Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-14 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi, On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:27:06AM +0100, Krinkle wrote: Can git notes be changed after merge? Yes. Do they show in Gerrit diffs, so we don't accidentally lose them if someone else pushed an amend without the tags? No. At least not yet :-) Can they be removed after merge? Yes. And

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-14 Thread Niklas Laxström
On 14 March 2013 01:07, Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: Wouldn't git notes be a good match [1]? They're basically annotations attached to commits. You can add/remove them to any commit without changing the actual commit. And support comes directly with git, as for

[Wikitech-l] Using the File-Upload-Api - Followup to: A new feedback extension - review urgently needed

2013-03-14 Thread Lukas Benedix
Hi, Thanks for the many comments on my extensions in gerrit. By now I handled most of them, but I have a big problem with the image-upload when creting the API module that should replace my shabby SpecialPage API. I think that I could use mediawikis fileupload api

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: New unified SSL certificate deployed

2013-03-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com Hey, Ryan; did you see, perhaps on outages-discussion, the after action report

[Wikitech-l] Next Bugday: March 19 15:00-21:00 UTC

2013-03-14 Thread Valerie Juarez
Hello everyone! Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday: Tuesday, March 19, 15:00-21:00UTC [1] in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC [2] We will be triaging bug reports in the LiquidThreads component [3]. The idea came up on the wikitech-l mailing list [4]. While LiquidThreads is not

[Wikitech-l] Security training - Wednesday 20, 17:00 UTC

2013-03-14 Thread Quim Gil
If you are developing for MediaWiki and you haven't gone through one of our security trainings before, this session is for you: Security for developers training session and QA by Chris Steipp. Wednesday, March 20 at 17:00 UTC

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Provisional API extension for CAPTCHA on action=createaccount

2013-03-14 Thread Brad Jorsch
I filed that yesterday as bug 46072https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46072. ;) I'll try to find time to review it before the weekend. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: As some folks may recall, an action=createaccount was added to the API a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Provisional API extension for CAPTCHA on action=createaccount

2013-03-14 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/14/2013 04:01 PM, Brad Jorsch wrote: I've made a first stab at adding support, based on the existing captcha interfaces for login and editing: MediaWiki core: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/53793 ConfirmEdit ext: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/53794 Side note, there is also an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-14 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 03/13/2013 08:16 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: A very nice website that does this already is www.forvo.com but they claim by-nc-sa licence. But the way it works could be used as inspiration. Forvo looks very nice, and if they can do the job, I'm happy that we don't have to. We should try to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-14 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 03/14/2013 05:49 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: Forvo looks very nice, and if they can do the job, I'm happy that we don't have to. We should try to collaborate with them. Unfortunately, their license (non-commercial) is not free as in freedom, and not acceptable for Wikimedia projects. It's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On 03/09/2013 01:06 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: I strongly disagree that Gerrit is harder to learn than Github. The only difficult thing to understand is the web UI, which takes only a few minutes to really get used to. Let's look at the biggest complaints: Let's not forget about this one:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On 03/08/2013 10:20 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:07:18 +0100, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: I guess the whole idea of using GitHub is for public relation and to attract new people. Then, if a developer is not willing to learn Gerrit, its code is probably not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On 03/08/2013 08:55 AM, Andrew Otto wrote: I've been hosting my puppet-cdh4 (Hadoop) repository on Github for a while now. I am planning on moving this into Gerrit. I've been getting pretty high quality pull requests for the last month or so from a couple of different users. (Including

[Wikitech-l] en.planet updates stuck - need Python help (upstream problem)

2013-03-14 Thread Daniel Zahn
Hi, unfortunately en.planet updates are still being stuck. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45806 The issue is in feedparser.py UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 32: ordinal not in range(128) I would really appreciate help on this from somebody

Re: [Wikitech-l] Security training - Wednesday 20, 17:00 UTC

2013-03-14 Thread Thomas Gries
tl;dr MediaWiki Security Guide https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MSG PDF or e-book format available Am 14.03.2013 20:37, schrieb Quim Gil: If you are developing for MediaWiki and you haven't gone through one of our security trainings before, this session is for you: Yes: we have a Virtual

Re: [Wikitech-l] en.planet updates stuck - need Python help (upstream problem)

2013-03-14 Thread Daniel Zahn
note: this did not happen from the beginning and does not apply to other languages (or at least not all of them), so it depends which feeds you subscribe to and their (current) content. It is not that easy though to identify which feed causes it, since the update goes through all of them, writes

Re: [Wikitech-l] en.planet updates stuck - need Python help (upstream problem)

2013-03-14 Thread John
Its a matter of encoding, see my post on the bug On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Daniel Zahn dz...@wikimedia.org wrote: note: this did not happen from the beginning and does not apply to other languages (or at least not all of them), so it depends which feeds you subscribe to and their

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-14 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 03/13/2013 08:16 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: A very nice website that does this already is www.forvo.com but they claim by-nc-sa licence. Ah, now I see this detail: Yes, the -NC- clause in their license makes them useless for us. That's a pity. Having been through the great license shift

[Wikitech-l] enwiki dump -- retrying dumping database tables on partial failure?

2013-03-14 Thread Neil Harris
Dear Wikimedia ops team, The most recent enwiki dump now seems to have finished _almost_ successfully, apart from the dumping of the database metadata tables such as the pages table and the various links tables, almost all of which have failed. I wonder if there is any chance someone could

Re: [Wikitech-l] enwiki dump -- retrying dumping database tables on partial failure?

2013-03-14 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Στις 14-03-2013, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 23:24 +, ο/η Neil Harris έγραψε: Dear Wikimedia ops team, The most recent enwiki dump now seems to have finished _almost_ successfully, apart from the dumping of the database metadata tables such as the pages table and the various links tables,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Andrew Otto
I've been hosting my puppet-cdh4 (Hadoop) repository on Github for a while now. I am planning on moving this into Gerrit. Why do you want to move it to gerrit then? Security reasons. All puppet repos have to be hosted by WMF and reviewed by ops before we can use it in production. On Mar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
Can we please be real here? The reason more contributors come in through GitHub than through Gerrit is because they *already have a GitHub account*. My browser is always logged into GitHub, and it's at the point where I can casually just fork a project and begin working on it, whereas with Gerrit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Juliusz Gonera
On 03/14/2013 07:19 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: Like I said before, if you know how to use Git, you know how to use Gerrit (and the contra-positive is true as well). The primary thing holding people back is that it's confusing and not user friendly enough to make an account and get working. Imagine

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-03-14 11:20 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Can we please be real here? The reason more contributors come in through GitHub than through Gerrit is because they *already have a GitHub account*. My browser is always logged into GitHub, and it's at the point where I can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Can we please be real here? The reason more contributors come in through GitHub than through Gerrit is because they *already have a GitHub account*. My browser is always logged into GitHub, ?!? Unless you magically had a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Juliusz Gonera jgon...@wikimedia.org wrote: I wouldn't be that optimistic, maybe it would slightly increase. Having an account is one of the factors but I wouldn't underestimate user friendliness. The first time I tried to find the URL to clone a repo in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-14 Thread Quim Gil
This thread has probably reached that limit of fresh arguments. Can we continue with proper documentation, reporting and patches? We care about GitHub and we believe it is an important source of potential contributors. This is why we are mirroring our repos there, and this is why we are