[Wikitech-l] MW+vagrant - js files loads with error

2014-07-29 Thread Yury Katkov
Hi! I have the following setup: I develop on my local machine (PHPstorm) and I save the files in one of the Vagrant shared folders. I load my js files like that: public static function onBeforePageDisplay( OutputPage $out, Skin $skin ) { $out-addModules(ext.Pydio); } The thing is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Vector and MonoBook to separate repositories and what it means for you

2014-07-29 Thread Krinkle
@John: Extensions are git repositories. Moving it to an extension involves moving them in their own repo, like any other extension. I guess you're mostly concerned about it being repositories not under mediawiki/extensions, because it'll be a repository either way. @Bartosz: I'm inclined to

[Wikitech-l] Anyone with downloaded pagecount-raw dumps?

2014-07-29 Thread Osama Khalid
Hello Wikimanaias, This is Osama Khalid, from the Arabic Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. I was wondering whether anyone here has a good number of the raw pagecounts downloaded so I can copy them to a hard disk during Wikimania 2014. They have been very helpful for me in trying to determine

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW+vagrant - js files loads with error

2014-07-29 Thread Yury Katkov
Hi again! That's the nastiest bug I've seen in a long-long time, thanks Alexey for finding the answer. It's a Virtualbox/Vagrant bug. The solution is to turn off the sendfile system call in httpd.conf in your apache or nginx[1]: EnableSendfile off I hope this will be useful for the developers

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linux distros or Solaris for MediaWiki

2014-07-29 Thread Delirium
On 7/22/14, 3:09 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com writes: However all packages I know of (Debian flavors and not) split MW directory and put its parts into different places, trying to follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. The result is [...] outright

Re: [Wikitech-l] Linux distros or Solaris for MediaWiki

2014-07-29 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
At previous job, I've installed and maintained a wiki farm with multiple sites, interwiki setup and caching while another emploee installed MediaWiki from repository via single command and told to former boss that my work is very simple. I hate anything web-related in packages because of that.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Mathoid to production cluster

2014-07-29 Thread Moritz Schubotz
Hi all, I have developed the Mathoid deployment puppet script with great support of Mwalker and Bryan Davis as far as I could get. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/148836/ aims to deploy mathoid on beta in a first step. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process beside waiting for code

[Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, I’d like to announce an organizational change at Wikimedia Foundation in the Platform Engineering group. For those that aren't terribly interested in how WMF's org chart looks, you can skip the rest of this email. :-) Yesterday, we formalized “Release Engineering” as a team, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Rob Lanphier date=2014-07-29 time=09:52:47 -0700 They are broadly responsible for the lifecycle of code from the point that a developer is ready to check it in through its deployment on our site, maintaining the processes and tools that reduce negative user impact of site software

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Pine W
To clarify, is the QA team now under Release Engineering as Chris' comment seems to imply, and how does this org change effect security engineering? Thanks, Pine On Jul 29, 2014 10:53 AM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Rob Lanphier date=2014-07-29 time=09:52:47 -0700

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Dan Garry
To my understanding this is simply a formalisation of a change that, in almost every regard, already happened months ago. Dan On 29 July 2014 11:58, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: To clarify, is the QA team now under Release Engineering as Chris' comment seems to imply, and how does this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Chris Steipp
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: To clarify, is the QA team now under Release Engineering as Chris' comment seems to imply, and how does this org change effect security engineering? For now, I (the only security engineer) am staying in core, although much of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Basically: [[mw:Wikimedia Release and QA Team]] - [[mw:Wikimedia Release Engineering Team]] From the org perspective, now all of the team members report to me instead of Rob. That's basically the substance of the change. QA and Release Engineering were already the same team (effectively) since

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Chris McMahon
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: To clarify, is the QA team now under Release Engineering as Chris' comment seems to imply, and how does this org change effect security

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Pine W
Hi Chris M., I understand the difference between functional and reporting relationships. As I understand it, QA is under RelEng in terms of reporting but functionally works in a matrix envrionment. That seems consistent with the OP and the WMF Wiki's pseudo-org chart. Is this your understanding

[Wikitech-l] Do we have a universal font in production?

2014-07-29 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
I'm trying to render an image which uses characters from all of the languages supported by WP. Is there a single font deployed on production servers that include all scripts? Any simple font would do, preferably TTF arial-style. Thanks! ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Chris McMahon
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris M., By the way, Wikimedians are a vocal group when there are problems, and I take the general quiet of Wikimedia content editors about security and core stability to mean that security and core QA are in good

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have a universal font in production?

2014-07-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
No such font exists. You can try DejaVu Sans or FreeSerif for best coverage. Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have a universal font in production?

2014-07-29 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Thanks Federico, I used /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf but didn't see FreeSerif. DejaVuSans doesn't seem to render Hindi. Is there a font for that? On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: No such font exists. You can try DejaVu Sans

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Chris Steipp
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: The everyday difference that this change makes may be trivial, but it makes sense to me to think of QA (and Security Engineering) as being part of RelEng. I doubt we disagree too much, but I'll put on my security evangelist hat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous editors IP addresses

2014-07-29 Thread Adam Wight
++the EFF for more ideas, they are actively doing great work on so-called perfect forward secrecy. There are simple things we could do to achieve a better balance between privacy and sockpantsing, such as cryptolog [1], in which IP addresses are hashed using a salt that changes every day. In

[Wikitech-l] New PDF renderer live

2014-07-29 Thread Matthew Walker
Ambassadors (and developers), I am tremendously happy to announce that the new PDF rendering service is live for testing on the cluster. At this time, while we shake out production bugs, it is only available via Special:Book using the 'e-book (PDF, ocg latex renderer)'. You can also render a

Re: [Wikitech-l] New PDF renderer live

2014-07-29 Thread Matthew Walker
As an addendum; when reporting bugs; we will need one of the following two things to debug: 1) The title of page (or collection being rendered) 2) The collection_id parameter from the URL on the status page ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Matthew Walker

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we have a universal font in production?

2014-07-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks Federico, I used /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf but didn't see FreeSerif. DejaVuSans doesn't seem to render Hindi. Is there a font for that? On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Federico

Re: [Wikitech-l] Anonymous editors IP addresses

2014-07-29 Thread Brian Wolff
but maybe browser and preferences fingerprinting would be more effective anyway, since: tor. Probably not as effective as straight up blocking tor as we do now? :P (Although seriously - I would love if we didn't block tor like we do now. However you can't abuse the site with tor when you can't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release Engineering team (new! improved!)

2014-07-29 Thread Pine W
Chris S., I agree that in many cases an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I will also say that I feel that you're a self-motivated, capable person and you'd do good work anywhere in the org chart. In my experince generally, Wikimedia is a more security-conscious and privacy-conscious