[Wikitech-l] Re: Disabling createpage right in Serbian Wikipedia for non-registered users

2024-09-09 Thread Bryan Davis
gt; can inject an alternative like <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard> when restricted users attempt to create a new page in the main namespace. Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software En

[Wikitech-l] Re: How to make commits from mirrored Wikimedia repos show up on your GitHub profile

2024-06-27 Thread Bryan Davis
to making is easier for Wikimedia technical volunteers to get credit for their git contributions via GitHub. Hopefully a better solution will present itself in the future. For now y'all should just hit that [fork] button with wild abandon to claim your contributions. Bryan -- Bryan Davis

[Wikitech-l] Re: Dashiki Migration to newer cloud instances

2024-06-07 Thread Bryan Davis
habricator.wikimedia.org/T256276#6303217 Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 __

[Wikitech-l] Re: Scheduling a patch for a MediaWiki backport window just got easier

2024-06-06 Thread Bryan Davis
On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 9:13 AM Bryan Davis wrote: > The new "Wikimedia Deployment Scheduler" tool tries to make adding > your Gerrit change to a backport window as simple as possible. All it > needs from you is the Gerrit change number, your IRC nick, and the > backport

[Wikitech-l] Re: Scheduling a patch for a MediaWiki backport window just got easier

2024-06-05 Thread Bryan Davis
uests, and patches are welcome! :) Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 _

[Wikitech-l] Scheduling a patch for a MediaWiki backport window just got easier

2024-06-05 Thread Bryan Davis
their help and encouragement in building this tool. If you are interested in seeing what the Gerrit integration needed, check out <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/operations/software/gerrit/+/7ea913b^!/> Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Re: [Toolforge][GRID SHUTDOWN] Toolforge Grid Engine has been shutdown

2024-03-15 Thread Bryan Davis
g.cloudflare.com/undersea-cable-failures-cause-internet-disruptions-across-africa-march-14-2024 Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]

[Wikitech-l] [Toolforge][GRID SHUTDOWN] Toolforge Grid Engine has been shutdown

2024-03-14 Thread Bryan Davis
#Timeline [3]: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/ [4]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-August/003955.html Bryan, on behalf of the Toolforge administrators -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal

[Wikitech-l] Re: remote access for vps

2024-03-04 Thread Bryan Davis
s is likely faster than enumerating results 500 at a time via the Action API, but it also may reduce the complexity and fragility of your operational deployment. Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer

[Wikitech-l] Re: remote access for vps

2024-03-04 Thread Bryan Davis
ilscale/blob/main/LICENSE [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use#4.5_Using_WMCS_as_a_network_proxy [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358023 Bryan -- Bryan Davis

[Wikitech-l] Re: remote access for vps

2024-03-04 Thread Bryan Davis
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM Bryan Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 12:43 PM Tim Moody wrote: > > > > I am trying to reach a remote mysql database from a vps using python. The > > destination server has created an opening in the firewall for the request, &g

[Wikitech-l] Re: remote access for vps

2024-03-04 Thread Bryan Davis
dia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Database#Connecting_to_the_database_replicas_from_your_own_computer for how this can be done in a specific case. For your case really just the target host (login.toolforge.org -> your instance) and database server should need to

[Wikitech-l] Open question about commit message linter rules and GItLab's merge requests

2023-11-28 Thread Bryan Davis
orchestrator/-/commit/dd9b43212fbc884c78e2729c78fac04d6eb6ad87 [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351253 Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:Us

[Wikitech-l] Re: send mail in python

2023-05-16 Thread Bryan Davis
WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER I saw that in one of my own tests as well. I don't have a good explanation of what triggered it. > In the console /usr/sbin/sendmail -v t...@tim.com > works just fine, so maybe I should just use subproc. If shelling out to the sendmail client works for your use case, g

[Wikitech-l] Re: send mail in python

2023-05-15 Thread Bryan Davis
mport ssl >>> context = ssl.create_default_context() >>> context.check_hostname = False >>> context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE >>> server = smtplib.SMTP("mx-out03.wmcloud.org", 25) >>> server.starttls(context=context) (220, b'TLS

[Wikitech-l] Re: ClassCrawler – extremely fast and structured code search engine

2022-02-04 Thread Bryan Davis
rch/003989.html [2]: https://opensource.org/node/1099 [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use#What_uses_of_Cloud_Services_do_we_not_like? Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Softwar

[Wikitech-l] Re: Developer Portal status update

2021-12-22 Thread Bryan Davis
ugin with changes intended to make it easier to integrate with TWN. The current plugin work is tracked in <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297168> and <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/747214/>. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement

[Wikitech-l] Re: Goto for microoptimisation

2021-07-31 Thread Bryan Davis
introduced the feature, but that does not mean we should use it." [2]? Could it be as simple as stating the bias more like "The use of `goto` should be exceedingly rare, always accompanied by comments explaining why it is used (likely for performance), and the a

[Wikitech-l] Re: Proposal: new structure for MediaWiki RELEASE-NOTES

2021-07-20 Thread Bryan Davis
the developers, maybe the PHP > ecosystem has a similar tool? Or we can reach out to other high traffic > projects and see how they are managing their changelog and maybe forge a > common tool. https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack-changelogger is a similar tool to reno that is pure php

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stuck/Missing Grid Job for tools.william-avery-bot

2021-03-26 Thread Bryan Davis
Thank you for your report, and I hope you can get your tool back into its proper working state. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fatal exception when calling replaceVariables() from parser hook, after upgrade to MW 1.34

2021-01-18 Thread Bryan Davis
lt;https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Extension_API> and <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Parsoid/Extension_API>. There is also a bit of explanation about the changes at <<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-September/093827.html> along with a link to a tec

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do you use MediaWiki-Vagrant to develop or test Wikimedia software?

2020-10-09 Thread Bryan Davis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:53 AM Bryan Davis wrote: > > I'm hoping to gather a bit of information on the current use of > MediaWiki-Vagrant by folks in the Wikimedia movement. I have started a > slowvote poll in Phabricator at > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/V24> t

[Wikitech-l] Do you use MediaWiki-Vagrant to develop or test Wikimedia software?

2020-10-09 Thread Bryan Davis
other dev environment * No, I tried it but it never worked well * No, I have never used it Data collected in the poll will be used to help me and others decide if it is worth putting in additional work to revitalize the group maintaining and improving MediaWiki-Vagrant. Bryan -- Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.35.0

2020-09-30 Thread Bryan Davis
iki/Release_notes/1.34 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.35 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with Mailman spam filter

2020-08-27 Thread Bryan Davis
ilter" feature, but I can't > remember where it is and how to do it right. > > Does anyone have a clue about how to fix this? Thanks in advance :) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/listadmins may be a better list for questions about configuring a mailman list. Bryan --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit v3.2.2 is live [was: Re: Gerrit upgrade on Saturday, 27th of June]

2020-07-01 Thread Bryan Davis
shadow DOM presence. I'm sure there are more elegant implementations (my javascript fu is not the best), but this one is working for now and does not seem to cause any significant load issues in my browser. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Princi

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Backport and Config changes window (name change)

2020-06-09 Thread Bryan Davis
as the window name | \/ \ \ \ ___ ⎛ ⎛ , \ //==--' _//|,.·//==--' _OO≣=- ︶ ᴹw ⎞_§ __ ___\ ___\ ,\__ \/ __ \ (∞)_, ) ( | __/__ \/ /__ / /_/ / /_/ / ¨--¨|| |- ( / __\/ \___/ \__^_/ .__/ ««_/ «_/ jgs/bd808 /_/ Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Etherpad upgrade and a new skin

2020-05-20 Thread Bryan Davis
tream project, please DO NOT vent even calmly at Alexandros or anyone else on the Wikimedia Foundation's SRE team or employed by the Wikimedia Foundation generally. Please open your nearest window and share your complaints with the clouds in the sky. They will be happy for the attention. B

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get number of articles or related metrics for indic wiki's ?

2020-05-08 Thread Bryan Davis
nswers here don't spoil your hackathon! Maybe try playing around with Wikistats 2 and the APIs it uses and think of ways that you could either add new features to Wikistats 2 or make a tool that uses data from the same APIs that would be helpful to the Indic language community. Bryan -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coolest Tool Award 2019: Call for Nominations

2019-07-16 Thread Bryan Davis
and use to make working on the Wikimedia projects easier and the Coolest Tool Academy wants to hear about all of them. You could honestly even nominate your favorite GNU Linux distribution if you can explain how it makes life as a Wikimedian better. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Founda

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with composer dependencies in early MediaWiki initialization

2019-06-25 Thread Bryan Davis
be replaced with a semi-clever call to parse_url() that looked something like: $parts = parse_url( 'fake://' . $_SERVER[$varName] ); Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit HTTP Token Auth re-enabled

2019-06-24 Thread Bryan Davis
a fresh password at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/settings/http-password * Git push to gerrit over https with username/password auth * Regenerate a password at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/settings/http-password to invalidate the password that was exposed to the untrusted instance/netw

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.34.0-wmf.6 status and cawikinews outage

2019-05-22 Thread Bryan Davis
mediawiki.org, "testing" wikis, and "closed" wikis * Group 1 == wikis that are not wikipedias or in group 0 * Group 2 == wikipedias There are some more subtle distinctions, but that's the general setup of the groups. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundatio

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fetching edit notices via API

2019-04-28 Thread Bryan Davis
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 8:02 PM Bryan Davis wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:02 PM Huji Lee wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > Is there an API call that would allow you to retrieve the edit notice for a > > page? > > I did not find a specific Action API th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fetching edit notices via API

2019-04-28 Thread Bryan Davis
iawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Edit_notice>: * MediaWiki:Editnotice- (where N is the namespace id) * MediaWiki:Editnotice-- (where any '/' in the title is replaced with '-') You could also find all editnotice messages for a wiki using a prefix search generator: Bryan

[Wikitech-l] Change to Wikitech logins: Username now case-sensitive

2019-04-15 Thread Bryan Davis
gt; for more details. Bryan, on behalf of the Cloud Services team -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment-prep (aka 'Beta') services will be unreliable this week

2018-11-20 Thread Bryan Davis
the "memc*" servers with both memcached for arbitrary data caching and redis for session storage. If you are interested in the gory details see notes left on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210030. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technic

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Datacenter Switchover recap

2018-09-12 Thread Bryan Davis
mally expect to be worked on promptly. For me, Giuseppe's work on this bug is a sign that that he cares about the small details, and also that the rest of the switchover went well giving him the time to investigate lower impact edge cases like this. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikime

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2018-07

2018-08-01 Thread Bryan Davis
nk of this report the same way you would think of a report by GitLab, BitBucket, or GitHub about activity across all of their hosted projects and tracking boards. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise,

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to make oauth authentication with wikipedia?

2018-07-29 Thread Bryan Davis
e web application. This separation is not possible when the application is running on end-user controlled devices as a phone or desktop application does. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] dumps.wikimedia.org web and rsync services down

2018-06-28 Thread Bryan Davis
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > The https://dumps.wikimedia.org web interface for downloading various > dump files is currently offline. The rsync service for external > mirroring is as well. Local network NFS consumers may or may not be > working depending on

[Wikitech-l] dumps.wikimedia.org web and rsync services down

2018-06-28 Thread Bryan Davis
result of hardware issues following a short planned maintenance. We are currently investigating the root cause of the outage and will post additional updates as they become available. Thanks for your patience. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Proposal] Change terminology used for wikitech/LDAP/Toolforge/Labs accounts

2018-03-23 Thread Bryan Davis
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > TL;DR see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179461> for a proposed > naming change. Quiddity closed the proposal as accepted today! I have been making edits on Wikitech to reflect the new "Wikimedia developer account&q

[Wikitech-l] [Proposal] Change terminology used for wikitech/LDAP/Toolforge/Labs accounts

2018-02-23 Thread Bryan Davis
aluated for consensus and an approve/deny decision. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179461 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161859 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179463 Thanks, Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud S

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant's master branch migrated to Debian Stretch

2018-01-15 Thread Bryan Davis
ably receive few updates, so you are encouraged to create new Stretch based VMs soon. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808v:41

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Help Needed] MediaWiki-Vagrant: Debian Stretch testing and migration

2018-01-04 Thread Bryan Davis
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > Work has begun to upgrade the base distribution for MediaWiki-Vagrant > to Debian Stretch [0]. The Wikimedia production cluster is preparing > for a similar upgrade [1] which will in part allow the Wikimedia wikis > to migrate

[Wikitech-l] [Help Needed] MediaWiki-Vagrant: Debian Stretch testing and migration

2017-12-18 Thread Bryan Davis
$(cd ../vagrant; vagrant roles list -e -1) $ vagrant provision [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181353 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174431 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176370 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager,

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017-12-13 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2017-12-14 Thread Bryan Davis
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Grace Gellerman wrote: > *https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2017-12-13 I missed getting the Cloud Services update into the etherpad, but it was pretty boring: * Team offsite and KubeCon/CloudNativeCon last week in Austin Bryan -- Bryan Da

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] New ORES FAQ

2017-11-22 Thread Bryan Davis
ation. [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft/Programs/Technology#Program_4:_Technical_community_building > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123425 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

2017-11-17 Thread Bryan Davis
gt;. Citations are really just footnotes and each can be named when defined and then reused by reference at other places in the same article. There is a example of this at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Multiple_uses_of_the_same_footnote>. Bryan -- Bryan Davis W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out the commit message validator

2017-11-07 Thread Bryan Davis
f the number of false positives there would be based on a "normal" dictionary. Commit messages often contain technical jargon (maybe something to try and avoid) and snippets of code (e.g. class names like TemplatesOnThisPageFormatter) that would not be in any traditional dictionary that we

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017-09-27 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

2017-09-28 Thread Bryan Davis
1 October. You can create books but they will not have all > planned features until November or December. You can read more on > mediawiki.org. Hopefully someone working on the project can give pointers to the chromium investigation. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Previous mediawiki version test wiki

2017-09-21 Thread Bryan Davis
this order? We want people to test and find bugs *before* they hit the larger wikis. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855

Re: [Wikitech-l] HHVM vs. Zend divergence

2017-09-19 Thread Bryan Davis
ommunity driven FLOSS project and help them continue to thrive. [0]: https://codeascraft.com/2015/04/06/experimenting-with-hhvm-at-etsy/ [1]: https://codeascraft.com/speakers/rasmus-lerdorf-deploying-php-7/ [2]: https://github.com/phan/phan Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Founda

[Wikitech-l] Introducing the Cloud Services Team: What we do, and how we can help you (blog post)

2017-09-11 Thread Bryan Davis
ose of the product rebranding we have been working on is. It also gives a shout out to a very small number of the Toolforge tools and Cloud VPS projects that the Wikimedia technical community make. I wish I could have named them all, but there are just too many! Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

2017-09-04 Thread Bryan Davis
we are going on anecdotal evidence, I run Firefox ESR 52.3.0 on an OSX laptop all day every day and can not remember the last crash I had. I do shutdown the browser every evening which may or may not avoid serious memory leaks. In my personal past experience, Firefox crashes were almost always c

[Wikitech-l] Labs and Tool Labs being renamed

2017-07-12 Thread Bryan Davis
017-May/005002.html [3]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-May/088184.html [4]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BryanDavis/Rebranding_Cloud_Services_products [5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168480 [6]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_labs_labs Bryan (on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Author of wikipedia images

2017-07-11 Thread Bryan Davis
File%3APresident_Barack_Obama.jpg&formatversion=2&iiprop=user%7Ccanonicaltitle%7Curl%7Ccommonmetadata&iilimit=1> This is what MultimediaViewer uses behind the scenes to describe the image when shown in lightbox mode: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EMMV/browse/master

Re: [Wikitech-l] How does a build process look like for a mediawiki extension repository?

2017-06-15 Thread Bryan Davis
is to update the repos and then run https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_binaries#scap_sync. The composer packages are not managed by that process. Instead composer managed assets used in beta cluster and production are manually curated in the mediawiki/vendor.git repo via gerrit patches.

Re: [Wikitech-l] How does a build process look like for a mediawiki extension repository?

2017-06-07 Thread Bryan Davis
the quick cycle of making a change and seeing it live in your test environment. Today that is mostly a matter of saving an edit and hitting refresh in a browser. It would be sad to lose that, so the build system that is devised should also provide a path that allows a git clone to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Fwd: [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedia Tool Developers Group

2017-05-23 Thread Bryan Davis
[3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_Labs_standards_committee Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global language preference

2017-05-10 Thread Bryan Davis
h a tool at <http://tools.wmflabs.org/globalprefs/>. The source looks to be a <https://github.com/legoktm/globalprefs>. Maybe some folks would like to collaborate on expanding that tool to make a nicer working proof of concept? Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!

2017-04-02 Thread Bryan Davis
ki_Platform_team > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Platform_team> I'm really happy to see this happen. I'd like to give my personal thanks to Victoria for recognizing the need and working to find a way to form this team. I'd also like to show my appreciation to Tim for

[Wikitech-l] [Breaking Change] MediaWiki-Vagrant now defaults to Debian Jessie

2017-03-13 Thread Bryan Davis
T154264) and an NFS permissions mapping problem when installing ChangeProp on a VM with OSX as the host operating system and NFS shares enabled for Vagrant (T158617). Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

2017-03-07 Thread Bryan Davis
aWiki_hacker wiki page is a good place to start looking for ways to contribute. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Results of the Developer Wishlist are in

2017-02-15 Thread Bryan Davis
github.com/tgr/wikimedia-rfc-stats There is an API that can be used to lookup a Phabricator account based on a Wikimedia username (<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/conduit/method/user.mediawikiquery/>). We built this for use by https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/ (Striker). Bryan -- Bryan Dav

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant needs testers for Debian Jessie changes

2017-02-14 Thread Bryan Davis
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMWVAdc73e2bee9dff1e0755d15cfe1376ee2dc6e141d [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] private key compromise OCSP declarations per RFC 5280

2017-01-30 Thread Bryan Davis
a.org/project/profile/1201/>) would both seem reasonable. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 _

Re: [Wikitech-l] MVVM/Single-State solution for our UIs?

2017-01-30 Thread Bryan Davis
>> be using OOUI styles and markup but leaving DOM creation to the framework. >> >> >> Do you think using Vue (or a similar framework) is an option for us? What >> are requirements and concerns which would be important? I don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] More useful Puppet docs for MediaWiki-Vagrant

2017-01-10 Thread Bryan Davis
tter. Patches welcome. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] More useful Puppet docs for MediaWiki-Vagrant

2017-01-10 Thread Bryan Davis
ant/>. Try searching for "role::" to get the list of all roles. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:41

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Scap 3.4.0-1 is live

2016-11-28 Thread Bryan Davis
nges in particular are awesome! The lack of automatic !log messages for trebuchet and scap3 always bugged me. Thanks for all the work folks. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Using Kibana4 to read logs at Wikimedia

2016-11-14 Thread Bryan Davis
m my desktop and didn't notice that the slides weren't being displayed on the video. :/ Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic gerrit authentication and retrieval of reviews

2016-10-21 Thread Bryan Davis
d on the Wikitech server, so you would need to register your OAuth consumer there (<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration>) and interact with wikitech.wikimedia.org in your client code. Bryan -- Bryan Davis W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit screen size

2016-09-25 Thread Bryan Davis
[1]: https://github.com/bd808/userscripts/blob/gh-pages/wmfgerrit.user.css [2]: http://bd808.com/userscripts/wmfgerrit.user.js Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Debian and Ubuntu packages for MediaWiki now available

2016-09-22 Thread Bryan Davis
ng the Wikimania 2015 hackathon in Mexico City. He has kept the process moving over these many months and worked through lots and lots of blocking issues that would have stopped most people. For me this is just one more example of why Legoktm is awesome and deserving of public praise. :) Br

[Wikitech-l] [Discussion needed] Process for taking over abandoned tools

2016-09-21 Thread Bryan Davis
with something reasonable. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87730 [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_proposal [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_NDA Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to all GSoC students (passed)

2016-09-02 Thread Bryan Davis
a > great time working with the Wikimedia Foundation and I had a very great > experience. Congratulations to everyone. I hope that all of you find FLOSS projects to continue to contribute to. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] deployment-prep using valid certs for HTTPS

2016-08-02 Thread Bryan Davis
HTTPS URLs for them so browsers don't block the images. > Please let me know if you find any beta.wmflabs.org domains that aren't > covered by the cert or aren't redirecting HTTP to HTTPS in Varnish. This is really cool and another recent example of Alex grinding out the step

Re: [Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures grafana dashboard

2016-07-29 Thread Bryan Davis
orking on this kind of data collection and visualization Adam. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Canary Deploys for MediaWiki

2016-07-25 Thread Bryan Davis
ings that uses it. There's no really good reason to spew a bunch of "undefined X" warnings and there is no guarantee with sync-dir that the files will be sent in the proper order. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Help evaluate upgrade path for logstash.wikimedia.org

2016-06-24 Thread Bryan Davis
Working with dates is a pain in just about every language. :/ There are some neat new features too, like permalinks to individual log events and quite a few new visualization types [3]. [0]: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1600 [1]: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/2706 [2]: http

Re: [Wikitech-l] Issue with composer-merge-plugin, composer install, MW 1.25.5

2016-05-11 Thread Bryan Davis
Composer internal composer-plugin-api component. Composer recently bumped this internal version to v1.1.0 [1]. I'll prepare a patch for the REL1_25 branch to fix this for the next tarball release. [0]: https://github.com/wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin/releases/tag/v1.2.0 [1]: https:/

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Fall 2015 Tool Labs user survey data published

2016-05-05 Thread Bryan Davis
y with the services and terminology used in Tool Labs. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101659 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123425 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fall 2015 Tool Labs user survey data published

2016-05-04 Thread Bryan Davis
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Annual_Tool_Labs_Survey Apologies for that abrupt initial message, that was a great example of hitting the wrong key in a mail client. :) Between 2015-09-25 and 2015-10-08, the Wikime

[Wikitech-l] Fall 2015 Tool Labs user survey data published

2016-05-04 Thread Bryan Davis
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Annual_Tool_Labs_Survey -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855

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

2016-04-26 Thread Bryan Davis
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Chad wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:20 PM Alex Monk wrote: > >> On 27 April 2016 at 01:15, Bryan Davis wrote: >> >> > The Wikimedia GitHub project gives me two things in one place that I >> > don't get elsewhere: >

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

2016-04-26 Thread Bryan Davis
ce would still be pretty big however since we have been creating a lot of "un-namespaced" repos in the last year or two. That change started happening when the migration off of Gerrit was deemed an eventuality as the organization of repos in Gerrit is not very friendly to other hosting

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

2016-04-25 Thread Bryan Davis
hs ago that got admins to either add 2fa to their github account or be removed. [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Developing_libraries#Transferring_an_existing_GitHub_repo_to_Wikimedia Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]

Re: [Wikitech-l] MOOC Extension

2016-04-20 Thread Bryan Davis
d don't get too hung up on the guidance that we give for production deployed code yet. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

[Wikitech-l] Tool Labs and my new job at WMF

2016-04-15 Thread Bryan Davis
ikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tool_Labs_tools [5]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Tool_Labs_support/Tool_Labs_vision [6]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Tool_Labs_support/Tool_Labs_vision Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mass migration to new syntax - PRO or CON?

2016-02-12 Thread Bryan Davis
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Legoktm wrote: > I think you're going to end up in rebase hell regardless, so we should > rip off the bandaid quickly and get it over with, and use the automated > tools we have to our advantage. > > So, if we're voting, I'm P

Re: [Wikitech-l] Achievements in Wikimedia (6 months / Half year) anniversary

2016-02-06 Thread Bryan Davis
ow a few quick answers or even just acting as a rubber duck [0] for someone who is stuck can really make a difference. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer

[Wikitech-l] Help test SessionManager on WMF beta cluster

2016-02-04 Thread Bryan Davis
[1]: http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page [2]: https://logstash-beta.wmflabs.org/#/dashboard/elasticsearch/default Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.

[Wikitech-l] Recent authentication session instability (was Re: Update from the Wikimedia Performance Team)

2016-02-04 Thread Bryan Davis
vy hammer approach. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123451 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125267 [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160123-SessionManagerRolloutFailure [3]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/sal/log/AVKZtfQXW8txF7J0uNE2 [4]: https://phabrica

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] New [[Main Page]] for Wikitech

2016-01-29 Thread Bryan Davis
table formatting and replace it with something that is actually mobile friendly too. The page I made looks horrible on my phone. :( Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

[Wikitech-l] New [[Main Page]] for Wikitech

2016-01-28 Thread Bryan Davis
that none of you hate it with a fiery passion that compels you to revert it rather than helping me make it better. [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID US

[Wikitech-l] Giving some attention to the wikitech.wikimedia.org wiki

2016-01-12 Thread Bryan Davis
I will take further steps to have the new namespaces enabled (or got back to the drawing board if the concept is rejected). [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123425 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123427 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123429 [3]: https://phabricator.wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Trouble while setting up mediawiki-vagrant

2016-01-07 Thread Bryan Davis
sion`. The role only includes the wikidata software and not any dump data. > Where can I find these dumps ? I'll > probably write an article on the contributors section > too after discovering the path myself . Dumps are available from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get started?

2015-12-12 Thread Bryan Davis
tions when you get stuck. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 ___ Wikitech-l maili

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