[Wikitech-l] backend for people.wikimedia.org changed to people1002

2020-05-21 Thread Daniel Zahn
Hello WMF shell users, all of you have access to the backend behind https://people.wikimedia.org/ where you can publish your own files. The backend for this is a dedicated VM running on ganeti which until today was people1001.eqiad.wmnet running on stretch (Debian oldstable). Today it has been

[Wikitech-l] SelectQueryBuilder

2020-05-21 Thread Tim Starling
SelectQueryBuilder is a new fluent interface for constructing database queries, which has been merged to master for release in MediaWiki 1.35. Please consider using it in new code. SELECT page_id FROM page WHERE page_namespace=$namespace AND page_title=$title becomes $id =

[Wikitech-l] OOUI v0.39.0 released

2020-05-21 Thread Volker E.
Hi, we've released v0.39.0 of the OOUI library this Tuesday. It will rollout on the normal train next Tuesday, 26 May. Highlights in this release: - Text flow of form layouts on mobile devices was improved, surfaced in Advanced Mobile Contributions - Additionally this release removed deprecated

Re: [Wikitech-l] +2 for DannyS712 for mediawiki/*

2020-05-21 Thread Kunal Mehta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I just closed the request as successful. Congrats Danny! - -- Legoktm On 2020-05-14 14:28, Danny S wrote: > Dear all, > > Per policy[1], I'd like to inform you that I have been nominated[2] > for +2 rights for mediawiki/*. > > Stay safe,

Re: [Wikitech-l] SelectQueryBuilder

2020-05-21 Thread Brian Wolff
That's really cool. It would be interesting if we could use this as an excuse to move away from what i would consider antipatterns in our sql layer e.g., having no high level way of specifying WHERE comparisons (x > "foo". Currently we do addQuotes() instead of automatic or `field1` = `field2`).

Re: [Wikitech-l] SelectQueryBuilder

2020-05-21 Thread Tim Starling
Yes, it would be interesting to add an expression builder. It is much easier to do so now that the Database acts as a factory for the query builder. Originally I was trying to make the data in SelectQueryBuilder DBMS-independent. Now that we always have a connection object in SelectQueryBuilder,

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2020-05-20

2020-05-21 Thread Alexandra Paskulin
Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed: Discussion re. `Trusted-Contributors` Gerrit group < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238651> Added background information to the task and proposed documentation updates. * Discussed: RFC HTML element for inline media