Re: [Wikitech-l] whether to do Google Code-In

2012-11-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 10/25/2012 03:48 AM, Mark Holmquist wrote: On 10/22/2012 06:31 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Last year we decided not to participate in Google Code-In https://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2012/help_page , an outreach program to help us get more

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia MediaWiki to participate in Outreach Program for Women

2012-11-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women I've signed us up to participate in the Outreach Program for Women (administered by the GNOME Foundation), which provides paid internships to women to work on our open source projects, January through March 2013. Wikimedia Foundation is

Re: [Wikitech-l] want to contribute

2012-11-05 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Harsh! On 11/04/2012 10:00 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote: Hello all I am Harsh Kothari from Gujarat, India. I want to contribute. I am more active on Gujarati Wikipedia. More then 3k+ edits are there and I have also made some wikibot scripts for doing various work on Gujarati Wikipedia. I want to

Re: [Wikitech-l] want to contribute

2012-11-05 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi Quim Thanks for your response. Now How can I fix this bug? Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad. On 05-Nov-2012, at 11:24 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Hi Harsh! On 11/04/2012 10:00 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote: Hello all I am Harsh Kothari from

[Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 release tomorrow

2012-11-05 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
I said last week that I would be releasing 1.20 today. Due to some hiccups, I won't be able to do that. I'll work on the release tonight and prep it for tomorrow. Thank you for your patience, Mark. -- http://hexmode.com/ Any time you have one overriding idea, and push your idea as a

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Diederik van Liere
Hi, I made the exact same argument a while back (Dropping the LATER resolution in Bugzilla http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Dropping-the-LATER-resolution-in-Bugzilla-td743804.html ) +1 D On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: I was a bit of a lazy child, specially

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Platonides
How many of them depend on action from somebody else? (eg. upstream fixing its tool) Of course, if we are waiting for upstream, it should list the upstream bug id, have upstream keyword, someone actually noticing when it's fixed, etc. but those are form issues, not the status. (and yes,

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Nabil Maynard
Personally, I like having a Postponed/Later resolution at least available. WONTFIX = We acknowledge this is a valid bug, but are choosing not to fix it due to time and resources necessary to fix it. We will not be revisiting this bug unless it is re-raised by others. LATER = We acknowledge this

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Isarra Yos
On 05/11/2012 16:02, Nabil Maynard wrote: Personally, I like having a Postponed/Later resolution at least available. WONTFIX = We acknowledge this is a valid bug, but are choosing not to fix it due to time and resources necessary to fix it. We will not be revisiting this bug unless it is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping My … prefix from toolbar labels

2012-11-05 Thread Steven Walling
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I've supported this change for a very long time, glad to see it's on the table. +1 To quote James F. from the bug: Code change merged and presumably will be deployed from wmf4 branch:

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Nabil Maynard
I suppose that depends on the particular project. From the sounds of it, the discussion is about removing LATER as a resolution option across the entire database, including some projects that do have specific people driving development (some extensions, for instance). There is also absolutely no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping My … prefix from toolbar labels

2012-11-05 Thread Ryan Kaldari
There are a few extensions that also follow the 'My' paradigm and should be updated: LiquidThreads, EducationProgram, etc. Ryan Kaldari On 11/5/12 3:30 PM, Steven Walling wrote: On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I've supported this change for a very

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/05/2012 03:02 PM, Nabil Maynard wrote: WONTFIX = We acknowledge this is a valid bug, but are choosing not to fix it due to time and resources necessary to fix it. We will not be revisiting this bug unless it is re-raised by others. LATER = We acknowledge this is a valid bug, and we agree

Re: [Wikitech-l] want to contribute

2012-11-05 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/05/2012 09:58 AM, Harsh Kothari wrote: Hi Quim Thanks for your response. Now How can I fix this bug? You can find information on how to contribute to mobile projects at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_projects/Contribute But that is a good question, and the fact that you ask it

Re: [Wikitech-l] First stab at Bugzilla metrics

2012-11-05 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/03/2012 12:26 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: Hi Quim, On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 16:36 -0700, Quim Gil wrote: What Bugzilla metrics would you like to see in the monthly report? Please have a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Metrics#Drafting_Bugzilla_metrics It's just a first

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Krinkle
On Nov 5, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: How many of them depend on action from somebody else? (eg. upstream fixing its tool) Of course, if we are waiting for upstream, it should list the upstream bug id, have upstream keyword, someone actually noticing when it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.20 release tomorrow

2012-11-05 Thread Krinkle
On Nov 5, 2012, at 8:46 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: I said last week that I would be releasing 1.20 today. Due to some hiccups, I won't be able to do that. I'll work on the release tonight and prep it for tomorrow. Thank you for your patience, Mark. Open

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-05 Thread Erik Moeller
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:38 PM Subject: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure To: Staff All wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi folks, consistent with Sue's narrowing focus mandate, I’ve been thinking

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Daniel Friesen
-1 There is an important difference between WONTFIX and LATER. WONTFIX is something rejected because it's a bad idea, etc... LATER is something rejected because there are technical reasons we can't do it any time soon now. But in the future after some major even it's possible that we can

Re: [Wikitech-l] want to contribute

2012-11-05 Thread Harsh Kothari
Thanks Quim I will solve the small bugs first. What is the procedure of solving bug? Can you just show me to solve one bug? any small bug or any that you are currently solving.. Thanks Harsh --- Harsh Kothari Research Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). Ahmedabad. On 06-Nov-2012, at

Re: [Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

2012-11-05 Thread Nathan Larson
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote: What about removing the LATER resolution from our Bugzilla? It feels like sweeping reports under the carpet. If a team is convinced that something won't be addressed any time soon then they can WONTFIX. If anybody feels

[Wikitech-l] Fuck OAuth

2012-11-05 Thread Daniel Friesen
The latest in the outside world's OAuth saga for those interested in the future of api authentication in MW. http://hueniverse.com/2012/11/fuckoauth-realtimeconf/ -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fuck OAuth

2012-11-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
Is this video about OAuth 2.0 only, or the original 1.0 as well? --Tyler Romeo *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Daniel Friesen

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fuck OAuth

2012-11-05 Thread Daniel Friesen
It's got bits on the issues in OAuth 1 as well. In fact it had some interesting tidbits I never heard of before. For example. Apparently the reason that signatures sucked so badly in OAuth 1 doing lots of crazy things with query parameters. Was because one of the requirements of OAuth 1 was