Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for communicating changes in MediaWiki to WMF sites?

2013-03-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks Greg for the overview. 0–4 is fine, but there a couple premises I question, which trigger a couple considerations/conjectures which may be of use. First, let's not call the wmfXX subpages release notes. They just are lists of commits. As you noted, they are also created – by design –

Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue

2013-03-23 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mar 23, 2013 12:10 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: I know Aaron has spent a lot of time on the job queue. But I have several observations and would like some feedback. The current workers apparently select jobs from the queue at random. A FIFO method would make far more sense. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC How/whether MediaWiki could use ZendOptimizuerPlus -- ZendOptimizerPlus, opcode cache, PHP 5.4, APC, memcache ???

2013-03-23 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
On 22.03.2013 18:10, Thomas Gries wrote: just one message, just arrived: http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-03-21-1 PHP 5.5.0 beta1 available 21-Mar-2013 The PHP development team announces the release of the first beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release is the first to include the Zend OPCache.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Missing project ideas AND MENTORS for GSOC

2013-03-23 Thread Quim Gil
After going in details through all the proposals it turns out we only have 3 project ideas listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Project_ideas The rest miss a mentor, a more solid justification of relevance and/or a demonstration of interest from the communities they

Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue

2013-03-23 Thread Matthew Walker
Don't forget about the potentials of a priority based queue! (That being said I actually have no idea what goes into our job queues; so can't say if there's good candidates for priority based queuing.) ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:30

Re: [Wikitech-l] JobQueue

2013-03-23 Thread K. Peachey
AFAIK we already do that for some entries, Reedy will know more, I will let you investigate his mind for more knowledge on that. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: Don't forget about the potentials of a priority based queue! (That being said I actually