[Wikitech-l] Rob Lanphier appointed to the Architecture Committee

At the previous meeting of the MediaWiki Architecture Committee (April 20), the members present approved the appointment of Rob Lanphier to the committee. Rob was the main instigator in the formation of the committee in 2014. Lately he has been taking an active role, chairing the weekly meetings

[Wikitech-l] ArchCom RFC update #6

Hi everyone, Here is the RFC status update from last week's ArchCom meeting (E165). This is pretty much what is posted on-wiki [1], where everything has links. Rob Today's IRC session ** April 20 [[Phab:E66/31]] *** T91162: RFC: Shadow namespaces Queue for future RfC

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > More importantly, > when folks have repos that they've been running on GitHub already and want > to move into the wikimedia project (rather than switch to gerrit), what's > the procedure? I'm an admin/owner so I can

[Wikitech-l] Requiring composer 1.0.0 as minimum version for 1.27?

Hi, Composer recently released their first stable version of 1.0.0, which among other things mandates usage of secure connections and validates certificates[1]. I'd like for 1.27 to require 1.0.0 as a minimum version people must use when fetching installing MediaWiki dependencies (people can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

Le 25/04/2016 17:19, Brion Vibber a écrit : > More importantly, > when folks have repos that they've been running on GitHub already and want > to move into the wikimedia project (rather than switch to gerrit), what's > the procedure? I'm an admin/owner so I can manually import people's repos >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

Le 25/04/2016 17:34, Bryan Davis a écrit : >> > We also have a lot of admins, which I wonder is necessary: >> > https://github.com/orgs/wikimedia/people?utf8=✓=role%3Aowner+ >> > >> > Do we do any security review / removal of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

Le 25/04/2016 19:01, Chad a écrit : > Honestly, I'm not entirely convinced that "mirror everything" is all that > useful. It mostly results in a ton of unused repos cluttering up lists. > > Not opposed to mirroring, but I'm wondering if we can be more selective. Hello,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Weekly update

FYI: not the first update on the revscoring project. See updates going back years here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Revision_scoring_as_a_service This is, however, the first email update and the first weekly update in a while :) On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Amir Ladsgroup

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > I, for one, appreciate it. GitHub's interface is unfortunately a lot more > convenient than any of the repository viewers we host ourselves. :( > And fairly often I need to give somebody a link to a code snippet in

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Weekly update

Hey, this is the first weekly update on Revision Scoring project. In case you are not subscribed to ai-l -- Forwarded message - From: Amir Ladsgroup Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 7:02 PM Subject: Weekly update To: a...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On 2016-04-25 19:01, Chad wrote: Honestly, I'm not entirely convinced that "mirror everything" is all that useful. It mostly results in a ton of unused repos cluttering up lists. I, for one, appreciate it. GitHub's interface is unfortunately a lot more convenient than any of the repository

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:20 AM Brion Vibber wrote: > There seems to be extremely little documentation on Wikimedia's GitHub > project https://github.com/wikimedia ... I can only find > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/GitHub which mostly says we mirror a > bunch of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On 25 April 2016 at 17:01, Chris Steipp wrote: > Correct, all admins should have two-factor setup. I believe everyone who is > an admin there has +2 in gerrit, and a reason to have the rights in Github. > I'd propose those 3 things as a minimal standard, since I don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Bryan Davis wrote: > Not that I am aware of. Rights there tend to work a lot like getting > elevated rights on mediawiki.org: the rights are handed out by > existing admins when somebody asks for something that will be easily > solved by

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > There seems to be extremely little documentation on Wikimedia's GitHub > project https://github.com/wikimedia ... I can only find > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/GitHub which mostly says we mirror a > bunch of

[Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

There seems to be extremely little documentation on Wikimedia's GitHub project https://github.com/wikimedia ... I can only find https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/GitHub which mostly says we mirror a bunch of stuff from gerrit. And I know we have continuous integration of some kind set up for

[Wikitech-l] Heads-up: "Write The Docs" conference in Sep 2016

For those interested + working on Wikimedia documentation: There is a conf in Prague (Czech Rep) on Sep 18-20 "to explore the art and science of documentation" for "writers, developers, support folks". See http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/eu/2016 for more information. There is 

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hey guys how ı can leave this e-mail list?

Thanks Peachey.. I hope that would be a good week for all Wikipedia team. Muhammed Tatlısu 34080/İstanbul-Türkiye 25 Nis 2016 15:07 tarihinde "K. Peachey" yazdı: > On 25 April 2016 at 22:01, Muhammed Tatlısu > wrote: > > > Muhammed Tatlısu > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hey guys how ı can leave this e-mail list?

On 25 April 2016 at 22:01, Muhammed Tatlısu wrote: > Muhammed Tatlısu > 34080/İstanbul-Türkiye > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l#manage and follow the form details. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Hey guys how ı can leave this e-mail list?

Muhammed Tatlısu 34080/İstanbul-Türkiye 25 Nis 2016 14:44 tarihinde "Andre Klapper" yazdı: > On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 13:44 +0530, Tony Thomas wrote: > > The best approach would be to open up a Conpherence with your mentors > > ( I hope they appreciate it ), and asking the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy results out, Congrats interns

On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 13:44 +0530, Tony Thomas wrote: > The best approach would be to open up a Conpherence with your mentors > ( I hope they appreciate it ), and asking the same. If you do not find any > lucky with that, kindly ping or add in the org-admins too, and we will > get this resolved.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code 2016 and Outreachy results out, Congrats interns

Congratulations to all the candidates selected -- and their mentors! Also an encouragement to all the candidates that worked hard but could not get an internship. Our statistics show that applicants going after a second round have a very high success rate. I also want to thank volunteer org

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, latency, & progressive enhancement

I also didn't really distinguish three separate perf points in my blurb: * time to first paint * time to bare page interactivity * time to enhanced page display / interactivity Mainly I was concentrating on the third point, but the first two -- which y'all are already doing a great job on -- are

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, latency, & progressive enhancement

On Monday, April 25, 2016, Ori Livneh wrote: > Not so straight-forward. Khan Academy tried unbundling JavaScript on HTTP/2 > page views last November and found that performance got worse. They > attribute the regression primarily to the fact that bundling improves >

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, latency, & progressive enhancement

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Started as quick thoughts, turned into more of an essay, so I've posted the > bulk on mediawiki.org: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Brion_VIBBER/ResourceLoader_and_latency > > > tl;dr summary: > > On slow

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, latency, & progressive enhancement

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Sunday, April 24, 2016, Daniel Friesen > wrote: > > > Tangentially related, Chrome plans to drop support for SPDY and go > > HTTP/2 only this year, Edge already dropped support for SPDY,