Re: [Wikitech-l] wfRunHooks deprecation

2015-01-21 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Does the new syntax offer any advantage over the old one? Assuming that we want to switch to non-static function calls eventually (which I hope is the case), wouldn't it be friendlier towards extension maintainers to only deprecate once we are there, instead of forcing them to update

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?

2015-01-21 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Do we need a BFDL? On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Within the organizational pattern we use, the way to complement Damon's and my roles is usually with a CTO On Fri, Jan 16,

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfRunHooks deprecation

2015-01-21 Thread Brian Wolff
On Jan 21, 2015 1:40 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Does the new syntax offer any advantage over the old one? Assuming that we want to switch to non-static function calls eventually (which I hope is the case), wouldn't it be friendlier towards extension maintainers

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE without Parsoid

2015-01-21 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org writes: There's also #3 – doing all the dozens of things that the wikitext parser does on ingestion. All the redlinks and categories tables, ​building a user-land (not UI) HTML template system for transclusions, media updates, *etc.* Not a trivial

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?

2015-01-21 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org writes: We need a healthy MediaWiki open source software project in the first place. Without this, no committee, dictator or CTO will save the project in the long run. Agreed. While the Wikimedia Foundation plays a key role in the development of MediaWiki, the

Re: [Wikitech-l] wfRunHooks deprecation

2015-01-21 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
They probably could turn that global class into facade - compact form of IoC container Laravel framework uses. Dmitriy On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 21, 2015 1:40 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Does the new syntax

Re: [Wikitech-l] new extension

2015-01-21 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 21/01/2015 05:27, Gergo Tisza ha scritto: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: * Do you think the extension should use the extmetadata property of ApiQueryImageInfo instead of a its own module? * Is it advisable to store validation data

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Chad Horohoe joins the Release Engineering team

2015-01-21 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm entirely pleased to announce that Chad Horohoe is joining the Wikimedia Foundation's Release Engineering Team. I'll confess that Chad is one of my barometers and role models in the Wikimedia movement. In my

Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to MediaWiki Farmers User Group for being approved as a Wikimedia User Group

2015-01-21 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Please join the Affiliations Committee in congratulating the MediaWiki Farmers User Group on their official approval as a Wikimedia User Group: