Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-25 Thread Chad
s there's an upstream who responds, which in this case there is. I think the choice of platform matters when we're talking about "ease of installation/upgrading" to some degree so we don't make the ops angry, but that's a total non-issue with Gerrit because installa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Article revision numbers

2012-07-23 Thread Chad
could've had the same argument years ago and said "why use a database, SVN stores information in a linear history that's useful for articles." Having diverging articles may be cool/ desired, but using Git is not the answer. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upload files: a simple progress bar ?

2012-07-22 Thread Chad
progress of my uploads for 10+ years now. > Many frameworks are available. > See for example ownCloud http://owncloud.org/ http://gitorious.org/owncloud > Useless link. Could you link to the source that uses it so we don't have to search through 15 git repos to find it? -Chad ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit downtime this Friday

2012-07-20 Thread Chad
rver will do ;-) But yes: thank you so much Ryan and Asher for taking care of this! -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to tell MW that I want to use the HTTPS version?

2012-07-20 Thread Chad
ere at least a bug for that? > It's because the URLs are based on who was using the wiki at the time and caused the e-mail to be generated. If I'm using HTTP, you'll get an HTTP e-mail. Really, we should probably make this always fall back on HTTPS when it exists. -Chad _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-18 Thread Chad
se that you've never touched is not usually something people can pick up in an afternoon. I imagine most people try to find something they do understand, grep around, and then slowly expand the areas of code they know their way around. It's just very enterprise-y Java. It's not real

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit downtime this Friday

2012-07-18 Thread Chad
ry profiling in ishmael which should assist with >> further optimizations. > > > I wish email had a "like" button. :-) > Me too. I've been wanting us to fix this ever since we were forced to put them in different datacenters

Re: [Wikitech-l] overprinting wikipedia table

2012-07-08 Thread Chad
ps bring it up on the talkpage? -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit 2.4 upgrade this evening

2012-07-05 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Chad wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Chad wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just giving everyone a head's up that we'll be upgrading Gerrit this evening >> from 2.3 to 2.4.2. >> >> We're not expecting any extensive

Re: [Wikitech-l] getting Jenkins to run basic automated tests on commits to extensions

2012-07-05 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Chad wrote: >> Yes, but we can't even get people to type `php -l` before pushing, >> which is why having Jenkins do this for us is crucial. >> > Yes, I don't disagree that jsh

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit 2.4 upgrade this evening

2012-07-05 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Chad wrote: > Hi, > > Just giving everyone a head's up that we'll be upgrading Gerrit this evening > from 2.3 to 2.4.2. > > We're not expecting any extensive downtime for Gerrit, but we've scheduled > a one-hour window from

Re: [Wikitech-l] getting Jenkins to run basic automated tests on commits to extensions

2012-07-05 Thread Chad
hing, which is why having Jenkins do this for us is crucial. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit 2.4 upgrade this evening

2012-07-05 Thread Chad
reminder (and spam IRC) right before we begin the upgrade process, and again when we're done. Please let me know if you have any questions. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP namespacing and traits

2012-07-05 Thread Chad
core. My position hasn't changed in the past month and is unlikely to change in the near future. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Personal sandbox space in Gerrit

2012-07-02 Thread Chad
e work when you want to stash it (and it should be viewable by Gitweb, if you want others to see it). Happy hacking! -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upstream keyword in bugzilla

2012-07-02 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote: > I think the upstream keyword in bugzilla is useless. Can we replace it > with a field which takes an url to the upstream bug report? > When I've filed an upstream but, I usually put it in the URL field. Does that no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Today's git master

2012-06-29 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Platonides wrote: > On 29/06/12 22:41, Marcin Cieslak wrote: >> $ git reset --hard >> HEAD is now at de13c31 Actually we have many contributors >> $ >> >> Chad, you made my day:) >> >> //Saper > > Great commit! &

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Chad
use the same repository on beta project, but > right now it's really hard to test stuff submitted to gerrit because > we need to merge stuff by hand. > I don't see any problem with this really, as long as the branches don't get wildly out of s

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-25 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > This isn't discussion about git, but feeds we have in #mediawiki, feed > from git is definitely not the only one > Then please feel free to move it to a better name. I really don't care what the pa

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-25 Thread Chad
But some people will >> find it difficult because they would have to switch channels more >> often. > > The problem is not as much as switching channels, but seeing the changes > after the fact, when you'd have liked it 5 minutes earlier. > A solution could be to config

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-22 Thread Chad
asked to /ignore every random bot they see. Is there some middle ground here? -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Relations with freenode and wikimedia

2012-06-21 Thread Chad
nd wikitech-l isn't really the forum for that. Perhaps meta or foundation-l would be more appropriate. wikitech-l only would need to be involved once a decisions's been made and there's technical details to work out. -Chad ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-21 Thread Chad
Well, -codereview isn't terribly active these days, since we've moved off CodeReview and onto Gerrit, so there shouldn't be an overall increase in announcements compared to what we're used to. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l maili

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-21 Thread Chad
we've had bots in the channel for years--I don't think another weekend is going to kill us. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-21 Thread Chad
me in #mediawiki > > If there was some problem we can always put it back, I moved wm-bot > feeds for now to that new channel > Well let's not shut anything off in #mediawiki just yet. This has only been on the list for an hour so let's allow some other

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-21 Thread Chad
gt; Well the IRC spam from L10n was a separate issue, that's been silenced. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-21 Thread Chad
ent discussion will follow to the new channel and this is a bad thing. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Giving people additional rights on gerrit

2012-06-18 Thread Chad
Branch creation rights aren't something that can be assigned--I believe it's hardcoded based on project ownership. That's something worth investigating and fixing if possible. -Chad -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-18 Thread Chad
rhaps it would be simpler to just add the code > snippet to [[MediaWiki:Vector.js]] for the duration of the cleanup? > Wikitech should probably be upgraded to something newer :p Probably not worth adding Gadgets. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Revoking +2 (Re: who can merge into core/master?)

2012-06-16 Thread Chad
ut showing where you can fix it is what's most useful here. Nobody wants to be at the top of the wall of shame, so they fix their code and learn as a result. Something similar here would be useful. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] who can merge into core/master?

2012-06-15 Thread Chad
ocess is to ask on-wiki[0]. People have a chance to give a quick yay/nay, and it's given out. I can't see any reason to say nay :) -Chad [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Gerrit_project_ownership ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE7 tax

2012-06-14 Thread Chad
rsonally think IE6/7 users would be better served by ditching IE entirely--preferably to a WebKit-based browser. Others might suggest Firefox. Others would say to grab the latest IE. There's even some weird kids who might suggest moving to Opera ;-) We should not implicitly advertising any browsers.

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE7 tax

2012-06-14 Thread Chad
aders (roughly,I don't believe that number's ever been set in stone). Once they are less than 1%, continue supporting unless it's a burden to do so and/or makes support for newer browsers impossible. And lastly, never purposefully break a browser if you can help it. -Chad __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 13 June 2012 21:29, Chad wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > >>> Organizing a logo context, just like we did for the Wikipedia logo, is >>> probably the best idea. Thanks Trev

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-13 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Chad wrote: > >> What support would there be for changing the MediaWiki logo and >> being consistent with it? > > That was asked back in Nov 2010: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 13/06/12 07:47, Chad wrote: >> 1) It scales much nicer. The current version looks absolutely awful at >> higher resolutions, and at lower ends becomes rather featureless. A >> version natively designed as an SVG (but

[Wikitech-l] Changing the MediaWiki logo?

2012-06-12 Thread Chad
d to update it on MediaWiki.org to match. So...thoughts? Should we do this more formal-like in an RfC or something? Other colors you'd like to paint the bikeshed? -Chad [0] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki_logo_reworked_2.svg [1] http://shop.wikimedia.org/p

[Wikitech-l] Group management change in gerrit

2012-06-08 Thread Chad
Again, almost nobody should be affected (unless you've been adding users), but just FYI. -Chad [0] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/groups/119,members [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Gerrit_project_ownership PS: If you are do

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-08 Thread Chad
e and dandy, but those kinds of "Please donate" pages in software just scream "GIVE US MONEY" at me. Especially ones that continue to pop up on each upgrade. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-08 Thread Chad
th the production sites (yet). This is the way it's been for years, and until we get more things available to labs, we should test our code the way we've always done it--locally. I don't think it's reasonable to hold up projects *just because* they haven't been through labs

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-07 Thread Chad
the user would *also* > need to include the math extension in LocalSettings. That line should go > in the extension package, not in MediaWiki DefaultSettings.php > > > > = Summary = > Out of 4 patches, only 1 seems to be 'useful'. > > Even that, it could be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-07 Thread Chad
I agree with Petr, I see no reason to put them on different wikis. Namespaces are cheap. -Chad On Jun 7, 2012 11:20 AM, "Petr Bena" wrote: > I don't understand why? Wikitech is a perfect place for bots > documentation as well, especially when it comes to large bots oper

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-07 Thread Chad
We should kill those distro-specific pages and I've been saying that for years. Most of the advice ends up being rather generic, it forks the content, and they generally end up being abandoned and out of date. -Chad On Jun 7, 2012 10:26 AM, "David Gerard" wrote: > On 6 June

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-07 Thread Chad
any of the mediawiki sites complete with all the tools to manage > the software source code and the process of distribution. I would gladly > assist in this. Moving the distribution of MediaWiki off of mediawiki.org will just fork the efforts in the long run, imho. I think we can accompl

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Chad
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > On 06/06/2012 02:29 PM, Chad wrote: >> Well since we introduced a CLI installer ... > > Side note: we re-introduced the CLI installer.  I discovered this while > tracking down ancient MediaWikis last week, an anc

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

2012-06-06 Thread Chad
at work has been done (if any), but the groundwork's been laid on our end. The other big complaint we've had over time is moving stuff around to the typical Debian-esque locations (eg: putting LocalSettings in /etc). Don't know what the status is on that though. -Chad _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Give create gerrit repo right to all WMF engineers

2012-06-05 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Bergi wrote: > Platonides schrieb: > >> On 01/06/12 17:41, Chad wrote: >>> >>> I did make a new "Project Creators" group that I'm more than willing to >>> add >>> people to, once they've lear

Re: [Wikitech-l] Give create gerrit repo right to all WMF engineers

2012-06-05 Thread Chad
ncern as addressed and start handing out the > rights? > Diederik > I've whipped up a quick tutorial for people who want to create new repositories[0]. If people can read and make sure they understand this page (with its various caveats), then yes, we can start handing this out. -Cha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Give create gerrit repo right to all WMF engineers

2012-06-05 Thread Chad
> productivity in Ori's case (for E3) since he's been unable to firstly get >> gerrit access and then wait for someone from the release engineering team >> to be available to create repos for him. > > Did anyway say, Ask about it? I'm sure if you followed up with t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook grabs the Mediawiki logo instead of the site logo

2012-06-04 Thread Chad
discuss this almost a year ago? Indeed, we did: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2011-July/037710.html -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge of wikitech and labsconsole

2012-06-04 Thread Chad
uld be deleted. We'd love to have some > community support for this, if anyone wants to help out. > If we enabled wikitech as an import source for labsconsole, this process could get underway. I'd suggest making some new category on wikitech "Stuff to be moved to Labscons

Re: [Wikitech-l] Give create gerrit repo right to all WMF engineers

2012-06-01 Thread Chad
So yeah, its not as easy as it sounds on the tin, so I don't want to hand this out en masse. In an ideal world, I want us to have a special page where people can request repos and we can automate the icky backend stuff. -Chad On Jun 1, 2012 10:33 AM, "Diederik van Liere" wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Notes from the Gerrit Hackathon

2012-05-25 Thread Chad
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi folks, > > Chad alerted me to the notes of the Gerrit Hackathon, which happened May 7-11: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/repo-discuss/kEL3FPT2rLo/w39qjsmnrwwJ > > No one from WMF was there, but I thought you a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit question: pushing to another branch

2012-05-23 Thread Chad
refs/for/` If you want to change the default branch (say for a long-term development branch), you can also change 'defaultbranch' in your .gitreview file. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] some people complained already about my recent security alerts for PHP, OpenOffice, LibreOffice...

2012-05-22 Thread Chad
open source? We've got tons of users on Windows and OSX, shouldn't we mention their security releases too? PHP/MySQL/Apache security releases that affect MediaWiki are probably worth mentioning. $yourFavoriteSoftware is not. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-21 Thread Chad
Yeah but its a PITA. -Chad On May 21, 2012 6:25 PM, "Roan Kattouw" wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Mark A. Hershberger > wrote: > >> The Developer works with the Director to help the Director de

Re: [Wikitech-l] critical security alerts for OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-05-21 Thread Chad
; >> How is it related to this list? > we all are heavily using open-source software, aren't we ? > In short: you have been informed ! There are thousands upon thousands of open source projects out there. Let's avoid spamming the list with their releases unless its directly rel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions queue for Git conversion

2012-05-21 Thread Chad
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Andrew Otto wrote: > Chad, I'm not sure if this matters for what you are doing, but I recently > moved this >  http://svn.mediawiki.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/udplog/ > to >  https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=analytics/udplog.git;a=su

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions queue for Git conversion

2012-05-21 Thread Chad
for letting those original dates slip. I've got a bunch of projects looking to make the jump to Git, that page included. Looking to get this done this week. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit - Hiding "submit" when gerrit can't merge cleanly

2012-05-20 Thread Chad
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 20/05/12 18:27, Chad wrote: > >> I personally think it'd be useful to avoid the "merge and immediately >> have Gerrit yell because it needed rebasing" scenario. It's also been >> pointed out t

Re: [Wikitech-l] IRC bots and notifications

2012-05-20 Thread Chad
and > #semantic-mediawiki channels, and possible others as well. > We can already customize this on a per-project basis for IRC reporting. Just submit the config change to hookconfig.py.erb in the puppet repo. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cry for help from translatewiki.net

2012-05-20 Thread Chad
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Platonides wrote: > On 20/05/12 19:15, Jeremy Baron wrote: >> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Chad wrote: >>> PS: Here's the default review rules >>> http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/source/browse/gerrit-server/src/main/prolog

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cry for help from translatewiki.net

2012-05-20 Thread Chad
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Chad wrote: >> PS: Here's the default review rules >> http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/source/browse/gerrit-server/src/main/prolog/gerrit_common.p > > Make that > http://co

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cry for help from translatewiki.net

2012-05-20 Thread Chad
e a working post-commit review > workflow like we used to have, for those projects where gated trunk does > not work due to lack of quick review. > I'm open to suggestions here. We could write some custom approval/review rules in Prolog for extensions that want them (put them in ru

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit - Hiding "submit" when gerrit can't merge cleanly

2012-05-20 Thread Chad
onally think it'd be useful to avoid the "merge and immediately have Gerrit yell because it needed rebasing" scenario. It's also been pointed out to me that it could be confusing to people as well to have the button disappear. Thoughts? -Chad ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cry for help from translatewiki.net

2012-05-20 Thread Chad
wikimedia.org/r/#/c/8037/ Regarding extensions skipping review -- I agree this is totally evil and it needs to change *right now*. I'm working on a way for auto-approving of extensions that don't want to be reviewed. I'll have more to say

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikidata git repositories

2012-05-20 Thread Chad
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > Can some gerrit admin create two new (empty) git repositories named > Wikibase and WikibaseClient with the wikidata user group as repo owner? > Please file a request on-wiki[0]. -Chad [0] https://www.mediawi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stance on PHP namespaces?

2012-05-16 Thread Chad
ome guidelines if extensions want to use them--but please let's tread carefully here. Shiny new features are not always better features. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maps and Semantic Maps git repos read-only

2012-05-15 Thread Chad
h the "Force" option checked. Please revoke it as soon as you're done because it opens your repo up to Breaking Things if people do forces all the time. The actual push will be `git push -f [remote] [branch]` -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Git Office Hours - May 22nd

2012-05-15 Thread Chad
will be on hand to answer any questions you have about the git migration so far, the process moving forward, and anything else interesting you can think up. Have a great week, and I hope you can join us next Tuesday! -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] The bugtracker problem, again

2012-05-15 Thread Chad
rgely misused), I recategorized these 31 bugs and deleted HP from the platform field. A small victory, I suppose. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Problem with CSS Janus License

2012-05-11 Thread Chad
as GPL 3.0 even though it >    is not explicitely licensed that way. > I'm not 100% sure what's being asked here? Is this a request to relicense MediaWiki under GPLv3 instead of v2? Or is this a question of it being mis-licensed under v3 when we actually specify v2? Clarification is ne

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia MediaWiki configuration files are now in a public version control system

2012-05-09 Thread Chad
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:17 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Sam Reed wrote: >> No history of these files have been imported. > > Any reason for this? > Some of them have had private info in them in the past (usually by

[Wikitech-l] Cool gerrit tool for data junkies

2012-05-07 Thread Chad
is would be the same as querying "is:open CodeReview+2" in Gerrit[0], but in a scriptable format. (There's also --format=TEXT if you're looking for something a little more human-readable) For full docs on the feature, see here [1]. Have a great week. -Chad [0] https://gerrit.wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Many bug reports referencing WTA

2012-05-05 Thread Chad
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote: > I like the initiative. I do wonder if it could have been embedded in the > community more. Any comments? > I agree. This is the first I've heard of it either. -Chad

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit 2.3 (and cloning all extensions)

2012-05-04 Thread Chad
njoy the new version of Gerrit. Please let me know if you find any regressions. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git repo holding the extensions

2012-05-01 Thread Chad
.3 which is slated to happen this week. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git - I just want to pull the HEAD version

2012-04-28 Thread Chad
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Stephan Gambke wrote: > Am 28.04.2012 14:37, schrieb Chad: >> If you start changing files or trying to merge branches then >> you run the risk of getting conflicts... > > Even on files I did not even touch? > If you didn't touch them

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git - I just want to pull the HEAD version

2012-04-28 Thread Chad
is just: `git pull origin master` If you start changing files or trying to merge branches then you run the risk of getting conflicts, but there's zero reason a simple clone & pull would conflict. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@li

Re: [Wikitech-l] 22 new extensions in Git

2012-04-27 Thread Chad
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Thomas Gries wrote: > Am 27.04.2012 20:01, schrieb Chad: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've migrated the 22 extensions that were on the queue today. >> I set permissions based on the requests--if anything needs >> adjusting, just

[Wikitech-l] 22 new extensions in Git

2012-04-27 Thread Chad
Hi everyone, I've migrated the 22 extensions that were on the queue today. I set permissions based on the requests--if anything needs adjusting, just let me know. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Commits IDs, change IDs, legacy change IDs, oh my!

2012-04-25 Thread Chad
's why we have the "gerrit 123" linking in BZ. > - Commit SHA-1s for deployment log entries and follow-ups to merged commits > We'd have to come up with an auto-linking regex for this. Right now the I... hashes (gerrit change-ids) will auto-link in the Gerrit UI. -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abstract schema work

2012-04-25 Thread Chad
gt; If we're auto-generating a schema, I think putting comments there are pretty useless. They should be documented at the abstract level and on mediawiki.org. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] CIA IRC bot kicked out

2012-04-23 Thread Chad
>>> >>> That is it, I was +o. >>> >>> Is there any point in keeping the CIA bots in #mediawiki ? We might as >>> well remove it. >>> I don't see any need to keep CIA around anymore. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Request for Comments: Cross site data access for Wikidata

2012-04-23 Thread Chad
r and faster > I agree with Petr here. I think doing it like we do FileRepo stuff would make the most sense--have an abstract base that can either connect via DB and skip those HTTP requests (for in- cluster usage) or via the API (3rd-party sites). -Chad _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git code review metrics

2012-04-21 Thread Chad
This information is fetchable from refs/notes/review. -Chad On Apr 21, 2012 9:51 AM, "Platonides" wrote: > On 21/04/12 04:18, MZMcBride wrote: > > Regarding help, is the Gerrit commit metadata available in some > replicated > > form on WMF Labs? The Toolser

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abstract schema work

2012-04-20 Thread Chad
is is a good idea: the having to wait for a reviewer before > your changes show up elsewhere is great for the core code, but not so > great for fast-n-furious early prototyping of a big feature. Perhaps we > can add it to gerrit once everyone thinks we have a mostly stable > prototype? >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standards for names of tables and $preferences for extensions

2012-04-19 Thread Chad
n/management, extensions should register these sorts of things there. For now...is this an active problem, or are we just looking for one? -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] git-review wanting to submit lot of changes

2012-04-18 Thread Chad
erride .gitreview in your git config? > Not that I know of. The best solution is just updating our .gitreview files I guess. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abstract schema work

2012-04-18 Thread Chad
er traffic. > I think we should probably work on mediawiki.org (subpage of RfC?). This is something that needs to be thought out properly, and I think on-wiki would be more productive than on-list. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Standards for names of tables and $preferences for extensions

2012-04-18 Thread Chad
as you're consistent within an extension, the prefix can be anything that makes sense. For example, in CodeReview we use code_* for our table names. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Policy for one ore more new database tables for extensions

2012-04-17 Thread Chad
the group in each item-row, >> and >> if the group has to change, no need to change all item-rows. >> >> -- Krinkle >> > > Am I reading this right as suggesting and encouragement of database > denormalisation in extensions? > You're right, I was thinking the same thing. I don't know why we'd suggest such a thing :) -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration history issue

2012-04-17 Thread Chad
27;s disabled by default. We can link up on IRC this afternoon and I'll tweak permissions to let you push the new history and then disable that. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] git clone --depth=1 fails with error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 500

2012-04-15 Thread Chad
Yes, but if you read the release notes for 2.3 you will see they've upgraded to jgit 1.1. I'd like to upgrade our gerrit install in a week or two. -Chad On Apr 15, 2012 3:34 AM, "Thomas Gries" wrote: > Am 14.04.2012 20:17, schrieb Chad: > > If you read my commen

Re: [Wikitech-l] Namespace translations in 1.20wmf1 all kosher?

2012-04-14 Thread Chad
t; Everyone: either keep it on topic (namespace changes and making sure the right people are notified) or take it offlist. Thank you. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] git clone --depth=1 fails with error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 500

2012-04-14 Thread Chad
If you read my comments on that bug you will see I believe it is an upstream issue and is probably fixed in 2.3. -Chad On Apr 14, 2012 12:31 PM, "Thomas Gries" wrote: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35949 > I think, this issue should be solved as soon as p

Re: [Wikitech-l] API modules auto props

2012-04-13 Thread Chad
such things in git without hacking stuff, and they're evil. If we're going to version API modules, we should come up with some other standard that doesn't rely on commit- rewriting magic. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] git clone --depth=1 fails with error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 500

2012-04-13 Thread Chad
> Initialized empty Git repository in /work/tmp/core/.git/ > *error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 500* > > My git client version is 1.7.1 > > Any idea why ? > Perhaps related to issue 769? -Chad [0] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=769 _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Save to userspace

2012-04-11 Thread Chad
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Chad wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >> If this is done properly with classes and ids, this should all be >> customizable by via site CSS/JS. But a sane defau

Re: [Wikitech-l] Save to userspace

2012-04-11 Thread Chad
ole interface using MediaWiki: > pages, the table with drafts could look better or the style should be > customizable using interface of mediawiki. > If this is done properly with classes and ids, this should all be customizable by via site CSS/JS. But a sane

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