[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2021.04 release

2021-04-29 Thread Kartik Mistry
Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2021.04. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.34 or above and requires PHP 7.2 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are very important bug fixes, we will do an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dynamically declaring parser functions?

2021-04-29 Thread Krinkle
It might be (more) feasible to use Lua (and Extension:Scribunto) for this, or even just templates more generally, as this allows one to define on-wiki mechanisms dynamically in a more flexible way. (I've not fully read the thread, apologies if this is incompatible with a requirement, I thought

Re: [Wikitech-l] Herald rules

2021-04-29 Thread Krinkle
Have we considered asking upstream Phabricator to e.g. a non-blocking mode for a Herald rule? These would e.g. be processed post-send in PHP or in some other queued manner internally. It would likely need to be restricted and (to avoid notification complexity) might also be automatically tied to

[Wikitech-l]  Fresh 21.04 released!

2021-04-29 Thread Krinkle
This release updates Chromium to 73, and fixes a bug where containers could sometimes keep running if you force-closed a terminal tab that still had an open fresh-node prompt. If you found that certain Selenium tests didn't pass locally after March 10th, this now fixed as well. [1] Thanks to

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.36.0-rc.0 is ready for testing

2021-04-29 Thread Tyler Cipriani
I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of MediaWiki 1.36.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for 1.36.x. Download links are at the end of the e-mail. The tag has been signed and pushed to Git. Please note that MediaWiki 1.36 now requires the PHP internationalization extension,

[Wikitech-l] Next datacenter switchover planned for week of June 28th

2021-04-29 Thread Kunal Mehta
Hi, The next datacenter switchover is scheduled for the week of June 28th. If you're not familiar with why we do this, I'd suggest reading [1]. Starting next week I'll be reaching out to service owners/maintainers to finalize the list of services that we will be switching over, checking