Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmaps and getting and keeping devs

2011-02-12 Thread Ryan Lane
is in Berlin, soon. I'm not sure if they have this planned. It's apparently GLAM focused (which excludes devs like me), so I'd imagine not, unless the bugs targeted are GLAM related. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmaps and getting and keeping devs

2011-02-12 Thread Ryan Lane
been meeting them in person, much more so than the years prior. The hack-a-tons may not be effective at bringing in new people, but I feel they are very effective at solidifying the current community that we have. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Maury Markowitz maury.markow...@gmail.com wrote: Are there _no_ performance issues we should be concerned about here? I know local ISP's did (used to?) throttle all encrypted traffic. Would this fall into that category? Well, there's nothing we can really do

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
: The server side is definitely more the problem here. There is a fairly substantial performance hit for setting up/breaking down the SSL connections. To support this we'll need a cluster of systems dedicated to acting as SSL proxies. - Ryan Lane

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
in depth discussion with the other ops folks about this last week. I think I'm going to put it on my goal list; however, we have a lot of higher priority tasks, so I wouldn't expect anything too soon. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
this if this would actually result in a substantial amount of traffic to secure, but I seriously doubt it will. I love the EFF, but they have a fairly shallow reach when it comes to things like this. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] are you sure you want everything via HTTPS?

2011-02-15 Thread Ryan Lane
All this boils down to, yes full HTTPS is best practice, but if you make use of external APIs or services, it may be hard to achieve. We don't for anything, I believe. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] are you sure you want everything via HTTPS?

2011-02-16 Thread Ryan Lane
But really, I should have just ignored this thread since it was mostly a troll. Wouldn't each page view mean a connection, and a ssl handshake? Or are you thinking on keep-alives? No. Once a connection is made, requests from the same user should go through the same connection. - Ryan

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Ryan Lane
that developers can have a usable working environment, but I don't think it's stable enough to run on any site where you care about security or your data. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-22 Thread Ryan Lane
All I know is doing svn update php update.php is a lot easier than any other way of updating. You can do that with the tagged releases too. You don't have to run trunk for that. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread Ryan Lane
control system of their choosing, yet they don't. This thread is discussing a perceived problem with a tool we are already successfully using. Let's focus on one issue at a time. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] Toolserver source control (was Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-22 Thread Ryan Lane
has a problem, and it should be addressed. It isn't a problem with the MediaWiki developer community though, it's a problem with the toolserver community, and they need to fix it. But again, let's focus on one issue at a time. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Toolserver source control (was Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-22 Thread Ryan Lane
a totally new problem into the mix won't help. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Toolserver source control (was Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-23 Thread Ryan Lane
think we all get this. If we switch to git this will be addressed. If there's some specific technical concern you have, let us know. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal for Account Creation, Login Screens, and Ajax-ification of everything

2011-03-25 Thread Ryan Lane
this. Digest authentication protects against replay attacks, but I don't believe it can protect against man in the middle attacks. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC Proposal for Account Creation, Login Screens, and Ajax-ification of everything

2011-03-25 Thread Ryan Lane
on the channel, I love the idea of someone working on AJAX login support. It is perfectly useable by a bunch of third parties, and would be a great addition to the software. Respectfully, Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL certificate expired?

2011-03-27 Thread Ryan Lane
It's fixed. On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/3/27 Schneelocke schneelo...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, did the SSL certificate for secure.wikimedia.org expire? It did, yes. Informing our ops department, they should be able to sort this out

[Wikitech-l] New SVN committer

2011-03-29 Thread Ryan Lane
I've given extensions, core, and deployment access to a new member of our ops team: Peter Youngmeister. He should be adding his userinfo as we speak. - Ryan Lane ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Server issues

2011-04-19 Thread Ryan Lane
I'm doing squid upgrades to add some patches to fix some issues we were seeing, and to add new log capabilities. I upgraded too many at once and it's overloading our apache backend. It should stablize soon. Sorry! On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:20 PM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: I have been

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of SSL access to Wikipedia?

2011-04-25 Thread Ryan Lane
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20643 -- Serve SSL/HTTPS sites out of same domain names as HTTP access: https://en.wikipedia.org/ This'll need more work as it has to deal with the offsite proxies, multiple domains, etc. But it's been on the slate for a long time and we did

Re: [Wikitech-l] auditcode.py - discern class structure

2011-05-02 Thread Ryan Lane
I totally 3 that you wrote it in python. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson rnnel...@clarkson.edu wrote: Maybe there's a better tool to tell you what function is defined in what class in PHP, but I couldn't find one in the time it would take me to write it, so I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-05-02 Thread Ryan Lane
I'd also love to know how it keeps getting unsubscribed. This is the third time... On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:03 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote: Wow, now here's a blast from the past... :-D  A lot of these stats

Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?)

2011-05-03 Thread Ryan Lane
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:15 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I realize you have a dry wit, but I imagine this joke was lost on nearly everyone. You're not really suggesting that everyone who wants to parse MediaWiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?)

2011-05-03 Thread Ryan Lane
It is much easier to embed it in other languages, once you get shared object with Parser methods exposed ;-) Which would also require the linking application to be GPL licensed, which is less than ideal. We shouldn't limit the licensing of applications that want to write wikitext. An

Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing (Was: WYSIWYG and parser plans)

2011-05-03 Thread Ryan Lane
Which of course allows me to fork the thread and ask why does MediaWiki have to be GPL licensed. I was just talking about this in IRC :). We could re-license the parser to be LGPL or BSD so that other implementations can use our parser more freely. - Ryan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing (Was: WYSIWYG and parser plans)

2011-05-03 Thread Ryan Lane
This is how WMF staff treats volunteers: [21:17:23]  Ryan_Lane domas: and now I took your BSD idea, and didn't give you credit [21:17:38]  * Ryan_Lane wins [21:17:51]  yuvipanda_ FLAWLESS VICTORY [21:17:55]  yuvipanda_ except for the IRC logs You are evil Domas. For those interested,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing (Was: WYSIWYG and parser plans)

2011-05-03 Thread Ryan Lane
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think the idea that we might break the existing PHP parser out into a library for general use is rather silly. Well, if that's the case, why was it brought up in the discussion to begin with? Here's the comment Tim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing (Was: WYSIWYG and parser plans)

2011-05-03 Thread Ryan Lane
Personally, I don't see any problem with a parser library being GPL. You can still link it with proprietary code as long as you don't distribute the result, so it would be fine for research projects or similar that rely on proprietary components.  You can always *use* GPLd code however you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing (Was: WYSIWYG and parser plans)

2011-05-04 Thread Ryan Lane
The only mention of the word link in the GPLv3 terms and conditions, outside an example, is in the phrase link or combine in section 13: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPLv2 doesn't use it at all in the terms and conditions: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Linking has no

[Wikitech-l] New Committer

2011-05-09 Thread Ryan Lane
Added Asher Feldman (asher) to extensions, core, and deployment. He's a new member of the Operations team. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Large number of users unable to access WMF wikis

2011-05-10 Thread Ryan Lane
We know of the issue and are working it now. We are having issues with one of our routers. - Ryan On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: For about the last 12 hours I have been unable to reliably connect to WMF wikis. Ive tried both Firefox and IE8 both without

Re: [Wikitech-l] Large number of users unable to access WMF wikis

2011-05-10 Thread Ryan Lane
We did some network migrations to stabilize things. We'll do maintenance soon to fix things more permanently. Let me know if you are still having issues. - Ryan On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: We know of the issue and are working it now. We are having

[Wikitech-l] New list: labs-l

2012-01-10 Thread Ryan Lane
To coordinate efforts occurring in Labs, and to be able to send/receive announcements, I've created a new labs-l list. If you are a labs member, or are interested in the work going on there, please subscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l - Ryan

Re: [Wikitech-l] JavaScript on Special:UserLogin?

2012-01-12 Thread Ryan Lane
Of course, if the login form code wasn't such a swamp, there'd be a hook you could use to preprocess the usernames server-side...  :-( The getCanonicalName function in the auth plugins will do this. I was actually thinking of adding a hook to LdapAuthentication in that function to let users

Re: [Wikitech-l] Want student help with your MediaWiki project?

2012-01-13 Thread Ryan Lane
I'd love some help with the OpenStackManager interface. Development of it is fairly straightforward when the environment is configured, and I have that done in labs in the openstack project. I can give them access to that project, of course. - Ryan On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

2012-01-13 Thread Ryan Lane
I think you're missing the objective of the policy.  It aims at taking away the fear from potential participants to be harassed.  Encouraging people with insufficient social skills to come is not going to help that cause especially if pressure is put on the other participants to engage with

Re: [Wikitech-l] SOPA banner implementation

2012-01-15 Thread Ryan Lane
I don't think Wikimedia ops can be complicit in turning off editing like that. Ops operates under the exact opposite goal, doesn't it? To ensure that the site is continually running, accessible, functioning as much as humanly possible? I was under the impression that any SOPA-related action

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text browser users won't see your important site notice

2012-01-18 Thread Ryan Lane
As was mentioned here, a 503 would be the most appropriate  HTTP response code to serve. It would also prevent non-js users and text-only users from bypassing, it would avoid the flicker effect, and would cause search engines to correctly back off trying to index our pages. It would also

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text browser users won't see your important site notice

2012-01-18 Thread Ryan Lane
Strange considering google said to use 503s so it would make their job easier. https://plus.google.com/u/0/115984868678744352358/posts/Gas8vjZ5fmB Right. I read that post too. As I said, they told us not to change return codes. They told us so directly. I think them telling us directly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text browser users won't see your important site notice

2012-01-18 Thread Ryan Lane
I second that. Also, it seems as if the starting point of this discussion somehow gets lost. It was about the javascript redirection simply not working for many million browser configurations - like Firefox running noscript, or IExplorer when extra secure configured (i.e. because you do

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text browser users won't see your important site notice

2012-01-18 Thread Ryan Lane
Making sure articles look good in w3m ensures they are machine processable -- as you never know what kind of machine might be processing your article. We have an API for machines. We don't support screen scraping. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] What will Wikipedia do next time

2012-01-18 Thread Ryan Lane
Ryan, when i criticized the javascript implementation, i did not intend to be rude. I see now there might be a lot more  considerations besides shocking visitors and editors, and there seem to have been not so much time too. Maybe i underestimated the task. I am impressed that you tried

Re: [Wikitech-l] Text browser users won't see your important site notice

2012-01-19 Thread Ryan Lane
No, there isn't a difference. A blackout where everyone sees a page with a particular message instead of the article they wanted is exactly the same as unscheduled downtime where everyone sees a page with a particular message instead of the article they wanted. If search engines and caches

[Wikitech-l] New committer: abemusic

2012-01-21 Thread Ryan Lane
Abe is working on our nginx udp logging module. Today he fixed a pretty annoying log format issue for us at the hackathon. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] online labs conference on irc

2012-01-24 Thread Ryan Lane
So, I voted for Saturday at 2pm, but I'm thinking it's unlikely I'll be able to make it this Saturday. We'll likely need to wait till after I get back from FOSDEM, which is some time after Feb 11th. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Sumana suggested to use this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Production configs (to ops)

2012-02-01 Thread Ryan Lane
I requested a configuration file for squid weeks ago, but it seems to be a bit complicated to remove confidential data from it. I suppose we should split it to multiple files, having some public and private, and keep the public files with no server specific lines in puppet, so that we can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Production configs (to ops)

2012-02-01 Thread Ryan Lane
I initially suggested you just dump the files I gave you into puppet and have a volunteer puppetize it; did you not get that (I might not have told you), or do you prefer to puppetize it yourself for some reason (e..g because it's hard to get right)? It's hard to get right because it can't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator

2012-02-11 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:08 AM, John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com wrote: Unless you've been living under a rock (If you have, how's the wifi under there?) we're moving to git soon. Along with this will come a change in how we do code review. However, some people have expressed concerns over

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator

2012-02-11 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:08 AM, John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com wrote: Unless you've been living under a rock (If you have, how's the wifi under there?) we're moving to git soon. Along with this will come a change in how we do code review. However, some people have expressed concerns over

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend Rename MobileFrontend2

2012-02-12 Thread Ryan Lane
We already have SubPageList, SubPageList2, and SubPageList3 sitting around (SubPageList and SubPageList3 are in SVN, SubPageList is supposed to be the one more up to date then either the 2 or 3) inside MW.org and SVN. Heck it's hard to have as much of a naming mess as we've had with Dynamic

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration - updated schedule workflow descriptions

2012-02-12 Thread Ryan Lane
These exist. Gerrit sends notifications when an event occurs (creation of a new change, comment/review on an existing change, new version of an existing change, change merged), and it sends these notifications to all users that have commented on the change, as well as the author. I believe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator

2012-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
I compeletely agree with that. It would be a complete waste to have chad and others' work from the past 5 months thrown away at the last minute for a solution brought up this late. We can initially use git for the migration however if we decide to later, Phabricator is still available. :-)

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Lane
3. jQuery drop down menu - I wanted to implement this functionality on every page. I had seen the SignUP API wanted this universally. If there are security issues with AJAX, then there is no need to even implement the jQuery alongside. (Idea dropped) Well, just because it would be insecure

Re: [Wikitech-l] getting started with volunteer mediawiki development

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Lane
I've given a few talks on this at random places. Slides are up on wikitech in PDF form, and on my blog in ODF format: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?title=File:Ryan_Lane_-_How_to_be_a_part_of_the_MediaWiki_developer_community.pdfpage=1

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problematic automated tweets

2012-02-18 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:39 PM, A jokestr...@gmail.com wrote: Tonight the Twitter account @wikimediatech sent out two problematic tweets that began with jfaritu, one of which contains a racial slur. Not sure who handles this, but please have someone look into it. Thanks. A channel troll

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problematic automated tweets

2012-02-21 Thread Ryan Lane
That's because the bot records the user's nick in the log message. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: It's interesting to note that the text 'jfaritu' which began the problematic texts was precisely pointing to the abuser's nick.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-27 Thread Ryan Lane
As long as everyone's information is known in advance, it can be scripted, yes. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Surely this could be scripted. -Chad On Feb 27, 2012 6:07 PM, Alexander Klauer graf.z...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 27. Februar 2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-28 Thread Ryan Lane
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Could mimic what we did here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/New_repositories#Step_3:_Request_space_for_your_extension I think as long as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-29 Thread Ryan Lane
I don't think that list is up to date. I also think that not everyone who has access knows how to do that or want to do that. The puppet repo (in manifests/site.pp) is the most accurate way of finding this: 706 $sudo_privs = [ 'ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/add-ldap-user', 707

Re: [Wikitech-l] GUI for Git

2012-03-08 Thread Ryan Lane
Unfortunately for git-review, I don't think there is a single GUI that supports it. There's actually no requirement for using git-review. It simply makes things easier. If you set up the remote, and make sure to include the commit-msg hook, you can use anything you want. I haven't started

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit and the coming migration

2012-03-08 Thread Ryan Lane
I'd hardly call Gerrit a lame horse, more like a horse with funny spots on it and an extra tail. Also: what's this mythical best tool? I've not seen it suggested before. +1 There are alternative solutions, but none of them are viable without development work. Gerrit is viable right now, in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit and the coming migration

2012-03-08 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: I like Gerrit diff system. Yeah I know that sounds like trolling read below though before discarding this mail. Sure, inline comments are cool but I think they lack discoverability. You need to browse all the diffs just in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minor git update

2012-03-09 Thread Ryan Lane
What if our Labs and thus gerrit logins are different then our subversion username? Your shell account name is your svn username. It's linked with your gerrit user name. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS preference?

2012-03-10 Thread Ryan Lane
Well, sure, but perfect is the enemy of the done. For right now, it can at least be added as a local user preference (or just be implemented unconditionally)... I think. That's why I started the thread: to clarify what needs to be done and who's ready for what. :-) Please let's not add a

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS preference?

2012-03-10 Thread Ryan Lane
Please let's not add a silly preference like this. Let's just keep operating under the idea that all logged in users will use HTTPS, and keep moving towards that goal. Okay, I don't disagree. Do you think https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29898 should have a different bug

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia architecture overview in #wikimedia-tech

2011-08-22 Thread Ryan Lane
This is starting in a few minutes. If you are interested, pop into #wikimedia-tech now. - Ryan On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: The Ubuntu Ensemble community is going to be working on replicating our environment using Ensemble, inside of the Labs

[Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs and HTTPS enabled on foundationwiki and commonswiki

2011-08-31 Thread Ryan Lane
Roan sent out a new set of HTTPS fixes today, which made us confident enough to enable protocol-relative URLs and HTTPS on commonswiki and foundationwiki. We haven't purged the cache yet for these wikis, so it's very likely some pages will point you back to HTTP. We'll be purging caches some time

Re: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs and HTTPS enabled on foundationwiki and commonswiki

2011-08-31 Thread Ryan Lane
Main thing I notice off the bat is that interwiki links seem to have been set up to use protocol-relative links that don't actually work yet -- at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas there's a link Stielers Handatlashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Stielers_Handatlas which ends up

[Wikitech-l] Puppet repository published in a public git repository

2011-09-19 Thread Ryan Lane
We've just released our puppet repository into a public git repository. For more information, see the blog post about this: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/19/ever-wondered-how-the-wikimedia-servers-are-configured/ As noted in the blog post, we are releasing this to treat operations like a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-09-22 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: Yay! I've volunteered to do a quick intro-to-our-scary-git-future session at the New Orleans hackathon; I'll see if I can lay out a nice workflow demonstration from a few different perspectives: * staff or very active

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration planning

2011-09-23 Thread Ryan Lane
I've talked to some of the ops folks a bit, and we've already agreed that inline display of diffs is something we really need to add to Gerrit. I've filed a feature request to this end: http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1137 It's worth pointing out that Google Code will let

[Wikitech-l] Native HTTPS support live on all projects

2011-10-03 Thread Ryan Lane
I'm happy to announce we've added native HTTPS support to all of the projects. See the blog post for more information: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/03/native-https-support-enabled-for-all-wikimedia-foundation-wikis/ If you find any bugs, please report in bugzilla. - Ryan Lane

Re: [Wikitech-l] Native HTTPS support live on all projects

2011-10-03 Thread Ryan Lane
We're announcing HTTPS support but why isn't this link pointing to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ ? I know this is a troll, but I'm going to answer it seriously. We are supporting https, but we aren't doing https only. We don't have plans for only doing https. You are welcome to take the link and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preliminary git module splitup notes (MediaWiki core extensions)

2011-10-05 Thread Ryan Lane
Sorry? Note that only a small subset of those with commit access do have full ssh to run commands. And a good system shouldn't need those hacks (which is why we are discussing in advance). I don't see why we can't open up access to basically everyone. I'd like to make it so that everyone who

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help setting up mysql.cnf for local WIki mirror

2011-10-06 Thread Ryan Lane
You can see the one used live on our sites: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/puppet.git;a=blob;f=templates/mysql/prod.my.cnf.erb;h=734009a4c170ffc2f525c4e18fc4c72352cffe45;hb=HEAD

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google's cached pages are much faster than wiki*edia's

2011-10-06 Thread Ryan Lane
Isn't that the same thing Facebook just caught Congressional shit for? Not even close. We don't track you from site to site, you just happen to have a cookie that didn't get deleted that also happens to cause you to bypass cache. We should likely find out why these aren't getting deleted. -

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Staff Announcement - Welcome x y z ...

2011-10-10 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: WMF Staff Announcement WMF Staff Announcement WMF Staff Announcement . It would be nice to read more about the actual progress resulting from the current massive staff extension. We put out a very extensive report of

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Staff Announcement - Welcome x y z ...

2011-10-10 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Or just take a look at our software deployments page to see exactly what changed. http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Software_deployments http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Software_deployments/2011_archive That

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases

2011-10-25 Thread Ryan Lane
Hmm, maybe we should set up a second box in addition to gallium for this to act as the database host that has all the various DBMSes we want to test. https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Just a suggestion ;) - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure replication lag

2011-05-23 Thread Ryan Lane
Aha, replication lag would explain it!  Since I'm only doing things on off hours, how long should replication lag be these days? It shouldn't normally be more than 2-3 seconds. We did have an issue with the S4 cluster (commonswiki) this weekend where the master had crashed, and replag was very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment: New hooks: DeleteAccount and MergeAccountFromTo

2011-05-28 Thread Ryan Lane
As suggested some days ago by Ryan Lane - and I support his view - such hooks should -    go/come via the core, and in consequence -    via Auth. The two hooks should be implemented in core as    abstract public function () or whatever is conformity to our standards (pls. let me know

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for comment: New hooks: DeleteAccount and MergeAccountFromTo

2011-05-29 Thread Ryan Lane
then I understood you, let's say, partially. Your last sentence clarifies the situation in that you indirectly confirm, that the introduction of the two hooks DeleteAccount and MergeAccountFromTo (in UserMerge and in OpenID extensions) is -currently- the correct and only way. If the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-06-02 Thread Ryan Lane
In case anyone's wondering what I think of this, I was pretty blunt last time around: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-April/052893.html To be any more blunt than that, I'd have to press the caps lock key ;) This post seems to be a much more optimistic view of the 1.17

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc.wikimedia.org status

2011-06-08 Thread Ryan Lane
It's been fixed for three hours now. One thing to note is that the IP address for the server changed. The DNS entry's cache settings are for one hour, you should be able to access it without issues now. I just tried it and it's working for me. When was the last time you tried it? On Wed, Jun 8,

[Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Ryan Lane
In anticipation for proper HTTPS support on Wikimedia sites, we will be enabling protocol relative URLs. This means that things like logos, references to resources, and interwiki links will use links like: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page instead of links like:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Ryan Lane
My personal preference would be to run *all* logged-in activity over HTTPS, so every mail link etc should be on SSL. But I think that's still a ways out yet and will need better SSL acceleration; poor Ryan Lane will kill me if I keep pushing on that too soon! ;) Actually, this is exactly

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Employee Announcement - Jeff Green

2011-06-30 Thread Ryan Lane
Really great to have you on the team. Looking forward to working with you! On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:31 PM, CT Woo ct...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, Please join me to welcome Jeff Green to Wikimedia Foundation. Jeff is taking up the Special Ops position in the Tech Ops department where one of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia engineering report for June 2011

2011-07-10 Thread Ryan Lane
[quote] Summer of Research 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011  ‹ Asher Feldman and Ryan Lane http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane  created the systems infrastructure for the Summer of Research team to perform data mining and analysis work

[Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org

2011-07-14 Thread Ryan Lane
Over the past couple days Roan Kattouw and I have been pushing out changes to enable protocol-relative URL support. We've gotten to a point where we think it is stable and working. We've enabled this on test.wikipedia.org, and plan on running it for two weeks before enabling it elsewhere. Please

[Wikitech-l] New SVN commiter

2011-07-15 Thread Ryan Lane
Gave Aaron Parecki access to extensions. He's been working on extensions such as: * MediaWiki-SEO-Title-Tag * MediaWiki-Changelog-Graphs * MediaWiki-Glossary-Extension - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] https via GPU?

2011-08-04 Thread Ryan Lane
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Asher Feldman afeld...@wikimedia.org wrote: From the orig post Recent Intel CPU has a fature called AES-NIhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set that accelerates AES processing. A CPU with AES-NI can perform 5 to 10 times faster than a CPU without it.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sep11 Wiki

2011-08-08 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: I am note sure who might be in a position to correct this, but this list seems the most likely.. For some reason sep11.wikipedia.org subdomain is forwarding to a spam site - this was pointed out on OTRS earlier.

Re: [Wikitech-l] etherpad-lite

2011-10-26 Thread Ryan Lane
Set-up of etherpad-lite about 3 minutes. I'm more than happy to make you an instance in Labs to install this and puppetize it for us. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] So how does WMF set up its Apaches?

2011-10-27 Thread Ryan Lane
[1] that is being updated. A lot of the live configs are also on NOC [2]. Between sites like NOC and access to Puppet (via Git), you've got a majority of the data AS it is actually used (rather than as it was, when written, on wiki). Well, sure, but that's nap-of-earth; without a solid

[Wikitech-l] New SVN committer

2011-11-01 Thread Ryan Lane
Andrew Bogott (andrew) - A new devops contractor working on the Labs project. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Labs questions (was: MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases)

2011-11-02 Thread Ryan Lane
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan Lane wrote: https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Just a suggestion ;) - Ryan 1) This is the first time it is mentioned in this mailing list. It isn't the first time labs has been. I was suggesting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Labs questions (was: MediaWiki unit testing and non-MySQL databases)

2011-11-02 Thread Ryan Lane
As someone who tested http://nova-controller.tesla.usability.wikimedia.org/ it was quite a shock to find it out in this way. Well, we released it at the hack-a-thon for early beta testing. It isn't ready for MediaWiki development, so I didn't publicize it to this list just yet. Once I work

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please preload a space in the page for the banner

2011-11-21 Thread Ryan Lane
       Doing this doesn't work, and never did. Creepy Jimmy, with his come to my van, child eyes invariably comes back,        like a particularly nasty genital infection, within 2 days at most. Look, there have been numerous ways discussed to remove the banners and never see them ever

Re: [Wikitech-l] irc bot

2011-12-15 Thread Ryan Lane
Agreed. I've wanted most of the stuff Petr has put into this bot in the operations channels for quite a while. It works well, and is being actively maintained. I don't care what language it is in. Learning a new language enough to do simple fixes and basic maintenance takes a week or two. Who

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration progress for MW core

2011-12-15 Thread Ryan Lane
You need a labs account for this to work. If you'd like one, email me with the following information: 1. Your preferred wiki user name. This will also be your gerrit/git user name. If you want your git username to be your real name, then make this your real name. 2. Your svn account name 3. Your

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