Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2014-01-06 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 03:00 +, reporter wrote: Reports created this week: 594 Resolutions for the week: Reports marked FIXED : 410 For the records, these two numbers are higher because valhallasw was so awesome to write a script

[Wikitech-l] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on January 08, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC

2014-01-06 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join the team’s monthly IRC office hour on January 8, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 0900 PST on #wikimedia-office. During this session we would be talking about highlights from our team’s activities and updates

[Wikitech-l] Review needed for trivial operations/debs/vips change

2014-01-06 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/102617/ fixes a packaging bug that screws up Puppet installs of libvips-dev on Tools. It is trivial, but given that a) libvips is used on the im- age scalers and b) the repository might not be on everyone's radar, I'd appreciate reviews there. Thanks, Tim

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm back from Hacker School

2014-01-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks for all your kind welcome-back messages, public and private! On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: Hi Sumana, Sumana Harihareswara schreef op 4-1-2014 4:48: Hi! As of yesterday, I'm back after my three-month sabbatical at Hacker School. I'm in

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm back from Hacker School

2014-01-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
Welcome back! I look forward to working (maybe even pairing) with you. (I also want to try the fun and profit friday's program too) On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: http://www.harihareswara.net/nb/nb.cgi/category/sumana/Hacker%20Schoolwhich

[Wikitech-l] How to identify the MW version from the git tree?

2014-01-06 Thread Strainu
Hi, How can I find which commits entered a certain MediaWiki build (especially the -wmfX ones). Are there any tags in the repository or is there a page that holds that information? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to identify the MW version from the git tree?

2014-01-06 Thread Chad
There's branches for the current versions and tags for the older ones. Clone mediawiki/core and git tag and git branch -r will show them. -Chad On Jan 6, 2014 8:47 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How can I find which commits entered a certain MediaWiki build (especially the -wmfX

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to identify the MW version from the git tree?

2014-01-06 Thread Liangent
And to check a specific commit easier, expand the Included in section on its Gerrit page. -Liangent On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: There's branches for the current versions and tags for the older ones. Clone mediawiki/core and git tag and git branch -r

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to identify the MW version from the git tree?

2014-01-06 Thread Tim Landscheidt
(anonymous) wrote: How can I find which commits entered a certain MediaWiki build (especially the -wmfX ones). Are there any tags in the repository or is there a page that holds that information? Gerrit lists remote branches for -wmf: | [tim@passepartout ~/public_html/w]$ git branch -r |

[Wikitech-l] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Terry Chay
Suggested photo to attach with email: http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2010_Scott_Pilgrim_vs_the_World/010SVW_Jason_Schwartzman_001.jpg Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Shahyar G(whatever)[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Software Engineer in Features

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Welcome, Shahyar. Thank you for joining us! Can you point to a pronunciation of your name? (I'm guessing shaa-h-yayer)? I look forward to your work on Flow; it's a super important project. Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Arthur Richards
Welcome Shahyar :) On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Welcome, Shahyar. Thank you for joining us! Can you point to a pronunciation of your name? (I'm guessing shaa-h-yayer)? I look forward to your work on Flow; it's a super important

[Wikitech-l] Welcoming David Chan to Wikimedia Language Engineering team

2014-01-06 Thread Alolita Sharma
Hi everyone, Please join me in welcoming David Chan as software engineer in the Language Engineering team. Most you already know David from his awesome work on the Visual Editor (VE) team integrating language support for the VE. We enjoyed working with David so much that he will be now working

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Shahyar G(whatever) XD Welcome aboard! *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm back from Hacker School

2014-01-06 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/03/2014 10:48 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Hi! As of yesterday, I'm back after my three-month sabbatical at Hacker School. Welcome back! I'm glad to hear you had a great experience and improved your skills. Matt Flaschen ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Pouyan
Nice to have a Persian speaking person on the development team. Wish you can help us make right to left wikis much better. Welcome :D 2014/1/6 Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Shahyar G(whatever) XD Welcome aboard!

Re: [Wikitech-l] I'm back from Hacker School

2014-01-06 Thread Gregory Varnum
Excellent! I assume that means you're ready to conquer the world? :) Welcome back! -greg On 6 Jan, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 01/03/2014 10:48 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: Hi! As of yesterday, I'm back after my three-month sabbatical at Hacker

[Wikitech-l] Smarter namespace defaults for searches

2014-01-06 Thread Tobias
I've been a Wikipedia trainer at schools for quite some time now. Probably the single most common mistake people in my workshops make when accessing a Wiki's meta pages (i.e. Wikipedia:Help) is by omitting the colon indicating the namespace. The default search namespace is just NS-0, i.e. the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Smarter namespace defaults for searches

2014-01-06 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 01/06/2014 04:42 PM, Tobias wrote: This could be done in the most simplest form by checking whether a namespace string is a prefix of the search string (perhaps excluding exotic namespaces such as MediaWiki) or even if the namespace name is contained in the search string. Perhaps an even

Re: [Wikitech-l] Smarter namespace defaults for searches

2014-01-06 Thread Nikolas Everett
I like the idea. I wonder a few things: 1. Is this something that only makes sense to do for the help namespace? 2. Would it be good enough to catch help me kinds of queries and provide a did you mean-like suggestion for a new search that'd actually search help? Nik On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Alolita Sharma
Welcome Shahyar! Hope to see you contribute to the Language Eng team too :D Best, Alolita Alolita Sharma आलोलिता शर्मा Director of Engineering Internationalization / Localization Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Pouyan popeno2...@gmail.com wrote: Nice to have a Persian

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Welcoming David Chan to Wikimedia Language Engineering team

2014-01-06 Thread James Forrester
On Tuesday, January 7, 2014, Alolita Sharma wrote: Hi everyone, Please join me in welcoming David Chan as software engineer in the Language Engineering team. Most you already know David from his awesome work on the Visual Editor (VE) team integrating language support for the VE. We enjoyed

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Shahyar G(whatever)[1] has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as Software Engineer in Features Engineering. Before joining us, Shahyar worked as an engineer

[Wikitech-l] Welcome, Gilles Dubuc to the WMF Multimedia team

2014-01-06 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to introduce Gilles Dubuc, who is a newly-arrived Senior Software Engineer and serving as Tech Lead for the Multimedia team here at WMF. We searched far and wide to find him, and we're thrilled to finally have him to filling this role. One of the biggest responsibilities

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Shahyar Ghobadpour sghobadp...@wikimedia.org wrote: Lastly, I don't know what the poutine situation is in San Francisco. I have seen only one place with poutine in the entire city, and it is conveniently two and a half blocks from the office. Luis (also,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa wrote: I have seen only one place with poutine in the entire city, and it is conveniently two and a half blocks from the office. I don't know if it's the same place you are referring to, but the Club Quarters restaurant actually has a selection of poutines

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Multimedia] Welcome, Gilles Dubuc to the WMF Multimedia team

2014-01-06 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 01/06/2014 07:02 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to introduce Gilles Dubuc, who is a newly-arrived Senior Software Engineer and serving as Tech Lead for the Multimedia team here at WMF. We searched far and wide to find him, and we're thrilled to finally have him to filling

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Happy to see Persian people in WMF, welcome to the WMF @Sumana: It pounces like shah-ry-yaar gho-baad-poor Best On 1/7/14, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa wrote: I have seen only one place with poutine in the entire city, and it is conveniently two

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Shahyar Ghobadpour joins Wikimedia Core features team as Software Engineer

2014-01-06 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
*pronounces, stupid spellchecker On 1/7/14, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com wrote: Happy to see Persian people in WMF, welcome to the WMF @Sumana: It pounces like shah-ry-yaar gho-baad-poor Best On 1/7/14, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 01/06/2014 08:00 PM, Luis Villa