Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
The new PDF rendering pipeline does indeed use XeLaTeX. I haven't used it to typeset non-latin scripts since a summer I spent at SIL in 1996 (and that might have been Omega, not XeLaTeX), so if you wanted to pitch in and help out I'd greatly appreciate it. To start with, short example LaTeX

[Wikitech-l] Deprecation notice for etherpad-old.wikimedia.org

2013-11-26 Thread Alexandros Kosiaris
Hello, As many of you might be aware, etherpad.wikimedia.org has been migrated a couple of months ago from the old and no longer supported etherpad software to the new, actively supported, etherpad-lite software. The move also involved the migration of pads from the old software to the new, a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Engineering Community team updates

2013-11-26 Thread Quim Gil
Our monthly ECT Showcase video stream will start in approximately 30 minutes. Agenda and link to the stream https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Meetings#2013-11-26 -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in update (WE NEED MORE TASKS!)

2013-11-26 Thread Quim Gil
Interesting data of the first week of GCI, shared by the organizers: 1929 students registered (this is already higher than what we had at the halfway point last year) 84 countries represented 342 tasks completed by 162 students Since completed 32 and there are 10 organizations, we are just

[Wikitech-l] Solution for Third-Party Dependencies

2013-11-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
Hey everybody, tl;dr - How do we add 3rd party libs to core: composer, git submodules, or copying the code? So I have a question to discuss concerning MW core that I was hoping to get some feedback on: what is our policy on including third-party libraries in core? To clarify, by policy I don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Solution for Third-Party Dependencies

2013-11-26 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 26/11/13 22:12, Tyler Romeo a écrit : Hey everybody, tl;dr - How do we add 3rd party libs to core: composer, git submodules, or copying the code? Hello, Thank you for bringing the subject there. A few folks are eager to have composer support for MediaWiki / extensions. I could not find

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: wikimedia dns issue

2013-11-26 Thread George Herbert
Fwd - Randy Bush in Tokyo is reporting WMF donation server DNS issues. -- Forwarded message -- From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:44 PM Subject: wikimedia dns issue To: North American Network Operators' Group na...@nanog.org leslie, you out there?

Re: [Wikitech-l] wikimedia dns issue

2013-11-26 Thread Matthew Walker
Randy, Thanks for the concern -- if I understand your email correct the issue is not that you cannot resolve donate.wikimedia.org; but it's that one of our subdomains resolves to something that's not a WMF server? If so; the behavior you're seeing, that links.email.donate.wikimedia.org goes to

[Wikitech-l] OpenID deployment delayed until sometime in 2014

2013-11-26 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, If you were following our planning process this past spring/summer, you probably heard that we had planned to deploy both OAuth and OpenID by the end of 2013. The good news is that we were able to complete our OAuth deployment (see Dan Garry's blog post on the subject[1]). The bad

Re: [Wikitech-l] Solution for Third-Party Dependencies

2013-11-26 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 11/26/2013 05:28 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: Git submodules are a mess, needs to download code from github/whatever. And I tend to dislike submodules. If we went with this option, we could just have straight Gerrit mirrors of any git repos we wanted to bundle. When we updated the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Solution for Third-Party Dependencies

2013-11-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: You could start out a RFC to identify class that be replaced by a better third party libraries. I don't mind. Symfony (a french PHP framework which is really spring for PHP) has a bunch of reusable components:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architecture Summit -- Gathering all relevant RfC's

2013-11-26 Thread MZMcBride
Diederik van Liere wrote: If you have a Mediawiki related RfC in a personal notepad, on your User Page, in your mind then this would be a great moment to write or move it under https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment and add an entry to the table. If you don't have 'move' rights then

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Status update on new Collections PDF Renderer

2013-11-26 Thread Erik Moeller
Thanks, Matt, for the detailed update, as well as for your leadership throughout the project, and thanks to everyone who's helped with the effort so far. :-) As Matt outlined, we're going to keep moving on critical path issues til January and will do a second sprint then to get things ready for