Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia and IPv6

2012-03-29 Thread Petr Bena
How is that related to nova, what if we just enable it on existing instances? If the network where the instances live on, support ipv6, and instance get access to it, why it shouldn't work. It lives behind kvm and if host system is on ipv6 network, we could just skip nova at all, for now. On Thu,

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r114598]: New comment added

2012-03-29 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Netbrain posted a comment on MediaWiki.r114598. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/114598#c32570 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r114598: added polygons parameter, can draw polygons on map Netbrain's comment: Something happened with git-svn merge so for some reason it was

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changeset differ (was Re: Committing followups: please no --amend)

2012-03-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I wrote: Also, I'm concluding based on Roan's objections that I'm going to have a hard time convincing people to stop amending their commits. So I wrote this script that provides changeset diffs for reviewers:

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC

2012-03-29 Thread Gregory Varnum
Robin - thank you for drafting this proposal! It's also helpful if you can make the connection between your project and how its outcomes will benefit the WM community. This resolves ABC problem that has come up. or Fulfills the common request for XYZ feature that we currently don't have. For

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replying to gerrit comments

2012-03-29 Thread Antoine Musso
On 29/03/12 04:39, Chad wrote: snip -1/-2 of your own code is useful--it's great for This is a work in progress, please do not merge yet but I'd like feedback -2 it to be sure since it put a nice red cross ;-D With Gerrit 2.3, we will be able to submit draft changes to polish them before

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 12 Proposal

2012-03-29 Thread Gregory Varnum
Greetings Shivansh, I've added your application to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Summer_of_Code_2012_applications - thank you for drafting it! Hopefully others can review it and weigh in. My initial thought it is will be helpful to focus on one or two ideas or features. I

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 12 Proposal

2012-03-29 Thread Shivansh Srivastava
Thank you very much Gregory. In my application, I have reduced the ideas to 3, but I cant reduce any other idea myself, and for that, I would need the Community's thoughts. Thank you. With Regards, On 29 March 2012 18:21, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Shivansh,

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Chad
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Rob Moen rm...@wikimedia.org wrote: I agree.  Having 'you' or 'i' makes the message personal when the focus should remain on the commit itself. + 1 This patch needs improvement.  |  Needs improvement, this patch does.  ( if we go with the yoda job ) I've

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 03/29/2012 09:20 AM, Chad wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Rob Moen rm...@wikimedia.org wrote: I agree. Having 'you' or 'i' makes the message personal when the focus should remain on the commit itself. + 1 This patch needs improvement. | Needs improvement, this patch does. ( if

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/29 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Rob Moen rm...@wikimedia.org wrote: I agree.  Having 'you' or 'i' makes the message personal when the focus should remain on the commit itself. + 1 This patch needs improvement.  |  Needs improvement, this patch does.  

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Petr Bena
It sounds better. Shame on your that you don't like Yoda On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Rob Moen rm...@wikimedia.org wrote: I agree.  Having 'you' or 'i' makes the message personal when the focus should remain on the

[Wikitech-l] Bits is slow

2012-03-29 Thread Max Semenik
Significantly slower today from Europe, graphs show a drastic drop at esams http://is.gd/fKnluM and a raise on pmtpa http://is.gd/sowDb4 Can this be fixed? -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Jon Robson
+1 for There is a problem with this patchset, please improve. Fix suggests you've broken something (Yoda version would be Problem to be improved with this patchset there is.) Does Gerrit support a yoda speak language... would make reviewing even more fun ;-)? On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:34 PM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bits is slow

2012-03-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: Significantly slower today from Europe, graphs show a drastic drop at esams http://is.gd/fKnluM and a raise on pmtpa http://is.gd/sowDb4 Can this be fixed? Peter restarted cp3001, things look much better now. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Chad
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: +1 for There is a problem with this patchset, please improve. Alright, sounds good to me. Thanks for the input everyone. I'll get this fixed soon. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [Wikimedia r1507]: New comment added, and revision status changed

2012-03-29 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Jpostlethwaite changed the status of Wikimedia.r1507 to fixme and commented it. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/Wikimedia/1507#c32571 Old Status: ok New Status: fixme Commit summary for Wikimedia.r1507: Further cleaning up trunk after the 4.1.1 upgrade - for some reason, these

[Wikitech-l] Swipe search tool uses infoboxes, DBPedia to search Wikipedia

2012-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Oren, check this out. Could you reach out to these researchers and tell them to subscribe to this list if they haven't already? :-) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21625-new-search-tool-to-unlock-wikipedia.html New search tool to unlock Wikipedia - 28 March 2012 by Paul Marks

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [Wikimedia r1507]: New comment added

2012-03-29 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Khorn (WMF) posted a comment on Wikimedia.r1507. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/Wikimedia/1507#c32572 Commit summary for Wikimedia.r1507: Further cleaning up trunk after the 4.1.1 upgrade - for some reason, these files were not deleted and should have been. Khorn (WMF)'s

[Wikitech-l] Google Summer of Code project - books for Wikisource/Wikibooks

2012-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Aashish Mittal is working on a project proposal to facilitate books for Wikisource/Wikibooks: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Aashish.mittal/GSoC_Application Ashwini Kumar has this as one of several plans for a summer project: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ashwini/GSOC_2012_Application

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [Wikimedia r1507]: New comment added

2012-03-29 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Jpostlethwaite posted a comment on Wikimedia.r1507. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/Wikimedia/1507#c32573 Commit summary for Wikimedia.r1507: Further cleaning up trunk after the 4.1.1 upgrade - for some reason, these files were not deleted and should have been. Jpostlethwaite's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] HTML history interface / api use for MobileFrontend

2012-03-29 Thread Arthur Richards
cross-posting to wikitech-l On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've been experimenting with the api that Max Semenik has been working on and the html5 history interface [1] to add javascript to the MobileFrontend extension so that any searches, link to

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r113451]: New comment added

2012-03-29 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Bsitu posted a comment on MediaWiki.r113451. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/113451#c32574 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r113451: PageTriage new tables, getMetaData API and database access file Bsitu's comment: yeah, we can use page id as the primary key. I just have

[Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, Lot of volunteers are using email to communicate when they discuss wikimedia related issues. Even if it's not a big problem to use personal email there, lot of people, especially administrators do not want to uncover their personal email. Lot of them even have a special private mail for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Michael Movchin
The WMDE is giving out @wikipedia.de adresses, mine is f.e.: mmovc...@wikipedia.de Also, users with access to toolserver, have their Toolserver-Adresses, mine is mmovc...@toolserver.org. I think @wikimedia.org should only have staff of wikimedia. So @wikipedia.org is a great idea. --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Chad
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lot of volunteers are using email to communicate when they discuss wikimedia related issues. Even if it's not a big problem to use personal email there, lot of people, especially administrators do not want to uncover

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Michael Movchin mich...@movchin.de wrote: I think @wikimedia.org should only have staff of wikimedia. So @wikipedia.org is a great idea. @wikipedia.org is similarly official-looking, I'm not sure that'll fly. In the SVN days, Chad and I were toying with the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:41:12 -0700, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Lot of volunteers are using email to communicate when they discuss wikimedia related issues. Even if it's not a big problem to use personal email there, lot of people, especially administrators do not want to uncover

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Max Semenik
On 29.03.2012, 23:50 Roan wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Michael Movchin mich...@movchin.de wrote: I think @wikimedia.org should only have staff of wikimedia. So @wikipedia.org is a great idea. @wikipedia.org is similarly official-looking, I'm not sure that'll fly. It could be

[Wikitech-l] Hackathon Berlin 2012

2012-03-29 Thread Thomas Gries
Suggestion: git workshop and tutorial @ Hackathon Berlin 2012 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hackathon Berlin 2012

2012-03-29 Thread Markus Glaser
+1 mglaser -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Thomas Gries Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 22:58 An: Wikimedia developers; Nicole Ebber Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Hackathon Berlin 2012

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hackathon Berlin 2012

2012-03-29 Thread Thomas Schmidt
+1 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hackathon Berlin 2012

2012-03-29 Thread Chad
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Suggestion: git workshop and tutorial @ Hackathon Berlin 2012 Anyone volunteering to run it? -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hackathon Berlin 2012

2012-03-29 Thread Patrick Reilly
I'd run it. — Patrick On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Suggestion: git workshop and tutorial @ Hackathon Berlin 2012 Anyone volunteering to run it? -Chad

[Wikitech-l] Git Triage notes

2012-03-29 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Since we're still struggling with Git, Gerrit, and figuring out the new work-flow, Sumana asked me to hold a triage on the the issues people have filed in Bugzilla and then write this follow-up report. I used the open blockers on #22596

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hackathon Berlin 2012

2012-03-29 Thread Chad
Awesome. Just wanted to make sure someone could since I'm not there. -Chad On Mar 29, 2012 5:10 PM, Patrick Reilly prei...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd run it. — Patrick On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Thomas Gries

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Krinkle
+1 for There is a problem with this patchset (without , please improve). I think that keeps it more neutral without saying anything the user doesn't intend to say. It also keeps free ambiguity in the intention (to be disambiguated in a comment) between 'wontfix' and 'fixme'. -- Krinkle On Mar

Re: [Wikitech-l] Hackathon Berlin 2012

2012-03-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: Suggestion: git workshop and tutorial @ Hackathon Berlin 2012 Anyone volunteering to run it? I'm willing to run it. I'm assuming Antoine and Brion will be

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: +1 for There is a problem with this patchset, please improve. Alright, sounds good to me. Thanks for the input everyone. I'll get this fixed soon.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Krinkle
Excuse me but it seems this seems to avoid the actual problem. Although I know the answer for the most part, the question I think we should be asking is more along the lines of Why are they using email instead of on-wiki discussion threads? I personally don't see a lot of gain in providing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Petr Bena
I don't see a reason why it shouldn't look official We are open source project not a part of government or something. So usern...@wikipedia.org should be perfectly ok for established users, who wouldn't abuse it just as sysop bit is. Also why not just let user pick which domain they like? On

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'd prefer that you didn't submit this

2012-03-29 Thread Tim Starling
On 29/03/12 00:10, Chad wrote: Hi everyone, There's been some comments that the phrasing for a -1 vote in Gerrit (I'd prefer that you didn't submit this) is kind of personal and we can do better. I did some testing and this is totally configurable :) It won't change for old comments that

[Wikitech-l] GSOC Watchlist Grouping/RecentChanges Proposal

2012-03-29 Thread Aaron Pramana
I have posted a full proposal for my GSOC project. Please check it out here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Blackjack48/GSOC_proposal_for_watchlist_improvements Feedback and suggestions are welcome. -Aaron ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Growing our testing, bug reporting, triaging community

2012-03-29 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
and going from nitpicker to LEADER of nitpickers, we have some tasks ready for you. :D * Mozilla has a regular testing event https://quality.mozilla.org/category/events/month and lists bugs in an etherpad as they're reported: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20120329 . Time-limited test efforts

Re: [Wikitech-l] Email addresses for wikimedians

2012-03-29 Thread Mono
This is mostly a solution looking for a problem. On Thursday, March 29, 2012, Petr Bena wrote: I don't see a reason why it shouldn't look official We are open source project not a part of government or something. So usern...@wikipedia.org javascript:; should be perfectly ok for established

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r83795]: New comment added

2012-03-29 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Tim Starling posted a comment on MediaWiki.r83795. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/83795#c32575 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r83795: Follow-up r83794, r83792: restore new SpecialBlock.php code from r83786. This revision should *not* be broken :D Tim Starling's

[MediaWiki-CodeReview] [MediaWiki r83810]: New comment added

2012-03-29 Thread MediaWiki Mail
Tim Starling posted a comment on MediaWiki.r83810. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/83810#c32576 Commit summary for MediaWiki.r83810: * Moved Target field validation into a field validation callback to show erros next to the field * Some changes to comments and one