Re: [Wikitech-l] IE 6/7 MIME type sniffing checks on uploads - is it time to retire them?

2019-01-28 Thread Kunal Mehta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, On 1/28/19 3:58 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Years ago, we added security checks for IE 5/6/7 to work around > IE's mime type sniffing: if you went to view a .png file directly > in IE (as opposed to in an ) the browser would check the first > few

[Wikitech-l] What would you like to see in gerrit?

2019-01-28 Thread Paladox via Wikitech-l
Hi, what would you like to see in gerrit or improved? I've been working been working on developing a plugin that pull's in zuul's status into PolyGerrit. See the running demo at https://imgur.com/a/uBk2oxQ . Im also planning on adding "recheck" and "check experimental" as buttons to

[Wikitech-l] IE 6/7 MIME type sniffing checks on uploads - is it time to retire them?

2019-01-28 Thread Brion Vibber
There's been some comments on some old tasks such as T27707 about problems with uploading files that include text metadata that looks like HTML elements. Years ago, we added security checks for IE 5/6/7 to work around IE's mime type sniffing: if you went

[Wikitech-l] Sunsetting VP8 version of WebM for video playback

2019-01-28 Thread Brion Vibber
A few months ago I switched our TimedMediaHandler's config to support the newer, more bandwidth-efficient VP9/Opus variant of WebM and to use these preferably over the older VP8/Vorbis version when creating scaled, playback-ready derivatives. (This does not affect upload support -- you may

[Wikitech-l] Request for comment: Themes in core

2019-01-28 Thread Isarra Yos
For those who weren't aware, Jack Phoenix and I have drafted a Request for Comment[1] and related initial patch[2] proposing to merge the logic from the Theme extension[3] into MediaWiki core. From the RfC: This will provide built-in functionality that skins can implement in a simple and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rough Project idea (suggestion)

2019-01-28 Thread K. Kaushik Reddy
Greetings Daniel, Thanks, I'll check them out. On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 8:20 PM Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Hello Kaushik! > > If you don't get any responses here, perhaps try the wiki-research-l > mailing > list . > > Good luck! > > --

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 7 is now a beta feature

2019-01-28 Thread Mohd Yuhairi tzm
-- Sent from Hotmail Email App for Android Monday, 28 January 2019, 11:37pm +08:00 from Victoria Coleman vcole...@wikimedia.org : >This is fantastic news Giuseppe! A terrific milestone representing tons of >work by many people! Kudos to all involved! > >Best regards, > >Victoria > >Sent from

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 7 is now a beta feature

2019-01-28 Thread Victoria Coleman
This is fantastic news Giuseppe! A terrific milestone representing tons of work by many people! Kudos to all involved! Best regards, Victoria Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:31 AM, Giuseppe Lavagetto > wrote: > > Hi all, > > as some of you might know, HHVM has decided some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rough Project idea (suggestion)

2019-01-28 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hello Kaushik! If you don't get any responses here, perhaps try the wiki-research-l mailing list . Good luck! -- daniel Am 27.01.19 um 14:45 schrieb K. Kaushik Reddy: > Hi developers, > > This is Kaushik Reddy. I am currently

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 7 is now a beta feature

2019-01-28 Thread Mohd Yuhairi tzm
-- Sent from Hotmail Email App for Android Monday, 28 January 2019, 10:31pm +08:00 from Giuseppe Lavagetto glavage...@wikimedia.org : >Hi all, > >as some of you might know, HHVM has decided some time ago to drop support >for PHP, choosing to only support Hack (Facebook's own PHP-derivative

[Wikitech-l] PHP 7 is now a beta feature

2019-01-28 Thread Giuseppe Lavagetto
Hi all, as some of you might know, HHVM has decided some time ago to drop support for PHP, choosing to only support Hack (Facebook's own PHP-derivative language)[1]. This forced us to consider alternatives. In particular the last major upgrade to PHP, PHP 7, was supposed to have greatly improved