Re: [Wikitech-l] Recently proposed patchsets by new contributors awaiting code review - organization?

2016-10-02 Thread Marcin Cieslak
A just checked this one: > http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/scr-backlog.html how does one recognize or define "Organization" affected by the backlog? (it's the first time I see this) Saper ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC] Giving actual CSRF tokens to not logged in users (T40417)

2016-09-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 29.09.2016 Max Semenik napisał/a: >> Note it will affect scripts and API clients that expect to see "+\" as the >> token as a sign that they're logged out, or worse assume that's the token >> and don't bother to fetch it. > > > We had breaking API/frontend

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 discussion

2016-09-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 28.09.2016 Quim Gil napisał/a: > Summit sessions are considered tasks themselves, not just a conversation > happening in a room and eventually documented in a wiki page. I think this kind of captures the opinions expressed here very well (if it could be one sentence).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 discussion

2016-09-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 28.09.2016 Yaron Koren napisał/a: > Hi Quim, > > Most relevantly, the Chaos Communications Congress wiki uses the Semantic > Forms [1] extension to handle submissions - speakers use a form to enter > their talk proposals. I don't know how exactly talks are approved, or >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit screen size

2016-09-25 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 25.09.2016 Tim Starling napisał/a: > On 25/09/16 21:09, Bináris wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I try to familiarize myself with Gerrit which is not a good example for >> user-friendly interface. >> I noticed a letter B in the upper right corner of the screen, and I >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to login with API?

2016-09-17 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 06.09.2016 Gergo Tisza napisał/a: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Bináris wrote: > >> I found bot passwords, but they offer very limited user rights. >> > > They offer rights for anything which is defined in $wgGrantPermissions [1], > which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Outreachy-13 mentors needed

2016-09-17 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 17.09.2016 Sumit Asthana napisał/a: >> >> I have been contacted on IRC by a candidate willing to work on graphs >> and Graphoid. I can offer my generic knowledge of MediaWiki >> as well as substantial node experience (incl. writing extensions). >> > Yes, we need

Re: [Wikitech-l] Outreachy-13 mentors needed

2016-09-17 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 12.09.2016 Sumit Asthana napisał/a: > Hello Wikimedians, > > Gnome's Outreachy-13 is round the corner > and Wikimedia is again participating in yet another internship season ( Dec > 6 to March 6 ). The application deadline is *Oct

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit 2.12.2 test instance - PLEASE TEST

2016-07-20 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Dnia 15.07.2016 Isarra Yos napisał/a: > > * Diffs - using icons for back to change, previous file, next file is > very unclear and hard to find; new users will not see them and have > any idea what to do with them. The current textual 'up to change', >

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC meeting: Minimum PHP version

2015-11-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-24, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi folks, > > This week's RFC review meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 25 > at 2pm PST (22:00 UTC). Event particulars can be found at > > > The main task this week is to plan out what we

Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] MediaWiki 1.26 Now Available

2015-11-26 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-25, Chad wrote: > Hello everyone, > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/REL1_26/RELEASE-NOTES-1.26 > ResourceLoader now loads all scripts asynchronously. The top-queue and > startup modules are no longer synchronously loaded. so we ship

Re: [Wikitech-l] Outreachy round 11 results out

2015-11-17 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-17, Tony Thomas <01tonytho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Glad to inform that the results of Outreachy round 11 are out, and one of > our candidate - Josephine Lim made it to the program for her proposal > on Easier categorization of pictures in Upload to Commons Android app - >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-11-14 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-13, Runa Bhattacharjee wrote: > Specifics about this can be seen at: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Machine_Translation/Yandex#Summary_of_terms_of_Yandex_agreement > Thanks! This is very helpful. The link was already in the FAQ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

2015-11-14 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-13, Purodha Blissenbach wrote: > Hi, > >> git clone >> ssh://review.openstack.org:29418/openstack-infra/git-review.git > > fatal: Could not read from remote repository. > > Please make sure you have the correct access rights > and the repository exists. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Yandex?

2015-11-12 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-11, Luis Villa wrote: > I haven't been directly involved in a while, but we were certainly not > paying Yandex last time I looked at the arrangement. Appropriate legal > steps were also taken to protect the licensing of the content, and > appropriate technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] Summit proposal: Turning the Table of Contents into a discrete object

2015-11-10 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-10, Isarra Yos wrote: > Hi! I would like to turn the mw ToC into a discrete object within the > codebase. Write a ToC class and pull all the random building parts out > of the parser and five levels of pageoutput, and make it stop messing up > the page caching

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC/Summit] `npm install mediawiki-express`

2015-11-06 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-05, Ryan Lane wrote: > Is this simply to support hosted providers? npm is one of the worst package > managers around. This really seems like a case where thin docker images and > docker-compose really shines. It's easy to handle from the packer side, > it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Reading] October updates

2015-11-04 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-03, MZMcBride wrote: > Moushira Elamrawy wrote: >>Heads up that we have updates available for Reading team's work during >>September and October. One highlight is the new "*Read more* >>" feature >>that

Re: [Wikitech-l] documentation files in git and .{media, }wiki extension (bikeshedding!)

2015-11-04 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-03, S Page wrote: > I noticed two conventions for the extension of wikitext files in git: > .mediawiki and .wiki, e.g. tests/browser/README.mediawiki and > extensions/Wikibase/docs/lua.wiki. GitHub will render both kinds as > MediaWiki wikitext (of course it only

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.25 extension registration - PHP constants redux

2015-11-03 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-11-02, Jason Ji wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry to be spamming this list due to my own incompetence. I'm basically > doing an upgrade-a-thon of our various extensions to the new extension > format, and therefore running into issues as I go. > > In a previous email I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Random rant

2015-10-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-10-28, Brian Wolff wrote: > I'm not sure how necessary that all is, especially for apps with only > normal edit rights, or less. If an app maintainer tries to pull > anything silly, we can just block it. Users can already be tricked > into giving their password to

[Wikitech-l] Organizing project in the Phabricator - advice needed

2015-10-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hi, I have recently did some review of the Mediawiki-Installer project, fixing some minor bugs right away: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:mediawiki/core+branch:master+topic:installer,n,z https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-installer/ As far as I understand the

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.26 Release

2015-10-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-10-27, Chad wrote: > Hi all, > > We're rapidly approaching the 1.26 release. General guilting e-mail > to get some extra eyes on the things currently tagged against the > release. > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/jcSXdUecbcLp/#R > > Buggy

Re: [Wikitech-l] Organizing project in the Phabricator - advice needed

2015-10-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-10-28, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: > >> My main trick for moving items between columns on a board that has a lot of >> columns is to zoom my browser out so far that the text is microscopic

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core tests failing? why?

2015-10-26 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-10-26, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: Brad - thank you very much for having a look at this. > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Marcin Cieslak <sa...@saper.info> wrote: > >> I am getting few interesting failures: >> >> - floating

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core tests failing? why?

2015-10-26 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-10-26, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Marcin Cieslak <sa...@saper.info> wrote: > >> I am getting few interesting failures: >> >> - floating point format problems >> > > Why do you have

Re: [Wikitech-l] XSS warning for an image download

2015-10-25 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On 2015-10-25, Pine W wrote: > When I right-click on the image download link for > File:Commodore_Grace_M._Hopper,_USN_(covered).jpg the download I get is > only 269 bytes and it contains a 404 error in plaintext even though it's a > jpg file. > > When I click on the image

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki core tests failing? why?

2015-10-24 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, I have tried to run our current MediaWiki tests using PHP 5.4 on a Gentoo machine against +/- git master: + git -C . log --oneline -1 5c63cce Merge "ApiQueryAllRevisions: Actually use 'start' and 'end'" + git -C vendor log --oneline -1 5efd7d7 Update OOjs UI to v0.12.12 + git -C

[Wikitech-l] Working around composer? (Fatal error: Class 'Cdb\Reader' not found)

2015-01-13 Thread Marcin Cieslak
I am kind of late to the party but I have upgraded one of my throaway development wikis with the usual git remote update git merge php maintenance/update.php process and after the above succeeded I was nevertheless greeted by: Fatal error: Class 'Cdb\Reader' not found exception coming out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abandoning -1 code reviews automatically?

2014-04-13 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote: I'm all for abandoning changes when the author doesn't react and the patch doesn't apply anymore (not in a technical sense, but the patch's concept cannot be rebased to the cur- rent HEAD). But forcing work on many just so that a metric can be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling [Bugzilla etiquette]

2013-12-22 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/12/13 23:28, Petr Bena wrote: I think we need to use less rules and more common sense. This. Rules are silly. Common sense for all :) Yeah, and at this very moment we are

[Wikitech-l] Uninstalling hooks for tests?

2013-12-05 Thread Marcin Cieslak
I am not very happy about this but we came to the case where it might be useful to explicitly uninstall some hook(s) for out unit tests. You might want to checkout MediaWikiTestCase::uninstallHook https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99349/ I am not happy about blurring differences between unit

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pywikipediabot] Using the content of a file as input for articles

2013-12-01 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Hello, I want to add esperanto words to fr.wiktionary using as input a file where each line have the format word:the fine definition. So I copied the basic.py, and started hacking it to achieve my goal. Now, it's seems like the -file

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Pywikipediabot] Using the content of a file as input for articles

2013-12-01 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Hello, I want to add esperanto words to fr.wiktionary using as input a file where each line have the format word:the fine definition. So I copied the basic.py, and started hacking it to achieve my goal. Now, it's seems like the -file

Re: [Wikitech-l] Operations buy in on Architecture of mwlib Replacement

2013-11-13 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote: [1 ]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PDF_rendering/Architecture I think requirement number one is that Jimmy the casual MediaWiki user would be able to install his own renederer without replicating WMF infrastructure:

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

2013-11-13 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: I don't know your specific usecase - maybe the shared saved search named My CC'd Bugs might work (or not) which you could enable on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=saved-searches (see

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Bugzilla users have restricted accounts

2013-11-07 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Let's look at the github model -- there's no assignment at all. I just file a bug, maybe make some comments on it to say I'm working on it, and some time later I submit a pull request referencing the bug and saying, I fixed it. That seems to work fine for collaboration, and offers no

Re: [Wikitech-l] Subclassing User?

2013-10-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think a better way to go is to add a hook point in RecentChange::checkIPaddress()... I don't like mixing more session-related stuff into User like a getUserIP method. Brion and everyone, thanks for your time and your insight. I will try to hold my

[Wikitech-l] Subclassing User?

2013-10-27 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hi, given that there are some extensions which perform edits/actions automatically (not directly as a result of user request), I was wondering, was anyone attempting or successful at subclassing User? There are some places where name of this class is hardcoded. //Saper

Re: [Wikitech-l] Subclassing User?

2013-10-27 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Generally I would not recommend subclassing User; while you can certainly create such a subclass it will have limited utility as you can't really control how they get created easily. Like the rest of MediaWiki, the User class is intended to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Subclassing User?

2013-10-27 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On 2013-10-27 2:45 PM, Marcin Cieslak wrote: Some example: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92252/ needs https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92179/ in core, that gives some method to override. Surprisinly, it even works (rc_ip will be set

Re: [Wikitech-l] [IRC] hiring more wm-bot operators

2013-10-11 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Some of you may know our belowed robot, which is working as a slave in some of our dev channels. Unfortunately, freenode as well as wikimedia labs is a bit unstable, when it comes to network connectivity. So both freenode servers as well as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Exceptions, return false/null, and other error handling possibilities.

2013-10-09 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Erik Bernhardson ebernhard...@wikimedia.org wrote: Moving forward, the Flow team is considering using a php implementation that follows the ideas of the haskell Maybe monad( https://github.com/schmittjoh/php-option ). This is, in concept, rather similar to the Status class the wikitext

Re: [Wikitech-l] Identifying pages that are slow to render

2013-03-08 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 06/03/13 22:05, Robert Rohde a écrit : On enwiki we've already made Lua conversions with most of the string templates, several formatting templates (e.g. {{rnd}}, {{precision}}), {{coord}}, and a number of others. And there is work underway on a

Re: [Wikitech-l] How do MS SQL users install MediaWiki?

2013-03-07 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 03/04/2013 01:34 AM, Chad wrote: However, we do have people who want/use MSSQL, so I think taking the effort to keep it working is worthwhile--if someone's willing to commit. Since Danny Bauch has been using MSSQL and modifying MW for his

[Wikitech-l] Research on newcomer experience - do we want to take part?

2012-11-14 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, Kevin Carillo[1] from University of Wellington is going to research Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in FOSS communities[2] So far Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, OpenSUSE will be taken into account, and FreeBSD recently joined[3] and there is still some

Re: [Wikitech-l] IPv6 routing problem?

2012-10-15 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, Thanks for forwarding the report. I've chatted with the user via IRC on Sunday and subsequently via e-mail, so we're on it. For what it's worth, the underlying issue is still there, although restoring European traffic via the esams

Re: [Wikitech-l] master broken on PostgreSQL - ContentHandler?

2012-10-11 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: I'll try to look into this today, but I need to find help from someone knowledgable about postrtges (and especially about the postgres updater. it's... different). Thank you everyone - the working fix is now

[Wikitech-l] master broken on PostgreSQL - ContentHandler?

2012-10-10 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, I updated one of my wikis today from f2138b1 to 9299bab032a85c1a421436da04a595b79f2b9d6c (git master as I write this) and after running update.php I get this: A database error has occurred. Did you forget to run maintenance/update.php after upgrading? See:

Re: [Wikitech-l] master broken on PostgreSQL - ContentHandler?

2012-10-10 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/10/12 09:02, Marcin Cieslak wrote: Hello, I updated one of my wikis today from f2138b1 to 9299bab032a85c1a421436da04a595b79f2b9d6c (git master as I write this) and after running update.php I get this: A database error has occurred. Did you

Re: [Wikitech-l] master broken on PostgreSQL - ContentHandler?

2012-10-10 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: I'll try to look into this today, but I need to find help from someone knowledgable about postrtges (and especially about the postgres updater. it's... different). Sure, feel free to ask, I will be travelling starting tomorrow but today we can try to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github replication

2012-10-04 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, that sounds sane. Anyone who wants to volunteer to keep an eye on Github and make sure patches get into Gerrit, let me know and I'll add you to the group on Github. +1 I'm github.com/saper ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Learning Git/Gerrit? - 3 Oct 2012 17:30 UTC

2012-10-04 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Marcin Cieslak sa...@saper.info wrote: More information on the setup: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workshop I am already available on SIP as well as on IRC (#git-gerrit on Freenode) if you would like to test your setup. Thank you everyone for joining, it was fun although it took

Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcome Željko Filipin, QA Engineer

2012-10-04 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Zeljko Filipin zfili...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: I am in CET timezone myself and working on continuous integration. Ping hashar on freenode :-] Will do. I will probably need help with Jenkins. Welcome :) Now I know why you

[Wikitech-l] Learning Git/Gerrit? - 3 Oct 2012 17:30 UTC

2012-10-03 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, Our scheduled Git+Gerrit session starts in ca. 40 minutes from now. Everything will happen via SIP audioconference and SSH connection. Please make sure your SIP and SSH clients works! More information on the setup: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workshop I am already available

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we kill DBO_TRX? It seems evil!

2012-09-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Brad Jorsch b-jor...@alum.northwestern.edu wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:40:13PM +, Marcin Cieslak wrote: From the PostgreSQL side I see one problem with nesting - we are already using savepoints to emulate MySQL's INSERT IGNORE and friends.\ It might be difficult to abuse

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we kill DBO_TRX? It seems evil!

2012-09-27 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: So, my current proposal is a more expressive high-level api for transaction control consisting of start/finish/flush (and perhaps abort) on top of the low level interface consisting of begin/commit/rollback. Documentation needs to be very clear on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Learning Git/Gerrit? - 3 Oct 2012 17:30 UTC

2012-09-27 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Git, Gerrit, and You! A Tutorial Where:IRC/SIP/SSH We want all our developers to feel comfortable with Git, git-review, and Gerrit. So saper is leading a hands-on online training:

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla workflow: keywords

2012-08-27 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, Recently I noticed that keywords in bugzilla get updated more and more often, mostly with keywords like patch, patch-need-review, etc. I am wondering what to do in the following situations (like https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39635 for example): - user A posts a patch -

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's talk about arc: On Arcanist docs

2012-08-10 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Evan Priestley epriest...@phacility.com wrote: I sent out a diff to fix the error message (https://secure.phabricator.com/D3231), the new one reads: This patch is for the 'phabricator' project, but the working copy does not have an '.arcconfig' file to identify which project it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's talk about arc: Phabricator replacement for git-review and more

2012-08-10 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: Why is arc written in PHP? That seems to be a horrible software decision to me. Core extensions not enabled by default can be hard to install on some OS. And imho the packaging setup is not as good. Frankly I gave up trying to get mcrypt

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's talk about arc: Phabricator replacement for git-review and more

2012-08-10 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Evan Priestley epriest...@phacility.com wrote: On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:52 AM, Marcin Cieslak wrote: It could be improved to check for curl and bcmath (the ones I found out are needed) on startup, not during some other command after other succeded (unless of course the extension is needed

[Wikitech-l] Let's talk about arc: Phabricator replacement for git-review and more

2012-08-09 Thread Marcin Cieslak
I just wrote a very rough and quick walkthrough how to get that tool running: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Arcanist My first impression is very good. The UI is very nice (it guides you when it needs to, it just does the job if all is fine). The user's guide is unfortunately poor. I don't

Re: [Wikitech-l] About outreach and tech events (as suggested by Sumana!)

2012-08-05 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Julien Dorra juliendo...@juliendorra.com wrote: «Testing Wikipedia» could be a nice catchy name for a series for events in various cities around TDD, with experienced dev mentoring less experienced community members, etc. Even if the experts come and go, everybody learn, some test and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-18 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org wrote: It would appear from reading this page that the only alternative to Gerrit that has a serious following is GitHub. Is that the case? Personally, it seems like Phabricator or Barkeep has the best chance of dislodging Gerrit, but those won't probably get

Re: [Wikitech-l] Serious alternatives to Gerrit

2012-07-18 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:41:06 -0700, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: What about changing gerrit to our needs? It's open source, I suppose. That's of course the route we're

Re: [Wikitech-l] Maintaining (and thus editing) SVGs' text like wiki-text pages

2012-07-15 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Achim Flammenkamp ac...@uni-bielefeld.de wrote: My aim is the have on wikimedia/wikipedia (/wiki-whatever sounds apropriate) 1) a version-control environment (as we have for artcile-, talk-, user-, category-, template- ... etc (text-)namespace), because it is IMHO apropriate for each

[Wikitech-l] [[Template:WikimediaDownload]]

2012-07-15 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Due to various requestes popping out on IRC I visting sometimes some random extensions to MediaWiki. Today's pick was https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiForum The infobox says it is available on Git - I remember the old version was giving pointers to SVN and Git. Git links there give

Re: [Wikitech-l] potential network issue due to packet losses

2012-07-03 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote: When in a firewall filter, packets are rejected (which sends an ICMP rejected notice), the routing engine can receive too many of these requests, causing the routing engine to choke on its backlog of requests. Leslie, thanks for excellent update! Was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upstream keyword in bugzilla

2012-07-02 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 July 2012 17:55, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: I think the upstream keyword in bugzilla is useless. Can we replace it with a field which takes an url

[Wikitech-l] Today's git master

2012-06-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
$ git reset --hard HEAD is now at de13c31 Actually we have many contributors $ Chad, you made my day:) //Saper ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Barkeep code review tool

2012-06-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
As seen on IRC: https://github.com/ooyala/barkeep/wiki/Comparing-Barkeep-to-other-code-review-tools //Saper ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] bot activity in #mediawiki on freenode

2012-06-22 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Please move the bots out. I like bots. I've taken care of some bugs or CR only because I've seen it on IRC. +1 for flood protection and thanks for silencing l10n //Saper ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Planning for the future: prepare high resolution icons and images in your code

2012-06-20 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: * INCLUDE THE SVG IN SOURCE CONTROL! (...) We'll develop some best practices about how to switch in high-res versions and whether it's better to use the SVGs or double-sized PNG rasterizations. You don't need to use them now, just make sure the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some old proposed changes in Gerrit waiting merge, after a code review.

2012-06-14 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Sébastien Santoro dereck...@espace-win.org wrote: Hi, I saw this morning those reviewed but not merged code changes in gerrit: Parser issue for HTML definition list Bug 11748: Handle optionally-closed HTML tags without tidy 2012-04-17 Owner: GWicke Review: +1 by saper

Re: [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-10 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/6/8 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: No one has to break the loop.  The loop will break itself.  Either enough people will

Re: [Wikitech-l] Give create gerrit repo right to all WMF engineers

2012-06-09 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: On 2012-06-06 00:19, Diederik van Liere wrote: A workflow where engineers have to bug a Gerrit admin to do something is a broken workflow: As something of an outsider/newcomer, I hear two very different stories. The first is the story of all the good

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit question: pushing to another branch

2012-06-05 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Bergi a.d.be...@web.de wrote: Doesn't Git encourage us to create as many branches as we can, to share our work and collaborate? Or should I publish my branch(es) somewhere else, maybe without gerrit at all? Sorry to say this and many people here might disagree: Forget 80% of git

Re: [Wikitech-l] feedback from a gerrit newbie: gerrit questions; improvement of the Git/Tutorial;

2012-06-05 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: In the Tutorial, git review -R is suggested to be used. Hashar showed me git review -f (documented on https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Git-review#Full_feature_branch_wor= kflow_with_git-review ) I suggest that the tutorial uses -f this (instead

Re: [Wikitech-l] git review version update, May 2012

2012-05-30 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Raimond Spekking raimond.spekk...@gmail.com wrote: os.chmod(target_file, os.path.stat.S_IREAD | os.path.stat.S_IEXEC) WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden: '.git\\hooks\\commit-msg' (the last sentence means: The system cannot find the file

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit question: pushing to another branch

2012-05-30 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: How do you create the new branch on gerrit? In Gerrit Web UI: Admin - Projects - (choose project) - Branches - Create branch //Saper ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] git review version update, May 2012

2012-05-27 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/05/12 20:02, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: `git review' says that a new version of git-review is availble on PyPI. The last update created some unwanted surprises, so I decided to avoid updating it for now. What do our Git experts suggest? Thank you,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Cry for help from translatewiki.net

2012-05-21 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Some extension commits go past Gerrit code review. This means that it is impossible to even get notifications on those extensions. Some of those extensions are in use at translatewiki.net and given the numerous breakages related to those extensions lately, I am seriously considering removing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder about online Git/Gerrit tutorial - May 8 (today) @ 19:00 UTC

2012-05-08 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Reminder to folks about the tutorial that saper is doing for Git / Gerrit later today @ 19:00 UTC. Below is more info, but here is a link with the highlights:

Re: [Wikitech-l] The most efficient approach to patchset dependencies

2012-05-08 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Beau b...@adres.pl wrote: I know gerrit can use dependencies, so I can make a chain of dependant changes: c1 - c2 - c3 - c4. However if c2 and c3 got a positive review and c1 needs some rework, c2 and c3 need to be reviewed again after I submit c1. Sometimes another, unrelated change may be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder about online Git/Gerrit tutorial - May 8 (today) @ 19:00 UTC

2012-05-08 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Beau b...@adres.pl wrote: W dniu 05/08/12 17:23, Marcin Cieslak pisze: See you there... Saper, thanks for your time! Some mysterious git commands actually make sense for me now :-). There were 11 people on the call who managed to overcome issues with SIP networking. Big thanks to alfa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua: return versus print

2012-04-15 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: +1 to all the points for using return values. Zope has a nice solution here: print Asdsds prints actually to the internal magic variable printed which has to be returned later with return printed if it's going to end up as the function

Re: [Wikitech-l] git-review wanting to submit lot of changes

2012-04-15 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: What about the users who clone from their own GitHub fork as origin and push side-project branches there before merging and pushing finished projects to gerrit? A proper fix in the works currently is to not need .gitreview file at all if one

Re: [Wikitech-l] Save to userspace

2012-04-11 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: It isn't stable, maybe someone should take over the work on it... If it was finished it would be nice to have feature, if it was ever deployed of course. Can you describe (maybe on a talk page or maybe better in bugzilla) what's wrong with this extension

Re: [Wikitech-l] selenium browser testing proposal and prototype

2012-04-11 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Markus Glaser gla...@hallowelt.biz wrote: Some time ago some people from the test framework team started working on a Selenium Framework for MediaWiki [1], in PHP and with Selenium 1.0. One of the reasons the project discontinued was that there was no clear case of when Selenium would be

[Wikitech-l] @since

2012-04-11 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, I have a problem similar to the one of RELEASE-NOTES. After great pains (broken merges, unknown dependencies, etc.) I have pushed f74ed02ef744138a8d2a87322f81023ddc143a5f where I have marked some methods @since 1.19 since I really hope to have this backported to 1.19 and maybe even 1.18.

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSOC proposal: Native application uploader

2012-04-04 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Zawartość nagłówka [Followup-To: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical.] Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm presenting a GSOC proposal for a native desktop application designed for mass uploading files on upload campaigns. Opinions? Improvements? Sexy names?

Re: [Wikitech-l] correct way to import SQL dumps into MySQL database in terms of character encoding

2012-04-01 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Piotr Jagielski piotr.jagiel...@op.pl wrote: Hello, set my data source URL to the following in my Java code: jdbc:mysql://localhost/plwiki?useUnicode=truecharacterEncoding=UTF-8 Please note you have plwiki here and you imported into wiki. Assuming your .my.cnf is not making things difficult

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changeset differ (was Re: Committing followups: please no --amend)

2012-03-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I wrote: Also, I'm concluding based on Roan's objections that I'm going to have a hard time convincing people to stop amending their commits. So I wrote this script that provides changeset diffs for reviewers:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changeset differ (was Re: Committing followups: please no --amend)

2012-03-28 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I wrote: It doesn't work, I'm afraid. Because of the implicit rebase on push, usually subsequent changesets have a different parent. So when you diff between the two branches, you get all of the intervening commits which were merged to the master.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Committing followups: please no --amend

2012-03-27 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: It doesn't work, I'm afraid. Because of the implicit rebase on push, usually subsequent changesets have a different parent. How does the implicit rebase on push work? Do you mean git-review? I don't know whether git push remote

Re: [Wikitech-l] Test suite for dumping MediaWikis using xmldumps-backup

2012-03-17 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Christian Aistleitner christ...@quelltextlich.at wrote: --===2205038051751942713== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol=application/pgp-signature; boundary=Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Disposition: inline --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mark Hershberger departing Wikimedia Foundation in May

2012-03-17 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I thought that his role must have been one of most boring like the walking through a lot of various reports and trying to make some lazy developers to fix them ;-) but i was surprised that when I started to work with him thas the work we did was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Integrating code common to several extensions into core?

2012-03-15 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: What is our policy/best practices on code needed by several extensions? Does it make sense to integrate such code into core? For example, my current situation: there is a class in MobileFrontend that performs reformatting of HTML: remove some tags

Re: [Wikitech-l] We need to use git-review - need help packaging for Win/Mac (Gerrit)

2012-03-14 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: I wrote: So if you have tried and failed to install and use git-review, please speak up ASAP so we can make our git-review instructions and workflow more robust. I'm not hearing anyone saying that this is still failing for them. And, as

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