Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

2016-12-13 Thread Risker
I get the reasons for the standardization, and the (usability) reasons for the selection of the colours. For a lot of wikis, they'll be (mostly) irrelevant because of the degree of customization, either at the wiki-wide level, or on an individual use-case level; a lot of people won't even notice.

Re: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom Meeting Minutes (2016-12-07)

2016-12-13 Thread Risker
On 12 December 2016 at 16:01, Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Daniel Kinzler < > daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > > * Victoria suggest to have a regular meeting to review/prioritize > technical > > debt. ArchCom to be invited. > > > > Thank

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Gerrit upgrade (w/ short downtime) tomorrow

2016-12-13 Thread Paladox
Should be fixed now. On Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 21:42, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Chad Horohoe > wrote: > > > Tomorrow evening (18:30–19:30 UTC) I'll be taking Gerrit offline shortly > > for a planned

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Gerrit upgrade (w/ short downtime) tomorrow

2016-12-13 Thread Greg Grossmeier
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Chad Horohoe > wrote: > > > Tomorrow evening (18:30–19:30 UTC) I'll be taking Gerrit offline shortly > > for a planned upgrade from 2.12.5 to 2.13.3. It shouldn't take the full > > hour, but you never know :) > > > > It seems the links

Re: [Wikitech-l] phan (new static analysis tool) is now voting on MediaWiki core

2016-12-13 Thread Erik Bernhardson
Getting Phan voting is a great first step, but we need everyone's help to improve the strictness of analysis we apply. For this initial rollout Phan is only voting on critical errors. These are typically PHP fatal errors like referencing a class that doesn't exist (missing use statement?) and

[Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016: We need your tasks!; 2nd week achievements

2016-12-13 Thread Andre Klapper
We are soon going to run out of Google Code-in tasks.  Please mentor small and easy tasks! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2016 Contact us if you need help or have questions! Some GCI achievements of the last week (week 2 out of 7): * Newsletter extension again received numerous

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

2016-12-13 Thread Volker E.
Hi, my name is Volker, I’m part of the Editing department on the Design team and I’m leading the UI Standardization efforts at the Foundation. I would like to address Pine's original response about community involvement – when I've started my employment at the Foundation one of the first things

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit DRAFT program

2016-12-13 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > * Wikimedia Foundation Technology and Product Q, with Victoria Coleman > (CTO) and Wes Moran (VP of Product). > > You can propose and vote questions for Victoria and Wes between now and > the beginning of the Summit: > >

[Wikitech-l] No Tech News the weeks of December 26 and January 2

2016-12-13 Thread Johan Jönsson
Hi everyone, As there are no deployments scheduled for the weeks of December 19 and December 26, Tech News[1] will take a hiatus for two weeks, too. The next issue will be distributed to the wikis on Monday; the issue after that one on January 9. If you have something you need included in Tech