approaches [1] it was clear that we were relatively closely aligned and that it

[Wikitech-l] Standardising icons across projects

2014-08-27 Thread Jon Robson
Since we had the luxury of having several people in the office, Trevor, Juliusz, Rob Moen, Ed Sanders, Shahyar, May, Monte and I sat down to talk about the problem we currently have of having no standard way to create icons. Here is my write up of this meeting, again, if you attended please

[Wikitech-l] The future of skins

2014-08-26 Thread Jon Robson
Shahyar, Juliusz, Trevor, Kaldari, Roan and I sat down yesterday and talked about the future of skins. Hopefully this mail summarises what we talked about and what we agreed on. Feel free to add anything, or ask any questions in the likely event that I've misinterpreted something we talked about

[Wikitech-l] Template RFC

2014-08-22 Thread Jon Robson
Kaldari, RobLa, Trevor and I met yesterday to discuss the template RFC [1]. Sadly Gabriel was not present. Kaldari and I are very concerned that we are blocking standardisation of a generic template library on the completion of Knockoff. Trevor, Kaldari and I identified that two things need to

[Wikitech-l] OOjs, MobileFrontend and Flow

2014-08-22 Thread Jon Robson
Shahyar, Juliusz, Trevor, Roan and I met to discuss using oojs inside the mobile and Flow projects. The following 3 patches kicks off moving MobileFrontend's class model towards that of oojs - many thanks for Roan for doing most of the legwork :-): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/155593

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-19 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Graphs demo

2014-08-18 Thread Jon Robson
, Aug 16, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 15/08/2014 22:17, Jon Robson a écrit : Rather than having a graph tag containing data which will not make sense to technical users could we imagine something is there any plan to support something like graph title

[Wikitech-l] PHPUnit tests in MediaWiki

2014-08-15 Thread Jon Robson
Suddenly I cannot run PHPUnit tests on vagrant cd /vagrant/mediawiki/tests/phpunit /usr/bin/php5 phpunit.php --configuration /vagrant/mediawiki/extensions/Echo/tests/echo.suite.xml --group=Echo No MWMultiVersion instance initialized! MWScript.php wrapper not used? The documentation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Graphs demo

2014-08-15 Thread Jon Robson
Nice! This is interesting. Back at the Switzerland hackathon Dan Andrescu knocked up a Visualisation namespace and I guess this is based on that? I'm concerned by the use of the graph tag however, and I'm not sure we should be promoting its usage. Wikitext is already rather complicated and every

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Vector and MonoBook to separate repositories and what it means for you

2014-08-08 Thread Jon Robson
On 8 Aug 2014 04:23, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 07/08/2014 22:05, Erwin Dokter a écrit : I now have to submit two patches and hope they both get merged at the exact same time. The world we should be working towards is one where you'd only have to update the skin. Moving

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Vector and MonoBook to separate repositories and what it means for you

2014-08-07 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Vector and MonoBook to separate repositories and what it means for you

2014-08-07 Thread Jon Robson
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Jon Robson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. August 2014 20:29 An: Wikimedia developers Betreff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Policy on browser support

2014-08-06 Thread Jon Robson
\o/ what terrific news to wake up to! Derric I think we are in agreement on the way forward! You are not saying anything I disagree with :) On 6 Aug 2014 07:33, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: I would

Re: [Wikitech-l] Policy on browser support

2014-07-30 Thread Jon Robson
I would like to make a case for moving more browsers into the grade C category. Yes please. As a project that must live the test of time I think we should be focusing our energy on building for future browsers. Our main goal is to provide people knowledge which can be done without JavaScript.

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery UI 1.10.4 and IE6 support

2014-07-27 Thread Jon Robson
A few quick notes: * we should be killing jQuery ui. not upgrading it :) * progressive enhancement != supporting IE6. We should be doing this anywhere. Personally I would be fine with giving IE6,7, even 8 and maybe 9 no JavaScript whatsoever and supporting them simply from simply a css

Re: [Wikitech-l] What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.)

2014-07-21 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] logging out on one device logs user out everywhere

2014-07-21 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] logging out on one device logs user out everywhere

2014-07-21 Thread Jon Robson
...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like there is agreement on an approach As I understand it: * special button that when clicked logs you out everywhere * default behaviour is just to log you out on current device

Re: [Wikitech-l] logging out on one device logs user out everywhere

2014-07-21 Thread Jon Robson
Sounds good. Adding design mailing list. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogout might be an obvious place (closest to the action

Re: [Wikitech-l] What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.)

2014-07-15 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.)

2014-07-15 Thread Jon Robson
Thanks for the info Isarra! Does anyone want to make it not empty...? :) I'll personally +2 any changes if the author sends me a private email to the patchsets! On 15 Jul 2014 07:39, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/07/14 18:41, Jon Robson wrote: I just wanted to thank Bartosz

Re: [Wikitech-l] Not logged in page

2014-07-15 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Not logged in page

2014-07-15 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Not logged in page

2014-07-15 Thread Jon Robson
regularly. I've found mediawiki logs me out despite the 'keep me logged in' box, when logging out on a different device, etc. Well that's the bug then no and that should be fixed. Help us work out why it is occurring and let's get that dealt with.:) We shouldn't be designing features for edge

[Wikitech-l] logging out on one device logs user out everywhere

2014-07-15 Thread Jon Robson
] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49890 On 15 Jul 2014 18:38, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: regularly. I've found mediawiki logs me out despite the 'keep me logged in' box, when logging out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Winter, v. 0.6

2014-07-14 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Screenshot of Winter on Win7/IE9

2014-07-14 Thread Jon Robson
are more broken up in the screenshot. Otherwise, the colour, the spacing and the overlaps are the same. Risker/Anne ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating progress; Knockout Components curly brace syntax

2014-07-08 Thread Jon Robson
This is exciting stuff. In similar news Flow and mobile now have a shared ResourceLoaderTemplateModule [1] that supports shipping templates from server to client. As a next step we should explore making sure these two things are compatible. It would also be highly useful when it is in a stable

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating progress; Knockout Components curly brace syntax

2014-07-08 Thread Jon Robson
/2014 07:28 AM, Jon Robson wrote: This is exciting stuff. In similar news Flow and mobile now have a shared ResourceLoaderTemplateModule [1] that supports shipping templates from server to client. As a next step we should explore making sure these two things are compatible. Yes, that would

[Wikitech-l] Mantle - coding sharing between Flow and MobileFrontend

2014-07-03 Thread Jon Robson
== The problem == MediaWiki has a huge UI standardisation problem. We use different libraries, different css styles and class names, some of which do the same thing. Recently the teams working on Flow and MobileFrontend noticed they were doing various things in a similar fashion. We were both

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mantle - coding sharing between Flow and MobileFrontend

2014-07-03 Thread Jon Robson
Trevor, That email you quote was about totally different code and a proposal to put it into Mantle and is off topic for this discussion.\T Trevor, please grab me in real life, so we can quell this misunderstanding asap, I feel for whatever reason I am not effectively communicating to you and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discuss skins work this Friday, 20 June

2014-06-22 Thread Jon Robson
I've replied on bug - I guess it's better to keep the conversation going there so I won't say what I said ;-) On 20 Jun 2014 17:35, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 23:23:01 +0200, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: (he'll be sending some

[Wikitech-l] Getting phpunit working with Vagrant

2014-06-13 Thread Jon Robson
Has anyone had success with this...? This is what happens when I try to run: master x ~/git/vagrant/mediawiki/tests/phpunit $ php phpunit.php Warning: require_once(/vagrant/LocalSettings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting phpunit working with Vagrant

2014-06-13 Thread Jon Robson
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[Wikitech-l] Replacing LiquidThreads for Flow

2014-06-10 Thread Jon Robson
The other mail seems to have gone on a huge tangent about the benefits of Flow / what it can do. This is great but I feel like my original question has gone unanswered so I am resurrecting it with a new e-mail subject. I worry lots of good feedback got lost in that big email chain. So

[Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-05 Thread Jon Robson
So from what I can see Flow pretty much does everything LiquidThreads does. Usually better (permalinks with LiquidThreads are one thing that completely bugs me - they don't always take me to the correct place) As I understand it there is a migration script that turns LiquidThread pages to Flow

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-05 Thread Jon Robson
pages in MobileFront end by an anonymous user. When he saves it says Error - edit not saved. I have set the directive of anonymous editing to YES in mobilefrontend settings. On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Helder . helder.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob

Re: [Wikitech-l] What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.)

2014-05-21 Thread Jon Robson
...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On 2014-05-21, 6:02 AM, Jon Robson wrote: I've always found it silly that skins are installed in a different way to extensions. It seems silly to teach a user 2 ways. To be honest I still haven't got the hang of skin installation. I usually crudely plop a folder

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

2014-05-20 Thread Jon Robson
I'm confused. Why wouldn't you just mark a user account as being a bot and simply determine bot edits from username alone? Any other mechanism seems prone to abuse or being inaccurate... On 20 May 2014 07:36, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you legoktm for exampling, Another

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bot flags and human-made edits

2014-05-20 Thread Jon Robson
at 5:35 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused. Why wouldn't you just mark a user account as being a bot and simply determine bot edits from username alone? Any other mechanism seems prone to abuse or being inaccurate... People gave several examples of bot tasks that needs

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Maps-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-20 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployments of new, radically different default features

2014-05-19 Thread Jon Robson
I said this during the retrospective about beta features. I think all beta features should be enabled for all logged in users the month before they get deployed. Let's not resort to banners please. Let's instead train people to go to the beta features page and help us build great products that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Jon Robson
yup we will move it.as long as Git repositories are easier for me to setup on GitHub I will always start projects there... ;) On 15 May 2014 10:59, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-05-14 1:34 GMT+03:00 Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-15 Thread Jon Robson
Visual: ? On 14 May 2014 10:44, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: PS, i'm building an instance that is running this extension. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-14 Thread Jon Robson
:34, Jon Robson a écrit : During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share data

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Maps-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-14 Thread Jon Robson
see the extension live in Wikipedia. Other nice features you can see at umap.openstreetmap.fr: *Choosing different backgrounds *POIs with interactive descriptions *Geometry import from OSM (WIWOSM) *different layers *... Greeting Tim alias Kolossos Am 14.05.2014 00:34, schrieb Jon

[Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!

2014-05-13 Thread Jon Robson
During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share data better. We took a look at all

Re: [Wikitech-l] jquery.accessKeyLabel broke mobile

2014-04-29 Thread Jon Robson
special treatment here. It should've been given the same target definition as mediawiki.util. — Krinkle On 27 Apr 2014, at 19:37, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like jquery.accessKeyLabel now seems to be a required ResourceLoader module. The patch that introduced it is https

[Wikitech-l] jquery.accessKeyLabel broke mobile

2014-04-27 Thread Jon Robson
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[Wikitech-l] GerritCommandLine update

2014-04-22 Thread Jon Robson
I've recently updated the GerritCommandLine tool [1] so that you can use it to manage incoming reviews. gerrit.py --reviewee jdlrobson --gtscore -1 Will show all patches across all projects that have you down as a reviewee and are currently not negatively reviewed. There are various other

Re: [Wikitech-l] GerritCommandLine update

2014-04-22 Thread Jon Robson
:06AM -0700, Jon Robson wrote: I've recently updated the GerritCommandLine tool [1] so that you can use it to manage incoming reviews. gerrit.py --reviewee jdlrobson --gtscore -1 Will show all patches across all projects that have you down as a reviewee and are currently not negatively reviewed

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia Homepage Framework

2014-04-17 Thread Jon Robson
looks the case to me liagent! you should get rid if the special casing! :) Would be great if the images could be centred on mobile... On 17 Apr 2014 07:08, Liangent liang...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: PLEASSE! :D

Re: [Wikitech-l] English Wikipedia Homepage Framework

2014-04-15 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed body font stack for Latin

2014-04-14 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Keeping Code-Review votes across trivial changes of patch sets?

2014-04-11 Thread Jon Robson
-trivial-changes-of-patch-sets-tp5025768p5025774.html Sent from the Wikipedia Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Jon Robson
I keep hearing about ALLL THE BUGS but I've not seen anything on Bugzilla. This leads me to believe I've not been cc'ed on them or they haven't been raised (which would be bad). Please can someone raise these on Bugzilla - if these are being raised on wikis they are not getting in front of people.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users; final plea!

2014-04-11 Thread Jon Robson
and addressed. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Erwin Dokter er...@darcoury.nl wrote: On 11-04-2014 20:00, Jon Robson wrote: Please don't accuse me of things that are not true. I do want to see these things, but I have to manage 1) mailing lists 2) bugzilla 3) wiki pages (which i have to know exist

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abandoning -1 code reviews automatically?

2014-04-09 Thread Jon Robson
Yes yes yes please! I've been manually doing this in mobile with a short friendly note saying if the owner wants to resubmit it they can feel free to at a later date. My gerrit is just a spam queue right now. Just to clarify - if someone submits a patch then says 1 month later via comment I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abandoning -1 code reviews automatically?

2014-04-09 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-08 Thread Jon Robson
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[Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Jon Robson
After the deploy last Thursday various users on Village Pumps bug reports and external sites (e.g. Twitter and Reddit) were informing us that the new typography was unreadable. Sadly it was difficult to distinguish whether this was simply a dislike of the new fonts or something deeper related to a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

2014-04-07 Thread Jon Robson
I feel that I am not being taken seriously. Three times now I have indicated what is wrong with this solution, namely that a single font stack cannot possibly serve a global website. I'm sorry you feel this way, if I wasn't clear, I agree with you, but I think where we disagree is that we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Aaron Schulz - Senior Performance Engineer

2014-04-07 Thread Jon Robson
you guys are going to kick butt together! congrats! :) On 7 Apr 2014 17:40, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone I'm pleased to announce that Aaron Schulz is taking on a new role in Wikimedia Foundation's Platform Team: Senior Performance Engineer. Aaron works on MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review tasks for new contributors

2014-04-05 Thread Jon Robson
We are using a pre-review hook in MobileFrontend now. It stops us submitting new patches when there is existing code to be reviewed. If interested see https://www.mail-archive.com/mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg01283.html On 5 Apr 2014 11:51, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data to improve our code review queue

2014-04-04 Thread Jon Robson
In MobileFrontend I abandon patchsets which have had no activity in a month for this very reason. People can always reopen them. On 4 Apr 2014 08:54, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Friday, April 4, 2014,

[Wikitech-l] MobileFrontend for 3rd party users

2014-04-03 Thread Jon Robson
I'm a bit concerned that with all the work we've been doing on the mobile site for the purposes of Wikimedia projects we seem to have been neglecting the 3rd party use case for MobileFrontend. I was curious if any volunteers would like to step up and become a MobileFrontend 3rd party champion and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Implementation JSON based localisation format for MediaWiki nearly completed

2014-04-01 Thread Jon Robson
This is epic. Thanks a bunch Siebrand! On 1 Apr 2014 15:10, Siebrand Mazeland siebr...@kitano.nl wrote: Long! tl;dr is in the first two paragraphs. With the merging of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/122787/ , probably the largest patch set for MediaWiki ever (+548314, -714438), MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: Mobile Core Features front-end meetup technical notes

2014-03-26 Thread Jon Robson
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: I agree Max, that would be a great patch to get finish. Pulling in wikitech for wider discussion since it seems Timo wanted a wider discussion. tldr: Let's add a method of template/blob delivery into ResourceLoader

[Wikitech-l] Encoding (Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.)

2014-03-25 Thread Jon Robson
Now MobileFrontend is using JSON for languages, I jumped on this to create a script to make language addition easier - basically a command line interface called `make message` that edits the JSONs to add an English message and QQQ code and maintains alphabetical ordering [1]. Recently this was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Separating skins from core MediaWiki (GSoC proposal)

2014-03-21 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-20 Thread Jon Robson
This is done. Please review! Thanks to Isarra for getting the new repositories setup! https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/118345 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119885 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119884 On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Help needed! Okay

Re: [Wikitech-l] CSS Regressions

2014-03-14 Thread Jon Robson
Guys thanks so much for all these pointers and ideas. Lots of food for thought here. I find for the MobileFrontend perspective, in a perfect world, all our existing browser tests would visual diff a screenshot at each individual step of our tests against the previously known screenshot and report

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-12 Thread Jon Robson
Okay to make sure stuff comes out of this thread... So unless someone does this before me I am going to move CologneBlue out of core and into SkinCologneBlue extension and Modern out of core into SkinModern extension. If someone could rerun the data collection for skin usage I most be most

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-12 Thread Jon Robson
with them. If we want to talk about this I'd encourage you to start a new thread. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 03/11/2014 05:21 PM, Jon Robson wrote: If people forget they exist I would say that equates to no one cares about them and no one

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-12 Thread Jon Robson
-core skins equally capable. - Trevor On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Yes this is an orthogonal conversation. If it's that easy for a core change to break a skin outside core, then there are lots of fundamentally wrong things with our skin system, one

[Wikitech-l] useskin=minerva

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Robson
You can now apply the mobile skin to the desktop site [1]. Wa?! To cut a long story short, to help MobileFrontend and VisualEditor integrate nicely with one another, we needed the mobile skin to be registered as a valid skin. We've previously avoided this as we didn't want to surface this in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Robson
It might be easier to revamp the skin system if there were fewer skins to port. Touché. So.. so 2 questions 1) would anyone have any objections to moving it out of core and into its own extension? 2) would anyone have any objections for turning it off on Wikimedia wikis FWIW, having a single

Re: [Wikitech-l] Per commit: run all the tests (was Re: Gerrit Commit Wars)

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] useskin=minerva

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Robson
PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: You can now apply the mobile skin to the desktop site [1]. Wa?! To cut a long story short, to help MobileFrontend and VisualEditor integrate nicely with one another

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Zurich Hackathon: Creating a map namespace

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Robson
model becomes the 'reader skin' and Monobook the 'editor skin'. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 March 2014 18:48, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: + 1 to what Trevor just said. Isarra, developers make a _decision_ to forget some users exist

[Wikitech-l] CSS Regressions

2014-03-10 Thread Jon Robson
I just wondered if anyone doing MediaWiki development had any experience in catching CSS regressions? We have had a few issues recently in mobile land where we've made big CSS changes and broken buttons on hidden away special pages - particularly now we have been involved in the development of

[Wikitech-l] Why is Cologne Blue still in core?

2014-03-10 Thread Jon Robson
This may be controversial but hopefully there is logic in what I'm about to see. I just took a look at Cologne Blue and there are a huge host of CSS issues. It makes me wonder if anyone is actually maintaining it. All the other skins seems to render nicely. Coordinates overlap the header and the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-09 Thread Jon Robson
I don't even know what the purpose of this thread is now. Seems to be discussion about development practices, badgering and various other things. I started two other threads to try and break out these important conversations but looks like conversation is still happening here so I guess that

[Wikitech-l] Notifying people when integration tests

2014-03-07 Thread Jon Robson
This looks like a good time to fork this conversation as this is a good problem to fix. How can we notify developers when they break other things in the stack and how? On 7 Mar 2014 05:36, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com wrote: (continued, about the browser testing) (tl;dr where are the

[Wikitech-l] Merging near deployment branch cut time

2014-03-07 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Jon Robson
I wonder in future if it might be practical useful for test failures like this to automatically revert changes that made them or at least submit patches to revert them that way it's clear how and when things should be reverted. On 6 Mar 2014 18:09, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote:

[Wikitech-l] Zurich Hackathon: Creating a map namespace

2014-03-05 Thread Jon Robson
This may be extremely ambitious, but I'm keen to kick off development around the creation of a map namespace during the Zurich hackathon. The goal would be to setup an editable map namespace that could be used for a variety of things, one of which would be adding a map view to the Special:Nearby

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-03-03 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-03-03 Thread Jon Robson
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

2014-02-16 Thread Jon Robson
Brad since you work for the for the foundation and seem to have a lot of expertise in this area and seem to have been one of the more vocal supporters of free fonts have you reached out to your work colleagues over video conferencing or similar to understand the problems being hit and helped them

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication of decisions (was Re: Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?)

2014-02-16 Thread Jon Robson
from this to improve our communication? On 16 Feb 2014 19:36, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Brian Wolff date=2014-02-16 time=18:00:29 -0400 On Feb 16, 2014 2:04 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Brad since you work for the for the foundation and seem to have

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