Re: [Wikitech-l] Plan for a Developer Relations team

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Pine W wrote: > Hi Quim, > > A scope expansion for your team makes sense to me. I have two questions. > > 1. Does your team currently have the capacity for this scope expansion, > with only existing staff, while continuing to support the existing > Community Engin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Plan for a Developer Relations team

On Jun 29, 2015 3:01 PM, "Quim Gil" wrote: > > Hi, the Engineering Community team is working on a plan to evolve onto a > Developer Relations team. This is not just a change of name. See > > * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Developer_Relations_team > < https://www.mediaw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Plan for a Developer Relations team

Hi Quim, A scope expansion for your team makes sense to me. I have two questions. 1. Does your team currently have the capacity for this scope expansion, with only existing staff, while continuing to support the existing Community Engineering mission? 2. Will the team continue to have goals rela

[Wikitech-l] Plan for a Developer Relations team

Hi, the Engineering Community team is working on a plan to evolve onto a Developer Relations team. This is not just a change of name. See *https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Developer_Relations_team

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

Thanks Yuri and Brad! On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > > It is much better than to use "rawcontinue", because > > that flag will keep telling us someone needs the old system. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:01:08 +0200, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: ... Please tell me we're not really going to have the final state here be an extension named "SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi" that doesn't use GeSHi anymore. Yeah, that would suck somewhat. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103614

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > It is much better than to use "rawcontinue", because > that flag will keep telling us someone needs the old system. > I doubt we'll ever get rid of rawcontinue. There's practically no code to maintain there (it's just a one-line function[1

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

Il 29/06/2015 20:01, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the > SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The > change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the lexical > analysis and output formatt

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

Jonathan, in theory, if you never use query continuation, you don't need to do anything with your code - you just need to tell the community that the bot is ok to use the new continuation system. This way noone will block the bot just in case. It is much better than to use "rawcontinue", because t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Improving Privacy Policy on Mobile

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > Hi Jacob > I've cc'ed wikitech to get an update on bug > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T483 > The last update here was in February 2015. I personally think this is > one of our most urgent bugs to fix, but it's not clear who is > responsibl

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

I run GrantsBot, which is listed here. I've updated all GrantsBot API requests to use rawcontinue=1. But as I read through this thread, it's not clear to me that that's the problem. I can't find a single instance in my code where I'm actually continuing a query. Does this breaking change only appl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid announcement: Main roundtrip quality target achieved

On 06/29/2015 09:20 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: The "PHP parser" used in production has 3 components: the preprocessor, the core parser, Tidy. Parsoid relies on the PHP preprocessor (access via the mediawiki API), so that part of t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Parsoid announcement: Main roundtrip quality target achieved

On 06/29/2015 09:19 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Subramanya Sastry mailto:ssas...@wikimedia.org>> wrote: * Pare down rendering differences between the two systems so that we can start thinking about using Parsoid HTML instead of MWParser HTML

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parsoid announcement: Main roundtrip quality target achieved

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > On 06/25/2015 06:29 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> On 25 June 2015 at 23:22, Subramanya Sastry >> wrote: >> >> On behalf of the parsing team, here is an update about Parsoid, the >>> bidirectional wikitext <-> HTML parser that supports

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Parsoid announcement: Main roundtrip quality target achieved

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > * Pare down rendering differences between the two systems so that > we can start thinking about using Parsoid HTML instead of MWParser HTML > for read views. ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55784 ) > Any hope of adding the Pars