[Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.orgwrote: My understanding of the process was that we would collect a broad set of arguments/ideas/proposals and people would be later assigned to the task of evaluating them and proposing a viable solution and a migration

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Ryan Lane
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:57 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ryan Lane wrote: You've already admitted that you don't use Gerrit, so do you have a really large stake in this? Before it was replaced, I used MediaWiki's CodeReview quite a bit. Like most people, I think I would use

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:43:51 -0700, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:57 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ryan Lane wrote: You've already admitted that you don't use Gerrit, so do you have a really large stake in this? Before it was replaced, I used

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 27/07/12 04:04, MZMcBride wrote: snip It's somewhat ironic that you have a group of people who regularly champion the virtues of open source software (you can hack the code!) who have picked a software solution that's (apparently) nearly impossible to modify. Even eliminating Gerrit's vomit

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Antoine Musso
Daniel Friesen write: I want whatever review system we use to support real review branches; - Review sets are heads with multiple commits, not single commits. - -no-ff merge commits are used so that only the final commit code makes it directly into master. We have disallowed branch creation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:10:52 -0700, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Daniel Friesen write: I want whatever review system we use to support real review branches; - Review sets are heads with multiple commits, not single commits. - -no-ff merge commits are used so that only the final

[Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread John Elliot
Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly laid out in an accessible form on all manner of devices including desktops and smart phones? [1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread David Gerard
On 27 July 2012 11:01, John Elliot j...@jj5.net wrote: Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly laid out in an accessible form on all manner of devices including desktops and smart phones?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Leonard Wallentin
Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly laid out in an accessible form on all manner of devices including desktops and smart phones? I am currently working a bit on the skin for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Coombe
This is one of the aims of the planned 'Athena' skin: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena Pete / the wub On 27 July 2012 11:01, John Elliot j...@jj5.net wrote: Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Tei
On 27 July 2012 12:53, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote: This is one of the aims of the planned 'Athena' skin: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena Pete / the wub Very interesting. Looks very good already. On 27 July 2012 12:01, John Elliot j...@jj5.net wrote: Are there any

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: As far as people being assigned to the the task of evaluating them, I think you may be overestimating the number of people we have floating around to do this work. People is basically Chad, who is pretty burnt out on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: So that is definitely doable. It is currently blocked because the build-in CSS are loaded AFTER the user CSS which is totally dumb but is definitely an easy fix. It's not quite as easy as I had hoped, unfortunately.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread MZMcBride
Antoine Musso wrote: MZ, Do you even have a labs account? Your continuous rants are far from being constructive and makes everyone lose their time. Nope. I looked at getting one once or twice, but the process seemed too bureaucratic and I ended up walking away. I imagine I'll make one once

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Jon Robson
The Wikipedia mobile site is being made mobile first using responsive design techniques. The plan is for it to eventually mature into a responsive Athena skin that can also be used on desktop. On Jul 27, 2012 4:24 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 July 2012 12:53, Peter Coombe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:36:50PM -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.orgwrote: My understanding of the process was that we would collect a broad set of arguments/ideas/proposals and people would be later assigned to the task of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-27 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
2012/7/26 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Thet don't need to read English. They just need to type the letters they see on the image. Sure, you can have a small advantage if you know what letters could make a valid English word (or if you have the captcha dictionary installed), but a

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wiki-research-l] request for Git statistics (or, don't stand back, I don't know regular expressions) (Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 83, Issue 13)

2012-07-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 07/24/2012 08:09 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Sumana Harihareswara, 24/07/2012 22:47: Ohloh would sure be a nice resource - I'm not sure how to get it fixed exactly, but please feel free to poke around, tell Ohloh where our new repository is, and try to get it fixed. Sorry, it's a low

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Jul 27, 2012 6:58 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Personal dashboards will now be private -- the proper way to query someone's work is the owner: query in the search box. As MZ and I found out last night, this is not the case. An owner: search only finds changes that person

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Jul 27, 2012 7:17 AM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think GitLab looks promising but I'm unable to judge it against all of our requirements just from the online demo and without spending some amount of time on it. I just put some pros and cons as I see them to the Wiki page

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Jul 27, 2012 1:11 AM, Antoine Musso We have disallowed branch creation and merging for now, that can definitely be opened up. Chad recently opened the sandbox reference and we have a few of them: remotes/gerrit/sandbox/apramana/gsoc remotes/gerrit/sandbox/demon/foo-bar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread John Elliot
On 2012-07-27 23:52, Jon Robson wrote: The Wikipedia mobile site is being made mobile first using responsive design techniques. The plan is for it to eventually mature into a responsive Athena skin that can also be used on desktop. Any idea about when the responsive Athena skin might be ready?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 07/27/2012 11:34 AM, John Elliot wrote: On 2012-07-27 23:52, Jon Robson wrote: The Wikipedia mobile site is being made mobile first using responsive design techniques. The plan is for it to eventually mature into a responsive Athena skin that can also be used on desktop. Any idea about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 27, 2012 1:11 AM, Antoine Musso We have disallowed branch creation and merging for now, that can definitely be opened up. Chad recently opened the sandbox reference and we have a few of them:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread David Gerard
On 27 July 2012 16:35, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please note that this conversation might also be cross-posted to or continued on our design mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design Without joining a whole other list, can I just ask what

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Jon Robson
This would be best answered by Brandon.From a personal point of view if the mobile site still looks like a mobile site in a desktop browser at the start of next year I will be somewhat disappointed with myself. I personally believe that mobile is the likely method for accelerating athenas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 27/07/12 15:42, MZMcBride a écrit : I don't think it's fair to say that my posts have been unconstructive. I've tried to present actual problems (such as the lack of an authors list) that inhibit being able to effectively use Gerrit. snip To clarify, I was mostly ranting about the form.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Ryan Lane
I did mention how Android used a homemade tool to do the reviews. It was introduced to me by a friend who is doing Android development for mobile phone companies. At first I was like: what about the existing google code or github? Then he explained me their pre commit workflow and it made me

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:42 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Antoine Musso wrote: MZ, Do you even have a labs account? Your continuous rants are far from being constructive and makes everyone lose their time. Nope. I looked at getting one once or twice, but the process seemed too

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:42 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: For what it's worth, I think Ryan makes a compelling case for sticking with Gerrit (and I'm still not convinced that another switch would do more good than harm). I'm still deeply worried about the ability to use and improve

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm also worried about the steep learning curve anyone from our community (myself included) would have in getting set up to improve Gerrit through writing patches and plugins, though I'll take Chad at his word that it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Platonides
Chad wrote: Also, if anyone tells me that upstream is not active enough, I ask you to please look at a commit I made 2 days ago[0]. I know it wasn't earth- shattering, or even really important. What was important, is that it was reviewed and merged in *less than a minute* without any action

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: This would be best answered by Brandon.From a personal point of view if the mobile site still looks like a mobile site in a desktop browser at the start of next year I will be somewhat disappointed with myself. +1 I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Chris McMahon
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think our best mitigation strategy is to do as good a job as we possibly can integrating Gerrit with GitHub, combined with other improvements to Gerrit. One thing I don't think has been explicitly said yet, although

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth, abstract implementation, and built-in unknown / internal / import applications.

2012-07-27 Thread Chris Steipp
I wanted to get in a couple responses to Daniel, as well as try to make sure the conversation doesn't die. Obviously having a lead person in the OAuth2 process leave may effect what we want to implement. Or may spawn a new standard in the near future. But I hope we can still move ahead with laying

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think our best mitigation strategy is to do as good a job as we possibly can integrating Gerrit with GitHub, combined with other

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Derric Atzrott
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. The main reason I've been holding off on doing the replication yet is that the replication system was split off to a plugin for 2.5, so I was pretty much waiting on 2.5 to land so I didn't have to set it up twice. Once we've got 2.5 running, this will become a *top*

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Derric Atzrott
Forgot the link... [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/ZczND3xgtaw Sorry about that, Derric Atzrott Computer Specialist Alizee Pathology ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-27 Thread Yury Katkov
I think that making Russian, Korean and Arabian captcha is really bad idea. English keyboad layout is installed by default in all operation systems, as far as I know. Moreover very interesting problems can appear if this feature would be implemented. Who will decide what captcha language is used?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Derric Atzrott datzr...@alizeepathology.com wrote: Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. The main reason I've been holding off on doing the replication yet is that the replication system was split off to a plugin for 2.5, so I was pretty much waiting on 2.5 to land so I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Brandon Harris
On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: This would be best answered by Brandon.From a personal point of view if the mobile site still looks like a mobile site in a desktop browser at the start of next year I will be somewhat disappointed with myself. I,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Chris McMahon cmcma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I realize this is all hand-wavy and stuff, but as Brion pointed out, it's all git. With some thought behind the design, a two-way integration

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-27 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
Maybe present three or four different capcha's with different scripts, requiring only one to be filled out? On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Yury Katkov katkov.ju...@gmail.com wrote: I think that making Russian, Korean and Arabian captcha is really bad idea. English keyboad layout is installed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-27 Thread Max Semenik
On 27.07.2012, 22:09 Yury wrote: I think that making Russian, Korean and Arabian captcha is really bad idea. English keyboad layout is installed by default in all operation systems, as far as I know. Moreover very interesting problems can appear if this feature would be implemented. Who will

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth, abstract implementation, and built-in unknown / internal / import applications.

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:59:30 -0700, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: I wanted to get in a couple responses to Daniel, as well as try to make sure the conversation doesn't die. Obviously having a lead person in the OAuth2 process leave may effect what we want to implement. Or may

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-27 Thread Strainu
2012/7/28 Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com: On 27.07.2012, 22:09 Yury wrote: I think that making Russian, Korean and Arabian captcha is really bad idea. English keyboad layout is installed by default in all operation systems, as far as I know. Moreover very interesting problems can appear if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Terry Chay
On Jul 26, 2012, at 7:04 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Rob Lanphier wrote: A few of us are planning to meet Monday afternoon to figure out exactly what the rest of the process looks like, so that first deadline is going to be very important for understanding how many options we're

Re: [Wikitech-l] Criteria for serious alternative

2012-07-27 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Gerrit has templating support so basic CSS changes are not difficult and require no pushes to upstream Gerrit. Delta one strange thing in that the load order of the cascade in Gerrit is… wrong. My arguments with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Responsive web design

2012-07-27 Thread Terry Chay
Are you a Brandon plant trying to get us to resource Athena again? :-) On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:01 AM, John Elliot j...@jj5.net wrote: Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly laid out in an

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth, abstract implementation, and built-in unknown / internal / import applications.

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:59:30 -0700, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think I understand what your saying about that, and that's one way it could be done. I had also given some thought to extending the

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth, abstract implementation, and built-in unknown / internal / import applications.

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:03:34 -0700, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:59:30 -0700, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think I understand what your saying about that, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-27 Thread Platonides
On 27/07/12 16:31, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote: 2012/7/26 Platonides platoni...@gmail.com: Thet don't need to read English. They just need to type the letters they see on the image. Sure, you can have a small advantage if you know what letters could make a valid English word (or if you