[Wikitech-l] Re: [Toolforge][GRID SHUTDOWN] Toolforge Grid Engine has been shutdown

udflare.com/undersea-cable-failures-cause-internet-disruptions-across-africa-march-14-2024 Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]

[Wikitech-l] [Toolforge][GRID SHUTDOWN] Toolforge Grid Engine has been shutdown

#Timeline [3]: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/ [4]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-August/003955.html Bryan, on behalf of the Toolforge administrators -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal

[Wikitech-l] Re: remote access for vps

han enumerating results 500 at a time via the Action API, but it also may reduce the complexity and fragility of your operational deployment. Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:U

[Wikitech-l] Re: remote access for vps

ilscale/blob/main/LICENSE [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use#4.5_Using_WMCS_as_a_network_proxy [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358023 Bryan -- Bryan Davis

[Wikitech-l] Re: remote access for vps

On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 2:16 PM Bryan Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 12:43 PM Tim Moody wrote: > > > > I am trying to reach a remote mysql database from a vps using python. The > > destination server has created an opening in the firewall for the request, &g

[Wikitech-l] Re: remote access for vps

dia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Database#Connecting_to_the_database_replicas_from_your_own_computer for how this can be done in a specific case. For your case really just the target host (login.toolforge.org -> your instance) and database server should need to

[Wikitech-l] Open question about commit message linter rules and GItLab's merge requests

commit/dd9b43212fbc884c78e2729c78fac04d6eb6ad87 [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T351253 Bryan -- Bryan DavisWikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)

[Wikitech-l] Re: send mail in python

ERSION_NUMBER I saw that in one of my own tests as well. I don't have a good explanation of what triggered it. > In the console /usr/sbin/sendmail -v t...@tim.com > works just fine, so maybe I should just use subproc. If shelling out to the sendmail client works for your use case, go for it! Simpl

[Wikitech-l] Re: send mail in python

xt = ssl.create_default_context() >>> context.check_hostname = False >>> context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE >>> server = smtplib.SMTP("mx-out03.wmcloud.org", 25) >>> server.starttls(context=context) (220, b'TLS go ahead') >>> server.s

[Wikitech-l] Re: ClassCrawler – extremely fast and structured code search engine

rch/003989.html [2]: https://opensource.org/node/1099 [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use#What_uses_of_Cloud_Services_do_we_not_like? Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Softwar

[Wikitech-l] Re: Developer Portal status update

wn plugin with changes intended to make it easier to integrate with TWN. The current plugin work is tracked in <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297168> and <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/wikimedia/developer-portal/+/747214/>. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement

[Wikitech-l] Re: Goto for microoptimisation

ld it be as simple as stating the bias more like "The use of `goto` should be exceedingly rare, always accompanied by comments explaining why it is used (likely for performance), and the author should be prepared for others to challenge the usage"? [0]: https://

[Wikitech-l] Re: Proposal: new structure for MediaWiki RELEASE-NOTES

evelopers, maybe the PHP > ecosystem has a similar tool? Or we can reach out to other high traffic > projects and see how they are managing their changelog and maybe forge a > common tool. https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack-changelogger is a similar tool to reno that is pure php and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Stuck/Missing Grid Job for tools.william-avery-bot

k you for your report, and I hope you can get your tool back into its proper working state. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fatal exception when calling replaceVariables() from parser hook, after upgrade to MW 1.34

tps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Extension_API> and <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Parsoid/Extension_API>. There is also a bit of explanation about the changes at <<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-September/093827.html> along with a link to a tech tal

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do you use MediaWiki-Vagrant to develop or test Wikimedia software?

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:53 AM Bryan Davis wrote: > > I'm hoping to gather a bit of information on the current use of > MediaWiki-Vagrant by folks in the Wikimedia movement. I have started a > slowvote poll in Phabricator at > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/V24> that a

[Wikitech-l] Do you use MediaWiki-Vagrant to develop or test Wikimedia software?

dev environment * No, I tried it but it never worked well * No, I have never used it Data collected in the poll will be used to help me and others decide if it is worth putting in additional work to revitalize the group maintaining and improving MediaWiki-Vagrant. Bryan -- Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-l] Announcing MediaWiki 1.35.0

iki/Release_notes/1.34 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.35 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with Mailman spam filter

but I can't > remember where it is and how to do it right. > > Does anyone have a clue about how to fix this? Thanks in advance :) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/listadmins may be a better list for questions about configuring a mailman list. Bryan -- Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit v3.2.2 is live [was: Re: Gerrit upgrade on Saturday, 27th of June]

w DOM presence. I'm sure there are more elegant implementations (my javascript fu is not the best), but this one is working for now and does not seem to cause any significant load issues in my browser. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation Principal Softwa

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Backport and Config changes window (name change)

as the window name | \/ \ \ \ ___ ⎛ ⎛ , \ //==--' _//|,.·//==--' _OO≣=- ︶ ᴹw ⎞_§ __ ___\ ___\ ,\__ \/ __ \ (∞)_, ) ( | __/__ \/ /__ / /_/ / /_/ / ¨--¨|| |- ( / __\/ \___/ \__^_/ .__/ ««_/ «_/ jgs/bd808 /_/ Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia F

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Etherpad upgrade and a new skin

project, please DO NOT vent even calmly at Alexandros or anyone else on the Wikimedia Foundation's SRE team or employed by the Wikimedia Foundation generally. Please open your nearest window and share your complaints with the clouds in the sky. They will be happy for the attention. Bryan -- B

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get number of articles or related metrics for indic wiki's ?

around with Wikistats 2 and the APIs it uses and think of ways that you could either add new features to Wikistats 2 or make a tool that uses data from the same APIs that would be helpful to the Indic language community. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Technica

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coolest Tool Award 2019: Call for Nominations

se to make working on the Wikimedia projects easier and the Coolest Tool Academy wants to hear about all of them. You could honestly even nominate your favorite GNU Linux distribution if you can explain how it makes life as a Wikimedian better. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dealing with composer dependencies in early MediaWiki initialization

replaced with a semi-clever call to parse_url() that looked something like: $parts = parse_url( 'fake://' . $_SERVER[$varName] ); Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit HTTP Token Auth re-enabled

d at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/settings/http-password * Git push to gerrit over https with username/password auth * Regenerate a password at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/settings/http-password to invalidate the password that was exposed to the untrusted instance/network Bryan --

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.34.0-wmf.6 status and cawikinews outage

wiki.org, "testing" wikis, and "closed" wikis * Group 1 == wikis that are not wikipedias or in group 0 * Group 2 == wikipedias There are some more subtle distinctions, but that's the general setup of the groups. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fetching edit notices via API

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 8:02 PM Bryan Davis wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:02 PM Huji Lee wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > Is there an API call that would allow you to retrieve the edit notice for a > > page? > > I did not find a specific Action API th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fetching edit notices via API

iawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Edit_notice>: * MediaWiki:Editnotice- (where N is the namespace id) * MediaWiki:Editnotice-- (where any '/' in the title is replaced with '-') You could also find all editnotice messages for a wiki using a prefix search generator: Bryan -- Bryan Davis

[Wikitech-l] Change to Wikitech logins: Username now case-sensitive

for more details. Bryan, on behalf of the Cloud Services team -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment-prep (aka 'Beta') services will be unreliable this week

both memcached for arbitrary data caching and redis for session storage. If you are interested in the gory details see notes left on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210030. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise, ID USA irc:

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Datacenter Switchover recap

be worked on promptly. For me, Giuseppe's work on this bug is a sign that that he cares about the small details, and also that the rest of the switchover went well giving him the time to investigate lower impact edge cases like this. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator monthly statistics - 2018-07

rt the same way you would think of a report by GitLab, BitBucket, or GitHub about activity across all of their hosted projects and tracking boards. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise, ID USA irc: bd8

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to make oauth authentication with wikipedia?

e of the web application. This separation is not possible when the application is running on end-user controlled devices as a phone or desktop application does. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical EngagementBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] dumps.wikimedia.org web and rsync services down

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > The https://dumps.wikimedia.org web interface for downloading various > dump files is currently offline. The rsync service for external > mirroring is as well. Local network NFS consumers may or may not be > working depending on

[Wikitech-l] dumps.wikimedia.org web and rsync services down

is the result of hardware issues following a short planned maintenance. We are currently investigating the root cause of the outage and will post additional updates as they become available. Thanks for your patience. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Proposal] Change terminology used for wikitech/LDAP/Toolforge/Labs accounts

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > TL;DR see <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179461> for a proposed > naming change. Quiddity closed the proposal as accepted today! I have been making edits on Wikitech to reflect the new "Wiki

[Wikitech-l] [Proposal] Change terminology used for wikitech/LDAP/Toolforge/Labs accounts

ed for consensus and an approve/deny decision. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179461 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161859 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179463 Thanks, Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:U

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant's master branch migrated to Debian Stretch

ably receive few updates, so you are encouraged to create new Stretch based VMs soon. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Help Needed] MediaWiki-Vagrant: Debian Stretch testing and migration

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Work has begun to upgrade the base distribution for MediaWiki-Vagrant > to Debian Stretch [0]. The Wikimedia production cluster is preparing > for a similar upgrade [1] which will in part allow the

[Wikitech-l] [Help Needed] MediaWiki-Vagrant: Debian Stretch testing and migration

../vagrant; vagrant roles list -e -1) $ vagrant provision [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181353 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174431 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176370 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavi

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017-12-13 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

in Austin Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] [AI] New ORES FAQ

craft of making clear and useful documentation. [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft/Programs/Technology#Program_4:_Technical_community_building > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123425 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

wiki/Extension:Cite>. Citations are really just footnotes and each can be named when defined and then reused by reference at other places in the same article. There is a example of this at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Multiple_uses_of_the_same_footnote>. Bryan -- Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Try out the commit message validator

t would not be in any traditional dictionary that we could count on being on the local host. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA

Re: [Wikitech-l] 2017-09-27 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

sing features > before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all > planned features until November or December. You can read more on > mediawiki.org. Hopefully someone working on the project can give pointers to the chromium investigation. Bryan -- Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Previous mediawiki version test wiki

day. Why in this order? We want people to test and find bugs *before* they hit the larger wikis. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID

Re: [Wikitech-l] HHVM vs. Zend divergence

k the community driven FLOSS project and help them continue to thrive. [0]: https://codeascraft.com/2015/04/06/experimenting-with-hhvm-at-etsy/ [1]: https://codeascraft.com/speakers/rasmus-lerdorf-deploying-php-7/ [2]: https://github.com/phan/phan Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Fo

[Wikitech-l] Introducing the Cloud Services Team: What we do, and how we can help you (blog post)

urpose of the product rebranding we have been working on is. It also gives a shout out to a very small number of the Toolforge tools and Cloud VPS projects that the Wikimedia technical community make. I wish I could have named them all, but there are just too many! Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

ted with buggy user installed, community developed extensions. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855

[Wikitech-l] Labs and Tool Labs being renamed

sts.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-May/088184.html [4]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BryanDavis/Rebranding_Cloud_Services_products [5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168480 [6]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Labs_labs_labs Bryan (on behalf of the Wikimedi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Author of wikipedia images

arack_Obama.jpg=2=user%7Ccanonicaltitle%7Curl%7Ccommonmetadata=1> This is what MultimediaViewer uses behind the scenes to describe the image when shown in lightbox mode: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EMMV/browse/master/resources/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.ImageInfo.js> Bryan -

Re: [Wikitech-l] How does a build process look like for a mediawiki extension repository?

via gerrit patches. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] How does a build process look like for a mediawiki extension repository?

e quick cycle of making a change and seeing it live in your test environment. Today that is mostly a matter of saving an edit and hitting refresh in a browser. It would be sad to lose that, so the build system that is devised should also provide a path that allows a git clone to be a viable

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Fwd: [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedia Tool Developers Group

rvices_team [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_Labs_standards_committee Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Global language preference

ugh start on such a tool at <http://tools.wmflabs.org/globalprefs/>. The source looks to be a <https://github.com/legoktm/globalprefs>. Maybe some folks would like to collaborate on expanding that tool to make a nicer working proof of concept? Bryan -- Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introducing the MediaWiki Platform Team!

Tim for taking on the team lead/manager role in this group. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 __

[Wikitech-l] [Breaking Change] MediaWiki-Vagrant now defaults to Debian Jessie

ssions mapping problem when installing ChangeProp on a VM with OSX as the host operating system and NFS shares enabled for Vagrant (T158617). Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID US

Re: [Wikitech-l] Introduction

wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker wiki page is a good place to start looking for ways to contribute. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Results of the Developer Wishlist are in

; public.) > > > [1] https://github.com/tgr/wikimedia-rfc-stats There is an API that can be used to lookup a Phabricator account based on a Wikimedia username (<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/conduit/method/user.mediawikiquery/>). We built this for use by https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.o

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant needs testers for Debian Jessie changes

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMWVAdc73e2bee9dff1e0755d15cfe1376ee2dc6e141d [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136429 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID US

Re: [Wikitech-l] private key compromise OCSP declarations per RFC 5280

://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1201/>) would both seem reasonable. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] MVVM/Single-State solution for our UIs?

ossible solution would >> be using OOUI styles and markup but leaving DOM creation to the framework. >> >> >> Do you think using Vue (or a similar framework) is an option for us? What >> are requirements and concerns which would be important? I don't know if it would m

Re: [Wikitech-l] More useful Puppet docs for MediaWiki-Vagrant

ing them a bit better. Patches welcome. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855 ___

[Wikitech-l] More useful Puppet docs for MediaWiki-Vagrant

ant/>. Try searching for "role::" to get the list of all roles. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Scap 3.4.0-1 is live

uot; These two changes in particular are awesome! The lack of automatic !log messages for trebuchet and scap3 always bugged me. Thanks for all the work folks. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Enginee

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Using Kibana4 to read logs at Wikimedia

red the wrong browser window from my desktop and didn't notice that the slides weren't being displayed on the video. :/ Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic gerrit authentication and retrieval of reviews

ecently re-enabled on the Wikitech server, so you would need to register your OAuth consumer there (<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration>) and interact with wikitech.wikimedia.org in your client code. Bryan -- Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit screen size

1]: https://github.com/bd808/userscripts/blob/gh-pages/wmfgerrit.user.css [2]: http://bd808.com/userscripts/wmfgerrit.user.js Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Eng

Re: [Wikitech-l] Debian and Ubuntu packages for MediaWiki now available

ously on this project during the Wikimania 2015 hackathon in Mexico City. He has kept the process moving over these many months and worked through lots and lots of blocking issues that would have stopped most people. For me this is just one more example of why Legoktm is awesome and deserving

[Wikitech-l] [Discussion needed] Process for taking over abandoned tools

reasonable. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87730 [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_proposal [3]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_NDA Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Congratulations to all GSoC students (passed)

we made it to the end. It was a > great time working with the Wikimedia Foundation and I had a very great > experience. Congratulations to everyone. I hope that all of you find FLOSS projects to continue to contribute to. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikim

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] deployment-prep using valid certs for HTTPS

a long standing feature wish for the beta cluster. Thanks! Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855

Re: [Wikitech-l] BetaFeatures grafana dashboard

e very welcome. Thanks for working on this kind of data collection and visualization Adam. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Canary Deploys for MediaWiki

ttings file first and then the CommonSettings that uses it. There's no really good reason to spew a bunch of "undefined X" warnings and there is no guarantee with sync-dir that the files will be sent in the proper order. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@w

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Ops] Help evaluate upgrade path for logstash.wikimedia.org

na3 install as well. Working with dates is a pain in just about every language. :/ There are some neat new features too, like permalinks to individual log events and quite a few new visualization types [3]. [0]: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1600 [1]: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issu

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] Fall 2015 Tool Labs user survey data published

written with an assumption of familiarity with the services and terminology used in Tool Labs. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101659 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123425 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Softwa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fall 2015 Tool Labs user survey data published

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > [0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Annual_Tool_Labs_Survey Apologies for that abrupt initial message, that was a great example of hitting the wrong key in a mail client. :) Between 2015-09-25 and 2

[Wikitech-l] Fall 2015 Tool Labs user survey data published

[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Annual_Tool_Labs_Survey -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:20 PM Alex Monk <kren...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 27 April 2016 at 01:15, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> > The Wikimedia GitHub pr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

ld still be pretty big however since we have been creating a lot of "un-namespaced" repos in the last year or two. That change started happening when the migration off of Gerrit was deemed an eventuality as the organization of repos in Gerrit is not very friendly to other hosting p

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

thub account or be removed. [0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Developing_libraries#Transferring_an_existing_GitHub_repo_to_Wikimedia Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID US

Re: [Wikitech-l] MOOC Extension

you and your collaborators and don't get too hung up on the guidance that we give for production deployed code yet. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

[Wikitech-l] Tool Labs and my new job at WMF

ls [5]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Tool_Labs_support/Tool_Labs_vision [6]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Tool_Labs_support/Tool_Labs_vision Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mass migration to new syntax - PRO or CON?

voting, I'm PRO. +2 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808v:415.839.6885 x6855

Re: [Wikitech-l] Achievements in Wikimedia (6 months / Half year) anniversary

asy to lose track of how a few quick answers or even just acting as a rubber duck [0] for someone who is stuck can really make a difference. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Help test SessionManager on WMF beta cluster

[1]: http://deployment.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page [2]: https://logstash-beta.wmflabs.org/#/dashboard/elasticsearch/default Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, I

[Wikitech-l] Recent authentication session instability (was Re: Update from the Wikimedia Performance Team)

the use of that heavy hammer approach. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123451 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125267 [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160123-SessionManagerRolloutFailure [3]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/sal/log/AVKZtfQXW8txF7J0uNE2 [4]: https://phab

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] New [[Main Page]] for Wikitech

d to kill my table formatting and replace it with something that is actually mobile friendly too. The page I made looks horrible on my phone. :( Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise,

[Wikitech-l] New [[Main Page]] for Wikitech

and that none of you hate it with a fiery passion that compels you to revert it rather than helping me make it better. [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software En

[Wikitech-l] Giving some attention to the wikitech.wikimedia.org wiki

steps to have the new namespaces enabled (or got back to the drawing board if the concept is rejected). [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123425 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123427 [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123429 [3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122993 Brya

Re: [Wikitech-l] Trouble while setting up mediawiki-vagrant

amp; vagrant provision`. The role only includes the wikidata software and not any dump data. > Where can I find these dumps ? I'll > probably write an article on the contributors section > too after discovering the path myself . Dumps are available from https://dumps.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get started?

n Freenode with specific questions when you get stuck. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] WMF Survey: Please help us understand third-party use of Wikipedia's content

surveys is guidance for the Wikimedia Foundation on areas that deserve increased focus in the future. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software EngineerBoise, ID USA irc: bd808

Re: [Wikitech-l] Peer-to-peer sharing of the content of Wikipedia through WebRTC

ally thought about but never put any real work towards. It would be pretty neat to have something similar to the Netflix Open Connect appliance [0] available for Wikimedia projects. [0]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/ Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation<bd...@wikimedia.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW support for Composer equivalent for JavaScript packages

>>> in the module pattern and so the ability to get a result from require() >>> and allow npm modules to require() others are necessary. Circular >>> requires also need consideration. >>> >>> Whether you want a RL api that has a bridge to the npm ecosystem or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Random rant

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Aaron Halfaker <ahalfa...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >3. Is there a public conversation about this transition that I can >participate in? Yes! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/OAuth_handover Bryan -- Bryan Davis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Would anyone be interested in a tech talk about how to make a mw skin?

iew on creating a new skin. I would be especially interested in the "tales from the real world" aspects of working with RL, what is and isn't possible without implementing hooks, and lessons learned from past skins the two of you have worked on. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in working on a WikiWidget for algorithm visualization

d allow non-Wikimedia wikis powered by MediaWiki to integrate with your hosted service. See <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Developing_extensions> and <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker> for how you and your team could get started in tha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana at Wikimedia

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Rachel Farrand rfarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please join for the following tech talk: *Tech Talk**:* ELK: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana at Wikimedia *Presenter:* Bryan Davis *Date:* August 20, 2015 *Time: *17:30 UTC Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org

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