[Wikitech-l] Breaking changes without deprecation in the Shellbox patch

The following changes will be made without deprecation in gerrit 626548 : * FirejailCommand was removed. CodeSearch reveals no usages. * Command::execute() now returns a Shellbox\Command\UnboxedResult instead of a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is preprocessDump.php still useful?

Drafted removal at: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/659133 -- Timo On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:39 AM Krinkle wrote: > This script was created in 2011 and takes an offline XML dump file, > containing page content wikitext, and feeds its entries through the > Preprocessor

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

În joi, 4 feb. 2021 la 21:31, Ostrzyciel Nożyczek a scris: > The things that I have on mind are: > > Rework config handling to make it more consistent (now only campaign configs > are parsed, the main config is not) and robust (unit testing included!). > Simplify the task of including more

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical Decision Making Process Update and Change

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 08:54 +1000, K. Peachey wrote: > Are the Gerrit permission requests that techcom used to handle going > to the new forum or another team? To be defined. :) The Technical Engagement team is currently investigating; see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273164 Cheers, andre

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

Thank you Jon for taking the time and effort to give a comprehensive answer. :) Honestly, this is what I expected and I won't question the priorities set by WMF. I'm just looking into how the UploadWizard project could be continued in the future, and with what parties involved. Would it make

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

Hey Folks, I just wanted to flag that we heard the question and had circle up to get you an informed answer as the answer spans several teams. The most literal answer to Ostrzyciel's email is: "no, there are no plans or resources allocated to doing anything other than fix breaking upload wizard

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

În joi, 4 feb. 2021 la 16:54, Bartosz Dziewoński a scris: > > On 2021-02-03 23:33, Strainu wrote: > > One thing that puzzles me in that ticket is this phrase from Mark > > Traceur: "It might be better to look at something (slightly) more > > modern, like the upload dialog in core". Does anyone

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

On 2021-02-03 23:33, Strainu wrote: One thing that puzzles me in that ticket is this phrase from Mark Traceur: "It might be better to look at something (slightly) more modern, like the upload dialog in core". Does anyone know what that dialog is? AFAIK the uploader in core (Special:Upload)

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of UploadWizard

While we're at, I would like to mention that these upload dialogs really don't help with enforcing any kind of image description standard. They allow users to just drag and drop files, which is intuitive and nice, but also does not ask them to specify the source of the media. In my practice, this