[Wikitech-l] mediawiki-extension cli extension installer/updater released

As part of a side project in my job at Redwerks[1], I've released an early version of a mediawiki-extension cli tool. https://github.com/redwerks/mediawiki-extension-command#readme The tool requires Node.js (in addition to git and php to run clones and composer). It can be installed with `sudo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical expertise needed for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

Thanks Siko. Also, @Brian: the last I heard is that the Committee would like more members with software development experience. If that sounds like something you would want to do, I think that the committee coordinators or Marti would like to hear from you about joining IEGCom for the next round

[Wikitech-l] mediawiki-extension cli extension installer/updater released

Nice! -- brion On Thursday, October 8, 2015, Daniel Friesen > wrote: > As part of a side project in my job at Redwerks[1], I've released an > early version of a mediawiki-extension cli tool. > >

[Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

We are discussing the possibility of maintaining a weekly summary of news related to the areas covered by Developer Relations : technical documentation, events, and community. See Phab:T114224. We have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

Thanks Quim, I like the summary. Code review is a particular interest of mine and I'm glad to see some stats mentioned here. Pine On Oct 8, 2015 3:03 AM, "Quim Gil" wrote: > We are discussing the possibility of maintaining a weekly summary of news > related to the areas

[Wikitech-l] Mentors needed for Outreachy Project

Hello, I am Devi Krishnan ,an Outreachy applicant.I am interested to work on the project https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15303.But the project is lacking mentors. If anyone is willing to help out as a mentor or point me to someone who would, I'd hugely appreciate it.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting the CustomData extension

Thanks Brad. I will take a look at those extensions and see if they can also use setExtensionData directly. On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > > > We removed this

Re: [Wikitech-l] AWS usage

As to why: AWS is more flexible and more reliable than wikimedia-labs, other than that it's basically the same. If they really need to use AWS it's probably because they don't like the restrictions that come with wikimedia labs (stuff must be open source, comply with policies, only ubuntu or

[Wikitech-l] Sunsetting the CustomData extension

The reading web team discovered that no one was maintaining the RelatedArticles [1] extension despite it being deployed on Wikivoyage, so we have taken the time to clean it up and get it ported to extension.json etc and give it some love... Whilst doing so, we noticed that it depends on a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting the CustomData extension

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > We removed this dependency, and we wondered if any other extensions is > using CustomData. We'd be keen to undeploy it from the cluster if not. > I see reference to it from Insider, RelatedSites, and GeoCrumbs. All

Re: [Wikitech-l] Sunsetting the CustomData extension

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > The reading web team discovered that no one was maintaining the > RelatedArticles [1] extension despite it being deployed on Wikivoyage, so > we have taken the time to clean it up and get it ported to extension.json >

[Wikitech-l] (no subject)

In a simpe message text typo fix: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/243332/ in the job mwext-testextension-zend the test PHPUnit failed with these messages: + php phpunit.php --with-phpunitdir /srv/deployment/integration/phpunit/vendor/phpunit/phpunit --log-junit

Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)

Le 08/10/2015 21:04, Purodha Blissenbach a écrit : > In a simpe message text typo fix: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/243332/ > in the job > mwext-testextension-zend > the test > PHPUnit > failed with these messages: > > + php phpunit.php --with-phpunitdir >

Re: [Wikitech-l] (no subject)

Le 08/10/2015 21:04, Purodha Blissenbach a écrit : > In a simpe message text typo fix: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/243332/ > in the job > mwext-testextension-zend > the test > PHPUnit > failed with these messages: > > + php phpunit.php --with-phpunitdir >

[Wikitech-l] Architecture Committee expansion

In a recent meeting of the MediaWiki Architecture Committee, it was agreed that Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) would be invited to join the committee. Timo accepted this invitation. Timo is a talented software engineer with experience in many areas, especially the MediaWiki core and JavaScript frontend

[Wikitech-l] Updates on WMF product leadership

All, I want to share an update about the WMF’s product leadership. As of today, Wes Moran has stepped into the role of Vice President of Product. In this role, he’ll oversee the Foundation’s product across all audience verticals, reporting to me. Please join me in welcoming Wes into this new

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Updates on WMF product leadership

Thank you for the announcement. Congrats to Wes. Pine On Oct 8, 2015 8:34 PM, "Lila Tretikov" wrote: > All, > > I want to share an update about the WMF’s product leadership. As of today, > Wes Moran has stepped into the role of Vice President of Product. In this > role,

Re: [Wikitech-l] GitLab licensing (was Re: GitLab CI)

Greg Grossmeier wrote: >With my non-work hat on[0], it's not really a matter of "better" or >"worse". GitHub doesn't mince words; they are proprietary. > >Gitlab, however, has tremendously annoyed the FLOSS community[1] by >doing a "bait and switch" type move. Promoting their openness but >also

Re: [Wikitech-l] AWS usage

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > As to why: > > AWS is more flexible and more reliable than wikimedia-labs, other than > that it's basically the same. If they really need to use AWS it's > probably because they don't like the restrictions that come with >