[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki will avoid serving SVG images to Opera 12

2015-02-16 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
Just a quick note that I have submitted a patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/190819 that will make MediaWiki avoid serving SVG images to Opera 12 (the old, Presto-based one) when a PNG fallback is available. We support it as a Grade A browser, which means that we should do our best to

Re: [Wikitech-l] What architectural fissures do we want in MediaWiki?

2015-02-16 Thread Pine W
This set of proposals as written sound reasonable. (: Pine On Feb 15, 2015 6:47 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, There has been a lot of talk over the past year or so about SOA and what it means for MediaWiki. What I've taken from the conversation is the following:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adopting Composer's composer.json for extensions

2015-02-16 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-02-16 9:34 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I've opened a task on Phabricator[1] to attempt to merge the information in extension.json with Composer's already-used-by-several-extensions-and-skins composer.json. Kunal has rightly pointed out that composer doesn't fit some use-cases for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adopting Composer's composer.json for extensions

2015-02-16 Thread Bryan Davis
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@nichework.com wrote: I've opened a task on Phabricator[1] to attempt to merge the information in extension.json with Composer's already-used-by-several-extensions-and-skins composer.json. Kunal has rightly pointed out that composer

[Wikitech-l] [VisualEditor] 2nd weekly triage meeting; office hours in February and March

2015-02-16 Thread Erica Litrenta
Hi everybody, and apologies for cross-posting. Here are some reminders and announcements about upcoming appointments related to VisualEditor. This Wednesday (18 February) the second *triage meeting* is scheduled for 4pm UTC [1]. You can find all the relevant information at mediawiki.org. [2]

[Wikitech-l] Adopting Composer's composer.json for extensions

2015-02-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
I've opened a task on Phabricator[1] to attempt to merge the information in extension.json with Composer's already-used-by-several-extensions-and-skins composer.json. Kunal has rightly pointed out that composer doesn't fit some use-cases for MediaWiki. I see that as an opportunity to be good

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adopting Composer's composer.json for extensions

2015-02-16 Thread Legoktm
On 02/16/2015 09:34 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I've opened a task on Phabricator[1] to attempt to merge the information in extension.json with Composer's already-used-by-several-extensions-and-skins composer.json. Can we please centralize this discussion? We're discussing this on-wiki,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Boil the ocean, be silly, throw the baby out with bathwater, demolish silos, have fun

2015-02-16 Thread Isarra Yos
On 15/02/15 21:03, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:14:59 +0100, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for all the trolling, but why instead of discussing how we need a responsive skin for MediaWiki and waiting for Winter to come don't we just do it: * Move Minerva

Re: [Wikitech-l] Boil the ocean, be silly, throw the baby out with bathwater, demolish silos, have fun

2015-02-16 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-02-16 5:07 PM, Isarra Yos wrote: but in general making new skins as skins is something we should be doing more of I remember a time way back when we were still using QuickTemplate. I spent some time eliminating Vector hacks and creating core features like content_navigation that made

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adopting Composer's composer.json for extensions

2015-02-16 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com writes: Can we please centralize this discussion? We're discussing this on-wiki, and now it's spread to Phabricator and wikitech-l. I apologize for the diffusion. I'm trying to get attention on this issue, but obviously I've overstepped. I'm fine with

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2015-02-16 Thread Tilman Bayer
Quarterly review minutes and/or slides of the following teams have been posted in recent days: Multimedia: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Multimedia/January_2015 Legal Community Advocacy:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Boil the ocean, be silly, throw the baby out with bathwater, demolish silos, have fun

2015-02-16 Thread Max Semenik
Yup! On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 14/02/15 09:39, Max Semenik wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71366 Note that my proposal is explicitly