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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:38 AM Lora Porter <[email protected]> wrote:

> remove my email I've requested this multiple times.
> lora
> On Jun 25, 2015 8:02 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >    1. "Architecture meeting 2015" summary (Matthew Flaschen)
> >    2. Barry the browser bot (Jon Robson)
> >    3. Re: [Engineering] Modernizing our content platform: Kick-off
> >       meeting on Tuesday (S Page)
> >    4. Re: "Architecture meeting 2015" summary (MZMcBride)
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> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:39:16 -0400
> > From: Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]>
> > To: EE List <[email protected]>,   Wikitech
> >         <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] "Architecture meeting 2015" summary
> > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
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> > Today's RFC meeting was regarding general priorities for the coming
> > months (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_focus_2015).
> >
> > One of the key issues discussed was the idea of widgets, which is a new
> > approach to representing and editing bundles of content (such as an
> > infobox or a graph).
> >
> > We also talked about canonical formats, and whether content should be
> > stored in wikitext and extracted out (like a more sophisticated version
> > of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TextExtracts), or stored
> > elsewhere (e.g. Wikidata) and assembled.  Gabriel Wicke noted the
> > importance of minimizing disruption for existing editors and tools, and
> > Bryan Davis suggested this could limit the flexibility editors now have.
> >   This led us to discuss further what areas likely made sense to be
> > generated.  I.E. graphs and data tables, probably not prose (but Daniel
> > Kinzler suggested possibly auto-generating prose if there was no
> > human-written prose).
> >
> > We talked about some approaches to backend storage.  Timo Tijhof
> > suggested allowing a page to be built from multiple blobs that reference
> > each other.
> >
> > We talked about some approaches to widgets like infoboxes and inline
> > editing of templates more generally.
> >
> > We also talked about testing coverage and code architecture guidelines.
> >
> > Daniel Kinzler plans to update the document in response to feedback.
> >
> > Matt Flaschen
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Minutes at
> >
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-06-24-21.04.html
> >
> > Log at
> >
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-06-24-21.04.log.html
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:55:59 -0700
> > From: Jon Robson <[email protected]>
> > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>,      Internal
> >         communication for WMF Reading team      <
> [email protected]>,
> >         mobile-l <[email protected]>,        "QA (software
> quality
> >         assurance) for Wikimedia projects."     <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] Barry the browser bot
> > Message-ID:
> >         <CALMndh=a-2PEAi+xENcNNCVG42yv4ZLPaCo0oDrt5qek8ww=
> [email protected]>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> >
> > Some of you may have noticed a bot [1] providing reviews for the
> > Mobilefrontend and Gather extensions.
> >
> > This is a grass routes experiment [2] to see if we can reduce
> > regressions by running browser tests against every single commit. It's
> > very crude, and we're going to have to maintain it but we see this as
> > a crude stop gap solution until we get gerrit-bot taking care of this
> > for us.
> >
> > Obviously we want to do this for all extensions but we wanted to get
> > something good enough that is not scaleable to start exploring this.
> >
> > So far it has caught various bugs for us and our browser test builds
> > are starting to finally becoming consistently green, a few beta labs
> > flakes aside [3].
> >
> > Running tests on beta labs is still useful but now we can use it to
> > identify tests caused by other extensions. We were finding too often
> > our tests were failing due to us neglecting them.
> >
> > In case others are interested in how this is working and want to set
> > one up themselves I've documented this here:
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Setting_up_a_browser_test_bot
> >
> > Please let me now if you have any questions and feel free to edit and
> > improve this page. If you want to jump into the code that's doing this
> > and know Python check out:
> > https://github.com/jdlrobson/Barry-the-Browser-Test-Bot
> > (Patches welcomed and apologies in advance for the code)
> >
> > [1]
>
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/reviewer:jdlrobson%252Bbarry%2540gmail.com+status:open,n,z
> > [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100293
> > [3]
>
> https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Mobile/job/browsertests-MobileFrontend-SmokeTests-linux-chrome-sauce/
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:19:13 -0700
> > From: S Page <[email protected]>
> > To: Dan Garry <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>,
> Development
> >         and Operations Engineers <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Modernizing our content
> >         platform: Kick-off meeting on Tuesday
> > Message-ID:
> >         <CAJg1jJVrs8BM5w-z=9+eQO6cwpNvXU=
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> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > My takeaway from this was that there are strong arguments both for and
> > > against keeping the representation of an article as a single blob of
> > > wikitext/HTML.
> > >
> >
> > In the Architecture focus discussion, Krinkle, tgr, and others expressed
> a
> > more optimistic idea, that the wikitext of an article is "a sea of prose
> > with isles of non-prose content, which could come from structured data"
> [1].
> >
> > I wasn't properly aware that the <graph> [2] and <templatedata> [3]
> parser
> > tags are examples of this already. Their content is highly structured and
> > VisualEditor or dedicated code can provide a specialized editor for it.
> If
> > you edit source of a wiki page containing them and garble their content,
> > you get a syntax warning or fail.
> >
> > Wiki pages need more of these, <drumroll> Structure Content Blobs™ (or
> > sPage Components? anything but "widget"). Are they necessarily parser
> tags,
> > or is a parser function like {{#graph: *some parameters*}} equivalent?
> >
> > To be concrete, does this mean the way forward for specifying lead images
> > [5] is a parser tag
> > <leadimage>{
> >     "imagepage":   "File:Einstein_1921_by_F_Schmutzer_-_restoration.jpg",
> >     "focalarea": {"rect": [0.20, 0.20, 0.12, 0.12]}
> > }
> > </leadimage>
> > in wikitext, with a MediaWiki API to add this to a document and a WYSIWYG
> > property editor in VisualEditor for humans?
> >
> > AIUI, the *Architecture focus 2015* document discusses this under
> > "Generalized transclusion" [4] and comments:
> > Over the next months, the MediaWiki developer community and staff should
> > investigate how the different transclusion mechanism used with wikitext
> > content can be unified and extended to work with non-wikitext content.
> >
> > Exciting stuff.
> >
> > [1]
> >
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-06-24-21.04.log.html
> > starting at 21:21:05
> > [2] e.g.
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo/Map?action=edit
> > [3] e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Phabricator?action=edit
> > [4]
> >
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_focus_2015#General_architectural_concerns
> > [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91683
> >
> > --
> > =S Page  WMF Tech writer
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:00:05 -0400
> > From: MZMcBride <[email protected]>
> > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] "Architecture meeting 2015" summary
> > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> > >Today's RFC meeting was regarding general priorities for the coming
> > >months (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_focus_2015).
> > >
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >Daniel Kinzler plans to update the document in response to feedback.
> >
> > I just wanted to say thank you to you and to Dan for these recent e-mails
> > summarizing larger technical discussions. :-)  While I appreciate the
> > value of synchronous chats, supporting asynchronous communication is also
> > important and these notes are very helpful in understanding, at a high
> > level, what's being discussed and why. They also help ensure that
> everyone
> > is aligned and informed and they make jumping into the discussions
> easier.
> >
> > MZMcBride
> >
> >
> >
> >
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