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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?
>
>
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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
>
>
> 2014/1/18 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
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