Re: [Wikitech-l] Standardizing highest priority in Bugzilla

2012-11-20 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:54 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: For what it's worth (and not to ruin the silence is consensus model), the proposed priority scheme sounds fine to me. Traditionally these fields have been mostly ignored by just about everyone (developers included). High

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-20 Thread Arthur Richards
Welcome Juliusz, very excited to have you on board :D On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Steph Thommen sthom...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Many congratulations and welcome Julius! On 20 November 2012 05:20, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 11/19/2012 04:59 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote:

[Wikitech-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

2012-11-20 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The use of jargon, acronyms and other abbreviations throughout the Wikimedia movement is a major source of communication issues, and barriers to comprehension and involvement. The recent thread on this list about What is Product? is an example of this, as are initialisms that have long been

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

2012-11-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Also, I've started to clean up the glossary, but it still contains dated terms and definitions from a few years ago (like the FundCom), so boldly edit/remove obsolete content. I don't believe these ever become

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

2012-11-20 Thread Guillaume Paumier
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:23 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Also, I've started to clean up the glossary, but it still contains dated terms and definitions from a few years ago (like the FundCom), so

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcome Juliusz Gonera as Software Developer to the Mobile Team!

2012-11-20 Thread Juliusz Gonera
Thank you all for a very warm welcome. Hope to meet everyone in person soon! On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Juliusz Gonera joins WMF this week as a Software Developer (Mobile team) today. Juliusz has worked at the

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Engineering] Report from Gerrit User Summit + Hackathon

2012-11-20 Thread Quim Gil
fyi Original Message Subject:[Engineering] Report from Gerrit User Summit + Hackathon Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:55:00 -0500 From: Chad Horohoe choro...@wikimedia.org To: Development and Operations engineers (WMF only) engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all,

[Wikitech-l] What other FLOSS projects does the WMF contribute to/collaborate with?

2012-11-20 Thread Arthur Richards
I'm helping to organize an 'intro to FLOSS' orientation module for new hires at the WMF with Tomasz Finc, and we're curious to know what all the projects are that the we collaborate with/contribute to. Just from my own experience working at the WMF, I know of a handful like Drupal, CiviCRM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] What other FLOSS projects does the WMF contribute to/collaborate with?

2012-11-20 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm helping to organize an 'intro to FLOSS' orientation module for new hires at the WMF with Tomasz Finc, and we're curious to know what all the projects are that the we collaborate with/contribute to. Just from my

Re: [Wikitech-l] What other FLOSS projects does the WMF contribute to/collaborate with?

2012-11-20 Thread Mark Holmquist
On 12-11-20 01:28 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: I'm helping to organize an 'intro to FLOSS' orientation module for new hires at the WMF with Tomasz Finc, and we're curious to know what all the projects are that the we collaborate with/contribute to. Just from my own experience working at the WMF, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] What other FLOSS projects does the WMF contribute to/collaborate with?

2012-11-20 Thread Arthur Richards
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.orgwrote: Is this a question about on-the-clock contributions, or are we looking for volunteer stuff, too? I'm specifically looking for projects which we can say the WMF as an org contributes to/collaborates with. Interpret

[Wikitech-l] Jenkins now lints javascript!

2012-11-20 Thread Krinkle
Hey all, For a while now we have .jshintrc rules in the repository and are able to run node-jshint locally. TL;DR: jshint is now running from Jenkins on mediawiki/core (joining the linting sequence for php and puppet files). I cleaned up the last old lint failures in the repo yesterday in

[Wikitech-l] Selection process in mentorship programs

2012-11-20 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, I have drafted a selection process for mentorship programs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Mentorship_programs Your feedback is welcome. This process will be applied immediately to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women where we are getting potential candidates

Re: [Wikitech-l] Evaluating Google Summer of Code

2012-11-20 Thread Quim Gil
Thank you for this summary. It is very useful. Would you mind commenting more on lessons learned about the selection of candidates? We need the right now for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women On 11/18/2012 05:17 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Quim Gil is the

Re: [Wikitech-l] What other FLOSS projects does the WMF contribute to/collaborate with?

2012-11-20 Thread MZMcBride
Arthur Richards wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Mark Holmquist mtrac...@member.fsf.orgwrote: Is this a question about on-the-clock contributions, or are we looking for volunteer stuff, too? I'm specifically looking for projects which we can say the WMF as an org contributes

Re: [Wikitech-l] What other FLOSS projects does the WMF contribute to/collaborate with?

2012-11-20 Thread Ryan Lane
Saltstack and Webplatform as well. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I'm helping to organize an 'intro to FLOSS' orientation module for new hires at the WMF with Tomasz Finc, and we're curious to know what all the projects are that the we

[Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-20 Thread James Forrester
All, *TL;DR: We're proposing a more formal, but more limited, statement of browser 'support' for the cluster; thoughts appreciated.* In WMF Engineering, we've been struggling with what we mean by 'supporting' browsers, and how we can match limited developer time to our natural desire to make

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-20 Thread Tyler Romeo
If this plan is implemented, I'd recommend still testing with older browsers rather than just saying it may happen to work or not. --Tyler Romeo On Nov 20, 2012 8:20 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, *TL;DR: We're proposing a more formal, but more limited, statement of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-20 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:19 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: So, the new proposal: There would be a top level outline policy - a small number of browsers are supported (i.e., WMF will keep spending money until they work): * Desktop: Current and immediately-previous

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-20 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:19:51PM -0800, James Forrester wrote: In WMF Engineering, we've been struggling with what we mean by 'supporting' browsers, and how we can match limited developer time to our natural desire to make everyone happy. snip So, to turn this mass of text into an 'ask', I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-20 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:46:22PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote: Current and immediately-previous releases are also really hard to match up between projects on fast release cycles (like Chrome and Firefox which are pushing out new major versions every couple months) and those where major versions

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-20 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:19 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: *TL;DR: We're proposing a more formal, but more limited, statement of browser 'support' for the cluster; thoughts appreciated.* It's obviously good to take in to account the feedback Brion, Faidon, and I'm sure

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-20 Thread Leslie Carr
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:19 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, *TL;DR: We're proposing a more formal, but more limited, statement of browser 'support' for the cluster; thoughts appreciated.* In WMF Engineering, we've been struggling with what we mean by 'supporting'

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins now lints javascript!

2012-11-20 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
Is there a plan to enabled this for MediaWiki extensions? For some of our extensions, we do jshnt check manually in local machines. It would be great if they also can be configured with Jenkins to run jshint. Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposed new WMF browser support framework for MediaWiki

2012-11-20 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Nov 21, 2012 7:13 AM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:19 PM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, *TL;DR: We're proposing a more formal, but more limited, statement of browser 'support' for the cluster; thoughts appreciated.* In