[Wikitech-l] Farewell

2014-09-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
inue to do, to help enable every human being to freely share in the sum of all human knowledge. I'll leave you with one of my favorite songs, "Somebody Will." http://www.sassafrassmusic.com/songs/sci-fi-fantasy-fandom/somebody-will/ Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wik

[Wikitech-l] suggestions to reduce code review backlog

2014-09-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
ptember/078627.html . * Nominate people to maintain repositories. Including yourself. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Project_ownership Hope this helps. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tor and Anonymous Users (I know, we've had this discussion a million times)

2014-09-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/425124 "Anonymous editors & IP addresses" July 2014. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/482562 Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Derric Atzrott < dat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Howto get a patch merged?

2014-09-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
process. I hope you come back, though, and I hope the Wikimedia technical community makes it appealing for you to come back. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Stephan Gambke wrote: > Ok, last attempt. > > This

[Wikitech-l] the three phases of patch review

2014-09-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
ing even if you decide this approach isn't your style. (Reminder: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review/Getting_reviews and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Code_review are worth re-skimming.) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer

Re: [Wikitech-l] REL1_24 branched in core

2014-09-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_checklist ? Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > > > > > I have adjusted CI to take

[Wikitech-l] want to pair program more often?

2014-09-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
ed programmer, getting your code review while you work together. People who want to pair program more often on Wikimedia-related code: want to use this thread to raise your hand? If people like the idea, we could start doing something like http://www.pairprogramwith.me/ or http://pear.growstuff.

[Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
you have questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them. best, Sumana Harihareswara ​was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager, now Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-

Re: [Wikitech-l] OPW final report and thanks to you all

2014-09-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
w follow Frances's lead by reading the standard, reviewing existing libraries, and writing evaluations. Which is cool. best, Sumana Harihareswara ​ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future platforms, devices, and consumers

2014-08-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
27;s novel "Constellation Games" http://constellation.crummy.com/ has a minor character who edits Wikipedia.) OK, maybe I am being rambly and silly right now because I'm about to go on vacation. I'll be offline for a few weeks, back on September 10th. You know what would be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Configuration related things that happened at Wikimania

2014-08-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/Graphical_configuration_interface , or any other Request for Comment, by the way? Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Legoktm wrote: > Hello! > > This past week at the hackathon we got a lot of things done related to > configuratio

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Bikeshedding a good name for "the api.php API"

2014-08-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I like "action API". Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > Summing up, it seems like "action API" and "api.php" are the two > contenders. > > "api.php"

Re: [Wikitech-l] tomorrow: RfC/Wikimania catchup meeting

2014-08-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
ere's discussion of how to expand the committee and delegate from it, but nothing's finalized yet. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Sumana Harihareswara < suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Open questions I suggest w

Re: [Wikitech-l] tomorrow: RfC/Wikimania catchup meeting

2014-08-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-06-11>: how has the bandwidth savings been on Reducing image quality for mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Reducing_image_quality_for_mobile>? Will we change regular/original images as well as thumbnails?

[Wikitech-l] tomorrow: RfC/Wikimania catchup meeting

2014-08-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
x27;t put up calendar entries/links everywhere yet about this meeting, will do later today) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [TA3M-NY] Save the Date: March 1-6 Circumvention Tech Festival

2014-08-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I would love for some Wikimedia technologists interested in our users' privacy to put on an event within this festival (sort of like a devroom at FOSDEM). http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/1397 - Steven Walling's talk "Data, Privacy, & Trust in Open Source: 10 Lessons from Wikipedia" might be o

[Wikitech-l] typesafe enums, data mapper & dependency injection RfCs

2014-08-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
the data mapper: it's basically an object-relational mapper that would isolate database access in a less active-record-y way, so see whether you agree with this approach. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l m

Re: [Wikitech-l] ignore feature for mediawiki?

2014-08-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
ave the ability to delete/suppress entire threads," which is good, and that Flow will tie into AbuseFilter for spam prevention. I'd like to ask more questions about moderation and self-care possibilities in Flow; let me know where I should ask those (the design list, a different list, the

Re: [Wikitech-l] ignore feature for mediawiki?

2014-08-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Perhaps the easiest place to start with this sort of opt-in ignoring would be in discussions; thus I filed a request for a Flow feature https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69404 : "preference to ignore comments from specific users ("killfile")". Thank you for the ide

Re: [Wikitech-l] question about standardized thumbnail sizes

2014-08-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
other interested developers from other teams and really dive into these problems." Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:58 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Another means to accomplish the same goal (more standardized thumbnail >

[Wikitech-l] CentralNotice Caching Overhaul - Frontend Proxy meeting summary

2014-07-31 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
s no online RfC meeting next week because of Wikimania; is anyone planning a face-to-face architecture meeting at Wikimania? Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] next week: caching overhaul RfC

2014-07-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
This is in about 90 minutes in #wikimedia-office. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-07-30 > > So, I was wrong - i

[Wikitech-l] next week: caching overhaul RfC

2014-07-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
n't be an IRC meeting, because of Wikimania, but I urge you to pay attention to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap which Brad Jorsch is updating 'as "notify people of upcoming changes", "chance for people to object to upcoming changes", and &quo

[Wikitech-l] Sysadmin appreciation day

2014-07-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
p, and that it keeps getting better, and that this takes work and we should appreciate that. If you want to be someone we appreciate next year, you can always learn. :) http://ops-school.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ is one place to start. Sumana Harihare

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anyone going to WikiMania?

2014-07-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
le , ask for it now so people can plan a bit. :) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 21/07/14 00:24, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > > On 07/19/2014 05:47 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) wrote: > >&g

[Wikitech-l] jQuery UI 1.10.4 and IE6 support

2014-07-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Replying with a subject line. :) Good luck Thomas. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Thomas Mulhall wrote: > Hi should we upgrade jquery ui to version 1.10.4. even though we recently > upgraded to version 1.9.2 we could u

[Wikitech-l] Approved RfC: Composer-managed libraries

2014-07-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
In the IRC meeting yesterday https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-07-23 we approved Bryan's RfC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Composer_managed_libraries_for_use_on_WMF_cluster . Yay! Cake for all! Remaining action items: * Bryan to get repo re

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC discussion Wednesday: Composer-managed libraries on WMF cluster

2014-07-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
​This is starting in half an hour.​ On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > ​Sorry, time error. Fixing below.​ > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswara < > suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> https://www.mediawiki.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback for mediawiki api development course on codecademy.

2014-07-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Taking to private email/IRC. :) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Diwanshi Pandey wrote: > Hi Sumana, > > In the first exercise when are you getting the error you mentioned. I mean > Did you change the String &

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback for mediawiki api development course on codecademy.

2014-07-22 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Diwanshi, the bug Alex reported is still a problem. There's a similar bug on step 3. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Diwanshi Pandey wrote: > Hi Alex, > Thanks for the feedback. I just checked the code of the exerci

Re: [Wikitech-l] Notes from Architecture Summit (and call for wiki gnome help)

2014-07-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment queue so it's much clearer which RfCs are complete and awaiting community feedback. I hope this is useful at Wikimania. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Sumana Harihareswara

[Wikitech-l] Architecture guidelines could use your perspective

2014-07-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
org/wiki/Data_%26_Developer_Hub but I can participate in those discussions. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Security guidelines

2014-07-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
w.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design>. Thanks to everyone who helped write these, especially Chris Steipp -- he wrote most of it and I helped. Thanks also to the chiptunes at https://soundcloud.com/benlandis which helped me power through. :-) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writ

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] RFC on changes to the API

2014-07-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Date: Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:05 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] RFC on changes to the API To: mediawiki-api-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org If

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC discussion Wednesday: Composer-managed libraries on WMF cluster

2014-07-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
​Sorry, time error. Fixing below.​ On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswara < suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-07-23 > > This Wednesday we're discussing Bryan Davis's suggested &quo

[Wikitech-l] RFC discussion Wednesday: Composer-managed libraries on WMF cluster

2014-07-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
curity issues are tracked and responded to in a timely manner." 2100-2200 UTC on Wednesday, 23 July, in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC. All are welcome, as usual. 10pm London 5pm New York City 2pm San Francisco Thursday 7am Sydney Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technic

[Wikitech-l] CentralNotice Caching Overhaul - Frontend Proxy RfC

2014-07-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
pass, so have at it. :-) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email for London Hackathon Participants

2014-07-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I or dumps, etc. So it's totally feasible to imagine an event that gathers 400 of those people. But I'm not involved in Wikimania hackathon planning (and will not be at the hackathon), and I don't know what proportions y'all should expect. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Wr

[Wikitech-l] Madison PHP wants speakers, can cover travel

2014-07-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/PHP * on how you do code review The proposal deadline is Monday, July 21. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-07-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Deadline extended to Sunday 20 July. http://linux.conf.au/media/news/41 The conference organisers will notify you (about whether they accepted your talk) in September. linux.conf.au/cfp Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Roan

[Wikitech-l] Vertical writing support: RfC discussion Wednesday

2014-07-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
rsday in Melbourne (sorry.) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-07-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I was wrong - the code is merged but we need to have more architectural discussion before we deploy, so I moved it out of the RfC archive. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > This was merged on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minding pull-requests on GitHub

2014-07-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 11/07/2014 20:34, Matthew Flaschen a écrit : > > > >> According to < > >> https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/settings/hooks> (may not be > >> visible to non-Wikimedians, sorry), the WebHook receiver < > >> http://tools.wmflabs.or

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-07-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
This was merged on May 9th, so I have moved the RfC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Publishing_the_RecentChanges_feed to the archive - is that right? Can I understand better where we're using PubSubHubbub vs WebSockets vs rcstream? Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Frontend standardization discussion continues Thursday

2014-07-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
page or this list is a good place to follow up. -Sumana On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Sumana Harihareswara < suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Trevor's rewritten > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redo_skin_framework > so please take a look before today&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Frontend standardization discussion continues Thursday

2014-07-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Trevor's rewritten https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redo_skin_framework so please take a look before today's chat, which is in about 6 hours. Feel free to leave comments on the talk page. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Jul

[Wikitech-l] Frontend standardization discussion continues Thursday

2014-07-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
in Boston 3:30pm in San Francisco 6:30am in Beijing 8:30am in Sydney Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Front-End Standardization Chat

2014-07-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
%29/2014-06-25_Front-End_Standardization_Chat Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ​ > Next steps: > > 1) Trevor, Roan, Timo, Kaldari and others will refine the proposal at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redo_skin_framework as > a

Re: [Wikitech-l] learning Ops infrastructure (was: Re: 404 errors)

2014-07-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
tructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=646mJu5f2cQ I added both to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Presentations#2014 . Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:24 PM, ENWP Pine wrote: > Thanks Sumana, > > That's good info to have. I'll

Re: [Wikitech-l] RfC review this week: Associated namespaces

2014-07-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
n say that here on wikitech-l, maybe others can help you solve those problems! Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:08 AM, David Cuenca wrote: > Hi Sumana, > > I hope you are well and getting ready for wikimania? :) > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Grid system RfC discussion

2014-07-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Update: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125387/ has been revised and newly awaits review. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 06/02/2014 06:11 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > > This is

[Wikitech-l] Speak at SeaGL in Seattle in October?

2014-07-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
u and help you with your proposal. http://seagl.org/schedule/2013.html has last year's schedule. Wikimedians are eligible to get travel/hotel subsidies to give talks at SeaGL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating decision soon?

2014-07-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
e-knockoff-templating. The results of my investigation are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/Knockoff_-_Tassembly/Mobile_spike " Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrot

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Front-End Standardization Chat

2014-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Added to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours . :) Sumana On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi folks, > > We're hosting a conversation about standardization and continued > development of

[Wikitech-l] question about standardized thumbnail sizes

2014-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
RfC, and a question for Ops (below), which he said I could forward to this list, so I'm doing so. :-) ​If we can settle this onlist, cool. Otherwise I'll be setting up an IRC chat for later this week.​ Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Jun

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
reports and use the new data to inform their work. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Nathan wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > We've got the f

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discuss skins work this Friday, 20 June

2014-06-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/16/2014 07:40 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Big changes are coming to MediaWiki's skin systems this summer; Friday > at 18:00 UTC is a chance to ask for details, review code, and watch out > for snags. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_20

Re: [Wikitech-l] Discuss skins work this Friday, 20 June

2014-06-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/16/2014 07:40 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Big changes are coming to MediaWiki's skin systems this summer; Friday > at 18:00 UTC is a chance to ask for details, review code, and watch out > for snags. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Tech Talk: A few Python Tips

2014-06-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/18/2014 06:57 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, we are hosting a Tech Talk tomorrow Thursday June 19 at 19:30 UTC: > > A Few Python Tips, by Sumana Harihareswara > > Details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2014-06-19 > > Video: https://plus.google.com/events/c4rjti

[Wikitech-l] Discuss skins work this Friday, 20 June

2014-06-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
; I know MatmaRex and Trevor do respond to onwiki/Gerrit comments if you want to comment there. If we have extra time this Friday, perhaps people can comment on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Alternate_disclosure_policy or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks, Luis! And for Tyler or anyone else on this list who has the same questions: Sometimes I come up with a talk idea by asking myself, "What do I know now that I wish I'd known a year ago?" This is a way to think about what you've learned that a lot of other people don't know as well as you. T

[Wikitech-l] Structured logging changesets that need review

2014-06-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Changesets that could still use your attention: * Add a PSR-3 based logging interface https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/119940/ * Enable MWLogger logging for wfLogProfilingData https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/119942/ Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Fri

[Wikitech-l] Security guidelines: need specific examples

2014-06-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
ively simple interface for security, i.e., built-in CSRF tokens and validation." If you can, comment on the talkpage: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Security_for_developers/Architecture -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___

[Wikitech-l] Security guidelines Q&A in 10 min

2014-06-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/Security_guidelines_discussion_2014-06-13 See you in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@

[Wikitech-l] Performance guidelines official

2014-06-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/16/2014 07:12 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I've addressed the feedback I got in Zurich. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Performance_guidelines > > I think this page is ready to have the {{draft}} tag removed. I believe > it now represents our consensus

[Wikitech-l] Debug toolbar, reduced image quality, & HTML templating results

2014-06-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
i.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/Security_guidelines_discussion_2014-06-13 -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] 45 minutes till RfC lightning round!

2014-06-11 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/06/2014 11:05 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > At the Wednesday, 11 June RfC meeting we'll briefly look at several RfCs > to decide on next actions. Early in the week I'll make a list and send > it out onlist. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jettisoning our history?

2014-06-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
core is 270MB" and we have some disagreement about whether that's okay. Is there a max size we want to avoid getting to? * A bigger repo is obviously slower to download in full; is it also slower to search or otherwise work with? How much slower? Most of our developers are probably not o

[Wikitech-l] RfC lightning round + security guidelines draft next week

2014-06-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
p1=1440 Both will be in #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Grid system RfC discussion

2014-06-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/02/2014 06:11 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > This is in about 50 minutes, in #wikimedia-office. > -Sumana > > On 06/02/2014 02:14 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> Later today, at 2300 UTC, we'll be in #wikimedia-office discussing Pau >> Gine

[Wikitech-l] HTML templating decision soon?

2014-06-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
hem are.) Is this about right? Should I be saying Knockoff or Knockout? Can I put the RfC decision meeting on the calendar for next week? :-) Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@l

[Wikitech-l] learning Ops infrastructure (was: Re: 404 errors)

2014-06-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
ivneh and Aaron Schulz, recently - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqJuZ1_B6w (I don't know when the video is going up on Commons). -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On 05/30/2014 06:30 PM, ENWP Pine wrote: > > Ori, thanks for following up. &g

[Wikitech-l] Grid system RfC discussion in <1 hour

2014-06-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
This is in about 50 minutes, in #wikimedia-office. -Sumana On 06/02/2014 02:14 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Later today, at 2300 UTC, we'll be in #wikimedia-office discussing Pau > Giner's grid system RfC. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Grid_system

[Wikitech-l] new auth/debug/Zero RfCs, + adding more office hours

2014-06-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
debugging stuff, design/product people for user-visible changes, etc. I've been doing this but I'll be more systematic. Please help me out by spreading the word to people whom you think will be interested. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation _

[Wikitech-l] 2300 UTC Monday: grid system discussion

2014-06-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
this one; for the next several weeks I'll be haranguing authors to help me get discussions set up a few weeks in advance. :) More: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-06-02 Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Friday RfC discussion: extension registration

2014-06-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
possible. Sorry for the delay; I've been at Wiki Conference USA. Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 05/25/2014 09:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > > This Friday we'

Re: [Wikitech-l] Friday RfC discussion: extension registration

2014-05-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/25/2014 09:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > This Friday we're discussing Kunal Mehta's Extension registration RfC. > (This is a change from Wednesday, the usual day.) > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-05-30 > > ht

[Wikitech-l] Friday RfC discussion: extension registration

2014-05-25 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Monday June 2, at a time better for Asia & Australia. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] tech sessions/hackathon at Wiki Conference USA, May 30-June 1, NYC

2014-05-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
27;s plans firm up. http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/FAQ#Accommodations and https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/New_york_city#Sleep might help you plan to come. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Square bounding boxes + typesafe enums

2014-05-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/20/2014 06:32 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Hey, developers. This week - tomorrow, 2100 UTC on Wednesday - we'll be > talking about Andrew Green's "Typesafe enums" proposal > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Typesafe_enums , and > lookin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Square bounding boxes + typesafe enums

2014-05-21 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/20/2014 06:32 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Hey, developers. This week - tomorrow, 2100 UTC on Wednesday - we'll be > talking about Andrew Green's "Typesafe enums" proposal > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Typesafe_enums , and > lookin

[Wikitech-l] Square bounding boxes + typesafe enums

2014-05-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
t week we will probably be talking about Pau Giner's grid system RfC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Grid_system and about extension management, probably on Monday the 26th and probably at a time better for Australia and Asia. -- Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW-Vagrant improvements at the Zürich Hackathon

2014-05-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
nt. Andrew, I am looking forward to featuring this in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Performance_profiling_for_Wikimedia_code#Starting_in_your_development_environment ! -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Performance guidelines chat Monday (for Asia/Australia)

2014-05-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/19/2014 06:30 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 05/16/2014 07:11 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=1816670,2147714,1277333,5128581&h=1816670&date=2014-5-19&sln=19-20 >> >> I will be in #wikimedia-dev on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Performance guidelines chat Monday (for Asia/Australia)

2014-05-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/16/2014 07:11 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=1816670,2147714,1277333,5128581&h=1816670&date=2014-5-19&sln=19-20 > > I will be in #wikimedia-dev on Monday for an hour to talk about the > performance guidelines >

[Wikitech-l] Performance guidelines - aim to make official 23 May

2014-05-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
high performance. On May 23, I'd like to move forward with making a tutorial and a poster based on this. So, please edit, speak up, and so on, within the next week. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l ma

[Wikitech-l] Performance guidelines - aim to make official 23 May

2014-05-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
high performance. On May 23, I'd like to move forward with making a tutorial and a poster based on this. So, please edit, speak up, and so on, within the next week. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l ma

[Wikitech-l] Performance guidelines chat Monday (for Asia/Australia)

2014-05-16 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
and architecture guidelines: New York: 7am Bangalore: 4:30pm Beijing: 7pm Sydney: 9pm This isn't one of the RfC meetings. :) -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@list

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] performance guidelines discussion today

2014-05-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/15/2014 01:00 AM, Alolita Sharma wrote: > That's 230am in India. Wish these meetings were held a bit earlier (9am PDT > :-) > > Best, > Alolita > > Alolita Sharma > आलोलिता शर्मा > Director of Engineering > Internationalization & Localization > Wikimedia Foundation Thanks, Alolita. I'll ho

Re: [Wikitech-l] is this how our thumbnail caching works?

2014-05-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Media_storage#First_request_for_a_thumbnail_image > > Bryan Thanks to everyone who clarified this. I hope this helps move https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Simplify_thumbnail_cache forward! -- Sumana Ha

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Alex Monk joins Wikimedia as Features Contractor

2014-05-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
chitecture Summit and a bunch of us get to meet him for the first time :) If there are any new MediaWiki hackers out there who think Krenair is one of the "old hands" because he's an expert: well, he was once a newbie like you, and you can become an expert like him. And he's not

[Wikitech-l] performance guidelines discussion today

2014-05-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
581&date=2014-5-14&sln=17-18 11pm Berlin 5pm NYC 2pm San Francisco 7am Sydney Next week it'll be an RfC chat. :) (I welcome volunteers!) -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] is this how our thumbnail caching works?

2014-05-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
or we restart the frontline Varnishes or we evict data from the hard disks of the secondary Varnishes) Is this right? -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating systems & MediaWiki - is this summary right?

2014-05-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/02/2014 10:19 PM, S Page wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara > wrote: > >> TL;DR: who's testing out the non-Knockout approaches? >> > > Besides those listed at [1] > The Flow discussion system needs to render templates on both t

Re: [Wikitech-l] performance guidelines - need good and bad examples

2014-05-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/08/2014 01:27 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I think I've articulated our key performance principles, and am looking > for good and bad examples. Our performance guidelines will be a set of > values/principles, each one with a good example and a bad example > drawn from o

[Wikitech-l] performance guidelines - need good and bad examples

2014-05-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
approved during the hackathon. (I'm still cleaning up the detailed explanation of each principle.) RfC we can use to discuss larger questions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Performance_standards_for_new_features -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Wr

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Rob Moen takes on new role in Growth team

2014-05-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
hat I work someplace where people can and do switch teams and roles when it makes sense, for them and for the mission, for those people to do so. -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Mozilla's Wiki Working Group meeting Tues 1600 UTC

2014-05-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
.org/Contribute/Education/Wiki_Working_Group#How_to_Participate [5] https://cbt.etherpad.mozilla.org/wwg-2014-05-06 -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://li

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please welcome Filippo Giunchedi to Wikimedia TechOps

2014-05-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
enode), using the nick name "godog". > > Please join me in welcoming Filippo! > > — > Mark Bergsma > Lead Operations Architect > Director of Technical Operations > Wikimedia Foundation Welcome, Filippo! Enjoying the palindromic IRC nick. :-) And it's great t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open Knowledge Festival - financial aid available

2014-05-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/16/2014 11:33 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > http://blog.okfn.org/2014/04/09/okfestival-2014-financial-aid-programme-launches-today/ > > The Open Knowledge Festival is in Berlin, 15th - 17th July. > > Apply for travel grants by the 4th of May. Reminder: this deadl

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