Re: [Wikitech-l] WebRequest and PHP bug 31892 fixed 6 years ago

2013-03-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:22 PM, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: Also I don't understand the need for PathRouter - my IMHO is that it's just an unnecessary sophistication. As I understand EVERYTHING worked without it and there is no feature in MediaWiki which depends on a router. Am I correct? I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: 4) A Gerrit-based tagging plugin would need some engineering that might not be apparent at first blush, for example: who can set tags and remove them? Does that vary by tag? How could I, for example, keep track of all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pronunciation recording tool wanted

2013-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: Someone could probably make an extension that integrates with MediaWiki, so all user has to do is go to special:recordAudio and they could record/upload from there. Perhaps that would make a good gsoc project (Not sure if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-06 Thread K. Peachey
I'm pretty sure I have memories of this exact thread happening when minification was first introduced, With counsel at the time (Mike) weighing in on the matter. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pictures from a developer's life

2013-03-04 Thread K. Peachey
The original tumblr blog where they appear to be from (with more) http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] URLs for autogenerated documentation

2013-02-08 Thread K. Peachey
Before we get too entrenched in the address layout, can we have a better url than doc, it doesn't really scream out what it does, Something along the lines documentation or development (probably not so much) suggest better about what the address will contain. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:37 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Minimalist MediaWiki? (was Re: Merge Vector extension into core)

2013-02-06 Thread K. Peachey
I don't think people are arguing to keep it lightweight like Tiddly or UseMod but rather on a similar platform on what we already have and to keep the core in a position where it can have features that would be widely used by most installations and the cruft that is more rarely used to be housed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Merge Vector extension into core

2013-02-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: I have no real opinion on if this should happen or not,. though if it does, I think it'd be better to bundle it as the extension it is now rather then merging it into core. This keeps the code nicely separated and

Re: [Wikitech-l] mwEmbed gadget

2012-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
The gadget should be updated, prototype has finally be killed off (December 14th it happened). On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Lately, when I visit a Wikipedia page, it just doesn't stop loading. The indication in Firefox (on Linux) just continued to

Re: [Wikitech-l] mwEmbed gadget

2012-12-31 Thread K. Peachey
AFAIK its replaced by a extension anyway, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MwEmbed for more info. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla upgrade [was: bugzilla.wikimedia.org downtime: Now.]

2012-12-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Andre Klapper wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 19:30 +0100, Krinkle wrote: wikibugs-l as Bugzilla account isn't actually used afaik. … That is contrary to wikibugs-l@ which seems to be an existing and working email address. Yes it's a mailing list that anyone

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTP Error 504 Gateway timeout when running a robot

2012-12-09 Thread K. Peachey
What user agent is your tool sending? On Monday, December 10, 2012, Strainu wrote: Hi, I tried falling back to non-api, but I seem to be unable to login (probably a framework problem of some kind). Hopefully someone from ops will shed light on this on Monday. Thanks, Strainu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla upgrade [was: bugzilla.wikimedia.org downtime: Now.]

2012-12-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: So the aim of the patch was to completely omit bugmail in case of CC list only changes, in order to make IRC + wikibugs-l@ less noisy? ... In any case, I'd like to challenge reapplying this patch, because: 1)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sul on external Scripts

2012-12-07 Thread K. Peachey
Are you referring to using Wikimedia CentralAuth accounts to auth against other provider wiki sites? Or using your own CentralAuth setup for your site(s)? On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at wrote: Hi, I know it is technically possible to use the SUL

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sul on external Scripts

2012-12-07 Thread K. Peachey
What the WMF is looking at for stuff like that is becoming a OpenID provider so services and tools can act as Consumers, But that is some way away currently. Ryan would be the one to poke about that iirc ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Really Fast Merges

2012-12-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you need a UID? The autoincrement id we use in most tables can (should) serve as UID. It needs a little care when sending the inserts, but it's straighforward. It can easily be done by a layer on top of our db

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

2012-11-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: * Also, I've started to clean up the glossary, but it still contains dated terms and definitions from a few years ago (like the FundCom), so boldly edit/remove obsolete content. I don't believe these ever become

Re: [Wikitech-l] editing channels - How was this edit made?

2012-11-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: Sooo... when do we set him as 'moderated'? I've already notified one of the list moderators, We don't need to discuss and bring any more attention to this. ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release notes updating

2012-11-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Brad Jorsch bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: You *should* update release notes. This statement about having the release manager do all release notes is incorrect. I've never heard that release

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The way we’d get there: I’m prepared to resign from my engineering management responsibilities and to focus solely on my remaining role as VP of Product, as soon as a successor for VP of Engineering has been identified. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

2012-11-06 Thread K. Peachey
(Double Post, Since this was crossposted in the first place, and to make sure I hit both lists, Sorry Wikitech) On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The way we’d get there: I’m prepared to resign from my engineering management responsibilities and to focus

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clean up prototype.wikimedia.org

2012-10-29 Thread K. Peachey
Inline Comments On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I thought I'd put together a list of stuff I found running on prototype.wikimedia.org. I have no control over terminating the machine itself, but I intend to clean up stuff that is no longer

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.20 release candidate (and triage announcement)

2012-09-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 09/23/2012 12:54 PM, Krinkle wrote: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/[...] Link shortened: http://hexm.de/lp There is no need to shorten urls in emails, Please don't.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Initial stab at responsive images for high-density displays

2012-09-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: * adds $wgResponsiveImages setting, defaulting to true, to enable the feature Shouldn't experimental features be defaulting to false till it gets tested a bit? ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-11 Thread K. Peachey
You might want to remove the Active since section, MWBot was set to not record channel joins and quiets in the logs for a user privacy point of view (from what I could find and read), this seems to be hitting on that area. (And yes, I know a user could run a anaylais of their own on the log lines

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML wikipedia dumps: Could you please provide them, or make public the code for interpreting templates?

2012-09-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: page) is just absurd. There's enormous value in the HTML dumps. This subject came up in December 2011 and from the comments in that thread, it seemed as though the only reason the HTML dumps have been updated is that nobody

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC Project Update (ConventionExtension)

2012-08-26 Thread K. Peachey
During your time in GSoC, what type of things did you mentor explain? Because i've had a quick peruse of your gerrit change sets and I know they are only minor but I do see a few things that our Coding Conventions cover as well as stylize (which is a script that is can be run)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fixing the archives (was: Re: Can we make an acceptable behavior policy?)

2012-08-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:10 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I wonder if it makes sense to post the mailing list archives to Meta-Wiki or some other wiki. It seems to have a number of advantages over the use of pipermail: * built-in search via Lucene; * control over the content

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nightly tarballs?

2012-08-01 Thread K. Peachey
I believe there is already a process of this happening on the TS (don't remember the address), or it did used to happen. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: Maybe this is because of the discussion format which was framed as for and against Gerrit. Is it possible to setup a copy of Phabricator in labs? What is needed to help with this? //Saper John had one running just as

Re: [Wikitech-l] [[Template:WikimediaDownload]]

2012-07-15 Thread K. Peachey
*Sigh* I have already told people not to break the template like this previously. Someone (since i'm too tired to even log into mw wiki atm) should revert that template change. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Take a lesson from dreamhoststatus.com

2012-07-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:06 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: No link to it in the footer of http://en.wikipedia.org/ etc. pages. We should have a link to every project of ours and the subsequent language variants as well in the footer? ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP namespacing and traits

2012-07-05 Thread K. Peachey
Haven't we already discussed this like ten million times around? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical hurdles for enabling $wgHtml5 on Wikimedia sites?

2012-06-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: We've had it enabled on mediawiki.org for ages, with minimal death and mayhem.  There are two issues listed as blockers: We don't have half of the delautomated crap/delinsAnti-vandal and random other tools/ins running

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

2012-06-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-06-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: But I am not talking about creating a new network, but providing some of our resources to freenode. They would likely operate and manage it without assistance from wmf ops. (Last I saw) Freenode wants full root access on the

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

2012-06-21 Thread K. Peachey
I would prefer to see wikibugs stay in #mw to be honest, There is sometimes support stuff in there, as well as other important stuff. I'm sure people don't want to be flicking IRC channels every X, and wikibugs wasn't that high of traffic either... ___

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

2012-06-21 Thread K. Peachey
Wikibugs is more active than gerrit? I've been sitting in the irc channel less than 30min (not the best user case) but that experience tends to suggest otherwise. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2012-06-16 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: whobrokeitthistime.wikimedia.org? :) Roan Point it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLAMEWHEEL ? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] question about purpose of usernames with @ characters

2012-06-06 Thread K. Peachey
CentralAuth uses it so you can refer to a user on another wiki when you need to do global stuff. EG: TStarling@dewiki or TStarling@enwiki ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2012-06-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Alolita Sharma alolita.sha...@gmail.com wrote: It is unacceptable to have developers waiting in queue to get create-repo access 'some day'. We've lost at least a couple of weeks worth of productivity in Ori's case (for E3) since he's been unable to firstly get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Set $wgUseCombinedLoginLink = false on WMF cluster?

2012-05-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: or goes by with no comment.  In fact, we should probably just enable it on mediawiki.org if there's no objection on list. Lets not? A. Stuff like this should be the same no matter where you are on the cluster B. The MW

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla downtime

2012-05-26 Thread K. Peachey
I wonder if anyone changed the gadget on en.wiki (or elsewhere) recently, since iirc that showed very much the same but Tim would be able to confirm if I'm remember right about how it showed. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2012-05-22 Thread K. Peachey
We don't assign that group automatically anymore by default afaik. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2012-05-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Andrew Otto o...@wikimedia.org 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=summary Is

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

2012-05-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: I'm convinced all other fields can be done without and removing them will improve the workflow of the developers and the Bugmeister. Including, but not limited to: - Platform (Hardware/OS) - See also - Web browser - URL

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

2012-05-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:40 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Interesting post. Can probably be summed up technical tool doesn't work well for non-techies. Film at 11. Mark H. and I have had previous discussions about generally improving user feedback tools. The Wikimedia Foundation's

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

2012-05-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:38 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: We're complaining about the reporting. How is Bugzilla for connecting developers and bugs? How do developers actually get connected to problems? Particularly problems where the reporter isn't clear on the component.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inline styles trouble on the mobile site

2012-05-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:26 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Maybe we're not talking about the same thing, then? I see plenty of inline styling throughout the page source of this page. E.g., table class=infobox vcard style=width: 25em; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.5em I believe you

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

2012-05-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:27 AM, [[w:en:User:Madman]] madman.enw...@gmail.com wrote: I assume that https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ still has the latest changes that have been deployed? Yes ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2012-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Sam Reed re...@wikimedia.org wrote: No history of these files have been imported. Any reason for this? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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

2012-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Patrick Reilly prei...@wikimedia.org wrote: We've got passwords in the repo.

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

2012-05-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Some of the ops that fullfill shell requests paste diffs into BugZilla comments, which is awesome. Wasn't that only Jeluf(spelling?) that did that, But yes, If you do a request and then close it, Please link to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] BugZilla Portal (NEW)

2012-05-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:14 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Nice job on this. :-) This appears to mostly be an index of Bugzilla search queries. Do you know if there's been any progress on making the Bugzilla database available in a replicated form (on the Toolserver or Wikimedia Labs

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

2012-04-23 Thread K. Peachey
The user was probably op'ed and saw the messages, since CIA-* is globally +q (quietened) in the channel. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Spam

2012-04-23 Thread K. Peachey
That looks like the standard password reset request email. ___ 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 K. Peachey
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Is there any point in keeping the CIA bots in #mediawiki ? We might as well remove it. We did try once, And its been broken (non mw) since then. On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I

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

2012-04-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see any need to keep CIA around anymore. We don't use the the #mediawiki instance of CIA-* (it's been broken ever since we moved it out of #mediawiki and into another channel), The only one we use is sitting in

Re: [Wikitech-l] MathJax enabled on mediawiki.org

2012-04-18 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: … I've set up a page here to report track issues: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math/MathJax_testing … Erik Can we not use wiki pages for bug reporting… Bugzilla is so much better for that ;) Listing bugs

Re: [Wikitech-l] [[How to deploy code]] updated

2012-04-17 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Am 18.04.2012 04:24, schrieb Roan Kattouw: I have gone through https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/How_to_deploy_code Why is this there and not on http://www.mediawiki.org ? Because its about the WMF cluster admin and/or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia skins directory

2012-04-16 Thread K. Peachey
1.18 shouldn't be failing anymore since reedy put a symlink in place for it. Ideally people would code things like that (aka stuff that isn't actually MediaWiki) shouldn't be doing it to be dependant on MW skin folders, eg: build their own css files, Because like this is pointing out, things can

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some tag for attribution within the article

2012-04-13 Thread K. Peachey
How is this any differnt from using E:Cite (aka ref/ref) as is? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Too many random test wikis

2012-04-07 Thread K. Peachey
* labs.wikimedia are the old old old labs/test projects, These are no longer (and any that still wanted - wmflabs) * prototype.wikimedia are oldish test setups, and most should be moved to wmflabs if still wanted *.wmflabs.org are instances hosted on our Labs setup[1] which is our virtuazlization

Re: [Wikitech-l] Too many random test wikis

2012-04-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: All of these are going away. something.labs.wikimedia.org have already been closed. I'd *love* to delete them permanently, but we have no reasonable means of doing so in the production cluster. We have done it before, But that

Re: [Wikitech-l] selenium browser testing proposal and prototype

2012-04-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: I've seen this assertion waved around again and again, but don't see where it originates from, besides the very unreliable fact that we just don't talk much about ruby around here. When I said community not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Development process doesn't work (yes this is another complaint from another community member)

2012-04-05 Thread K. Peachey
2012/4/5 Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com: I don't know if this is a part of some joke https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/LiquidThreads_3.0/status but it seems that someone wrote some code Yes, Werdna was working on it for a bit (hes currently attached to other WMF projects currently as to my

Re: [Wikitech-l] selenium browser testing proposal and prototype

2012-04-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote: For various reasons, I think the best language for this project is Ruby.  I realize that is a controversial choice, and I would like to explain my reasoning.  First let me address what I think will be the most serious

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to complete manually complete unification of all accounts

2012-04-05 Thread K. Peachey
Why would we not want blocked accounts to be processed? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal to complete manually complete unification of all accounts

2012-04-05 Thread K. Peachey
Indef user on one project != (always) a project wide issue. Not doing so, would potentially cause issues the same as we already do where the accounts can't unify because they exist elsewhere. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Live testing of Ashburn search infrastructure

2012-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Peter Youngmeister p...@wikimedia.org wrote: at 15:00 UTC, tomorrow, 4/4/12. (Or 4/4/12, for those not using American date formatting.) [[ISO 8601]] can help in situations like this. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inactive sysops + improving security

2012-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen there is a lot of wikis where people are concerned about inactive sysops. They managed to set up a strange rule where sysop rights are removed from inactive users to improve the security. However the sysops are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Development process doesn't work (yes this is another complaint from another community member)

2012-04-04 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: I started working on two extensions in October, more than 6 months ago. Both were approved by community on Village Pump and it was agreed to deploy them to english wikipedia. One of the extension had hundreds of lines and is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-30 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Also, when we do find a good hostname to use, I think it should be universal and tied to a SUL username (not per-wiki or per-project), so it shouldn't contain the name of a project (wikipedia, wiktionary, commons, ..) and

Re: [Wikitech-l] I don't want a full git clone, I just want an rsync(1) style diet git clone

2012-03-27 Thread K. Peachey
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Latest_development_version_of_MediaWiki should behave the same as updating from SVN in the past (as to my understanding). ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Localisation commits status update

2012-03-26 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote:  (both from svn and git, git taking precedence over git) I heard you like Git… ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] git source code links

2012-03-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Do note that we now have a broken link for every extension using this template that is not deployed by WMF... Cheers Revert then ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] git source code links

2012-03-25 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Much better approach: to find a live way to have separate links - for extensions with and without repos in git ! Yes, you can do that after you revert the change that breaks a large percentage of the extension links.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Setting $wgCategoryCollation to 'uca-default' on WMF wikis

2012-03-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Helder helder.w...@gmail.com wrote: So, how could we check whether Portuguese wikis would break by doing this change? As Tim said: * Set one of the test wikis (Testwiki, Testwiki2) to Portuguese * change to said collation * do some editing * see if it breaks

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-introducing UNCONFIRMED state to bugzilla

2012-03-13 Thread K. Peachey
Why is it even restricted? We don't restrict closing bugs. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:GoogleMaps changed in r113648

2012-03-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: I changed the download link in the Extension info box download = {{WikimediaDownload|Maps}} Do not go and randomly change extension download links to others (even if they match functionality), Go back and revert that. If a

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTTPS preference?

2012-03-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:41 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I've been using Google Chrome lately. :-( But it looks like HTTPS Everywhere now finally supports Chrome: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere, so I suppose I can resolve this for myself. :o Finally! (Although it's still

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git, Gerrit and the coming migration

2012-03-06 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Diederik van Liere dvanli...@gmail.com wrote: My concern is not about the UI of Gerrit, I know it's popular within WMF to say that it's UI sucks but I don't think that's the case and even if it was an issue it's only minor. We are changing from a CR system where

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 5.4 has been released

2012-03-05 Thread K. Peachey
It's been awhile since I have been at school, But... print 0x00+2 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2012-03-05 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Well it's not *still* running, it's been broken plenty of times in the meantime :) Wasn't that just the email address becoming unsub'ed from the list, or did it actually break at one point?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Database dump of Bugzilla

2012-03-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:11 AM, John Du Hart compwhi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently investigating alternative bug tracker and project management software for MediaWiki. To do that I'll be installing some different software on the Labs and importing existing bugs for evaluation by the

Re: [Wikitech-l] PDF Download

2012-03-03 Thread K. Peachey
CCing in the PP dev team, Since I don't know if any of them are on this list. On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, From the very beginning, there is a problem in the PDF Download tool and that is it can not properly render the Bengali and some of the other

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC'12 Proposal : List of Ideas

2012-02-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I transferred the contents to  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shivansh13 Cheers Just to nitpick, It would be nice if users could put their GSoC proposals on/in a sub-page in their user space.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... snip... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators as having shell access can make a Gerrit/Labsconsole account, and should say yes to everyone who asks, except for known malicious persons. Doubt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who can make Gerrit/Labsconsole accounts?

2012-02-27 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: As long as everyone's information is known in advance, it can be scripted, yes. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Surely this could be scripted. -Chad Does they all need new accounts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Patch submitted: authentication on Wikipedia via user_name OR user_email

2012-02-22 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote: Great, thanks! What will this do if I have multiple user names on the same e-mail? What will this do if I have multiple user names on the same e-mail AND the same password? (For me it would be a good solution to choose the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2012-02-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:00 PM, reporter repor...@kaulen.wikimedia.org wrote: MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for February 13, 2012 - February 20, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW               :  304 Bugs

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-20 Thread K. Peachey
MediaWiki Wiki if they work on any mediawiki install by default(ish). If they needs hacks to work, ideally elsewhere ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where to host wikimedia related software projects

2012-02-20 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Hacks to MW core or to their software? Either If just their software (which I think is the case) - doesn't seem any different from extensions which need some additional configuring. Config Settings != Hacking to

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: 3. jQuery drop down menu - I wanted to implement this functionality on every page. I had seen the SignUP API wanted this universally. If there are security issues with AJAX, then there is no need to even implement the jQuery

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2012 Ideas/Projects

2012-02-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Shivansh Srivastava shivansh.b...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Page Preview (onmouseover) - A small Dialog box, that could display the Intro para of the hypertext/link in an iframe or related text. (1 week + testing) . I'll need to discuss this more There is a nice

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend Rename MobileFrontend2

2012-02-12 Thread K. Peachey
I've read a few of the CR threads and onwiki discussion about this and I'm surprised by the negativity expressed towards the vol. developer for whatever reason whom is planning to work on this, While yes this extension does plan to have the same or similar feature set in the end, it is planning on

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend Rename MobileFrontend2

2012-02-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is an agrument in favor of doing so in a branch, rather than the other way around. A delrose/delinsfolder/ins by any other name would smell as sweet. I think Aaron's argument that IDEs may go bonkers from

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC Complete Rewrite of Mobile Frontend Rename MobileFrontend2

2012-02-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:51 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: No humor allowed. Mailing lists r srs business. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git migration - updated schedule workflow descriptions

2012-02-11 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: Which reminds me, does LocalisationUpdate support git? Or Extension Distributor? AFAIK No and No, For the latter I believe Tim (As to my understanding when I last saw that discussed) is going to set up a RO Git -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Regarding GSoC 2012

2012-02-10 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/02/12 18:54, Aashish Mittal wrote: 2. Convention extension for converting mediawiki wiki into website for conference. I have been through the links, but I would like to get a better technical understanding of this

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