Re: [Wikitech-l] What namespaces should we use when we use them

2014-06-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
I don’t think there’s any need to impose a naming requirement for extension namespaces. Some vendors may choose to use their own namespace scheme. In the end, as long as the namespace chosen is PSR-4 compliant, it should not matter. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF From: Antoine Musso hashar

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Bug Bounty Program

2014-06-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
consider it.) --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using AMPGpg ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Ensure that user is logged in

2014-06-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
integrity. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tell my favorite conference about your Wikimedia tech

2014-06-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
I’ve always wanted to submit a cool MediaWiki talk to these conferences, but I have no idea what I’d talk about (or whether I’m even experienced enough to talk about anything at a conference). Are there any guidelines on what would make a good talk? --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF From: Luis Villa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Which mailer should we use? (was: Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable)

2014-06-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
comprehensive comparison. (I’ll post again here in a day or so.) --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF From: Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com Reply: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: June 12, 2014 at 3:10:56 To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Tim Starling

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
words, if we wanted to force Composer to use WMF's git repositories to check out dependencies, that is entirely possible. In the end, Composer uses git to check out the packages anyway. https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#repositories *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
aside, considering the major annoyances in using PHP’s mail() function, including differences in handling between operating systems, it is a big success if we do not have to deal with the mail() function inside MediaWiki. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF From: Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com Reply: Tyler

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
into the MediaWiki installer, and have the normal install process load the dependencies on its own. Of course, this assumes the web server has write permissions to the install directory. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: ... That's just awful. How so? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
plain HTTP, which means a one-character typo gives an active attacker a chance to pwn your entire installation. It's over HTTPS. As long as you trust that getcomposer.org is the domain you are looking for, this is really no different than installing via a package manager. *-- * *Tyler Romeo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
Thanks Zack for actually explaining the reasoning to me, rather than trying to insult my intelligence and then use it as an argument against the proposal. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF From: Zack Weinberg za...@cmu.edu Reply: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: June 11, 2014

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable

2014-06-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
. What folks have mentioned as alternatives so far (submodules in core etc) do not sound sane. Which use cases are you referring to exactly? (I'm curious as to how composer does not work with farms.) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

2014-06-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
talking back and forth with each other. It is massively disorganized, but it will not work to simply force the discussion into a tree structure. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hardening WP/WM against traffic analysis (take two)

2014-06-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
into an application-layer product. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

2014-06-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
concerning it. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using AMPGpg ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

2014-06-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
”; (Obviously we’d also have a file_exists check…) --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using AMPGpg ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikitech-l] new auth/debug/Zero RfCs, + adding more office hours

2014-06-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
, it should be split up accordingly. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

2014-06-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
can be *slightly* easier. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

2014-06-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
to be used in the way it was shoe-horned into MediaWiki. I’m not going to re-explain this every time because it is in multiple places on Bugzilla and in this mailing list. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] deleting config directory confusion

2014-05-31 Thread Tyler Romeo
delete it optionally for purpose X? You can use the config script to perform database upgrades later on if you upgrade MediaWiki versions. Most people just use the command line update.php instead, but for some people this is not an option. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding external libraries to core (SwiftMailer)

2014-05-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
This may be true, but like I mentioned during the IRC RFC discussion on third-party components, it’s a case-by-case decision, and I think in this case, SwiftMailer is a fairly reliable library and definitely much better than what we have implemented now. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF From: Tony

Re: [Wikitech-l] Square bounding boxes + typesafe enums

2014-05-21 Thread Tyler Romeo
it alongside MediaWiki. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.)

2014-05-20 Thread Tyler Romeo
on the topic that you brought up, I do agree with keeping skins in a separate directory than extensions. It implies a bit of control on our part concerning how skins need to be structured, whereas if they were extensions, we cannot place any requirements on the structure. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
account, because it's what I use for everything. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:47 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Friday, May 16, 2014, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
as moderator rather than a regular user. This idea could be applied to edits in core, and maybe posts in Flow. WMF employees in a special user group could make an edit, and then press a button on the history page to highlight that as an official edit. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help! Phabricator and our code review process

2014-05-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
? What is the rebase process? It's not that I'm opposed to the new system. I'm just confused as to what the new workflow would actually be. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-05-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
). For example, Erlang with Cowboy is supposed to be a good socket.ioimplementation, and it is truly parallel, but I've never worked with it so I cannot say for sure. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Ori

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:41 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Would someone please review this DNS proposal for secure HTTPS? https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain http://okturtles.com/other

Re: [Wikitech-l] Config class and 1.23

2014-04-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
I agree. I was going to attempt to fix the newest patch, but until the semester ends I won't have a lot of time (and it seems neither does the current patch owner). *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:16 PM

Re: [Wikitech-l] Config class and 1.23

2014-04-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
when it's finished and merged. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL Cert Change?

2014-04-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
issue. There's another thread on this mailing list explaining that WMF has reset all user tokens and is reissuing SSL certificates. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
system administration. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating systems MediaWiki - is this summary right?

2014-03-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
the opportunity for a screwup like this. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Nuria Ruiz nu...@wikimedia.org wrote: div class={{something}}/div is vulnerable, if something is set to 1234 onClick=doSomething

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vagrant Cloud

2014-03-15 Thread Tyler Romeo
/openstack-docker-manage-linux-containers-with-nova/ *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.orgwrote: But, obviously not as well integrated. -- Sent from my phone, please

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
. It's been repeated multiple times, but I'll say it again: it is disputed as to whether account creation was broken. It is just a question of design and user experience. No functionality was actually broken. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
this thread for an explanation of how it is disputed as to whether this patch broke anything. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
to revert it within hours so that the WMF operations team can redeploy? Or will the operations team actually test new releases first, and refuse to update until things start working again? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
like this happening. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
the reason I think maybe we should work on something like the stuff mentioned in this thread. Maybe we should be running the mobile tests before deployment or something. I'm not sure what the exact solution is, but I think that would be a step in the right direction. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
was launched almost completely untested. It should have been caught long before it was put into production. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
communicative with other developers, especially when you are negating their changes or decisions. Thanks in advance, *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
into account extensions that incorrectly rely on its interface, and a breakage in a deployed extension should result in an undeployment and a fix to that extension, not a revert of the core patch. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
of thing that gets people fired at other companies. But apparently I'm the only person that thinks this, so the WMF can feel free to do what it wants. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
supposed to block core development, and let this bug persist indefinitely, because of a much less serious bug in an extension? That really only leaves #1, but apparently the vast minority of opponents of the original patch decided it was a good idea to jump right over and skip to #2. *-- * *Tyler Romeo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
. If there was any timing issue to consider here, I would say after a few days we'd have to reach a solution. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] SpecialPage::getTitle deprecated?!

2014-03-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
SpecialPage to inherit ContextSource (or hopefully have it as a trait once we move to 5.4), but it was impossible to do that since SpecialPage decided to implement getTitle() differently. -- Tyler Romeo Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] We're in: GSoC 2014 and FOSS OPW round 8

2014-02-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Rahul Maliakkal rahul14...@gmail.comwrote: Great work Quim again!!! Regards, Rahul On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC on PHP profiling

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
no more information than xhprof would (and yes, xhprof is meant for production use. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
this summer, like in July or something. Once that happens we can safely stop supporting 5.3 with the next MediaWiki release. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
parse_url() behavior Of course there is traits as well, but that's more of an actual new feature, and it will be a while before MediaWiki starts using traits everywhere. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:26 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: There are likely others. What can be done to address this issue? Only way I can think of is to improve the Lua - PHP API so that users can make the queries directly. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication of decisions (was Re: Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?)

2014-02-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
was the Mobile Team. Agreed on this. Even on Gerrit, it is hard to keep track of possible changes and decisions being made. The mailing list is an important medium for any significant discussion and announcements concerning MediaWiki. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

Re: [Wikitech-l] Core unit tests passing under HHVM 2.4

2014-02-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
Can we maybe add this into Jenkins somehow? It'd be kind of nice if we could make sure from now on that no patches break unit tests in HHVM. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
on down to the San Francisco office and show their government ID. Then we have Tim or Brion log them in personally. ;) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
an initiative to add that as an option. You mean kind of like this? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SSLClientAuthentication *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
were hijacked. This is definitely something to consider, but I feel like it would involve changing our privacy policy. Or at the very least it would cause some controversy related to that. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
in the effort to make sure it is secure. To that I say see the above paragraph. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tor exemption process (was: Re: Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR)

2014-02-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
to pressing a button and resetting my identity. Keep in mind we are not trying to permanently block vandals, because that's impossible. We're just trying to make vandalism difficult enough so it is no longer worthwhile. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve the page, execute some time expensive operation and edit the page ONLY if it wasn't changed meanwhile

2014-01-31 Thread Tyler Romeo
to obey the HTTP spec. Hence the reason why we don't have E-Tag support either. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Review Milestone reached

2014-01-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:03 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: Aaron Schulz has become the first person to have approved (+2'ed) = 1000 patchsets to mediawiki core Wow it takes real skill to out-review the l10-bot. I'm going to have to step up my game. ;) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tor exemption process (was: Re: Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR)

2014-01-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: What version is available via PEAR? Installing via that is no more manual than apt. Also don't forget composer as well. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is Foxway a right way?

2014-01-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
How does this compare to the PECL runkit extension? Also have you benchmarked it against Scribunto? Because Scribunto does kind of the same exact thing except just with a different programming language (and Scribunto uses a native interpreter rather than one written in PHP). *-- * *Tyler Romeo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is Foxway a right way?

2014-01-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
a global state design; it's just different. PHP replaces global state with things like job queues and caches, and it tends to work pretty well. If anything it makes development easier because, not surprisingly, managing global state is incredibly difficult. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Shahyar G(whatever) XD Welcome aboard! *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm back from Hacker School

2014-01-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
Welcome back! *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Aarti K. Dwivedi ellydwivedi2...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome back Sumana! :) Cheers, Aarti On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Nasir Khan nasir8

Re: [Wikitech-l] File sources and spam blacklist

2014-01-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
$wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to show detailed debugging information. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgDBmysql5

2014-01-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is, for schemas created without it. Yeah. What I mean is should it be deprecated for new installations. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgDBmysql5

2014-01-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:20 AM, VP Singh vpsing...@gmail.com wrote: Donot send me spam That email was not spam. If you don't want to receive Wikimedia development emails, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Tyler Romeo
It's a CAPTCHA, not an article or piece of actual content. If people are actually getting offended by randomly generated CAPTCHAs I think they need to find something more worthwhile to complain about. -- Tyler Romeo On Jan 1, 2014 12:27 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: There's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
was to simply abandon IP blocks, since users can easily enough change their IP addresses anyway. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] $wgDBmysql5

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
Right now MediaWiki installation requirements say you need MySQL 5.0.2 or later. So my question is: is this configuration variable still necessary, or should it be deprecated? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: This is, why we (or some core) MediaWiki developers should also attend such congresses like the C3 regularly. Times like these living in USA is inconvenient. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
is finding a software solution that makes it possible. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
. It is definitely outside of core scope, but is it within OAuth scope? If anything I think it would be some sort of separate extension that relies on OAuth, but is not actually part of OAuth itself. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
they go through in order to be certified for security and whatnot (somebody correct me if I'm wrong). They have a very strict set of software policies they must follow. Implementing a system like this to work with donations would be extraordinarily difficult, if it's even possible. *-- * *Tyler

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC cluster summary: HTML templating

2013-12-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
of control structures is frustrating unless the templates are really simple). So I'd support using Twig or something similar to it like jinja2. Either way the RFCs can definitely be combined. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Thu, Dec 26

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC cluster summary: HTML templating

2013-12-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
is a plus. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP new version(s) 5.5.7 and other versions. (upgrade, if you can)

2013-12-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP new version(s) 5.5.7 and other versions. (upgrade, if you can)

2013-12-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Arcane 21 arc...@live.com wrote: More details can be found on the bug report I submitted on Bugzilla. For those wondering, it is filed under bug 58532. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58532 *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: The videos are (mostly) over 1 gb, which is our upload limit. Hence maintenance script needed. Ah. Thanks for the clarification. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth Devlopment Training

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'll probably try and attend, although it's during the day so there's no guarantee my boss won't randomly schedule a meeting or something. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Aaron Halfaker ahalfa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
Javascript debugging in MediaWiki. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
to use it. If there were a way to submit patchsets without using Git somehow (maybe some kind of desktop application), it may make things easier. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
exciting. ;) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
:/ There are only ten videos. Is there some sort of special upload process that needs to be followed here? Because uploading ten things to Commons takes all of fifteen minutes. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
have +2 on their wiki's Gerrit project. If the cost of increasing site-wide security and alleviating developers' pain is a few upset users who will get over it in a month or two, then so be it. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
. Gadgets are code. It is the absolute *correct* tool for the job. At the very least it is a more proper tool than using wiki software. If Wikipedia wants to have any resemblance of proper software security, having gadgets stored on wiki should disappear very quickly. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
/compiler.cc#872 [1] https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/source/mediawiki.html#mw-loader-method-work [2] https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L283 *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
through Gerrit.) Right now the only somewhat proper approach to adding new core dependencies is using Git submodules, which is not the most favorable approach for reasons I mentioned in the beginning of the thread. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
point for now. Though lets pretend this has already bee taken care off and look at solutions to the technical problem. OK, in that case I will use git submodules for my upcoming third party library patches. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
things that could really be separated into libraries are the DatabaseType hierarchy, the HTMLForm section, maybe the FileRepo / File / FileBackend product, and maybe the JobQueue product. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
, but any module that is cached in localStorage will no longer benefit from V8's compiler optimizations. It may be useful to have an option that disables the use of localStorage for specific modules. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Wed

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.22.0rc3 ready for download

2013-12-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
sensitive environment is never a good idea. It all depends on what type of wikis are being run and what is being stored on them. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.22.0rc3 ready for download

2013-12-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote: VE is a BAD idea, its full of holes and bugs Those are two separate concepts. Just because something has bugs does not make the software itself a bad idea. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016

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