Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-03-11 Thread Andre Klapper
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 11:24 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: I can make and push tarballs without involving Chris. But yes, we need to discuss policy, and start setting expectations, etc. tl;dr: There's now a Backport_to_Stable dropdown in Bugzilla for backporting requests. Set it to ? if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-03-11 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 03/11/2013 08:12 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 11:24 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: But yes, we need to discuss policy, and start setting expectations, etc. tl;dr: There's now a Backport_to_Stable dropdown in Bugzilla for backporting requests. Set it to ? if you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-27 Thread Andre Klapper
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:41 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: On 02/22/2013 01:46 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: For example I would like to see the fix for the bug where wfSuppressWarnings turns on warnings that werent previously enabled, in php 5.4, Where is this reported in Bugzilla?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-27 Thread Brian Wolff
Sorry. Hit reply instead of reply all and this got sent to the wrong place. On 2013-02-23 3:45 PM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-02-23 2:41 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 02/22/2013 01:46 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: For example I would like to see the fix

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-23 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 02/22/2013 01:46 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: For example I would like to see the fix for the bug where wfSuppressWarnings turns on warnings that werent previously enabled, in php 5.4, Where is this reported in Bugzilla? Since I'm not following Bz as closely as I was when I was Bugmeister, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Wonderful! So, now that we have a release manager for MediaWiki, is the release manager the person who writes/approves the policy for what sort of things are worth a 1.x.y release and how they're tracked on bugzilla, and will Chris be able to make and push tarballs for those even if they're

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-22 Thread David Gerard
On 22 February 2013 12:03, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing that would be nice to have on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle or elsewhere is what are reasonable expectations about the stable releases. For instance, we know that 1.x.0 releases

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-22 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 02/22/2013 07:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: will Chris be able to make and push tarballs for those even if they're not (only) security-related? I can make and push tarballs without involving Chris. But yes, we need to discuss policy, and start setting expectations, etc. Can we build

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-22 Thread Chris Steipp
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 02/22/2013 07:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: will Chris be able to make and push tarballs for those even if they're not (only) security-related? I can make and push tarballs without involving Chris. And

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-22 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2013-02-22 2:37 PM, Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org wrote: On 02/22/2013 07:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: will Chris be able to make and push tarballs for those even if they're not (only)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Hi Greg. Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the references to Robla's e-mail clarify nothing: It only addresses things outside of the scope of my original questions, since, interpreting the text literally, you will only be responsible for code that is to be deployed on Wikimedia websites, which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
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? I had a conversation with Maria Miteva (Robla at least got copies of these emails) last week when she asked if I was planning on doing the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread bawolff
* Work to get bugfixes backported to 1.19. I don't have Gerrit rights to commit to the REL1_19 branch, but that will keep me from fixing bugs by fiat. I think we should give you such rights. --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: 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? I had a conversation with Maria Miteva (Robla at least got

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread David Gerard
On 21 February 2013 16:02, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote: * Champion features that non-WMF users want. This includes things like searching inside a category and a WYSIWYG editor. As a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread Quim Gil
On 02/21/2013 07:19 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: Is there something else the MW release manager should be doing? Let me know. Is there anyone in the WMF who disagrees with this assessment? Now is the time to speak up. Ok, just a question as humble 3rd party MediaWiki user and technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ok, just a question as humble 3rd party MediaWiki user and technical volunteer coordinator at the WMF: is there a possibility to consider having a regular free software release process? master/unstable --- (testing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread Rob Lanphier
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,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 02/21/2013 04:26 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: This all make sense? Yes, I appreciate you weighing in. -- http://hexmode.com/ There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. -- Mahatma Gandhi, Non-Violence in Peace and War ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-21 Thread Krinkle
On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:51 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: * Work to get bugfixes backported to 1.19. I don't have Gerrit rights to commit to the REL1_19 branch, but that will keep me from fixing bugs by fiat. I think we should give you such rights. --bawolff Though it is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-20 Thread Greg Grossmeier
(apologies for the none-theading of this; I wasn't subscribed to wikitech-l with this address when this message/thread was sent) quote name=Mark A. Hershberger date=2013-02-19 time=23:09:18 On Tue 19 Feb 2013 04:39:25 PM EST, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: My longer term question is: Who is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-19 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 02/10/2013 06:12 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote: Today I submitted a few patch sets of master to be backported to 1.19 and 1.20[1,2]. I asked Niklas to review and merge them. He then replied that he thought the Release manager should merge them at a convenient time. Our MediaWiki.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-19 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On Tue 19 Feb 2013 04:39:25 PM EST, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: My longer term question is: Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and what can we expect of the person who has that role? I think the answer is now that Greg Grossmeier fills the role of MediaWiki's release manager so he will have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-10 Thread Hydriz Scholz
I was quite sure Tim Starling used to be the release (or product) manager for MediaWiki, though I can't recall when that changed. It doesn't really matter who is the release manager, because what is most important is to know when to release and what to release (and it was thoroughly discussed

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who is responsible for accepting backported patch sets for maintained versions?

2013-02-10 Thread Chad
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote: My immediate question is: Who can and will review and approve the 8 patch sets I submitted for backporting? Anybody in MediaWiki core group can. I will finish reviewing them (just started) when I get back