Re: [Wikitech-l] Barkeep code review tool

2012-07-01 Thread Ryan Lane
Yeah, that's right. What I meant to say (and thought I had said in some form later in that message) was that the puppet repo has post-commit review for most changes by ops staff, and pre-commit review for everything else (non-ops staff, volunteers, and certain changes by ops staff in some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Barkeep code review tool

2012-07-02 Thread Ryan Lane
I became curious with these statements regarding self-review (committer==reviewer) and so I ran a couple of queries against the gerrit database to see how often this occurs: 1) For the puppet repo, 84.1% of the commits is self-reviewed. 2) For the mediawiki core repo, 27.9%  of the commits

Re: [Wikitech-l] Barkeep code review tool

2012-07-02 Thread Ryan Lane
Yeah, I don't think Ops is proud of this, but from my understanding, it's very difficult to develop for puppet without committing and seeing what happens.  It's possible, but it's definitely not as productive. That's not true anymore. It's been possible to fully test puppet manifests before

Re: [Wikitech-l] request for Git statistics (or, don't stand back, I don't know regular expressions)

2012-07-05 Thread Ryan Lane
(Also, this isn't counting people who contribute to the mobile projects on GitHub, and really the final monthly report stat ought to. I don't quickly see a way to ask how many unique contributors submitted unique pull requests to a https://github.com/wikimedia/ repo in June? on GitHub,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-18 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: What about changing gerrit to our needs? It's open source, I suppose. That's of course the route we're going right now. The biggest hurdle to doing so is that it's written in Java, and Prolog. Neither of those languages are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Documentation NS @ labsconsole wiki

2012-07-19 Thread Ryan Lane
Given that we are going to use labsconsole wiki (which is later going to be renamed to wikitech) as a documentation base for various software and server documentation, we should propose a way how this new documentation base is going to be organized. I would prefer to create new namespace

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-20 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Daniel Friesen wrote: The ops guys hate ruby. I am pretty sure they love it. Puppet itself is a DSL based on top of ruby. The ops argument is we don't want to handle security updates and nasty performance bug for yet

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-23 Thread Ryan Lane
I think the we is a bit unwarranted. I don't hate Ruby and I certainly don't hate Ruby more than Java :-) I also don't feel the same about puppet; I do see some problems with it, but none of them have nothing to do with the fact that it's written in Ruby. Well, 90% of the ops team. I think

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-25 Thread Ryan Lane
But do we have a plan for improving Gerrit in a substantial way? Gerrit releases often and every release is quite better than the last. Chad can and has been pushing changes upstream. OpenStack (which has 180+ companies that can potentially assist), QT, and other substantial communities are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-25 Thread Ryan Lane
* What does GitHub Enterprise buy us? Which of these issues would that fix? It's a self-hosted GitHub. It would allow us to have private repositories (good for deploys, ops, etc.) and manage our own user database (we could integrate with our own auth system) and probably waives the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Creating a centralized access point for propriety databases/resources

2012-07-25 Thread Ryan Lane
I'm trying to understand the differences between: *phpMyAdmin *SAML *OpenID *OpenVPN You should only consider SAML and OpenID. More exactly, you should really only consider SAML, since the resources you are trying to connect to only support SAML, and not OpenID. We can use OpenID for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-25 Thread Ryan Lane
We're discussing alternatives to *gerrit*, not to git. Heh. Sorry, yes. that's what I meant. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-26 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:04 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Rob Lanphier wrote: A few of us are planning to meet Monday afternoon to figure out exactly what the rest of the process looks like, so that first deadline is going to be very important for understanding how many options

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:57 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ryan Lane wrote: You've already admitted that you don't use Gerrit, so do you have a really large stake in this? Before it was replaced, I used MediaWiki's CodeReview quite a bit. Like most people, I think I would use

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Ryan Lane
I did mention how Android used a homemade tool to do the reviews. It was introduced to me by a friend who is doing Android development for mobile phone companies. At first I was like: what about the existing google code or github? Then he explained me their pre commit workflow and it made me

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:42 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Antoine Musso wrote: MZ, Do you even have a labs account? Your continuous rants are far from being constructive and makes everyone lose their time. Nope. I looked at getting one once or twice, but the process seemed too

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the current system too difficult for volunteer developers?

2012-07-29 Thread Ryan Lane
I was just asking for numbers. Your response looks very like making an excuse for bad numbers *before we have the numbers*. I submit that if we know we have to prepare excuses for bad numbers before we even have the numbers, the current process may not have been a good idea. Since the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the current system too difficult for volunteer developers?

2012-07-29 Thread Ryan Lane
Since the operations repos have been opened, we've had over 800 changes pushed in from non-operations team members (this includes devs that have root). That's roughly equivalent to the number of changes one operations team staff members have pushed in during the same time period. As a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the current system too difficult for volunteer developers?

2012-07-29 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Yes it _is_ difficult for volunteer developers. I still find it very difficult and did not commit any new line of code to gerrit except a coached fix during Berlin Hackathon 2012. And use github for my daily work now. Can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit evaluation: where we stand

2012-08-14 Thread Ryan Lane
The good news for those who aren't so fond of Gerrit is that we do have some nice alternatives on the horizon, which we can start working with and improve... we'll be re-evaluating things across the board for core extensions next year. (Ops can keep Gerrit forever if they like it, that's not

[Wikitech-l] OpenID on Labs projects (was: Re: EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test)

2012-08-15 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Am 15.08.2012 20:58, schrieb Mark Holmquist: Saves much time and efforts You don't use it, otherwise you wouldn't have asked that question. Clearly--but could you elaborate more as to why it's helpful? (Thomas is currently

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID on Labs projects (was: Re: EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test)

2012-08-15 Thread Ryan Lane
Ryan: this must be tested. I think, it NOT possible on the same server (Provider - Consumer) I didn't say anything about the provider and consumer being on the same server. The wmflabs prototypes would be consumers that would be forced to use production Wikimedia as providers. - Ryan

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID on Labs projects (was: Re: EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test)

2012-08-15 Thread Ryan Lane
great, Then simply install it, please I *didn't* say we should use the openid extension to make the provider. In fact, I don't think we should. Also, it's not like it's a simple change. We need to consider how we'll deal with identity. Some people don't have global accounts. Do we do identity

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID on Labs projects (was: Re: EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test)

2012-08-15 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: These are totally *different* things. The Extension can offer both (!) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631 Wikimedia should become an OpenID provider I'd love Wikimedia to be a provider, but I'd prefer we

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID on Labs projects (was: Re: EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test)

2012-08-15 Thread Ryan Lane
it is not. OpenID adds only a short table to the database, where the OpenID is connected with the (local wiki) userid. Where exactly is the blocking problem for you ? It's not a technical problem, per se. It's mainly a usability issue. When you allow login as a consumer, you now have two

Re: [Wikitech-l] OpenID on Labs projects (was: Re: EtherEditor testing, round 3: Minor stress test)

2012-08-15 Thread Ryan Lane
it seems, that you have never installed the Extension. Because then you would not have asked the questions. I'm working on migrating OpenStack's MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. They use OpenID locked to launchpad's provider. I did the same with the OpenID MediaWiki extension there. I've also

[Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-16 Thread Ryan Lane
What is your plan to clean up the mess you made? I need to call you out on this MZ. This is an incredibly rude way to phrase this. I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of discouraging people from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
I think it's important to keep things in perspective, and not to overreact. If you were treated this way consistently by someone, and the community defended that person rather than calling them out on their poor behavior, would you continue to volunteer? Do you expect staff to continue working

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: That said, I'm not overly irritated. There are a few links I need to update, but that's doable. Thanks for handling this issue, and for being responsive to the concerns raised. While there's 475 links to wikitech-l archives on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
I'm not complaining about being called out or even bashed for writing overly hostile posts. I've done that a few times and I hate it when I slip up and do it. If I get called out or bashed over that, I've deserved it, and I'll take it. But what pisses me off is that it's apparently impossible

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: «This is like the 27637862487 time that links have been broken due to the exact same action.» I can bear hyperboles but this is a bit excessive, and looks like just another attempt to make this flame bigger: I hope

[Wikitech-l] Fixing the archives (was: Re: Can we make an acceptable behavior policy?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
The link breakage sucks, but it's not my primary concern at this point. My primary concern is that the archive now appears to be corrupt. Messages have apparently gone missing from years ago (e.g., the Tim Starling Day announcement from October 31, 2003) and there are artifacts of messages now

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
Sincerely, I'm still a little unclear what phrasing you object to here. Just to be perfectly clear, it's the use of the word mess, right? If so, I can make note not to use that word going forward on this list. It may be a regional thing, but where I'm from, when a lot of things get broken,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of discouraging people from acting this way. I've long advocated for adopting toolserver-l's mailing list etiquette guideline on all Wikimedia mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-21 Thread Ryan Lane
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: That was unfortunate - I've been ridiculed (by Max) for things I've said before as well, I feel your pain Ori. That said however, I generally agree with this piece. I have more faith than the author seems to have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-21 Thread Ryan Lane
I most definitely agree - WONTFIXING a request that is a bad idea is just as important as fixing bugs, or implementing the good ideas. The art is of course in being able to determine what constitutes a bad idea and a good idea. Its also important to keep in mind the community is full of many

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

2012-08-22 Thread Ryan Lane
But there's a difference between an issue and a solution. Yes, the templating system is broken, and I'm sure many an editor will confirm that, but just because a system is broken does not mean Lua is automatically the solution. To put it in other words: just because people want a better

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

2012-08-22 Thread Ryan Lane
Most lay users likely won't be able to understand the discussions that take place on wikitech-l. Hell most lay users don't even know it exists. Lay users don't write templates either. People who write templates are wizards. Templates make my eyes bleed and my mind hurt, and I've been

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

2012-08-22 Thread Ryan Lane
From what I understand lua was not chosen just randomly by throwing a bunch of languages in a hat, there were many requirements, such as sandbox-ability, performance concerns, and ease of implementing resource limits, etc. If I recall lua came out the clear winner. This is what I mean when

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

2012-08-22 Thread Ryan Lane
I quite agree that it's important to actively seek out and work with template creators and curators to get involved in testing out Lua. But it is also critical to involve those who will be *using* the templates to see if what has been designed will address any or all of their concerns and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

2012-08-22 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: As long as people in the templating community were at least consulted with, then that's fine. I'm just saying we cannot randomly throw features onto users without discussing it with them. A good default assumption would

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua deployed to www.mediawiki.org

2012-08-22 Thread Ryan Lane
I hear what you're saying Ryan - although in fairness there is some history there, and also some very significant challenges on all sides to actually communicate. However, one has to keep in mind that sometimes the definition of end user can be pretty different. On reading this thread, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review statistics and trends

2012-08-23 Thread Ryan Lane
I actually like it. If Evil approval bot mailed you warning that it will merge 12 pending changesets in two days if there's no action from your part, that would force some promptly action by you. Not a chance in hell we'll ever allow this for the operations repo or the mediawiki deployment

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-23 Thread Ryan Lane
You guys (and by that I mean anybody who doesn't regularly edit a text-producing project[1], but needs to make announcements from time to time; this includes most of the WMF employees) seem to have a problem with village pumps and instead invent all kind of alternative communication methods,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-23 Thread Ryan Lane
Your idea is a great one, except... I was going to say you can't see the forest for the trees, but actually it's the other way around. I think you're too focused on the big picture (communicating with the community) to see that smaller steps can help a great deal. I haven't seen any small

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedians are rightfully wary

2012-08-23 Thread Ryan Lane
Here's what we're proposing to do. [please note: this message was posted here by a bot. If you want to discuss this -- here's where it's at: ___. Sory for the hassle.] Seems reasonable. What's the procedure for doing this? - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-24 Thread Ryan Lane
Did these organizations need to use those SAML credentials directly for API things or is this just another method we want to support for logging in? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/The_Wikipedia_Library That's the biggest current reason for wanting to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-24 Thread Ryan Lane
Oh... so not SAML logins or SAML assertions for the api but acting as a provider of SAML accounts for logging into a 3rd party source with a Wikipedia account? Yeah. It's the more interesting situation at first. I'm sure there are some interesting use cases the opposite way, but we have an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-27 Thread Ryan Lane
I have re-read the Wikipedia article about OpenID and OpenAuth. OpenAuth while nice in many ways is NOT the same as OpenID. User authentication is one easy and obvious requirement and I have already said too much about its need. It is NOT clear at all to me why OpenAuth should be regarded

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-27 Thread Ryan Lane
I don't think that's something we really want to do. Granting bot permissions hides someone from RecentChanges by default, which you wouldn't want as a normal user (well you might, but I don't think communities would). Indeed. Communities also want separate bot accounts so it's easy to tell

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code ideas thread

2012-08-27 Thread Ryan Lane
It would still be easier though for an end user to look at a username and see the bot. The user pages for Bots usually include quite a bit of information on them as well. Definitely think replacing Bot accounts with OAuth is the wrong way to go. I like the idea of using it for the

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

2012-08-28 Thread Ryan Lane
I think you touch the most important point here. I'm one of the main people who manage GSoC for KDE. KDE is the biggest org taking part in GSoC this year in terms of number of students mentored. In addition we are running our own program (Season of KDE) next to it. So in total I'd say we've

Re: [Wikitech-l] Disabling direct pushing to master for extensions

2012-08-29 Thread Ryan Lane
For a bunch of reasons, we need to look at disabling direct pushing on the master branch for all extensions in Gerrit […] Before I make the change though, I wanted to ask about it publicly to make sure there's no major blockers to me doing so. E3 is using Phabricator for code-reviews, so

[Wikitech-l] LdapAuthentication 2.0c - security release

2012-08-31 Thread Ryan Lane
leaked passwords from your local database. Please see bug 39184 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39184 for information regarding purging the passwords. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] scaled media (thumbs) as *temporary* files, not stored forever

2012-08-31 Thread Ryan Lane
Another idea I've played with was development of a LRU filesystem. Probably a FUSE module. You would mount it at thumbs/ and unused files would periodically disappear. We don't mount these filesystems anymore. We use an object store call swift. FUSE also doesn't exist outside of Linux, right?

[Wikitech-l] Reviews needed for enabling self-registration on labsconsole

2012-08-31 Thread Ryan Lane
Today I put some time into fixing the remaining issues needed to enable self-registration on labsconsole. I need reviews on the following changes to deploy/enable it: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+topic:selfregistration,n,z - Ryan ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving MediaWikiWidgets.org to Wikimedia

2012-09-04 Thread Ryan Lane
Hey if you want to make mediawiki.org a dumping ground for anything mediawiki related, have fun with that. Well, the parent thread had a point. Let's discuss what's possible rather than just downing the current work. How can we make widgets a viable extension? Is it possible? If not, can we

Re: [Wikitech-l] IPv6 usage on Wikimedia?

2012-09-17 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: Are you sure about that number? There are a suspicious number of zeros in it! Agreed. Have that many ISPs started to roll out their IPv6 networks to subscribers? Do we have an alternative log that could be

Re: [Wikitech-l] beta labs is now a fit test environment

2012-09-28 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote: When I was hired as QA Lead almost seven months ago, WMF lacked a test environment where * code was routinely deployed ahead of production * the test environment emulated the production environment closely * aspects

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebPlatform.org

2012-10-08 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, we're actually hosting some Git repos for the project :) We'll be pushing a few more in soonish, too. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebPlatform.org

2012-10-08 Thread Ryan Lane
Can you explain? I find this project amazing (converging and optimizing documentation effort as opposed to keep building a dozen chapels and why not starting a new, flashy one?). And I'm very happy to see that MediaWiki has been put into use! If the Wikimedia Foundation has got a significant

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExternalAuth and AuthPlugin relationships

2012-10-11 Thread Ryan Lane
I'm new on this list but found that the last thread about ExternalAuth [1] dated back from 2010 [2] but I thought it was acceptable to bring up the subject again :) ExternalAuth should be dropped from core. It isn't maintained, it only supports a single type of authentication that's for

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExternalAuth and AuthPlugin relationships

2012-10-11 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: I was thinking about this recently too. Though I started thinking from the login form perspective. Things we should have: - Good build-in support for both single-authentication (everyone is in the user

Re: [Wikitech-l] ExternalAuth and AuthPlugin relationships

2012-10-12 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Seb35 seb35wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: If there are multiple identification sources, what about unicity of usernames? i.e. who is User1 if it exists different people User1@OpenID and User1@RADIUS? the first who registers on the wiki? or is it assumed all User1

Re: [Wikitech-l] Best policies for WikiFarms

2012-10-16 Thread Ryan Lane
Anyways, adding and deleting wikis is outside of the scope of our builtin config tools. Why? This is how Wikimedia creates wikis, but it's Wikimedia specific. I don't see why this can't be made more generic with a little bit of effort. - Ryan ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Seeking feedback on new Organizations feature on Ohloh

2012-10-24 Thread Ryan Lane
Well, Wikimedia people can contribute to non-Wikimedia projects as well... ... which makes me remember that I didn't include the webplatfom/* repos. Should we? webplatform.org/mediawiki/Comments MediaWiki extension Comments for webplatform.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-27 Thread Ryan Lane
Are there any plans for an SPDY [1] test on the Wikimedia servers? I have plans on testing it in production when nginx supports it stably. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-27 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: We don't even do HTTP/1.1 yet - lack of Transfer-Encoding: Chunked has bit me badly before. Well, nginx didn't support this until fairly recently. We plan on testing this fairly soon. I upgraded one of the ssl boxes

[Wikitech-l] HTTPS for all logged-in users (was: Re: secure.wikimedia.org is no more)

2012-11-16 Thread Ryan Lane
Awesome! Another old hack swept away. :D Do we have a timetable for migrating all login sessions to HTTPS yet? I love that we've got a clean HTTPS option available, but it really skeezes me out that we still allow logins and passwords over plain HTTP. We're waiting on some MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS for all logged-in users (was: Re: secure.wikimedia.org is no more)

2012-11-16 Thread Ryan Lane
I've been swamped with a few other projects recently, but once they settle down, we're very close to getting all logins going over https. I think we should be able to enable the preference by 1.21wmf5 or wmf6. Preference? I thought we wanted this to be default (and more preferences suck ;)

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org is no more

2012-11-17 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/11/12 22:04, Brion Vibber wrote: Awesome! Another old hack swept away. :D Do we have a timetable for migrating all login sessions to HTTPS yet? I love that we've got a clean HTTPS option available, but it really

[Wikitech-l] SSL clusters upgraded to precise and new version of nginx

2012-11-19 Thread Ryan Lane
A few weeks ago I upgraded a single SSL termination server to Ubuntu Precise. I let it run for a while to ensure we wouldn't see memory leaks and to give time for people to report errors. No issues were reported and resource consumption was good, so today I upgraded all other nodes. This upgrade

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] LdapAuthentication 1.2c released

2010-06-23 Thread Ryan Lane
this version, please use the extension distributor (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/LdapAuthentication), select “Development version (trunk)”, and click “Continue”. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki version statistics

2010-07-29 Thread Ryan Lane
that would prefer not to their presence known. Enterprise use in general fits this category. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Debian packages (was MediaWiki version statistics)

2010-08-02 Thread Ryan Lane
to manage this for all extensions, especially since they aren't all code reviewed. If Debian doesn't feel they should keep supported versions in their repos, maybe they shouldn't distribute MediaWiki. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Debian packages (was MediaWiki version statistics)

2010-08-02 Thread Ryan Lane
, doesn't mean they should. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] prototype vs. test (was: Interlanguage Extension - going on)

2010-08-06 Thread Ryan Lane
can put on prototype versus test. V/r, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] So, Java.

2010-08-13 Thread Ryan Lane
in Java, and we all know how Oracle loves to sue. -- Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] So, Java.

2010-08-13 Thread Ryan Lane
OK. Nevertheless, I would really strongly suggest planning a firm escape route as soon as possible. Why? The Java we use is GPL licensed. As long as we use a JDK/VM that is open, we are good. -- Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New password hashing proposal

2010-08-19 Thread Ryan Lane
stronger than passwords, is that it requires a level of complexity that would be difficult for us, and either annoying or very confusing for users. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cookies and Caching

2010-08-26 Thread Ryan Lane
: if (req.http.Authorization || req.http.Cookie) to: if (req.http.Authorization) Whether or not that is a good idea, I don't know. You may be able to pass on specific cookies as well; a good one to pass on would be the actual authentication cookie. Respectfully, Ryan Lane

Re: [Wikitech-l] Balancing MediaWiki Core/Extensions

2010-09-22 Thread Ryan Lane
a lot. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is the $_SESSION secure?

2010-09-23 Thread Ryan Lane
numbers temporarily. -- Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] using parserTests code for selenium test framework

2010-09-24 Thread Ryan Lane
and the dynamically created resources. If a run doesn't complete for some reason, a cron can clean up resources that haven't been used in some appropriate amount of time. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Balancing MediaWiki Core/Extensions

2010-09-28 Thread Ryan Lane
or buggy extensions. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafting the upcoming engineering overview

2010-09-28 Thread Ryan Lane
betting that almost everything not moved from etherpad is never looked at again. I think the correct solution here is to continue to move the documents from etherpad to mediawiki.org (or some other appropriate wiki), and try to be more vigilant about doing so. Respectfully, Ryan Lane

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugmeister opening at Wikimedia Foundation

2010-10-07 Thread Ryan Lane
this, I think the strategy wiki is the right spot. Not wikitech-l. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugmeister opening at Wikimedia Foundation

2010-10-08 Thread Ryan Lane
It's in the strategic plan: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2010-2011_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers I don't see how the link you provided addresses the post you were replying to at all. As Roan pointed out, I was telling you that a full time Bugmeister was in the annual plan, if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector extension naming

2010-10-12 Thread Ryan Lane
for help. Leave the name alone, and merge it into core as soon as possible. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Migrating SVN from mayflower to formey

2010-10-23 Thread Ryan Lane
In the next hour or two we'll be migrating SVN to a new server. Nothing is changing from the usage perspective. During this time SVN may be inaccessible for a few minutes. Let me know if you are having an access issue, and I'll fix it for you. Respectfully, Ryan Lane

[Wikitech-l] SVN migration and SSH key issues

2010-10-23 Thread Ryan Lane
I've just finished the SVN migration. If you've logged into the new server before the migration via SSH, you'll have SSH key problems. To fix this issue, edit ~/.ssh/known_hosts, and remove the entries for formey and formey.wikimedia.org. Respectfully, Ryan Lane

Re: [Wikitech-l] RT

2010-10-27 Thread Ryan Lane
to contractual or confidentiality reasons. Who is telling you it's staff stuff? I'm pretty sure all of the ops people have been pretty clear about why we can't allow public access to the system. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geoiplookup

2010-11-03 Thread Ryan Lane
that is being used. That said, there isn't anything to gain by blocking this. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How would you disrupt Wikipedia?

2010-12-29 Thread Ryan Lane
, and maintain extensions for WMF use. I honestly don't think this is a limiting factor to the usability of WMF projects, either. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] June 8th 2011, World IPv6 Day

2011-01-16 Thread Ryan Lane
of this thread, yes, we do hope to participate. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FYI : Commons thumbnails slow

2011-01-18 Thread Ryan Lane
. Everything else seems normal (well, I'm in the UK, but otherwise... ;-). Thankfully, I do read wikitech-l often, but please, please, report this on IRC as well, if possible everyone. Thank you for the report, btw. We're looking into it now. Respectfully, Ryan Lane

Re: [Wikitech-l] FYI : Commons thumbnails slow

2011-01-18 Thread Ryan Lane
solutions at social problems...) Almost all threads on wikitech-l are dev related, not ops. I happen to do both, so I noticed it. Pushing all thread subjects from wikitech-l to ops folks would pretty much be spam. Either way, a report is better than no report ;). Respectfully, Ryan Lane

[Wikitech-l] Announcing OpenStackManager extension

2011-01-21 Thread Ryan Lane
for this project configured on tesla, if you'd like to work in a pre-configured environment. The extension page is here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenStackManager Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF and IPv6

2011-02-03 Thread Ryan Lane
. Upgrading squid really isn't amazingly high on our priority list right now. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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