Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Tim Starling
On 27/05/10 05:00, Chad wrote: > Good afternoon, > > This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some > people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing > it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x > releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 come

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Tisane
In the extensions I've written, I've usually used the x.x.x naming convention, similar to the MediaWiki core's. But in light of the comments made in this conversation, I considered using integers. E.g. advance from version 9 to version 10 rather than from 1.1.9 to 1.1.10, and thus avoid confusion a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium testing framework: troubleshooting tips

2010-05-26 Thread Michelle Knight
Hi Dan and Markus I have added some troubleshooting tips, based on notes I took during the Friday May 14 meeting, to the Selenium Framework page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SeleniumFramework#Working_example I think it has the tip about port . My intent was to add information for problem sol

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium testing framework- Firefox browsers compatible

2010-05-26 Thread Michelle Knight
Hi Dan, There is a list of browsers compatible with Selenium (See http://seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.html#browsers ). The page states that Selenium works with Firefox 2+ when a Linux OS is used (I think Ubuntu would fall under this category ). I am using Firefox 3.5.9 on Ubuntu 9.10 . I have

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Alex
On 5/26/2010 3:00 PM, Chad wrote: > Good afternoon, > > This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some > people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing > it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x > releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 c

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Happy-melon
"Chad" wrote in message news:aanlktimeplhm2o6_2-dkr5epkpt-pg2hr5qtcmsrf...@mail.gmail.com... > Good afternoon, > > This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some > people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing > it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep do

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Chad wrote: > To be honest I think we should remove it from everything. I > know it requires practically zero work to maintain, but the > longer it sits around the more people will be encouraged to > stick with PHP4 and not move on. PHP in general has faced > this

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Chad
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Conrad Irwin wrote: > On 26 May 2010 21:21, Lane, Ryan wrote: >>> This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some >>> people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing >>> it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x >>> r

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Kandalgaonkar
On 05/26/2010 12:12 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Chad wrote: >> This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some >> people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted > > I'm fine with doing 1.x releases forever. It's worked for a lot of > other projects, and i

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Platonides
Conrad Irwin wrote: > Wouldn't removing 1.6 from the main page solve the problem for most > newcomers? Only those who go down to the PHP 4 section of the > downloads need ever know it exists and thus get the impression that it > is an older version. Once they're no-longer newcomers, we can hope > t

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 26 May 2010 21:21, Lane, Ryan wrote: >> This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some >> people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing >> it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x >> releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Lane, Ryan
> This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some > people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing > it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x > releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after > 1.6). The following suggestions have been

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Schneelocke
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 21:00, Chad wrote: > Good afternoon, > > This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some > people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing > it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x > releases (people seriously get confused th

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread church.of.emacs.ml
> This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some > people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing > it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x > releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after > 1.6). Hi Chad, thanks for that initiative

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-05-26 Thread Platonides
Peter17 wrote: > I didn't set $wgUploadPath. Just $wgUseInstantCommons = true; The > images URLs are actually transformed to remote URLs: > > I work on my own local wiki, which address is > http://localhost/mediawiki/ and transcluding > {{mediawikiwiki::User:Peter17}} which contains > [[File:Exqui

Re: [Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Chad wrote: > This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some > people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing > it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x > releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes afte

[Wikitech-l] What's in a name?

2010-05-26 Thread Chad
Good afternoon, This morning I bumped the revision number to 2.0[0]. Some people on IRC didn't like this, so I reverted it and I'm bringing it here. I don't think anyone really wants to keep doing 1.x releases (people seriously get confused that 1.10 comes after 1.6). The following suggestions hav

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion

2010-05-26 Thread Alex Brollo
@peter: here a recent thread into MediaWiki-API ml about API and sections: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2010-May/subject.html No mention of labelled sections used by #lst exstesion ... :-( but remember the name of ThomasV as a reference. Alex ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] import data through MWDumper

2010-05-26 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:01 PM, wrote: > Hi, all, > > I try to use MWDumper to import data, however, the importer only has two > choise for Mysql and PostGreSQL. What I am supposed to do if I want import > Wikipedia data into Oracle database? > Use maintenance/importDump.php ___