Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread svetlana
Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: > I fully agree with Dan on that. I'd be much more interested in +/- votes on > feedback statements. AFv5 already had this feature IIRC, but I think it lacked some way to categorise and structurise messages, and to identify users who have a habit of posting rubbish feedb

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread svetlana
Quim Gil wrote: > On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Jon Robson wrote: > > > > > I was curious to how generic the rating system is. For example would > > it be possible to use such a thing on something like BetaFeatures or > > was it specifically designed for extension rating? > > > > I'm not sure how

Re: [Wikitech-l] [QA] Prettier Jenkins results in Gerrit

2014-08-20 Thread Tyler Romeo
Yeah just noticed this as well. An awesome change indeed; much easier to read and interpret. Thanks! --  Tyler Romeo 0x405D34A7C86B42DF From: James Forrester Reply: Wikimedia developers > Date: August 20, 2014 at 17:22:42 To: QA (software quality assurance) for Wikimedia projects. > Cc: Wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] [QA] Prettier Jenkins results in Gerrit

2014-08-20 Thread James Forrester
On 20 August 2014 13:02, Antoine Musso wrote: > Hello, > > The tests results being reported to Gerrit are now much nicer. The > first ever example is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/155341/ > > > James E. Blair from Openstack found a nice trick to inject HTML in > Gerrit comment. Christian Ai

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread David Gerard
As a MediaWiki tarball user, I'd *love* something to rate extensions - even to show if anyone actually uses it and cares. On 20 August 2014 19:14, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: > I fully agree with Dan on that. I'd be much more interested in +/- votes on > feedback statements. I think that might be a

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Jon Robson
I believe Flow is going to or could be changed to solve this issue of upvoting comments. I was more interested in hypothetically if it was possible, I hadn't really thought too much about whether it would be useful or not. On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: > I fully agree

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-20 Thread Legoktm
On 8/20/14, 9:04 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > In order to move forward, we can discuss at different levels: > > * At a general level, which should be the priorities for mediawiki.org's > gallery of extensions? This will allow us to define more tasks and projects > for potential developers. https://www.me

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
I fully agree with Dan on that. I'd be much more interested in +/- votes on feedback statements. I think that might be a direction worth exploring. A low barrier like that might help bring a more complete picture of sentiment on problems and ideas. DJ On 20 aug. 2014, at 19:08, Dan Garry wrot

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Dan Garry
On 20 August 2014 09:16, Quim Gil wrote: > > I'm not sure how related is this, but Article Feedback allowed user rating > + comment, and it was deployed in Wikimedia servers. Editors didn't find it > that useful for regular articles (too much extra work processing too little > value feedback on to

Re: [Wikitech-l] mediawiki now being tested with vendor repo

2014-08-20 Thread Bryan Davis
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Hello, > > We have a mediawiki/vendor repository that holds third party libraries. > Since MediaWiki core is going to eventually rely on them I have crafted > a new Jenkins job (mediawiki-vendor-integration) which clones both > repositories,

[Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Quim Gil
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Jon Robson wrote: > > I was curious to how generic the rating system is. For example would > it be possible to use such a thing on something like BetaFeatures or > was it specifically designed for extension rating? > I'm not sure how related is this, but Article Feed

[Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-20 Thread Quim Gil
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, Isarra Yos > wrote: > > When someone creates a product specifically for a certain group of users > (in this case folks installing extensions) without actually knowing what is > useful to them (never even mind 'important' at this stage), there is > something seriously

[Wikitech-l] Open issues for next MediaWiki maintenance releases

2014-08-20 Thread Markus Glaser
Hello everyone, next week on August, 27th, there will be another set of maintenance releases for MediaWiki. There are still some unresolved bugs and changes that are wating to be +2'ed. So if you feel like improving MediaWiki tarball releases in the upcoming days, you could have a look at the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-20 Thread Derric Atzrott
> When someone creates a product specifically for a certain group of users > (in this case folks installing extensions) without actually knowing what > is useful to them (never even mind 'important' at this stage), there is > something seriously wrong with that process. Though I might only be a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-20 Thread Isarra Yos
On 20/08/14 11:48, Quim Gil wrote: For those interested in the process of proposing and accepting internship projects, here you have a post mortem of this specific case: On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Strainu wrote: This sounds like a serious miscommunication before the GSoC project begun. Som

[Wikitech-l] mediawiki now being tested with vendor repo

2014-08-20 Thread Antoine Musso
Hello, We have a mediawiki/vendor repository that holds third party libraries. Since MediaWiki core is going to eventually rely on them I have crafted a new Jenkins job (mediawiki-vendor-integration) which clones both repositories, checkout the appropriate patch / branch and run the whole MediaWi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-20 Thread Strainu
2014-08-20 14:48 GMT+03:00 Quim Gil : > Hi, > > One thing is clear, Aditya has a thick skin, which sadly still seems to be > a quality required in many open source projects including ours. And will remain so for the foreseeable future. > On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Strainu wrote: > >> >> This s

[Wikitech-l] Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings

2014-08-20 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, One thing is clear, Aditya has a thick skin, which sadly still seems to be a quality required in many open source projects including ours. I wonder of many old-timers would enjoy the kind of reception he got here after introducing himself as a GSoC student -- even by people that know well what

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of collation config updates?

2014-08-20 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
There is now a fourth pending patch: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/155241 …and I would still like to know WHY these can not be done. We've had a couple dozen done before with no problems at all, what is the holdup now? -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-l