Re: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs and HTTPS enabled on foundationwiki and commonswiki

2011-08-31 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Note that this should get fixed once all the sites are running on https, > since we can bump all the cookie-setters onto the current protocol. In the > meantime, do consider https://commons.wikimedia.org/ to be very > experimental! > Depending

Re: [Wikitech-l] divergence in commit review backlog statistics for trunk

2011-08-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I'd like an accurate, visually pleasing way to count how many unreviewed > revisions there are in trunk, for when I'm encouraging volunteer code > review.  TL;DR version: it would be great if someone fixed up RobLa's > chart, corrected

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ramping up to 1.18 deployment

2011-08-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29246 -- API errors occasionally with >    unknown error 231 > That one has kind of had my name on it for a while. I've assigned it to myself and will tackle it either tonight or tomorrow morning. > https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Customizing edit form

2011-08-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Alex Bernier wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to remove the checkbox which allow logged users to mark changes > as 'minor' when editing a page. Is it possible ? I use MediaWiki 1.17. $wgGroupPermissions['user']['minoredit&

[Wikitech-l] Less than 100 new revs for 1.18 (yay!), please look at your fixmes

2011-08-20 Thread Roan Kattouw
I've been doing some code review today, and updated the revision report at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap/1.18/Revision_report . The number of new revs in 1.18 dropped to 92 today, the first time it's below 100. Yay! A side effect of reviewing code, though

Re: [Wikitech-l] sidebar statistics

2011-08-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
unt can do analysis on the data as it comes in, which is a good thing cause it means less work for me :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reclaiming a lost account on a private wiki: impossible

2011-08-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > You should put Special:PasswordReset in $wgWhiteListSomething. > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Manual:$wgWhitelistRead Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l m

Re: [Wikitech-l] sidebar statistics

2011-08-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
is a little bit higher-traffic than hewiki) and we were fine. We just didn't do much with the data at the time IIRC (apart from looking at 'how many times was each link clicked for the duration of the tracking', which only tells you which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Firefox webdeveloper reveals errors

2011-08-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:26 AM, wrote: > Unknown property 'zoom'.  Declaration dropped. @ > http://transgender-taiwan.org/load.php?debug=false&lang=zh-tw&modules=mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.special%7Cskins.vector&only=styles&skin=vector&*:1 > Expected declaration but found

Re: [Wikitech-l] sidebar statistics

2011-08-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's been some discussions about changing > the links in the sidebar. Is there a clever way to do it by using > click statistics? > > For example, can we get statistics about how many people click each > link in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mark your calendar: MediaWiki hackathon, New Orleans, 14-16 Oct.

2011-08-12 Thread Roan Kattouw
I second this notion, meeting up with local Wikimedians in some way, maybe even inviting them to hang around the venue even if they're not coders, sounds like a great idea. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@

Re: [Wikitech-l] W3C validation links, and extended edit links

2011-08-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
rceLoader > feature. > Yes, you will have broken CSS precendence order for site/user CSS. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Protocol-relative URLs enabled on test.wikipedia.org

2011-08-05 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: > Over the past couple days Roan Kattouw and I have been pushing out > changes to enable protocol-relative URL support. We've gotten to a > point where we think it is stable and working. > > We've enabled this on test.w

Re: [Wikitech-l] https via GPU?

2011-08-04 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Peter Youngmeister wrote: > Hey, > > I looked at this a little while ago for a previous job. I think that > it's a pretty awesome idea, but sadly I could never even find source > for their research, much less any reports of it being successfully > deployed in the wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of 1.18 code review/deployment

2011-08-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Sounds good -- can we get a firm commitment that this is our schedule? I think RobLa wants the reverse: a firm commitment from *us* that this is our schedule. It looks good to me too. Roan ___ Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of 1.18 code review/deployment

2011-08-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > *  482 revs for code review.  September 16 completion? Given your data-based approach, that sounds good to me. Also consider that het deploy will be 'done' at some point and Aaron will have more time to spend on review. Besides that, I will hav

Re: [Wikitech-l] Loading jQuery

2011-08-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
erwise something is very wrong. I wouldn't know how to debug this without more information. Is the JavaScript console reporting any JS errors? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania

2011-07-31 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Hi all! > > Ask you may know, there will be an "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania. > However, there are no developers to ask, yet :)  To make this work, we need a > few lead WMF developers on the stage, ready to answer questions. So ple

Re: [Wikitech-l] SQL: Stored Procedures and MediaWiki update.php

2011-07-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
se before sending the SQL to the DB backend, so make sure you test your queries with these substitutions applied Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rebranching 1.18

2011-07-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Chad Horohoe (^demon on IRC) is going to be the one rebranching. > Rebranching is now done, see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/92475 and friends. I'm about to take a few things out. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] special:export question

2011-07-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
ady have a set of parsers that work with special:export data > so I'm inclined to go with that. > You can use api.php?action=query&export&exportnowrap&titles=Foo|Bar|Baz , that should give you the same format. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Postmortem for the MediaWiki 1.17 release

2011-07-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:02 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Are we talking about WMF deployments or tarballs here? Speaking as a > tarball user, 2 releases a year, maybe 3, is *just fine*. > I think 3 releases per year is fine. However, I think we should deploy to WMF sites much more often than that. T

Re: [Wikitech-l] A different API problem

2011-07-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
>>> $.fn.jquery "1.4.2" > Also, it was easier for me > to deploy this fix for UW because all its ajax calls go through an API > object. > > In jQuery 1.4 you can fix this in a more standardized way, with ajax > filters. > Well as I just pointed out, we have

Re: [Wikitech-l] A different API problem

2011-07-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
r due to lack of reliable internet access, or lack of sleep) until Thursday morning PDT. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] A different API problem

2011-07-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
C 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C) > > Are there any other reasons why someone would be rejected from the API? Ah yes, the IE6 detection code just looks for "MSIE" in the User-Agent header :D This'll all be fixed when I deploy the new code for dealing with the IE6 issue. I will proba

Re: [Wikitech-l] A different API problem

2011-07-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Instead of getting a result from the API, he gets a 403 error: "The > website declined to show this webpage / HTTP 403" > Is he using IE6? I think we still haven't deployed the proper fixes for the IE6 extension issue yet, although they did go

Re: [Wikitech-l] Api Calls

2011-07-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
ll result in almost 20 edits per minute, that's way too much. If you're operating a bot, you should get an account for it and ask for a bot flag. That way you'll be exempt from rate limits and the bot's edits will be hidden from Special:RecentChanges if you pass &bot=1 i

Re: [Wikitech-l] RL dynamic parameters

2011-07-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
change from page to page) or the ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars hook (for config variables that don't change from page to page). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Employee Announcement - Jeff Green

2011-06-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
side of the country a month later? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Report from yesterday's IRC Bug Triage

2011-06-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > Roan suggested that the page may have been deleted and undeleted, thus > removing the edit protection. Credit where credit is due: this was Platonides. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Chrome

2011-06-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Do you have any custom > settings, JS or gadgets set up that might change editing behavior? More specifically, do you have WikiEditor enabled? If so, disable all of the WikiEditor features/modules (see $wgWikiEditorModules or $wgWikiEditorFea

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code Review for 1.18

2011-06-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > Although r47450 is from February 18, 2009, so I'm not sure what the deal > is there. > I think r47450 is RobLa's cut-off point for "before this point, revisions being mass-set to old/ok screw up the stats". Roan __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
're probably not running through wfExpandURL. > Good point, but I'm more worried about the reverse TBH: what if there's some code that runs stuff through wfExpandUrl() even though it could, and maybe even should, be protocol-relative? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
.wikimedia.org/site/lang/etc) or where our static assets and RL things are served from (bits), especially if broken URLs get cached in Squid and/or memcached. This is why we're scheduling this thing this far out when Ryan and I will both be available to very carefully go about this. Ro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Enabling protocol relative URLs on Wikimedia sites week of July 18th

2011-06-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
de, will be going down some time in early or mid-July, so that's almost a month away. Ryan and I are just planning and announcing this freakishly early :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikistream: displays wikipedia updates in realtime

2011-06-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
L yields: An error has occurred: {"stack":"Error: ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused\nat Socket._onConnect (net.js:602:18)\nat IOWatcher.onWritable [as callback] (net.js:186:12)","message":"ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused","errno&qu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18

2011-06-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
e fixed while > still an extension, or it can remain jumpy in core. > That's not entirely accurate. If it's in core, we can add some of the container divs in the HTML, reducing the jumpiness. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailin

Re: [Wikitech-l] WOM Extension

2011-06-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
e > page content.    The regular wiki api gives us pages with wiki markup within > it. > Do you know about api.php?action=parse&page=Somepage ? That'll give you the HTML of the page, among other things. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitec

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18

2011-06-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
k your arguments made much sense. > Even if it's 2-3 hours of work, I still would prefer that a volunteer > gets involved in this area.  Tim in particular has an overabundance of > 2-3 hour tasks. > Yeah, that's true. A brief assessment by Tim as to whether this is as easy a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension bundling for 1.18

2011-06-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
t; take this on?  I would very much prefer if this were a volunteer rather than > a WMF staff member. > Why don't we first ask Tim how complicated it would be, and get someone else to do it if it's more than 2-3 hours of work? I'm also not sure the scripts Tim uses to create

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm in ur trunk, reviewing pre-1.18 branch code

2011-06-08 Thread Roan Kattouw
p page, but that doesn't mean it's not being worked on :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm in ur trunk, reviewing pre-1.18 branch code

2011-06-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
id you see the Etherpad in which Mark Hershberger assigned certain paths to certain people? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update Gadgets extension on WMF wikis

2011-06-07 Thread Roan Kattouw
although more recent fixes may not be included. Max or Krinkle can probably shed more light on this. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Showing stub links by default - is it possible in a Wikimedia project?

2011-06-06 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > Hmm, interesting approach.  Basically a postprocessor like I was > thinking of, except simpler.  I was thinking you'd insert special > markers into the HTML that you'd replace later.  But I can't think of > any ways you'd get mismatches with yo

Re: [Wikitech-l] IE6

2011-06-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Mono mium wrote: > Anyone can upgrade, Chad. It's not hard and any sane IT department > should have done it six years ago. > That doesn't mean we should punish people that work for a company with a less sane IT department. Ro

Re: [Wikitech-l] On the IE6 query string security check breakage (bug 28235)

2011-06-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
revision history tomorrow to check why they were introduced in the first place. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] On the IE6 query string security check breakage (bug 28235)

2011-06-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
browsing experience because you are > using Internet Explorer 6" followed by a dump of the raw wikitext with any > angle brackets replaced by < and >. Could be cool, except we have caching proxies (Squid for api.php, Varnish for load.php) between us and the IE users, and I'm n

Re: [Wikitech-l] On the IE6 query string security check breakage (bug 28235)

2011-06-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
by me last night his time, and my guess is he'll probably implement it this morning his time. But I'll leave it up to him to elaborate on that. Your ideas to secure api.php output against HTML abuse are interesting, but I don't think the txt and dbg formats can be fixed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
they happen thousands of miles from my desk so working for WMF doesn't help me there), that there isn't a lot of attention given to this. Whether that's actually the case or just the impression that's being created due to lack

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
That person should not be subject to the 20% rule, but should be spending as much time on it as is needed to get stuff done. This position could probably be rotated within the gen eng group. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-06-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
pend 1/5, 1/4 or even 1/3 or whatever on reviewing and deploying code in general, and that this means they're that much less available for project work or whatever else is competing for their time. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mail

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-06-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
nt dev experience and have shown potential, not if we just grabbed them off the proverbial street and they're just getting their feet wet with MediaWiki. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
up your breakages in within 48 hours of > putting your original patch in, it must not have been very important. > +1. Serious breakage should be reverted on sight, however. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
week and we're all screwed. So yes, before we implement this we need to 1) ensure that reviewers spend enough time reviewing and 2) figure out what to do with one-reviewer situations. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of more regular code deployments

2011-06-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
out mine?) * not enough man-hours spent on keeping up with new commits ** ...presumably because employed people aren't given the time to work on it and/or made to work on it ** ...and because some of our reviewers are college students working part-time (fortunately I'll graduate soon and have

Re: [Wikitech-l] update languages/messages once per week?

2011-05-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
. The gap between trunk and deployment means that not everything can be updated (LU doesn't like it when message files are renamed, and will refuse to update messages whose English version has changed). However, most messages are fairly stable, so this process works fairly well in practice.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any issues with pending jQuery 1.6.1 update on trunk?

2011-05-24 Thread Roan Kattouw
.6.0 were fixed in 1.6.1, so I think most usages should be fine. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Referent list of wikis?

2011-05-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
t; to me the location of that file, I could do the rest. > Did you know about http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/all.dblist ? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] @font-face support for less-used scripts and maths

2011-05-21 Thread Roan Kattouw
support this? > Have you seen http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts ? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
hile in Japan hits the Tampa cluster, and someone visiting ja.wikipedia.org while in France hits the Amsterdam cluster. In fact, when British and American users view en.wikipedia.org, they view the same wiki through different clusters. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _

Re: [Wikitech-l] wiki/ prefix in URL

2011-05-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
Foo&action=edit to /edit/Foo , and it so happens 'view' is the default value for the &action= parameter. And as you probably know stuff like action=edit isn't localized either. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki tech poster ideas?

2011-05-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Any other nice poster-size visualizations hiding around? > I know it's not a visualization, but we could hunt down all xkcd comics that reference Wikipedia and combine those into a poster or something. Roan Katto

Re: [Wikitech-l] Licensing (Was: WYSIWYG and parser plans)

2011-05-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
) parser don't necessarily need to know as much, so some gains could possibly be made there. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?

2011-05-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
> Sure, but those aren't typically mixed with "real" changes in the same edit. That's what was hard: spotting the actual changes in the midst of all the normalization noise. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?

2011-05-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
nd the client side has been extended > and patched. RTE is probably a good name for it, since that's what > they call it. > Well that just speaks to how ancient my experience with it is, I guess. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?

2011-05-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
t the issues when introducing FCKeditor to an existing wikitext 'codebase'. I hear it's fairly decent when used from the start, but I'm not familiar enough with it to comment on that. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release schedule for the rest of 2011 (was: Status of 1.17 & 1.18)

2011-04-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
months, but that's entirely due to wildly different latencies. The branch points would be mostly regular though. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Release schedule for the rest of 2011 (was: Status of 1.17 & 1.18)

2011-04-30 Thread Roan Kattouw
k it would > put us in a really good place to move forward into 2012, and help get us back > into a somewhat regular release pattern. > I agree and applaud this goal, though per the above I'm not entirely sure we mean the same thing when we say "regular release pattern".

Re: [Wikitech-l] 11.11.11

2011-04-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
suming we branch 1.18 really soon now, which I think we should do, cause if we wait for tool ong it'll just be another 1.17. 1.19 for November might be a little bit tight but I guess we could shoot for it. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Documenting and tracking the release process (was Re: Status of 1.17 & 1.18)

2011-04-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
t some tasks to Sam and Chad to prepare for 1.16.5 and 1.17beta1, which Tim said should be first priority. So we have some parallelization going on right now. > Thoughts? > More documentation == good :) Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l maili

Re: [Wikitech-l] Which version of DjVu is WMF using?

2011-04-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
that I can see.  That informs me.  Is it part of the native > system? catrope@fenari:/home/wikipedia/common/php$ djvuextract --version DJVUEXTRACT --- DjVuLibre-3.5.20 Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@l

Re: [Wikitech-l] facebook like box in mediawiki

2011-04-18 Thread Roan Kattouw
doing so. > Presumably it'll pass a referer header, which means the 3rd-party site would know who (IP and account, if they have one on their site, like on Facebook) visited which Wikipedia page when. I'm not very familiar with the privacy policy, but I'm pretty sure this is shady a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of 1.17 & 1.18

2011-04-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
g my opinions better than I could; cheesy-sounding but true :P Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of 1.17 & 1.18

2011-04-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
ths (3-4 releases/yr) is better, but I'm sure we can work out a number. Your point that release cycle length should be consciously and carefully decided on is a very good one, and I'm sorry I hijacked it with my release latency argument. Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of 1.17 & 1.18

2011-04-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
in time, we always have a release branch that's being stabilized, which means we have to perpetually maintain three branches (trunk, deployment, release) instead of two, and are always in the process of preparing a release. I don't like that idea, and I think it's unnecessary. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of 1.17 & 1.18

2011-04-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
t up-to-date. > The point I was trying to make was that July is by no means "soon and early" in my book. It's three months away, which is way to long. Setting a date is nice, but if we can get a release out before the set date, that's a good thing, and I think we can (and /shou

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Change of RELEASE-NOTES location for trunk

2011-04-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
27;t it be cleaner to just name the files RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 and so on? We can do the rename-and-move-stuff-to-HISTORY thing right before we release. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of 1.17 & 1.18

2011-04-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
terested to hear how unpaid developers feel about that, as some of them have called out this practice as undesirable back in September. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gantt extension for MediaWiki

2011-04-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
ke it dual-compatible. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/ResourceLoader/Documentation/Using_with_extensions Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping IE6 support (was: MediaWiki security release 1.16.4)

2011-04-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
ion is not should we support IE6, it is just that I wonder about > what our numbers show. According to http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm , IE6 is 3.65% of our traffic. There is no per-country breakdown of browsers that I know of, though, maybe Erik Z could b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dropping IE6 support (was: MediaWiki security release 1.16.4)

2011-04-14 Thread Roan Kattouw
it works, great, if it doesn't, tough luck" is 0.5%. However, that's just for JS enhancements; it's my opinion that at least reading Wikipedia should be possible (i.e. not severely broken) in almost every browser. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Aquestion about templates parsing and caching

2011-04-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
e? > Could be, I don't know. This is just something Tim told me like two years ago, it might not even be accurate anymore. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Aquestion about templates parsing and caching

2011-04-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
do part of the work only one and cache the intermediate result. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Future: Love for the sister projects!

2011-04-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
ok into some hook that makes sense for your use case, and call addModule() Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vector external link icons on Commons

2011-03-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
list, not a technical list. The icons can be found at http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/external-link-ltr-icon.png and http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/external-link-rtl-icon.png Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] API Sandbox

2011-03-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
t look at ApiBase::makeHelpMsgParameters() > how this is handled by the documentation generator. > I said this on IRC but I'll repeat it here: the API exposes the data from getFinalParamDescription() and friends through action=paraminfo. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code Review tools

2011-03-28 Thread Roan Kattouw
and reverting a *volunteer* developer's revision simply because *paid* reviewers (most of them are paid anyway) didn't get around to reviewing it is the kind of dickish behavior that will scare off volunteers very effectively. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] HipHop

2011-03-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
upport working (1.18? 1.19?). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL certificate expired?

2011-03-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
2011/3/27 Schneelocke : > Hi everyone, > > did the SSL certificate for secure.wikimedia.org expire? > It did, yes. Informing our ops department, they should be able to sort this out quickly. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code Review tools

2011-03-26 Thread Roan Kattouw
reviewer allocation, discipline and assignment). Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] code review criticism (Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-24 Thread Roan Kattouw
(e.g. schedule around school for people like me, schedule Tim for Sunday cause that's his Monday, etc.) we could have a system where the median time to review is like 24-48 hours. These are my thoughts, and I'm definitely interested in talking about this in Berlin, as Sumana suggest

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
think we will), but SVN is perfectly capable of supporting something better than the ad-hoc non-paradigm we have now. But more on that in its own thread, in its own time. I'd start a discussion about this if I weren't so busy right now. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
ies", but maybe we can work > towards this idea? > I was personally going for something more like assigning reviewers to MW components, paths, time slots, or some combination thereof. But if we're gonna have that discussion for real, let's have it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
management they need. But that wasn't really ever done in a permanent fashion. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) P.S.: The final paragraph is not meant to suggest that Brion was the one and only code reviewer back in those days. Other people also reviewed code, and I don't mean to marginalize the

Re: [Wikitech-l] New gadget

2011-03-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
n "Gadgets"). > > Have fun! > That looks really useful, thanks! Pulling it into core (or well, into the extension), as Brion suggested, should be fairly easy, right? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Toolserver source control (was Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
first, and support Chad's suggestion that we try it with phase3 first. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
d to trunk, so TWN will be behind the curve a little bit. But I'm not convinced that's necessarily bad: it'll hopefully prevent poorly organized or poorly translatable messages from making their way into trunk, thereby making sur

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
point, let's not bite off too much the first time. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting to Git?

2011-03-22 Thread Roan Kattouw
+ > Extensions in SVN but phase3 in git? That doesn't really make sense to me, TBH. Would it really be the end of the world if we had phase3 in one repo and all extensions in another repo? Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Most Popular Bugs (was Re: Highest Priority Bugs)

2011-03-16 Thread Roan Kattouw
ut we currently use uppercase because UCA requires packages that aren't currently installed on the Apaches. I hear ops is working on upgrading all Apaches to lucid, though, which will make installing those packages much much easier. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) ___

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   >