Hi everyone,
I'm excited to announce that Ori Livneh will be moving into Platform
Engineering as Senior Performance Engineer. This work is riffing off
of the work that he's done with the Growth (nee E3) team, where a big
part of his job was instrumenting new features to measure their impact
on
Hi everyone,
Registration for the MediaWiki Architecture Summit is now open, and
will close Tuesday, October 22, 17:00 UTC (10am PDT). Here is the
essential event information:
January 23-24, 2014
SPUR - 654 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, USA
Please put your name/information on the following
Hi folks,
I think Daniel buried the lede here (see his mail below), so I'm
mailing this out with a subject line that will hopefully provoke more
discussion. :-)
This is an RFC we originally conceived at the Hong Kong Wikimania
architecture discussion. The notes from that are here:
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to announce Gergő Tisza is joining our Mulitmedia team
today as a Software Engineer on the team. He'll be working most
closely with Mark Holmquist and Fabrice Florin on new media handling
features (first up: helping Mark finish off the new Media Viewer). He
joins us
Hi Erik,
I'm not a fan of removing one of the stages of our current deployments.
More inline:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Option B: No Monday deploy. This would mean we'd have to improve our
testing process to catch issues affecting the
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From: Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:25 PM
Subject: Sign up for the MediaWiki Architecture Summit (deadline October 22)
To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone,
Registration for the MediaWiki Architecture Summit is now open
Hi folks,
Here's the RFCs that have the most interest expressed on the
Architecture Summit invite page[1]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/TitleValue
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Configuration_database
Hi everyone,
I'd like to introduce Rummana Yasmeen, a new Software Test Engineer in
our QA team through April in our San Francisco office. Rummana is
going to be working with our Visual Editor team primarily on manual
testing, finding bugs so you don't have to. Depending on how things
go in the
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Option D: We come up with some kind of open process for
designating/confirming folks as architects, according to some
well-defined criteria
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:24 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Our Bugzilla installation at https://bugs.wikimedia.org/ currently
restricts the capabilities of new users as a knee-jerk response to prior
Bugzilla-related vandalism. There are further details at
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:18 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Rob Lanphier wrote:
We can certainly do something different than what we're doing, though. It
should be easy to get editbugs; just not so easy that a vandal can get it.
Okay, let's. I proposed reverting the settings change
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
Not all teams have drank the Mingle Kool-Aid yet ;-)
That includes mine. :) Chad: does Platform really depend on bug assignment?
Yes.
Rob
Hi everyone,
I'm thrilled to announce that Aaron Arcos has agreed to volunteer for
the Wikimedia Foundation as a developer with our Multimedia team
through May. Aaron most recently worked at Google Switzerland (from
2005 until August 2013), where he was a frontend software engineer and
UX
Hi everyone,
If you were following our planning process this past spring/summer, you
probably heard that we had planned to deploy both OAuth and OpenID by the
end of 2013.
The good news is that we were able to complete our OAuth deployment (see
Dan Garry's blog post on the subject[1]). The bad
Hi Jeroen,
I'd love for someone to take a crack at writing an RFC for this, and maybe
we can get this on the agenda for the Architecture Summit. It seems to be
a topic that comes up frequently, and has a number of champions, so it
doesn't have to be you that does this. Thoughts?
Rob
On Sun,
if stage. I honestly don't think it would take that much of a
shove to put us on a trajectory to using it much more seriously.
Rob
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Jeroen,
I'd love for someone to take a crack at writing an RFC for this, and maybe
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Bryan Davis bd...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Finding a way to separate MW the library from MW the application may be a
solution to this conflict. I don't think this would be a trivial
Hi everyone,
We're just over a week away from the Friday, December 20 deadline for RFCs
as items to consider at the Architecture Summit.[1] That's not a hard and
fast rule (we've never done this before), but we should definitely have a
reasonable amount of time between the point an RFC is
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com
wrote:
In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only
contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive
and
Hi everyone,
Everything I said below still stands, except now there are only two days,
so please make the most of them.
Don't make me break out the caps lock. I'll do it. :-)
Thanks
Rob
-- Forwarded message --
From: Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, Dec 11, 2013
Hi everyone,
It would be extremely useful to have summaries for all RFC clusters[1]
similar to the one I provided yesterday[2] for HTML templating. No,
I'm not volunteering :-)
As Diederik mentioned, we're going to have to figure out some way of
prioritizing all of the RFC clusters in advance
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Diederik van Liere
dvanli...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Best wishes for 2014! I hope on your list of resolutions for the New Year
is to participate in the straw poll for the Architecture Summit --
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/Straw_poll
Hi
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to introduce Gilles Dubuc, who is a newly-arrived Senior
Software Engineer and serving as Tech Lead for the Multimedia team
here at WMF. We searched far and wide to find him, and we're thrilled
to finally have him to filling this role.
One of the biggest responsibilities
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Diederik van Liere
dvanli...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:11 PM, legoktm legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
Given that the Configuration cluster had the second most number of
votes in the poll, why was it left of the agenda entirely?
We
Hi everyone,
A big thank you to everyone who participated in the Architecture Summit
this year! We covered a lot of ground this year, and collectively learned
a lot about how to put these things together.
A lot of our work from this summit on this is only just beginning.
Speaking of that, just
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Can/should notes about specific RfC be copied into the respective talk
pages? Some of them include DocumentMode bits that can be part of the RfC
text itself, but not many. In particular I'd like to see updates to
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
Brad since you work for the for the foundation and seem to have a lot of
expertise in this area and seem to have been one of the more vocal
supporters of free fonts have you reached out to your work colleagues over
video
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:03 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 February 2014 23:42, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
For what it's worth, I think I can represent Brad's viewpoint pretty
well,
so if anyone wants to discuss this with me in the office, I'm happy
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:
Sacrificing the readability and beauty of content for
most users because there is no universally perfect solution is the kind of
hard-line approach that limits the reach of FOSS, and ultimately undermines
our
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
This week, we're mostly discussing the HTML templating and SOA RFCs -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/HTML_templatingand
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Last time we were discussing PHP 5.4 it was quite a while ago but I
remember hearing that we'd need to do some porting work for our
extensions. Plus, we we re having a debate we were having about Suhosin
that I
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote:
Hey,
As you are probably aware of, it has been possible for some time now to
install Composer compatible MediaWiki extensions via Composer.
Markus Glaser recently wrote an RFC titled
Hi everyone,
I wanted to give everyone an update from an in-person conversation I had
with Ryan (see...see...I do talk to people in person!) :-) Ryan and crew,
I'm really glad you all are following through with documentation and doing
all of the testing you are. Thank you!
If we're going to
Hi Tyler,
I understand you're frustrated here. As Jon says: communication in the
wikiverse is hard. Also, running a top 10 website is also hard.
Others have covered many of the other points, but I wanted to make sure I
addressed one of the points that hasn't been covered yet:
On Thu, Mar 6,
Hi everyone,
I'd like to announce some changes in the Engineering Community
Team[1]. The headlines:
* Quim Gil is taking over as the new Engineering Community Manager,
effective immediately
* Sumana Harihareswara is stepping into a new role as Senior Technical
Writer, also effective immediately
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:47:04AM -0700, Quim Gil wrote:
* projects we develop that we want others to use and contribute to (e.g.
MediaWiki)
* projects others develop and we embed in our architecture (e.g.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't see a huge case for discussing this in the RFC meeting. It's mostly
about the implementation at this point, and IMO code review and pull
requests are a better place to discuss that. We'll post benchmark results
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Siebrand Mazeland siebr...@kitano.nlwrote:
With the merging of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/122787/ , probably
the largest patch set for MediaWiki ever (+548314, -714438), MediaWiki core
is now using JSON for localisation of interface messages, per a
Hi everyone
I'm pleased to announce that Aaron Schulz is taking on a new role in
Wikimedia Foundation's Platform Team: Senior Performance Engineer.
Aaron works on MediaWiki internals -- components that every
user-visible feature depends on, but which are rarely user-visible
themselves. The
Hi everyone,
I wanted to give everyone a heads up on our plans for the next
quarter. The long version is here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Quarterly_review,_April_2014
The short version: we're planning to primarily focus on:
* HHVM deployment. No promises
Hi Gilles,
Thanks for the comparison images. When I was playing around with this
a while back, I found that images with lots of parallel lines and lots
of easily recognized detail were the best to see what sorts of
problems rescaling can cause. Here's a few
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to announce Mukunda Modell, a new member of our Release
and QA group[1] in Platform Engineering. He'll be working on the
multitude of things that need to be done to make the process of
getting code from the first developer submission out into production
in a reliable and
Hi everyone,
I'd like to welcome Dan Duvall to Wikimedia Foundation in his role as
Automation Engineer in our Release and QA group. Dan comes to us most
recently from Giant Rabbit, where he worked for a few months doing web
development consulting, and before that, at National Novel Writing
Month
Hi folks,
I just wanted to provide a brief (and belated) announcement regarding some
added help we've enlisted over the summer on the Multimedia team.
Brian Wolff has been doing little bits of contracting work over the course
of his school year (as well as a lot of volunteer development), and
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Lydia Pintscher
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Wikimedia Germany has been working with a team of students over the
past months. They have among other things developed a pubsubhubbub
extension. The idea is that we allow 3rd parties to easily subscribe
to
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
In terms of benchmarks, I was thinking more along the lines of
benchmarking on the client, in particular for mobile devices which may
have less memory. This would essentially be, time to load the template
from the server
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is there someone who has the time to perform and publish an independent
audit on performance specifically? We currently have this:
https
Hi everyone,
The email below was written with an internal audience in mind, but
Krenair pointed out that there would generally be a lot of general
interest in this.
Rob
-- Forwarded message --
From: Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:20 PM
Subject: HHVM
Hi everyone,
I’d like to announce an organizational change at Wikimedia Foundation
in the Platform Engineering group. For those that aren't terribly
interested in how WMF's org chart looks, you can skip the rest of this
email. :-)
Yesterday, we formalized “Release Engineering” as a team, and
Hi all,
Welcome to this week's deployment highlights! I'm pretending to be Greg today.
The full log of planned deployments next week can be found at:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_Aug_25th
A couple of notable items on Tuesday of next week
* Global user CSS and JS
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Right now I'd like to introduce a clear way to mark issues that should
be handled immediately.
This.
Also
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote:
An alternative way of looking at
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Guillaume Paumier
gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Merlijn van Deen valhall...@arctus.nl
wrote:
After the new version of LabeledSectionTransclusion (LST) was deployed on
itwikisource, performance issues popped up. itwikisource's
feedback, Merlijn won't
be able to fix this, so we should plan on reverting on Thursday or so
if this thread goes stale.
Rob
-- Forwarded message --
From: Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] LabeledSectionTransclusion performance
Hi everyone,
We're planning to have another of our weekly tech talks next Thursday,
December 13. Timing and participation details are here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-12-13
Our one confirmed topic for next week is an update on browser test
automation. Chris McMahon and Željko
My 2cif we add a new status, it should equate to deployed on the
cluster, along with judicious use of milestone so that people who are
just interested in the tarball can infer from our numbering what the
corresponding release will be.
The more statuses (statii?) we add, the less likely
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:35 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Original thread from March starts here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/59684
As I noted back then, this is a drastic policy change that needs a lot
wider discussion, including on
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Matthew Flaschen
mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 12/11/2012 03:02 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
However, every other mobile browser I've tested doesn't support Ogg Theora
or WebM formats. Mobile Safari, Chrome, the old stock Android browser,
Opera Mobile, and the
Hi everyone,
Because a number of people are planning to take time off for the
holidays, I'd like to postpone the regular release cycle for 2 weeks,
with 1.21wmf7 being a slightly longer window than normal, and 1.21wmf8
stretched out a little bit as well to accommodate MLK day (January
21).
Hi everyone,
My understanding is that some new extensions intended for widespread
deployment aren't getting deployed to test2.wikipedia.org before going
to other production wikis. As I was discussing this with Chris
McMahon, he pointed out that there's no stated policy that this should
be done.
Thanks for the emergency fix! We'll take a closer look at a permafix
when we've got more people around.
Rob
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Hi folks,
One item that comes up pretty frequently in our regular conversations
with the Wikidata folks is the question of how change propagation
should work. This email is largely directed at the relevant folks in
WMF's Ops and Platform Eng groups (and obviously, also the Wikidata
team), but
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The thing that isn't covered here is how it works today, which I'll
try to quickly sum up. Basically, it's a single cron job, running on
hume[1]. So, that means that when a change is made on wikidata.org,
one has to wait
Hi everyone,
As you probably read from CT's email last week about the Eqiad
migration (you read that, right? No? Go read it. I'll wait)
Ok, done now? So, as you know (now), we plan to suspend all scheduled
deployments next week during the data center migration (January
21-25). We'd like to
Hi everyone,
This week's open tech chat is going to be very tied to current events,
where the current event is the data center migration, and
specifically, our move to git-deploy[1] as a replacement for the
venerable scap[2] for deployments in the new (and old) datacenters.
This talk will be
Hi everyone,
I’m delighted to introduce Munagala Ramanath (a.k.a. “Ram”), who
started yesterday as a Senior Software Engineer in our Platform
Engineering group (MediaWiki Core, specifically). He comes to us most
recently from a small company called Oblong Industries, where he was
responsible for
Hi Arthur,
Sorry for the delayed reply. Comments below:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Arthur Richards
aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am scheduled to do a deployment (to all wikis) for MobileFrontend this
Thursday afternoon:
* I presume scap/sync-blah will still work for 1.21wmf7 - can
Hi everyone,
We attempted to deploy 1.21wmf8 using git-deploy[1], and ran into
enough problems that we decided the best course of action is to use
scap[2] today and for the foreseeable future.
The new plan is to implement scap/sync-file/sync-dir for Eqiad as a
temporary solution for next week
Hi folks,
We had to revert 1.21wmf9 on a few wikis due to bug 44748. Bug report:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44748
The problem is that, when 1.21wmf9 is enabled, editing is completely
broken on ku.wiktionary and sr.wikinews, among others.
Below is the stack trace. Any ideas?
Rob
Hi everyone,
I'd like to give an extremely belated welcome to Christian
Aistleitner. Christian is working as a contractor for Wikimedia
Foundation specializing in Gerrit work, who started working with us in
mid-January. Christian was very helpful in getting the Gerrit 2.6pre
upgrade to happen,
Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday,
February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including
English Wikipedia.
Details here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the
wikis. Those
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the encouragement! Comments inline:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I didn't see it in the docs above, so thought I'd ask... Is this going to
include rollout of the CodeEditor extension, or will that be done
separately?
Hi everyone,
I'm excited to welcome Greg Grossmeier as our new Release Manager at
the Wikimedia Foundation. Greg comes to us from Creative Commons,
where he served as Education Technology and Policy Coordinator, as
well as serving as an interim leader for their engineering group.
Prior to
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote:
On 02/21/2013 04:13 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote:
B. Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and what can we expect of the person
who has that role?
[..]
Absent an explicit statement from anyone inside Foundation,
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the obvious thing to do and imho what we should do, like, *right now*
is extend the lifetime of the old branch to the timeout of the cache.
Simply not deleting a directory is very, very easy.
As far as I'm concerned
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote:
A short while ago I wrote a set of three PHP unit tests for Math that use
test doubles to stub out external dependencies (in this case, the
database-backed cache and the texvc executable). My intent was to demonstrate
the
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any way that extension developers can get some sort of notice for
breaking changes, e.g., https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/50138? Luckily my
extension's JobQueue implementation hasn't been merged yet, but if it had I
Hi folks,
Short version: This mail is fishing for feedback on proposed work on
Gerrit-Bugzilla integration to replace code review tags.
Long version:
One feature of our old code review system that was a tagging system
that made it quick and easy to assign a keyword to a revision at any
time.
Hi Ori,
I'm at the office now, but (heh) that may be a tougher test than my
home connection. More below
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Rob, thanks for checking. I tried it yesterday and again just now, and in
both cases it took around 15 minutes:
Hi Guillaume,
Good point. Comments below...
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Guillaume Paumier
gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Short version: This mail is fishing for feedback on proposed work on
Gerrit-Bugzilla
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:14 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote:
4) A Gerrit-based tagging plugin would need some engineering that might
not be apparent at first blush, for example: who can set tags and remove
Hi Bináris,
Could you file a bug report for this? I think I might be able to
tease out what the bug is from your email, but it would be a lot
better if you could document what the expected behavior is, and what
the actual behavior is.
Here's my attempt to describe the problem, but I don't want
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 23/03/13 03:26, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
On 03/21/2013 09:54 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
Also, community managers generally see it as their responsibility to
extract as much work from volunteers as possible
The
Hi folks,
We've had at least a couple of site outages which we believe are due
to l10nupdate. The root cause is identified in a fairly old
ResourceLoader bug that seems to be biting us a little harder than it
normally does:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27320
Disabling
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:13 AM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org
wrote:
Wow, thank you for pointing to Framasoft. Looks like they've got some
really useful stuff going on there.
Could be done very easily and
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I've done a little weekend hacking experimenting with adding
higher-resolution output support for the Score extension -- the current PNG
images look pixelated or fuzzy when printed or viewed on high-DPI (eg
'Retina')
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Extrapolating from our experience from two-week deploy cycles and what
bugs we find at each stage, would moving to a one-week deploy cycle
substantially increase the number of users exposed to really bad bugs?
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote:
On 12.05.2013 1:18, Tyler Romeo wrote:
FWIW, here is what I have so far: http://pastebin.com/hUQ92DfB
Perhaps you should send the link to HipHop developers (or to their list, if
there's any).
Unfortunately, they
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matthew Flaschen
mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 05/12/2013 06:24 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov ques...@rambler.ru wrote:
On 12.05.2013 1:18, Tyler Romeo wrote:
FWIW, here is what I have so far: http://pastebin.com
Hi folks,
A few months back, we switched to updating the WMF Engineering Roadmap
in Google Docs[1], and deprecated the on-wiki version. This wasn't an
ideal solution, but the way that we were doing updates before also
wasn't working, so it was worth trying something else.
Now there's a
Hi folks,
Many of us met at the Amsterdam Hackathon to discuss architecture
guidelines (almost everyone with +2 in MediaWiki core, plus other
knowledgeable people), and generally about the need to have more
substantive conversations about MediaWiki architecture. It was a
really productive
Hi everyone
It is my pleasure to introduce Nik Everett as a new Senior Software
Engineer specializing in Search, working remotely from his home in
Raleigh, North Carolina. Nik joins us from Lulu, a company founded by
Bob Young[1] to enable anyone to publish a book (dealing with print,
Hi everyone,
Many of you already know Brian Wolff, who has been a steady
contributor to MediaWiki in the the past several years (User:Bawolff),
having gotten a start during Google Summer of Code 2010[1].
Brian is back for another summer working with us, working generally to
improve our
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:29 PM, James Alexander
jalexan...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Someone else can very much correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is
that the difference is that this is as a normal contractor in that he's
doing what is directed/needed rather then an accepted project on his
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/06/13 01:17, Tyler Romeo wrote:
By saying you can only use OAuth if you're open source, it's the same as
saying if you're closed source you must use insecure authentication
methods. Because just saying OAuth must be
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to Matt and Daniel for your input so far.
I would really appreciate some more heads commenting/voting on this so
it is possible to start building this...
Hi Jon,
You probably want to make sure you link to it from
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:29 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Is there a status update regarding the MediaWiki Release Management RFP?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_Management_RFP#Timeline indicates
that the goal for an announcement was the second week of July.
Hi Mz,
I'll
Hi everyone,
I'm pleased to welcome Bryan Davis to Wikimedia Foundation's Platform
Engineering team. Bryan joins us from Keynetics in Boise, Idaho,
where he was the senior programmer and architect on a team responsible
for new product development, building the Kount fraud control system.
Bryan
Hi folks,
As many of you may recall, we had some great conversations in
Amsterdam about how to move the architecture of MediaWiki forward (see
notes from last meeting [1]) One of the many things we resolved to do
was to have similar conversations when we had a critical mass of
developers
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
You can rely on the Gitblit urls, they're not going anywhere or changing.
Gitweb I had been making promises of killing for a long long time (and
never a promise of 1:1 mapping of all urls for rewriting), so here we are
with
Hi all,
Recapping a conversation that I had in person with Quim:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
# Queue of open Gerrit change requests in relation to total amount of
contributions. Shorter == Better.
## Same points as above.
I'm personally interested in
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