Re: [Wikitech-l] New SVN commiter

2011-07-15 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://aaronparecki.com/MediaWiki#MediaWiki_Changelog_Graphs -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] improving bugzilla patch review: Splinter?

2011-07-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
up either. *mwahahahah* As of April 2011, Splinter accesses Bugzilla data directly so there is no longer a need for use of the webservices API. https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/40Upgrade/Alpha So that's even better. Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] Anonymization, virtualization, and community measurement tools

2011-07-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/What%27s_New_in_MediaWiki_1.17_%26_How_You_Can_Help#Volunteering So if you see Charles, Jenka, Drew, Shepherd, or Ruth around, that's what they're up to. Thanks to the Foundation for paying for my flight! Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikitech-l] improving bugzilla patch review: Splinter?

2011-07-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
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Re: [Wikitech-l] “Easy” Bug Triage meeting notes

2011-07-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
the relevant bugs to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_Little_Bug which you should feel free to hand out to developers interested in writing their first MediaWiki patch. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] The non-coder friendly weekend sprint: Check pre-1.17 bugs

2011-07-08 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 07/08/2011 07:47 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Finally, if you have followed the steps in the bug and can't reproduce it, please mark it “FIXED”. Actually, I think WORKSFORME is a better resolution here. FIXED implies that we know we've taken specific action to fix the bug. -- Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Selenium] IDE test for regressing bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29310

2011-07-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Test_framework_deployment#Status:_Permanent_hiatus http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium_Framework#Selenium.27s_uses_.26_flaws Would you be interested in writing test suites or tests for some of these other tools? Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Unit testing: request for comments commitments

2011-07-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
read and comment. I wrote it with material and help from RobLa, Chad, Krinkle, and Hashar -- thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.17.0 released

2011-06-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
the opportunity to brag about our new features and fixes in front of Ward Cunningham: http://twitpic.com/5gcekn So that was pretty cool. Onwards to 1.18 and beyond! Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Foundation hiring for several positions

2011-06-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. -Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Interested in Postgres support? Submit a talk to Postgres Open

2011-06-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
help preparing a proposal. Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Wikimania hackathon planning

2011-06-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
help recruit attendees, and help us knock out any dependencies in the eight weeks between now and the hackfest. http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Days#Topics -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] Software First aid checklist

2011-06-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/s. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:OpenID#First_aid_checklist Neat! Thanks for making and sharing that! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] about fixing broken tests in cruisecontrol

2011-06-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Ashar, Just a quick note thanking you for your hard, continuing work on this. -Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code review process (was: Status of more regular code deployments)

2011-06-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical or http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-June/thread.html -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikitech-l] GLAMCamp NYC this weekend: hacking on metadata tool for Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
: holds template url ConfigurationTitleTemplate Hope this is a productive weekend and we come out of it with something useful! Sumana Harihareswara Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback on online communications around the Berlin hackathon (including remote participants)

2011-05-20 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
a special thanks to you and Guillome for tirelessly hacking the sessions into etherpad. And of course to Jesse Scott, who took care of the streaming. We would have been lost without you, guys! -- daniel On 19.05.2011 12:59, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Thanks for clarifying, Andrew and Happy

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback on online communications around the Berlin hackathon (including remote participants)

2011-05-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
over past hackathons in this respect. Next time: better interactivity. Thank you for the bug reports. Best, Sumana Harihareswara ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Output as ePub or Mobi?

2011-05-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
thought it would be good to know if anyone is working on that avenue for output. Thanks. Regards Andrew Have you already checked out asked https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l ? They might know/have relevant opinions. -Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback on online communications around the Berlin hackathon (including remote participants)

2011-05-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
our techblog posts and mailing list posts didn't work. I may sound frustrated but I am seriously asking -- if you didn't get the message that we wanted remote participation, then some others did not as well. -Sumana Harihareswara, one of the note-takers

[Wikitech-l] Berlin hackathon - we want your input

2011-05-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
can. Thanks! -Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator, WMF ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Berlin hackathon - we want your input

2011-05-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
on Twitter/Identi.ca bugs to smash: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=bugsmash More information: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2011 -Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator, WMF ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Realtime collaborative editing of MediaWiki articles, with Hackpad

2011-05-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
As a person who edits MediaWiki wikis: thank you for hacking! As volunteer development coordinator: \o/ for getting your friends involved and sprinting together! -Sumana On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar ne...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Last week I collaborated with some local

[Wikitech-l] Berlin hackathon next week -- bugs to smash?

2011-05-05 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
to sprint on, show up tell people! We will allow for really tiny presentations, preferably ones that end with either decisions or and therefore now we shall hack on foo. :-) Thanks so much to Wikimedia's Germany chapter for organizing this! See you there, Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2011-05-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 05/03/2011 12:43 PM, quim@nokia.com wrote: Fwiw a MeeGo contributor has created a script to retrieve weekly information from http://bugs.meego.com and make these nice and useful reports: http://www.octofish.net/meegobugjar/platform/ Let me know if you are interested in an equivalent

Re: [Wikitech-l] Media embedding: oEmbed feedback?

2011-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/29/2011 05:40 PM, Bryan Tong Minh wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Brion Vibberbr...@pobox.com wrote: currently there's no exposed license metadata (highly desired for Wikimedia's usage, obviously) Krinkle and me have been working on that a while ago, but after discussion on

Re: [Wikitech-l] What is wrong with Wikia's WYSIWYG?

2011-05-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
them in Berlin and drag them into any relevant discussions, etc. -Sumana Harihareswara ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Registration open for the Hackathon in Berlin, May 13-15

2011-04-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/09/2011 02:11 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: I assume those of us who thought they registered via the WMF (but apparently didn't) don't need to do anything? Yeah, don't worry about it, Carrie at WMF Cornelius from WMDE are taking care of it. -Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] Registration open for the Hackathon in Berlin, May 13-15

2011-04-13 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks for correcting my error, Danese! Sorry. I should instead say: if Carrie says to do something, then yes, you need to do it. :-) -Sumana On 04/13/2011 04:18 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: Not quite right, Sumana...the folks Carrie wrote to over the weekend need to make sure they are

Re: [Wikitech-l] About to commit improved DB2 database support

2011-04-12 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/12/2011 12:32 PM, Leons Petrazickis wrote: I've been informally mentoring André, Tiago, Diego, and César. They are four students at Minho University who are currently working on a project to improve DB2 database support in MediaWiki. Thank you and congrats to your four students! -Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] Registration open for the Hackathon in Berlin, May 13-15

2011-04-09 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
. If you have any doubts or questions, contact us athackat...@wikimedia.de. We’re excited to see you in Berlin, your Hackathon Team Daniel Kinzler (Program Coordinator) Nicole Ebber (Logistics) Cornelius Kibelka (Assistant) This is a reminder. Just one more day to register. Please do! -Sumana

Re: [Wikitech-l] Focus on sister projects

2011-04-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Would any of those be useful project ideas for Google Summer of Code students? If so, please add a bullet point or two: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011 best, Sumana Harihareswara On 04/01/2011 10:11 PM, Conrad Irwin wrote: Ok — yes loading speeds are definitely something

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code project

2011-04-02 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
preferences? Or are you envisioning a per-page switch/button? Or some kind of combination of these? This might be too detailed for right now, but would you do stemming or something like that to allow for almost-right answers? best, Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mentor Search

2011-03-31 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
for feedback That will help people decide whether they're interested in mentoring you. Good luck! best, Sumana Harihareswara MediaWiki's organizational administrator for Google Summer of Code ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2011 proposal

2011-03-31 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/31/2011 05:58 PM, Женя Власенко wrote: Hi. My name is Yevhenii Vlasenko and I am a student for GSoC 2011 for MediaWiki. If you have time, please, looks through my proposal at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/zhenya/1# I'd like to hear your feedback

Re: [Wikitech-l] feedback on gsoc proposal

2011-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/26/2011 06:54 AM, ankit garg wrote: Hi All, My name is ankit. I am applying for Gsoc 2011 .I have prepared an initial draft for the proposal(copied below) .I have taken feedback from my mentor Yaron Koren on this. Please feel free to give your comments .. Thanks [snip] Project

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deleting bad ideas off Google Summer of Code suggestion page

2011-03-28 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/24/2011 07:17 PM, K. Peachey wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswarasuma...@panix.com wrote: There's no point in having our GSoC applicants wasting time working on proposals that we aren't really interested in Who is we the wikimedia foundation? the medawiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] code review criticism (Re: Converting to Git?)

2011-03-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/24/2011 10:13 AM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: Anyway, this is all vague and clearly I'm talking about radical changes to the entire MediaWiki community. But I believe it would help quite a bit. Maybe I should work on it a bit more and present it on a wiki page somewhere, as well as in

[Wikitech-l] Deleting bad ideas off Google Summer of Code suggestion page

2011-03-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
There's no point in having our GSoC applicants wasting time working on proposals that we aren't really interested in, that another developer is already half-done implementing, or that are just plain bad ideas. So please take a look at the project ideas page

Re: [Wikitech-l] New gadget

2011-03-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/22/2011 06:39 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: 2011/3/22 Max Semenikmaxsem.w...@gmail.com: To reduce the amount of clicks needed during code review, I wrote a gadget that displays basic information about a revision in tooltips.[1] To enable it, you need to check Display revision information in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Berlin hackathon in May: focus and dates

2011-03-07 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/04/2011, River Tarnell r.tarn...@ieee.org wrote: -- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:46:47 + (GMT) To:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID:ikrmk7$kiq$1...@tamara.tcx.org.uk In article4d6faefd.5030...@panix.com, Sumana Harihareswarasuma...@panix.com

[Wikitech-l] Berlin hackathon in May: focus and dates

2011-03-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Hi, Sumana Harihareswara here, interim volunteer development coordinator. Thanks for the introduction, Rob. Nicole Ebber (Wikimedia DE -- thanks, Germany chapter!) and I are organizing the Berlin developer Meeting in mid- or late May. We have two strong candidates for the dates: either May

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