[Wikitech-l] Open issues for next MediaWiki maintenance releases

Hello everyone, next week on July, 30th, there will be another set of maintenance releases for MediaWiki. There are still some unresolved bugs and changes that are wating to be +2'ed. So if you feel like improving MediaWiki tarball releases in the upcoming days, you could have a look at these

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Mathoid to production cluster

Hi Bryan, thank you very much for your contribution to the Math extension and the associated vagrant role. I have tried to write a patch for operations/puppet https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/148836/ but that's far away from finished. A lot of configuration and server assignment has to be done.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving Mathoid to production cluster

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Moritz Schubotz phy...@physikerwelt.de wrote: Hi Bryan, thank you very much for your contribution to the Math extension and the associated vagrant role. :) You're welcome. Thanks for being dedicated enough to this problem to work on it as a volunteer. I have

[Wikitech-l] Approved RfC: Composer-managed libraries

In the IRC meeting yesterday https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-07-23 we approved Bryan's RfC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Composer_managed_libraries_for_use_on_WMF_cluster . Yay! Cake for all! Remaining action items: * Bryan to get repo

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Hi should we upgrade jquery ui to version 1.10.4. even though we recently upgraded to version 1.9.2 we could upgrade to 1.10.4 in Mediawiki 1.25. The main difference is it removes internet explorer 6 support which as long as internet explorer 6 users can edit and view the page it wont matter to

[Wikitech-l] jQuery UI 1.10.4 and IE6 support

Replying with a subject line. :) Good luck Thomas. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi should we upgrade jquery ui to version 1.10.4. even though we recently upgraded to version

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery UI 1.10.4 and IE6 support

Thanks. On Thursday, 24 July 2014, 21:49, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Replying with a subject line. :) Good luck Thomas. Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com

[Wikitech-l] New RfC: server-side Javascript error logging

Hi all, frontend development is greatly hindered by not having logs of errors that happen in production. If there is a mistake in a PHP file, it is usually quickly caught after deployment when a large number of exceptions show up in the error log. If the mistake is in a JS file, it can take a

Re: [Wikitech-l] New RfC: server-side Javascript error logging

I would probably recommend using the existing EventLogging infrastructure for sending the data to our back end, assuming it won't explode under heavy load spikes... Which it might. :) -- Brion On Jul 24, 2014 3:14 PM, Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, frontend development is

Re: [Wikitech-l] jQuery UI 1.10.4 and IE6 support

We had a discussion about internet explorer 6 and someone said that we should start to remove some code but keep codes that let internet explorer 6 users edit and view the page. On Thursday, 24 July 2014, 22:03, Thomas Mulhall thomasmulhall...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks. On Thursday, 24

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Arthur Richards as Team Practices Manager

Forwarding for the benefit of those not on Wikimedia-l or Wikimedia- announce. Pine On Jul 24, 2014 5:52 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, It’s my great pleasure to announce Arthur Richards as Team Practices Manager for WMF. Arthur will lead a group of ScrumMasters and