Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC meeting for RFC review

2013-09-25 Thread Tim Starling
On 25/09/13 13:31, Steven Walling wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I would like to have an open IRC meeting for RFC review, on Tuesday 24 September at 22:00 UTC (S.F. 3pm). We will work through a few old, neglected RFCs, and maybe consider a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Product Team Announcements: Oliver, Dan, and Nick

2013-09-25 Thread Katie Chan
On 25/09/2013 06:40, a b wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Everyone, I have a few announcements (apologies for the delay as this was posted to an internal WMF staff mailing list a few weeks ago). First, I'd like to announce Oliver's transition to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code reviewers registry

2013-09-25 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 24/09/13 23:56, C. Scott Ananian a écrit : Our core developers get a lot of patches to review. Once something drops down past the first page in Gerrit, it's lost forever. I have enough people asking me for review that I only rely on my Gerrit dashboard. So indeed, old patches are usually

Re: [Wikitech-l] The summary of new zero architecture proposal

2013-09-25 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
The zero ESI change is now live, but is enabled only when X-FORCE-ESI header is set to 1. Also, it won't work until varnish enables ESI support for zero requests (see dochttps://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/esi.html ) I propose the following deployment steps: 1) set beresp.do_esi =

Re: [Wikitech-l] AbuseFilter error codes and MobileFrontend

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Garrett
Juliusz Gonera wrote: On 09/23/2013 06:48 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: You should know about this change[1], which corrects the error messages to be more in line with the general case, as well as adding some metadata. It's not been approved yet, so I'm nudging a few reviewers. You can also

Re: [Wikitech-l] Product Team Announcements: Oliver, Dan, and Nick

2013-09-25 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:40:58 +0200, a b cheeseyapac...@gmail.com wrote: So a staff member that gets blocked on wiki (By Arbcom no less) He has been desysopped, not blocked. -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] [Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office hour on September 25, 2013 at 1700 UTC

2013-09-25 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, This is reminder that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour from 1700 to 1800UTC later today on #wikimedia-office (FreeNode). Please see below for the event details. Thanks Runa === Event Details === What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour When:

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.09 release

2013-09-25 Thread Kartik Mistry
Hello, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.09. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.20.7 and MediaWiki 1.21.2. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.09.tar.bz2 * sha256sum:

[Wikitech-l] Two updates about pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia)

2013-09-25 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello folks! *Name of pywikipedia or pywikipediabot is officially changed to pywikibot, please update local documentation *Bug tracker of pywikibot is changed from sf.net to bugzilla. Open bugs was imported from there by a bot that legoktm has written [1], So don't file new bugs in sf.net anymore

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Two updates about pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia)

2013-09-25 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Luca Martinelli martinellil...@gmail.comwrote: May I just ask why all names have been changed? wikipedia is redundant, because you can run this framework in any mediawiki-based wiki, and It's simpler and shorter, We used this name in git, nightly distributor,

[Wikitech-l] FOSDEM update

2013-09-25 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, about FOSDEM - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM Brussels / 1 2 February 2014 On 1 Oct we will know whether our proposal for a Wiki DevRoom has been accepted or not. This is a DevRoom we have proposed together with XWiki and TikiWiki and is open to all wiki topics. If we we

Re: [Wikitech-l] AbuseFilter error codes and MobileFrontend

2013-09-25 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On 09/25/2013 02:38 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: On 09/23/2013 06:48 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: You should know about this change[1], which corrects the error messages to be more in line with the general case, as well as adding some metadata. It's not been approved yet, so I'm nudging a few

[Wikitech-l] ParserHooks 1.1 released

2013-09-25 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey all, I'm pleased to announce the 1.1 release of the ParserHooks library.ParserHooksis a small library that adds an object orientated and declarative parser hook interface on top of MediaWiki. https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ParserHooks/blob/master/README.md This new

[Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Chad
So in the interest of keeping our branches from expanding forever I'm thinking we should stop creating new branches for each deploy cycle. Instead, I'm thinking we should keep like three wmf branches. Let's call them wmf-foo, wmf-bar and wmf-baz for purposes of this e-mail, we can bikeshed later.

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE/Migration guide for gadgets developers

2013-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Roan, how did that go? Any links? :-) The code ended up being written and merged. The documentation ended up not being written before Wikimania, and then Life happened. Some Time Soon I hope to get around to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: wmf-foo - 1.22wmf19 wmf-bar - 1.22wmf20 wmf-baz - 1.22wmf21 wmf-foo - 1.22wmf22 wmf-bar - 1.22wmf23 This looks like it's exactly the same concept as slot0/slot1/slot2 in Ryan's git-deploy proposal. The objection that I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Brion Vibber
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: So in the interest of keeping our branches from expanding forever I'm thinking we should stop creating new branches for each deploy cycle. What's actually the problem with expanding branches? Instead, I'm thinking we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Chris Steipp
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: wmf-foo - 1.22wmf19 wmf-bar - 1.22wmf20 wmf-baz - 1.22wmf21 wmf-foo - 1.22wmf22 wmf-bar - 1.22wmf23 This looks like it's exactly the same

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE/Migration guide for gadgets developers

2013-09-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
i've also been writing the togetherjs extension out of tree from v.e. so have a little bit of experience there. a couple more apis could be stabilized to help extensions find ve instances on a page --scott On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue,

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC meeting for RFC review

2013-09-25 Thread Quim Gil
On 09/24/2013 11:54 PM, Tim Starling wrote: Can we post RFC discussion logs to MediaWiki.org? I have posted the relevant log excerpts to the talk pages of the three RFCs we discussed in detail: Participants of structured IRC meetings might also look at Bug 46377 - MeetBot for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Chad
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: So in the interest of keeping our branches from expanding forever I'm thinking we should stop creating new branches for each deploy cycle.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I actually like this idea a lot and it's way less confusing than my idea. Unless anyone's got any objections I'm going to go ahead and do this for all the 1.20 and 1.21 wmf branches. Sounds good to me. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Max Semenik
On 26.09.2013, 2:46 Chad wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: What's actually the problem with expanding branches? To me at least, it makes it harder to see what's actually deployed at a given time. Try `git branch -r` on core. We're at 86

Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?

2013-09-25 Thread Chad
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: On 26.09.2013, 2:46 Chad wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: What's actually the problem with expanding branches? To me at least, it makes it harder to see what's

[Wikitech-l] Proposed release timeline

2013-09-25 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
According to the Version lifecycle[1], MediaWiki 1.22 is slated for release on November 30th, at the very latest. In that vein, we've come up with a timeline for the release[2]. If we use this timeline and shoot for the latest date, we'll need to start the release process no later than October

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: afch licensing question

2013-09-25 Thread Steven Walling
Forwarding, with permission. For background the AFC Helper script is one that assists English Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which currently is severely backlogged. Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the question of