[Wikitech-l] Also on wmf branching...

[Chad]

Hi,

Friendly reminder that we're not branching 1.27.0-wmf.22 this week
for the Dallas switchover work. We'll resume the week after :)

-Chad
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Diff algorithms: the shootout

[Antoine Musso]

Le 16/04/2016 04:00, MZMcBride a écrit :
> Is there a related Phabricator Maniphest task about this? I'm not sure I
> understand the motivation for making a switch. I would think that heavy
> diffs are a very small portion of traffic.

An intensive would be for MediaWiki core to only have a single diff
system instead of two.

For the historic part, wikidiff3 got introduced in August 2008:

 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/38653
 commit e45cf2b8


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[Wikitech-l] Branching and such

[Chad]

Hi,

The 1.27 release cycle is coming to a close. We're due for a release of it
come next month. Looking at the calendar, I'm going to pencil in the
following dates for branching and so forth:

* May 2nd - Cut REL1_27 and bump master to 1.28.0-alpha. The train
cycle that week would then switch over to 1.28.0-wmf.1
* Week of May 16th - Do a release candidate
* May 30/31st - Release MediaWiki 1.27.0

If you've got any big things you were wanting to land for 1.27, now would
be the time to polish them up and get then in master branches :)

-Chad
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Re: [Wikitech-l] JetBrains licenses for Volunteers and Staff

[Florian Schmidt]

Uhh, thanks for the information Yurik! :)

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Wikitech-l [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von 
Yuri Astrakhan
Gesendet: Montag, 18. April 2016 18:44
An: Wikimedia developers 
Cc: Sam Reed 
Betreff: [Wikitech-l] JetBrains licenses for Volunteers and Staff

PhpStorm, InteliJ IDEA, Resharper and other JetBrain users, we just received 
free upgraded licenses for all of their products.

Check your account at https://account.jetbrains.com/licenses and login with 
that account inside your application to automatically use that license. If you 
don't see the license, contact me or Sam Reed, and we will add you right away.  
On IRC: yurik or reedy, or via email.  We could also use a few more admins for 
these licenses. You will no longer need to copy/paste any licenses manually.

IDEA:  use for PHP, JavaScript, Puppets, Ruby, and other web-related 
technologies https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Resharper: for C# and Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

CLion: for C++
https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/
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[Wikitech-l] JetBrains licenses for Volunteers and Staff

[Yuri Astrakhan]

PhpStorm, InteliJ IDEA, Resharper and other JetBrain users, we just
received free upgraded licenses for all of their products.

Check your account at https://account.jetbrains.com/licenses and login with
that account inside your application to automatically use that license. If
you don't see the license, contact me or Sam Reed, and we will add you
right away.  On IRC: yurik or reedy, or via email.  We could also use a few
more admins for these licenses. You will no longer need to copy/paste any
licenses manually.

IDEA:  use for PHP, JavaScript, Puppets, Ruby, and other web-related
technologies
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Resharper: for C# and Microsoft Visual Studio C++
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

CLion: for C++
https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: UX Prototype Labs: Understanding Wikipedia Readers: April 18th

[Rachel Farrand]

Reminder: this talk starts in 1 hour

On Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Rachel Farrand  wrote:

> Please join for the following tech talk:
>
> *Tech Talk**:* UX Prototype Labs: Understanding Wikipedia Readers
> *Presenter:* Sherah Smith (user: pizzacat)
> *Date:* April 18th, 2016
> *Time: *17:00 UTC
> 
> *Length:* 30 minutes
> Link to live YouTube stream 
> *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
>
> *Summary: *Have you ever wondered what our users think about their
> reading experiences on Wikipedia? We may know how *we* interact with
> features ourselves, but when we put prototypes in front of others, we find
> out that plenty of people feel or do things differently. To catch some of
> these insights, I run regular sets of 1-hour interview sessions with
> Wikipedia readers. This talk outlines how this works, from idea to recruit
> to interview and analysis.
>
> *Feel free to forward this email to any other relevant wikimedia lists.*
>
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Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Deprecating rest.wikimedia.org in favor of /api/rest_v1/

[Marko Obrovac]

Hello,

On 15 April 2016 at 01:04, Gabriel Wicke  wrote:

> Final reminder on this: We are planning to finally sunset
> rest.wikimedia.org in the week starting April 25th, 1 1/2 weeks from
> now. Please move your REST API clients to /api/rest_v1/ at the regular
> project domains instead!
>

This will happen in a week's time. We are, however, still observing quite a
volume of requests for mobile sections endpoints using the
rest.wikimedia.org domain. Specifically, almost all of the requests are
asking for resources pertaining to the de.wikipedia.org domain.
Unfortunately no user-agent header is provided so we are not able to
pin-point the client. Please ensure your clients point to
https://{domain}/api/rest_v1/
instead of https://rest.wikimedia.org/{domain}/v1/.

Cheers,
Marko


>
> Thanks,
>
> Gabriel
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Gabriel Wicke 
> wrote:
> > We have decided to officially retire the rest.wikimedia.org domain in
> > favor of /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain. For example,
> >
> >
> >   https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc
> >
> > becomes
> >
> >   https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc
> >
> > Most clients already use the new path, and benefit from better
> > performance from geo-distributed caching, no additional DNS lookups,
> > and sharing of TLS / HTTP2 connections.
> >
> > We intend to shut down the rest.wikimedia.org entry point around
> > March, so please adjust your clients to use /api/rest_v1/ soon.
> >
> > Thank you for your cooperation,
> >
> > Gabriel
> >
> > --
> > Gabriel Wicke
> > Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
>
> --
> Gabriel Wicke
> Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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