Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] [Ops] MW Train status: Incomplete rollout, blocked on two issues

2018-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
FWIW, I think the Babel bug was waiting for several days for review from Niklas, the extension owner, who wasn't at wikimania. But the folks who ended up taking action and doing the revert we're at wikimania -- I think it's a general matter of lack of communication during wikimania, with folks

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] [Engineering] MW Train status: Incomplete rollout, blocked on two issues

2018-07-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Deployments during the week of wikimania are always tough. I'm surprised we even tried to do that this year. --scott On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 7:23 PM Željko Filipin wrote: > Hi, > > This is the second ever train I am conducting and it has been very > interesting. I've been told that is not

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] [Engineering] MW Train status: Incomplete rollout, blocked on two issues

2018-07-23 Thread Greg Grossmeier
> Deployments during the week of wikimania are always tough. I'm surprised > we even tried to do that this year. There is/was sufficient coverage from both RelEng and SRE so there wasn't an issue of site outage without available people to respond. IOW, no one from RelEng nor SRE was attending

[Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2018-07-23 Thread Michael Schönitzer
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] MW Train status: Incomplete rollout, blocked on two issues

2018-07-23 Thread Željko Filipin
Hi, This is the second ever train I am conducting and it has been very interesting. I've been told that is not unusual. I have good news and bad news. Good news is that some problems are resolved. I would like to thank to everybody that helped. Bad news is that train is still blocked. :(

Re: [Wikitech-l] AV1? (was Re: [Multimedia] Video output changing to WebM VP9/Opus soon)

2018-07-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 5:14 AM Jaime Crespo wrote: > Thanks to all people involved, > > I just read about this new video format in the making/released [0]. > > Of course, I am not asking to support this, as this seems like the future, > and not the present, but being a complete noob on video

[Wikitech-l] AV1? (was Re: [Multimedia] Video output changing to WebM VP9/Opus soon)

2018-07-23 Thread Jaime Crespo
Thanks to all people involved, I just read about this new video format in the making/released [0]. Of course, I am not asking to support this, as this seems like the future, and not the present, but being a complete noob on video formats and codecs, I would like to know if someone more

Re: [Wikitech-l] QUnit, Promises and ArticlePlaceHolder

2018-07-23 Thread Stephen Niedzielski
I'd like to share this relevant blog post[0] by Joaquin for work done on the Popups extension and upcoming plans for other repos. The post discusses some of the tradeoffs of Special:JavaScriptTest tests and Node.js headless QUnit tests. [0]

Re: [Wikitech-l] QUnit, Promises and ArticlePlaceHolder

2018-07-23 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
Well following the trail of links, leads me to this likely cause: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180171#4236340 The extension relies on grunt-contrib-qunit which depends on > phantomjs-prebuild and run qunit tests with PhantomJS. The tests are under > tests/qunit: which indirectly is