Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmaps and getting and keeping devs

2011-02-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
2011/2/13 Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com: This has gotten better lately, WMF created a bugmeister position and the bugmeister tries to respond to most if not all bugs after being reported. We should definitely keep up with this and try to at least confirm every problem that is being

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens

2011-02-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
2011/2/12 青子守歌 (aokomoriuta) maill...@enmps.net: Thank you for your advice. You mean we should be careful about upgrading jQuery's version if the script uses jQuery, i.e. the problem you refer to is not caused if we dont' use jQuery, right? It's not so much about using jQuery as it is to

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens

2011-02-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
2011/2/13 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: For example, Meta-Wiki was returning completely blank pages due to the use of document.write() on pages that contained a particular CSS class. If document.write() is completely disallowed, it should be noted somewhere prominently along with other

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In article 18849937.7157.1297583642909.javamail.r...@benjamin.baylink.com, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Yeah, secure.wikimedia.org's URL scheme isn't really friendly to outsiders. Historically, this is because SSL certificates are

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Maury Markowitz
Are there _no_ performance issues we should be concerned about here? I know local ISP's did (used to?) throttle all encrypted traffic. Would this fall into that category? Maury ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Leo
there are actually providers like www.startssl.com who issue free certificates (only validated by email address though). StartSSLs root certificate is included in nearly all recent browsers. Leo On Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 4:14 PM, River Tarnell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Leo
afaik, the serverside encryption hasn't got any mentionable performance penalty. Clients might be a bit slower due to additional roundtrips caused by the handshakes. On Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Maury Markowitz wrote: Are there _no_ performance issues we should be concerned about

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In article cfb39d2bb60f411485d2be6d9db07...@gmail.com, Leo diebu...@gmail.com wrote: there are actually providers like www.startssl.com who issue free certificates (only validated by email address though). StartSSLs root certificate is included

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Leo
Ah, right. That obviously be too much hassle. Their website is not that clear, but I think it's 100$ (per year?) for wildcard certificates. (StartSSL™ identity and organization validation are available for only US $ 49.90 each, where organization validation implies prior identity validation.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens

2011-02-13 Thread Krinkle
MZMcBride wrote: Guillaume Paumier wrote: The installation of ResourceLoader may cause compatibility issues with existing JavaScript code. It'd be nice to have a list of things that will definitely be problematic (must be fixed), things that might be problematic (should be fixed),

Re: [Wikitech-l] [ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens

2011-02-13 Thread Krinkle
Hi all, Starting with the wikis that have already been switched I'll make making a sweep accross all wikis checking for broken stuff. Anything directly related and/or broken with 1.17 I will attempt to fix right away. Things I see more than one wiki will be noted on the migration guide [1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: River Tarnell r.tarn...@ieee.org In article 18849937.7157.1297583642909.javamail.r...@benjamin.baylink.com, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Yeah, secure.wikimedia.org's URL scheme isn't really friendly to outsiders. Historically, this is because

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Maury Markowitz maury.markow...@gmail.com wrote: Are there _no_ performance issues we should be concerned about here? I know local ISP's did (used to?) throttle all encrypted traffic. Would this fall into that category? Well, there's nothing we can really do

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Leo diebu...@gmail.com wrote: afaik, the serverside encryption hasn't got any mentionable performance penalty. Clients might be a bit slower due to additional roundtrips caused by the handshakes. On Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Maury Markowitz

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: He's complaining, in effect, that there are more than one URL for identical content, which is in fact generally a bad idea, but in this case, of course, he's wrong: different *access protocols* are being used, so it's not

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: He's complaining, in effect, that there are more than one URL for identical content, which is in fact generally a bad idea, but in this case, of course,

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Lane
You did get the EFF is pushing a Firefox plugin that has a rule that redirects all WP accesses to the secure site part of that report, though, right?  This curve has probably already started to ramp; now might be a good time for someone ops-y to be thinking about this. I'd be concerned about

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, secure.wikimedia.org's URL scheme isn't really friendly to outsiders. Historically, this is because SSL certificates are expensive, and there just wasn't enough money in the budget to get more of them for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] secure.wikimedia.org commons sockpuppet site

2011-02-13 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In article AANLkTikgDVs2zHMBzrd5dDkjsjadQVLmHjYpfjBhY+=n...@mail.gmail.com, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:14 AM, River Tarnell r.tarn...@ieee.org wrote: SSL certificates aren't that cheap, but only

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmaps and getting and keeping devs

2011-02-13 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 13/02/11 11:54, Roan Kattouw wrote: Bugzilla patches are another matter, yes, but I think making sure patches get reviewed can be a Bugmeister task. We get relatively few patches through Bugzilla these days anyway. Maybe once 1.17 is released, we should focus on the bugzilla patch queue

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of mobile site rewrite

2011-02-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com writes: Does anyone know what the current status is? I've talked to Hampton about getting up to speed. Hopefully I'll have more information to share tomorrow. -- Mark A. Hershberger Bugmeister Wikimedia Foundation mhershber...@wikimedia.org 717.271.1084

[Wikitech-l] Switch mediawikiwiki to 1.17wmf1

2011-02-13 Thread Krinkle
Hi, While working on fixing gadgets etc. I just noticed mediawiki.org itself was not part of the first wave (I confused it with metawiki I guess). Is there any issues with switching to 1.17wmf1 before the rest goes (say tonight or Monday) ? Currently I'm writing some documentation but the

[Wikitech-l] Code Review going forward

2011-02-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com writes: In the preparations for the 1.17 release I've seen lots of commits that were several months old and only got reviewed because we decided to work on a release. Ideally, every commit would be reviewed within a few days of being committed, so the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Switch mediawikiwiki to 1.17wmf1

2011-02-13 Thread Chad
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any issues with switching to 1.17wmf1 before the rest goes (say tonight or Monday) ? Currently I'm writing some documentation but the 'new' versions of things don't actually work on mw.org so it's hard

Re: [Wikitech-l] Switch mediawikiwiki to 1.17wmf1

2011-02-13 Thread Brion Vibber
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any issues with switching to 1.17wmf1 before the rest goes (say tonight or Monday) ? Currently I'm writing some documentation but the 'new'

[Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
The problem with our current VCS is the sort of work-flow that has developed around it. But we can solve the work-flow problem without introducing an entirely new VCS and disrupting everything for a month or so while people adjust to the new system. The solution I'm proposing is that we branch

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
I promise I don't have anything more to write today, but MZ pointed out I neglected to finish my thought here: Also, at some point I want to provide a better way — better than just the complicated and confusing native Bugzilla interface — for collecting bug reports. Having the input of a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread Brion Vibber
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org wrote: The problem with our current VCS is the sort of work-flow that has developed around it. But we can solve the work-flow problem without introducing an entirely new VCS and disrupting everything for a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread Bryan Tong Minh
Hi Mark, It is good to see people thinking about 1.18 already! On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org wrote: The problem with our current VCS is the sort of work-flow that has developed around it. But we can solve the work-flow problem without

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/2/14 Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org: I promise I don't have anything more to write today Actually, i enjoyed reading this string of emails from The 'Meister. Also, at some point I want to provide a better way — better than just the complicated and confusing native

[Wikitech-l] Patch catch-up: bug 23817 fixes committed

2011-02-13 Thread Brion Vibber
To start out with catching up on patch review, I took a look over and applied the patches on bug 23817, fixing wfObjectToArray() and FormatJson for a case that broke certain parts of ForeignAPIRepo when PHP's native JSON module wasn't present: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23817

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/2/14 Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org: Also, at some point I want to provide a better way — better than just the complicated and confusing native Bugzilla interface — for collecting bug reports. Oh, and of course, as much i love Bugzilla (really!), it has a very serious

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread K. Peachey
Well, if you want 1.18 released before 2012... ;) Bryan Well of course, Where would we be if we let the world end without a new(ish) mediawiki release? -Peachey ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Patch catch-up: bug 25675

2011-02-13 Thread Brion Vibber
One-line fix for search suggestions for special pages where the alias contains spaces (happens a lot more in non-English localizations). Patch was submitted by Umherirrender in October 2010: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25675 -- brion

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il writes: he.wikipedia has a page for collecting bug reports, but since it's not really structured, it's not really maintained. Perhaps we could recruit some people from the he.wikipedia.org community to take problems reported (via the localized

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread Brion Vibber
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Amir E. Aharoni writes: he.wikipedia has a page for collecting bug reports, but since it's not really structured, it's not really maintained. Perhaps we could recruit some people from the he.wikipedia.org community to take

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com writes: The problem with our current VCS is the sort of work-flow that has developed around it. Can you be a bit more specific? What problems are you implying? I think of some problems, but I don't know how they are consequences from our workflow and

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread MZMcBride
Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Perhaps we could recruit some people from the he.wikipedia.org community to take problems reported (via the localized interface?) and reproduce them or act as a translator between developers and bug reporters? There is already some infrastructure for this kind of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
mhershber...@wikimedia.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes: The solution I'm proposing is that we branch 1.18 immediately after the release of the 1.17 tarball. I want to give credit where it is due. Although I haven't seen him propose it here, this is, in fact, Robla's idea. He and I were

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread Diederik van Liere
+1 to migrate to a DVCS On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org wrote: mhershber...@wikimedia.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes: The solution I'm proposing is that we branch 1.18 immediately after the release of the 1.17 tarball. I want to give

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmaps and getting and keeping devs

2011-02-13 Thread Diederik van Liere
Maybe we can make the bugathon part of the Berlin hackaton? On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: On 13/02/11 11:54, Roan Kattouw wrote: Bugzilla patches are another matter, yes, but I think making sure patches get reviewed can be a Bugmeister task. We

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
+1 to migrate to a DVCS Unless I'm mistaken no one has actually suggested doing that. -- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. -- ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making code review happen in 1.18

2011-02-13 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org wrote: This workflow is different from a DVCS.  Take Linux, for example.  Linus pulls code from several lieutenants.  Anyone can set up a branch of the Linux source code and commit to it, but to get Linus to ship

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread Diederik van Liere
I think we can draw some inspiration from Mozilla's use of Bugzilla and particular the format they are encourage users when submitting a bugreport: 1) Steps to reproduce 2) Expected result 3) Actual result 4) Reproducible (by bugreporter): always / sometimes 5) Version information, extensions

Re: [Wikitech-l] How users without programming skills can help

2011-02-13 Thread Diederik van Liere
That's exactly my point :) Most Firefox bugreporters are ordinary users so if they are able to report a bug then Mediawiki users can do it as well because they are basically the same group of Internet users. And again, my suggestion is not hard, it's about giving ordinary people a number of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Migrating to GIT (extensions)

2011-02-13 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
Op 14-02-11 05:01 schreef Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com: Ohh... if the translatewiki guys are looking for a dummy for streamlining support for extensions based in git in preparation for a git migration if we do so, I'd be happy to offer monaco-port up as a existing extension (well,