[Wikitech-l] Developers wanted - OSMdata: a Wikidata-like editor for OpenStreetMap

2014-09-12 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hello, I am forwarding this email to this list because I think this is a place where I may be able to find somebody interested with the required skills, sorry if this is not the case and/or this is not the right place. I would like to hear your fefedback (but please consider to use the

[Wikitech-l] FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 9

2014-09-12 Thread Quim Gil
FOSS Outreach Program for Women round 9 will be announced officially today by the GNOME Foundation. Wikimedia will participate again, and our landing page is located at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9 If you have a project proposal with two mentors and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sudden growth of unreviewed changesets in Gerrit

2014-09-12 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Jeff Janes jeff.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that when I submitted patches to review, it used to send out emails inviting people to review it. The last several patches I've submitted did not generates such emails (or at least if it did, I was not CC'ed

[Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my last day will be 30 September. I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post: http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0 I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread BinĂ¡ris
Thank you for the work by this time, and good luck! ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Derric Atzrott
You will be serverly missed. You've always been one of my favourite people at the Foundation. Thank you, Derric Atzrott ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread David Cuenca
After reading your blog post, I must agree with this: And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes, there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement). I wish that in your new environment you find a better environment to grow professionally with less

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Danny Joe Bauch
It was a pleasure to meet you and to work with you at the NOLA Hackathon. Best of luck. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey Sumana, Thanks for writing that up and the bits of helpful advice you gave me over the years. And like Micru, I have to agree with this part: And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes, there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement). This

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
:'( Going to miss you Sumana! (Hopefully we can meet up in the city one day.) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Sumana, Thanks for writing that up and

Re: [Wikitech-l] OOjs, MobileFrontend and Flow

2014-09-12 Thread Jon Robson
Update: With thanks from Roan IRL I worked out the above problem - it was due to not calling the parent initialize function. I made a few more tweaks and now I have a patch which moves MobileFrontend to using OOJS Class system. This is a big change that effects our entire stack with a bunch of

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] OOjs, MobileFrontend and Flow

2014-09-12 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: After this is done it would be good to sit down and document ways we can make better use of OOJS in mobile. Are you thinking of retooling existing features/infrastructure to use it first or making this a requirement for

[Wikitech-l] Howto get a patch merged?

2014-09-12 Thread Stephan Gambke
Ok, last attempt. This needs merge: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/151370/ Somebody shat on it (-2), so it looks ugly, sorry for that. Didn't come back to clean up their mess, either, instead told me to advertise it here. Sorry for putting it like this, in particular with the Sumana's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Howto get a patch merged?

2014-09-12 Thread Erik Bernhardson
Please don't feel bad when a patch doesn't make it through, I'm not very familiar with the progress of this particular patch but it happens regularly. I work full time with mediawiki and If you search gerrit for 'owner:EBernhardson ebernhard...@wikimedia.org status:abandoned' You will find just

Re: [Wikitech-l] Howto get a patch merged?

2014-09-12 Thread Chad
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Stephan Gambke s7ep...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, last attempt. This needs merge: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/151370/ Somebody shat on it (-2), so it looks ugly, sorry for that. Didn't come back to clean up their mess, either, instead told me to advertise

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
You will be missed Sumana, I personally will never forget what you did in WMF to make Wiki a better place. Best wishes On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 sep. 2014, at 20:08, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote: Hey

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Nischay Nahata
Hey Sumana, I would like to say all the best in your future endeavors and say a big Thank You for mentoring me (a lot of which wasn't even part of your job). A lot of credit behind my small successes are attributed to you :) Let me know how to stay in touch. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:39 PM,

[Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of Sept 15th

2014-09-12 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap and Deployment update. The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_September_15th A quick list of notable items... == Monday == * Revert Wikidata to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of Sept 15th

2014-09-12 Thread Greg Grossmeier
quote name=Greg Grossmeier date=2014-09-12 time=13:55:16 -0700 == Tuesday == * Commons to will get the new CirrusSearch as the primary search engine This was an errant copy/paste mistake. Commons already has Cirrus Search as the primary search engine. -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG:

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Katie Chan
It was a privilege to have meet you at Wikimedia events and you will be missed And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes, there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement). Sad to read this, but so so understandable unfortunately. KTC -- Katie

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] OOjs, MobileFrontend and Flow

2014-09-12 Thread Trevor Parscal
Jon, this is really awesome. I'm excited to be sharing more code. I'll be taking a look at these patches with Roan today. - Trevor On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: After this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sudden growth of unreviewed changesets in Gerrit

2014-09-12 Thread Jon Robson
Do we have any similar data which shows how neglected certain users are? I would be interesting in knowing for a given user what is the average time it takes for their patches to get attention. It would be good to give these developers more attention to keep them more engaged. pseudo code:

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-09-12 Thread Tony Thomas
All the best Sumana. You will be missed. :) Thanks, Tony Thomas http://tttwrites.wordpress.com/ FOSS@Amrita http://foss.amrita.ac.in *where there is a wifi, there is a way* On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: It was a privilege to have meet you at Wikimedia