[Wikitech-l] PHP 5.5.8 and 5.4.24 have been released on 2014-01-10

2014-01-14 Thread Thomas Gries
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.24. About 14 bugs were fixed. All PHP 5.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.8. This release fixes about 20 bugs against PHP 5.5.7

[Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
This morning I tried to run some unit tests, and to my surprise it failed with an error that PHPUnit 3.7.0 is now required. This was apparently done in Gerrit change 105920[1] in response to bug 59759.[2] Grepping through 1.23wmf10 finds the PHPUnit function complained about in that bug in only a

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: The problem here is that Ubuntu's upcoming 14.04 Trusty Tahr, as well as Debian unstable (sid), currently contain PHPUnit 3.6.10.[3][4] It seems to me that requiring our developers to manually install a

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: What version is available via PEAR? Installing via that is no more manual than apt. Also don't forget composer as well. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Brian Wolff
On Jan 14, 2014 11:58 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: This morning I tried to run some unit tests, and to my surprise it failed with an error that PHPUnit 3.7.0 is now required. This was apparently done in Gerrit change 105920[1] in response to bug 59759.[2] Grepping

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, What version is available via PEAR? Installing via that is no more manual than apt. Sebastian recommends that you use the phar, which is a lot easier then PEAR. Instructions on how to use it can be found at: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit#installation This morning I tried

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, What version is available via PEAR? Installing via that is no more manual than apt. Sebastian recommends that you use the phar, which is a lot easier then PEAR. Instructions on how to use it can be found

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, can you use a phar file for loading a library and not just executing a script? Yeah, you can include the phar (with a PHP include statement). Can we use the phar in core? Sure. One reason I've seen brought forward to bundle such a phar with a project is that then everyone runs the same

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: [...] The problem here is that Ubuntu's upcoming 14.04 Trusty Tahr, as well as Debian unstable (sid), currently contain PHPUnit 3.6.10.[3][4] It seems to me that requiring our developers to manually install a different version of phpunit is

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, can you use a phar file for loading a library and not just executing a script? Yeah, you can include the phar (with a PHP include statement). Can we use the phar in core? Sure. One reason I've seen

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: What version is available via PEAR? Installing via that is no more manual than apt. Err, yes it is. With apt it gets upgraded whenever I upgrade anything else, while pear is in its own little world with its own

[Wikitech-l] RFC process - open questions

2014-01-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On the RFC Process talk page, I'm presenting some questions about our RFC process and suggesting *my* answers: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Process#Process_questionsYou may find this super boring and I will not blame you if you skip the whole discussion, but I may ask

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: What version is available via PEAR? Installing via that is no more manual than apt. Err, yes it is. With apt it gets upgraded

Re: [Wikitech-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016

2014-01-14 Thread Fabrice Florin
Dear Gerard, Thank you so much for your kind words about the proposed Multimedia Vision for Wikimedia sites by 2016. (1) I am glad that our first user stories resonate with you. They intentionally focus on ways that our community may interact through multimedia -- and we view these types of

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC process - open questions

2014-01-14 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, at 4:52, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On the RFC Process talk page, I'm presenting some questions about our RFC process and suggesting *my* answers: Where can I find previous RFCs? It's a thing I haven't heard of before. How are contributors expected to find it? Gryllida

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC process - open questions

2014-01-14 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/14/2014 04:21 PM, Gryllida wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, at 4:52, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On the RFC Process talk page, I'm presenting some questions about our RFC process and suggesting *my* answers: Where can I find previous RFCs? They are listed at

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2014 scholarship now accepting application

2014-01-14 Thread Quim Gil
It looks like this annoucement didn't make it to this list before. Original Message Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Wikimania 2014 scholarship now accepting application Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:43:31 + From: Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info Reply-To: MediaWiki announcements and site

[Wikitech-l] Need a way to modify text before indexing (was SearchUpdate)

2014-01-14 Thread vitalif
Hi! Change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79025/ that was merged to 1.22 breaks my TikaMW extension - I used that hook to extract contents from binary files so the user can then search on it. Maybe you can add some other hook for this purpose? See also

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inclupedia: Developers wanted

2014-01-14 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/13/2014 01:59 PM, Nathan Larson wrote: I can't exactly post a bug to MediaZilla saying Create Inclupedia and then have a bunch of different bugs it depends on, because non-WMF projects are beyond the scope of MediaZilla. That's not the case. There are components for software the WMF

[Wikitech-l] Facebook Open Academy coordination

2014-01-14 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, today at the Engineering Community Team IRC meeting we had a discussion about the Facebook Open Academy program: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Facebook_Open_Academy#Projects See the minutes and full logs at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Meetings#2014-01-14 In

Re: [Wikitech-l] Need a way to modify text before indexing (was SearchUpdate)

2014-01-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:33 PM, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote: Hi! Change https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79025/ that was merged to 1.22 breaks my TikaMW extension - I used that hook to extract contents from binary files so the user can then search on it. Maybe you can add some other hook

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inclupedia: Developers wanted

2014-01-14 Thread Nathan Larson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: That's not the case. There are components for software the WMF does not use. This ranges from major projects like Semantic MW to one-off extensions that WMF does not have a use for (e.g. Absentee Landlord) to

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC process - open questions

2014-01-14 Thread MZMcBride
Sumana Harihareswara wrote: On the RFC Process talk page, I'm presenting some questions about our RFC process and suggesting *my* answers: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Process You've begun a discussion about changes to the process seemingly without making any attempt

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC process - open questions

2014-01-14 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Yo, MZ, did you miss the very first question, where I asked whether the current process is good enough? I'm totally cool with the answer yeah it is (except for numbering, I really want to be able to disambiguate RFCs on similar topics). Sounds like you'd like more clarification on problems I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Inclupedia: Developers wanted

2014-01-14 Thread Brian Wolff
On Jan 14, 2014 8:20 PM, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.orgwrote: That's not the case. There are components for software the WMF does not use. This ranges from major projects like Semantic MW to

Re: [Wikitech-l] ARM servers

2014-01-14 Thread Tim Starling
I wrote: But I think it would make more sense to have a bare metal provisioning process for misc servers which allowed smaller numbers of Intel cores per server, where that fits the application. That would improve energy efficiency without the need to deploy a new architecture. Actually,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is Foxway a right way?

2014-01-14 Thread Pavel Astakhov
13.01.2014 14:58, Pavel Astakhov пишет: Hi! I would like to discuss an idea. In MediaWiki is not very convenient to docomputingusing the syntax of the wiki. We have to use several extensions like Variables, Arrays, ParserFunctions and others. If there are a lot of computing, such as data