Re: [Wikitech-l] CI Jenkins upgrade Monday 21st Oct 8:00UTC

2013-10-21 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 18/10/13 10:41, Antoine Musso a écrit : Hello, I will be upgrading Jenkins tomorrow at 8:00UTC for a minor upgrade. The upgrade should take roughly one hour, during that time any job launched will be reported as LOST in Gerrit and would need to be retriggered manually (by editing the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Optimizing the deployment train schedule

2013-10-21 Thread Chris McMahon
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 19/10/13 00:26, Erik Moeller a écrit : Are there other ways to optimize / issues I'm missing or misrepresenting above? Evil plan: deploy automatically on merge. But we are not ready yet :-] We're not ready--

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread Risker
Iceland is cool (in just about every sense of the word!), but I'm not sure it does a lot of good for our users in the most difficult-to-serve areas: Asia, Africa, South America. (Notice the parallels with the global south areas.) It might be helpful for the Middle East. I think it is easy to

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Oct 21, 2013 8:32 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: I may just be spouting nonsense, but I've heard a few separate people mention to me that Iceland is an increasingly attractive place for hosting, as they're in the Schengen area (making it easy to get to) but *not* in the European

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
This thread is getting off topic. As stated before: The RFC is for a datacenter in the United States. Can we please fork this thread for discussing: * What different copyright related implications datacenters in countries other than the United States have * What the consequences are for latency

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org After working through the specifics internally, we now have a public RFP posted[1] and ready for proposals. We invite any organization meeting the requirements outlined to submit a proposal for review. My snap reaction, Ken,

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread Leslie Carr
I'm curious which details you would like to see? On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Ken Snider ksni...@wikimedia.org After working through the specifics internally, we now have a public RFP posted[1] and ready for

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
Well, perhaps I'm unfairly comparing the RFP's density to that of the last two colo contracts I saw, but I'm not sure I have a copy of those; I will take a look, and abide until them. Cheers, -- jra - Original Message - From: Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread George William Herbert
This is the RFP, not contract. It's industry typical for information needed to decide if followup and then site visit are called for, for particular potential vendors. -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com Sent from Kangphone On Oct 21, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Jay Ashworth

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code-in: Lua templates

2013-10-21 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Gerard, On 10/20/2013 03:22 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: What would be awesome is when attention is given to the templates on Wikidata as used on the Occitan Wikipedia. It is the one example where data from Wikidata is used to provide information. It can do with a lot of attention to get rid

[Wikitech-l] Code-in: documentation and training

2013-10-21 Thread Quim Gil
Google Code-in has a category specific to documentation / training tasks. Can the students of this program help us fixing our Bug #1? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In#Documentation.2FTraining Your help identifying tasks is welcome! There is no lack of work to do in our

Re: [Wikitech-l] Optimizing the deployment train schedule

2013-10-21 Thread Arthur Richards
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:41 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Though everyone to have commented here so far (myself included) don't deploy code or help fix the bugs that arise after (not directly, anyway). I'd be most interested to hear from Sam, Arthur, Max, Greg, et al. (the people

[Wikitech-l] Fix the Wikimedia Email Templates

2013-10-21 Thread Nasir Khan
Hi, I am Nasir, an active contributor of Bengali WIkipedia. I use the email notifications for the change on my watch list pages. The email is not formatted as it should. I faced the following issues for the Bengali emails and i think these should be fixed soon. * Sometimes a new line appeases

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread Ken Snider
On Oct 21, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Well, perhaps I'm unfairly comparing the RFP's density to that of the last two colo contracts I saw, but I'm not sure I have a copy of those; I will take a look, and abide until them. Jay, the idea here is to drum up bids

Re: [Wikitech-l] Optimizing the deployment train schedule

2013-10-21 Thread Jon Robson
Having mobile just joined it the only feedback I can give so far is it is confusing knowing what is where but I'm not quite sure how to improve that confusion yet other than having a gerrit page which tells me what is deployed everywhere so i can check out the state of mediawiki.org or en.wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?

2013-10-21 Thread Kudu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Hi, I'm Kudu, the co-founder of Orain (https://orain.org), a new non-profit wiki farm. Although it's pretty new and constantly changing, I think it's pretty similar to what many of you might have had in mind: community-led, free, ad-free and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Patch Uploader beta

2013-10-21 Thread MZMcBride
Merlijn van Deen wrote: On 16 October 2013 05:15, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I looked at your original e-mail and gerrit-patch-uploader itself and couldn't find a link to the source code. Could one be added to the user interface? I think it would help sustain the project. As Matt

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread MZMcBride
Leslie Carr wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:29 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Leslie Carr wrote: ulsfo is a caching center (varnish + LVS servers, but no backend infrastructure and very few machines) Thank you for clarifying a bit. That helps. Is this new datacenter intended to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2013 Datacenter RFP - open for submissions

2013-10-21 Thread Ken Snider
On Oct 21, 2013, at 8:03 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I added links to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_servers so that we can hopefully get that page updated one day. Thanks - definitely something to tackle once we complete the Tampa migration and new DC buildout.

[Wikitech-l] OAuth and Identities

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Steipp
Hi all, I wanted to get some input from you all about any ideas or plans they have for identifying OAuth user in your applications. tl;dr, Since lots of people want to do authentication with OAuth, I'm thinking we'll implement a custom way to get identity information from the wiki in the near