[Wikitech-l] OOUI 0.26.0 release

2018-03-20 Thread Volker E.
Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce that we've released OOUI v0.26.0 today. It will be in MediaWiki core from 1.31.0-wmf.26, which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in the regular train, starting on Tuesday 27 March. In this breaking release email I would like to begin with pointing out

[Wikitech-l] Remove wfOutputHandler() without deprecation

2018-03-20 Thread Krinkle
Hi, As part of auditing MediaWiki initialisation code[1], I noticed the state of our OutputHandler logic. It is currently implemented through a series of global functions in a dedicated includes file (separate from GlobalFunctions.php) which are then ad-hoc loaded (as needed) in WebStart.php. I w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Refactoring MonoBook

2018-03-20 Thread Isarra Yos
Yeah, that is basically what we decided to do. And hey, it's bitrotting in production, at least! -I On 20/03/18 10:51, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: So.. what if you shove the old monobooktemplate into the Modern skin, rename it and let it use that. Then it becomes self contained, you don't have you

[Wikitech-l] Discovery Weekly Update for the week starting 2018-03-12

2018-03-20 Thread Chris Koerner
Hello, Another weekly update from the Search Platform team at the Wikimedia Foundation. If you have feedback or questions, please let me know. == Discussions == === Search === * There was a small issue with increasing the ltr.cache.max_size in Cirrus elasticsearch clusters which has now been solv

[Wikitech-l] [x-post] Wikimedia Language team online meeting on March 28 instead of March 21 [was Re: [x-post] Wikimedia Language team office hour and online meeting on March 21, 2018 (Wednesday) at 1

2018-03-20 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
Hello, Due to unavoidable reasons, we have had to move this online session to next week, on 28th March 2018. The time will be same i.e. 1300 UTC. I will send a reminder ahead of the session. Meanwhile, please see the original announcement below for other details. Thanks, and apologies for this la

Re: [Wikitech-l] Refactoring MonoBook

2018-03-20 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
So.. what if you shove the old monobooktemplate into the Modern skin, rename it and let it use that. Then it becomes self contained, you don't have your problem anymore, and Modern can slowly further bitrot ;) Its not ideal, but I would consider it acceptable. DJ On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 2:03 AM,