A little additional information on topic 1 -- The pull request including the changes that this contributor to the script made can be viewed at https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/pull/54/files if it is of any interest. Thanks.
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:01 AM Subject: Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 122, Issue 65 Send Wikitech-l mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikitech-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: afch licensing question (Steven Walling) 2. Re: Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea? (Antoine Musso) 3. Re: MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features (Željko Filipin) 4. Re: Fwd: afch licensing question (Denny Vrandečić) 5. Job posting: frontend dev (JavaScript) at Wikimedia Deutschland (Lydia Pintscher) 6. Re: MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features (Ori Livneh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:36:43 -0700 From: Steven Walling <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: afch licensing question Message-ID: <CAMryOMXWs7QYrtKCfMUUEVTzKsK-mrV1EijNBT=zxlb0q6n...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Forwarding, with permission. For background the "AFC Helper" script is one that assists English Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which currently is severely backlogged. Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the question of gadget/userscript licensing? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mr. Donald J. Fortier II <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM Subject: afch licensing question To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Per the discussion on https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/61 one of the previous contributors to the project refuses to agree to relicense AFCH under the MIT license. Right now, the script is licensed under CC-BY-SA/GFDL, as it was originally coded on-wiki (per [[Wikipedia:Copyright]] -- all text-based contributions). This came about due to some confusion that can be seen https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/60. So, we are unsure as to where to go from here. If we replace any code contributed to the project by the person that refuses to agree, can we dissolve any requirements to get him to agree? Is there enough contribution from him to actually worry about it as he hasn't actually written any functions, just converted some stuff from old school JavaScript to jQuery? Any advice/assistance on this would be appreciated. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:09:30 +0200 From: Antoine Musso <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea? Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Le 26/09/13 00:46, Chad a écrit : >> > >> > What's actually the problem with expanding branches? >> > > To me at least, it makes it harder to see what's actually deployed at > a given time. Try `git branch -r` on core. We're at 86 branches now...that's > 172 if you've got two remotes. It's only going to get worse and it'll be > progressively harder to spot what's important. We could simply delete the old branches after a few deployment cycles. If we want to keep the reference for history purposes, would tagging the tip of it be enough ? If you find yourself struggling to find out the last 2 wmf branches, you can write a tiny script to sort and filter the branches, keeping only the last two. -- Antoine "hashar" Musso ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:52:38 +0200 From: Željko Filipin <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features Message-ID: <CABfBeAr+=ebumstfhemjrhgve77rbngryhqeoypcoxzqdh5...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Ori, Is there a reason for having Guest Additions Version 4.1.12 in the VM instead of 4.2? $ vagrant up (...) [default] VM booted and ready for use! [default] The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can cause things such as shared folders to not work properly. If you see shared folder errors, please update the guest additions within the virtual machine and reload your VM. Guest Additions Version: 4.1.12 VirtualBox Version: 4.2 [default] Setting hostname... (...) I will file a bug in Bugzilla if that is something you can fix. Željko ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:57:06 +0200 From: Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: afch licensing question Message-ID: <cannnrrto5dcnkpnqevcesob6puu-rofazjp+z981doj7bmi...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 CC-BY-SA/GFDL is in the same spirit as GPL, which is an obviously acceptable license for WMF (since MediaWiki is written in it). Can you explain the need to relicense it under MIT? 2013/9/26 Steven Walling <[email protected]> > Forwarding, with permission. > > For background the "AFC Helper" script is one that assists English > Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which > currently is severely backlogged. > > Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the > question of gadget/userscript licensing? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mr. Donald J. Fortier II <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM > Subject: afch licensing question > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > Per the discussion on https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/61 one of the > previous contributors to the project refuses to agree to relicense AFCH > under the MIT license. Right now, the script is licensed under > CC-BY-SA/GFDL, as it was originally coded on-wiki (per > [[Wikipedia:Copyright]] -- all text-based contributions). This came about > due to some confusion that can be seen > https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/60. So, we are unsure as to where to > go from here. If we replace any code contributed to the project by the > person that refuses to agree, can we dissolve any requirements to get him > to agree? Is there enough contribution from him to actually worry about it > as he hasn't actually written any functions, just converted some stuff from > old school JavaScript to jQuery? Any advice/assistance on this would be > appreciated. > > > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:52:59 +0200 From: Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> To: wikitech-l <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: [Wikitech-l] Job posting: frontend dev (JavaScript) at Wikimedia Deutschland Message-ID: <CABfqUgJpiiM_W=snszhpr+xapqeq5w3j-3+a9idk+6w__0r...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Heya folks :) Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer to work on all kinds of frontend-related things on exciting projects like Wikidata in a very cool team. If you're currently looking for a job and have the necessary skills please apply. You can find details at https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_(f/m)_focus_on_Frontend_Development_with_JavaScript Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Technical Projects Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:26:55 -0700 From: Ori Livneh <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features Message-ID: <cahxk4bzssgamhu9fixo4auv0ju+9przuhwmwz4vhesbgr9q...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Željko Filipin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Ori, > > Is there a reason for having Guest Additions Version 4.1.12 in the VM > instead of 4.2? > It's what Canonical's Vagrant image provides, and it's because that's the version that is packaged for Precise. (Remember, guest additions run on the guest.) You can update to the latest version by running 'update-guest-additions' in the VM. I'll take the opportunity to remind folks who use Vagrant to send some positive feedback to Canonical. The Vagrant image they provide is part of a beta program they have not yet committed to supporting permanently. Per http://blog.utlemming.org/2013/01/vagrant-cloud-images.html "For those who use Vagrant, your feedback is essential. Please feel free to send feedback via the [email protected] mailing list." ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l End of Wikitech-l Digest, Vol 122, Issue 65 ******************************************* _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
