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-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014/1/19 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > 1. Can this be set up for testing locally? Where is the new software? I'm > not sure that I see it in the master version of Collection in Gerrit. > > 2. Are the wikis with a non-English content language where this can be > tested? > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > > 2014/1/18 Matthew Walker <[email protected]> > >> All, >> >> We've just finished our second sprint on the new PDF renderer. A >> significant chunk of renderer development time this cycle was on non latin >> script support, as well as puppetization and packaging for deployment. We >> have a work in progress pipeline up and running in labs which I encourage >> everyone to go try and break. You can use the following featured articles >> just to see what our current output is: >> * http://ocg-collection-alpha.wmflabs.org/index.php/Alexis_Bachelot >> * >> >> http://ocg-collection-alpha.wmflabs.org/index.php/Atlantis:_The_Lost_Empire >> >> Some other articles imported on that test wiki: >> * http://ur1.ca/gg0bw >> >> Please note that some of these will fail due to known issues noted below. >> >> You can render any page in the new renderer by clicking the sidebar link >> "Download as WMF PDF"; if you "Download as PDF" you'll be using the old >> renderer (useful for comparison.) Additionally, you can create full books >> via Special:Book -- our renderer is "RDF to Latex (PDF)" and the old >> renderer is "e-book (PDF)". You can also try out the "RDF to Text (TXT)" >> renderer, but that's not on the critical path. As of right now we do not >> have a bugzilla project entry so reply to this email, or email me directly >> -- we'll need one of: the name of the page, the name of the collection, or >> the collection_id parameter from the URL to debug. >> >> There are some code bits that we know are still missing that we will have >> to address in the coming weeks or in another sprint. >> * Attribution for images and text. The APIs are done, but we still >> need >> to massage that information into the document. >> * Message translation -- right now all internal messages are in >> English >> which is not so helpful to non English speakers. >> * Things using the <cite> tag and the Cite extension are not currently >> supported (meaning you won't get nice references.) >> * Tables may not render at all, or may break the renderer. >> * Caching needs to be greatly improved. >> >> Looking longer term into deployment on wiki, my plans right now are to get >> this into beta labs for general testing and connect test.wikipedia.org up >> to our QA hardware for load testing. The major blocker there is acceptance >> of the Node.JS 0.10, and TexLive 2012 packages into reprap, our internal >> aptitude package source. This is not quite as easy as it sounds, we >> already >> use TexLive 2009 in production for the Math extension and we must apply >> thorough tests to ensure we do not introduce any regressions when we >> update >> to the 2012 package. I'm not sure what actual dates for those migrations / >> testing will be because it greatly depends on when Ops has time. In the >> meantime, our existing PDF cluster based on mwlib will continue to serve >> our offline needs. Once our solution is deployed and tested, mwlib >> (pdf[1-3]) will be retired here at the WMF and print on demand services >> will be provided directly by PediaPress servers. >> >> For the technically curious; we're approximately following the parsoid >> deployment model -- using trebuchet to push out a source repository >> (services/ocg-collection) that has the configuration and node dependencies >> built on tin along with git submodules containing the actual service code. >> >> It may not look like it on the surface, but we've come a long way and it >> wouldn't have been possible without the (probably exasperated) help from >> Jeff Green, Faidon, and Ori. Also big thanks to Brad and Max for their >> work, and Gabriel for some head thunking. C. Scott and I are not quite off >> the hook yet, as indicated by the list above, but hopefully soon enough >> we'll be enjoying the cake and cookies from another new product launch. >> (And yes, even if you're remote if I promised you cookies as bribes I'll >> ship them to you :p) >> >> ~Matt Walker >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
