Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-11-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/ *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-11-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
understand the reason cache manifests exist: for explicitly offline applications. If your application is not an offline application, then you should not be using cache manifests in the first place, because that's not what it's meant for. *-- * *Tyler Ro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-implementing PDF support

2013-11-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
ndering options. > I don't have anything against this, but what's the reasoning? You now have to parse the wikitext into HTML5 and then parse the HTML5 into PDF. I'm guessing you've found some library that automatically "prints" HTML5, which would make sense since b

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-implementing PDF support

2013-11-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
age in Chrome > or Safari and printing to a PDF. Future plans include using bookjs or > the like to improve the rendering. > Aha awesome. Thanks for explaining. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___

[Wikitech-l] Facebook Open Academy

2013-11-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
ogram, but I'm sure people would agree it might be a good thing to become a mentor organization and have students contribute to MediaWiki as part of a college credit program. Any thoughts? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in C

Re: [Wikitech-l] Architectural leadership in Wikimedia's technical community

2013-11-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
that we can still implement a maintainer system without changing the RFC process. There's no requirement that RFC review and maintainers be the same people. This thread is mainly a discussion about "Architects" (or the concept thereof), and how we might want to change the MediaWiki code

Re: [Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
WebSockets are only supported in IE 10 and later, so you're still a bit screwed in terms of backwards compatibility. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Server-sent_events/Using_server-sent_events [3] http://caniuse.com/#feat=eventsource *-- * *T

Re: [Wikitech-l] Comet

2013-11-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
er. > Agreed on this. PHP isn't meant for continuous processing, regardless of if you use SSE or WebSockets. Also it should be noted that SockJS also has Tornado and Twisted implementations, if you want to use Python. And, of course, if your extension needs to be scalable, they also have

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki performance analysis

2013-11-15 Thread Tyler Romeo
ys best just to go with the flow? ;) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Applying nofollow only to external links added in revisions that are still unpatrolled

2013-11-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
artifically, which seems to be the case. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook Open Academy

2013-11-19 Thread Tyler Romeo
l free to leave it out. Thanks in advance. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Solution for Third-Party Dependencies

2013-11-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
e, much much more functional, and a lot easier to use. However, this is out-of-scope for the discussion, so if you have an opinion on whether doing this is a good/bad idea, please start another thread. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Clas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Solution for Third-Party Dependencies

2013-11-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'll continue on the search for more third-party components, but right now those listed seem like the main candidates (although even some of those listed would be really difficult to do and might not happen). *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Te

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: Structured logging

2013-12-03 Thread Tyler Romeo
The RFC on third-party components may interest you: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Third-party_components If we use the Monolog library, which is used in Symfony and others, we can avoid having to re-implement an entire logging framework. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.22.0rc3 ready for download

2013-12-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, John wrote: > VE is a BAD idea, its full of holes and bugs Those are two separate concepts. Just because something has bugs does not make the software itself a bad idea. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Compu

Re: [Wikitech-l] 1.22.0rc3 ready for download

2013-12-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
nment is never a good idea. It all depends on what type of wikis are being run and what is being stored on them. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
ough Gerrit.) Right now the only somewhat proper approach to adding new core dependencies is using Git submodules, which is not the most favorable approach for reasons I mentioned in the beginning of the thread. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
moot > point for now. Though lets pretend this has already bee taken care off and > look at solutions to the technical problem. > OK, in that case I will use git submodules for my upcoming third party library patches. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
The only things that could really be separated into libraries are the DatabaseType hierarchy, the HTMLForm section, maybe the FileRepo / File / FileBackend product, and maybe the JobQueue product. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 201

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
, but any module that is cached in localStorage will no longer benefit from V8's compiler optimizations. It may be useful to have an option that disables the use of localStorage for specific modules. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Scienc

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

2013-12-09 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote: > Are you sure this is still the case? > https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2315 seems to suggest that > this was fixed in V8 last year. > Not sure if it's related, but looking at the bleeding edge compiler.cc code directly, it expl

Re: [Wikitech-l] OAuth Devlopment Training

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
I'll probably try and attend, although it's during the day so there's no guarantee my boss won't randomly schedule a meeting or something. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Aaron Ha

Re: [Wikitech-l] Re-evaluating MediaWiki ResourceLoader's debug mode

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
ugging in MediaWiki. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
where would Gadget code go? Would each gadget have its own code repository? Maybe we'd have just one repository for all gadgets as well as common.js (something like operations/common.js)? I don't think sending wiki edits to Gerrit is too feasible a solution, so if this were implemented it&

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
now how to use it. If there were a way to submit patchsets without using Git somehow (maybe some kind of desktop application), it may make things easier. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list etiquette and trolling

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
a sounds exciting. ;) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
:/ There are only ten videos. Is there some sort of special upload process that needs to be followed here? Because uploading ten things to Commons takes all of fifteen minutes. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
ssue, then let people from the wikis have +2 on their wiki's Gerrit project. If the cost of increasing site-wide security and alleviating developers' pain is a few upset users who will get over it in a month or two, then so be it. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institu

Re: [Wikitech-l] FWD: [Bug 58236] New: No longer allow gadgets to be turned on by default for all users on Wikimedia sites

2013-12-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
eview tool. Gadgets are code. It is the absolute *correct* tool for the job. At the very least it is a more proper tool than using wiki software. If Wikipedia wants to have any resemblance of proper software security, having gadgets stored on wiki should disappear very quickly. *-- * *Tyler

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Commons Video Uploads waiting (Bug #58155)

2013-12-12 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > The videos are (mostly) over 1 gb, which is our upload limit. Hence > maintenance script needed. > Ah. Thanks for the clarification. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Compute

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP new version(s) 5.5.7 and other versions. (upgrade, if you can)

2013-12-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Arcane 21 wrote: > I've tried PHP 5.5.0, had to go back to PHP 4.4.9 due to issues with > deleting and moving pages in MediaWiki. Is there a bug filed for this. If not please do so. MediaWiki should be compatible with newer PHP versions. *-- * *

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP new version(s) 5.5.7 and other versions. (upgrade, if you can)

2013-12-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Arcane 21 wrote: > More details can be found on the bug report I submitted on Bugzilla. For those wondering, it is filed under bug 58532. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58532 *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC cluster summary: HTML templating

2013-12-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
ck of control structures is frustrating unless the templates are really simple). So I'd support using Twig or something similar to it like jinja2. Either way the RFCs can definitely be combined. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On T

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC cluster summary: HTML templating

2013-12-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
hpStorm support, which is a plus. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
mption tokens. Another suggestion was to simply abandon IP blocks, since users can easily enough change their IP addresses anyway. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing l

[Wikitech-l] $wgDBmysql5

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
Right now MediaWiki installation requirements say you need MySQL 5.0.2 or later. So my question is: is this configuration variable still necessary, or should it be deprecated? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Thomas Gries wrote: > This is, why we (or some core) MediaWiki developers should also attend > such congresses like the C3 regularly. > Times like these living in USA is inconvenient. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
ing a software solution that makes it possible. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
s currently is that Tor users should not be able to edit raw. Thus the issue at hand is that there is currently no technical solution for allowing Tor users to edit while still being able to block them. If you want to change the consensus and unblock Tor users from editing, then it is indeed a soci

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
> lets too many vandals in, we'll revoke your entire OAuth consumer key. > It is definitely outside of core scope, but is it within OAuth scope? If anything I think it would be some sort of separate extension that relies on OAuth, but is not actually part of OAuth itself. *-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR

2013-12-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
ts they go through in order to be certified for security and whatnot (somebody correct me if I'm wrong). They have a very strict set of software policies they must follow. Implementing a system like this to work with donations would be extraordinarily difficult, if it's even possible.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Tyler Romeo
It's a CAPTCHA, not an article or piece of actual content. If people are actually getting offended by randomly generated CAPTCHAs I think they need to find something more worthwhile to complain about. -- Tyler Romeo On Jan 1, 2014 12:27 AM, "Benjamin Lees" wrote: > There'

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgDBmysql5

2014-01-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Platonides wrote: > I think it is, for schemas created without it. Yeah. What I mean is should it be deprecated for new installations. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Scie

Re: [Wikitech-l] $wgDBmysql5

2014-01-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:20 AM, VP Singh wrote: > Donot send me spam That email was not spam. If you don't want to receive Wikimedia development emails, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer

Re: [Wikitech-l] File sources and spam blacklist

2014-01-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
tion handler. > Set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; at the bottom of LocalSettings.php to > show detailed debugging information. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l maili

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

2014-01-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
Welcome back! *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Aarti K. Dwivedi wrote: > Welcome back Sumana! :) > > Cheers, > Aarti > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Nasir Khan wrot

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 wrote: > Shahyar G(whatever) XD Welcome aboard! *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org ht

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is Foxway a right way?

2014-01-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
How does this compare to the PECL runkit extension? Also have you benchmarked it against Scribunto? Because Scribunto does kind of the same exact thing except just with a different programming language (and Scribunto uses a native interpreter rather than one written in PHP). *-- * *Tyler Romeo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is Foxway a right way?

2014-01-13 Thread Tyler Romeo
e, and it is not worse than a global state design; it's just different. PHP replaces global state with things like job queues and caches, and it tends to work pretty well. If anything it makes development easier because, not surprisingly, managing global state is incredibly difficult. *-- * *

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHPUnit versioning

2014-01-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Chad wrote: > What version is available via PEAR? Installing via that is no more > manual than apt. > Also don't forget composer as well. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Co

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tor exemption process (was: Re: Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR)

2014-01-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
or a while and become an established editor 4) Then ask for a global exemption If anything it is good for stewards to not randomly grant global exemptions to anybody who walks in off the street. If anything I would try testing out the enwiki-specific exemption process and see how that works out f

Re: [Wikitech-l] Review Milestone reached

2014-01-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:03 PM, bawolff wrote: > Aaron Schulz has become the first person to have approved (+2'ed) >= > 1000 patchsets to mediawiki core > Wow it takes real skill to out-review the l10-bot. I'm going to have to step up my game. ;) *-- * *Tyler Romeo

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to retrieve the page, execute some time expensive operation and edit the page ONLY if it wasn't changed meanwhile

2014-01-31 Thread Tyler Romeo
fuses to obey the HTTP spec. Hence the reason why we don't have E-Tag support either. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tor exemption process (was: Re: Jake requests enabling access and edit access to Wikipedia via TOR)

2014-02-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
ion to location, as opposed to pressing a button and resetting my identity. Keep in mind we are not trying to permanently block vandals, because that's impossible. We're just trying to make vandalism difficult enough so it is no longer worthwhile. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
t if you consider your Wikipedia account to have that much value, you'd put in the effort to make sure it is secure. To that I say see the above paragraph. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
email accounts were > hijacked. > This is definitely something to consider, but I feel like it would involve changing our privacy policy. Or at the very least it would cause some controversy related to that. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Cl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
down to the San Francisco office and show their government ID. Then we have Tim or Brion log them in personally. ;) *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Let's improve our password policy

2014-02-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
add > that as an option. You mean kind of like this? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SSLClientAuthentication *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Core unit tests passing under HHVM 2.4

2014-02-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
Can we maybe add this into Jenkins somehow? It'd be kind of nice if we could make sure from now on that no patches break unit tests in HHVM. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Communication of decisions (was Re: Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?)

2014-02-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
ly heard champion that rule was the Mobile Team. > Agreed on this. Even on Gerrit, it is hard to keep track of possible changes and decisions being made. The mailing list is an important medium for any significant discussion and announcements concerning MediaWiki. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC on PHP profiling

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
arate modules - It provides no more information than xhprof would (and yes, xhprof is meant for production use. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
like in July or something. Once that happens we can safely stop supporting 5.3 with the next MediaWiki release. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drop support for PHP 5.3

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
erface - Improved parse_url() behavior Of course there is traits as well, but that's more of an actual new feature, and it will be a while before MediaWiki starts using traits everywhere. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Clas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:26 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > There are likely others. What can be done to address this issue? Only way I can think of is to improve the Lua <-> PHP API so that users can make the queries directly. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2

Re: [Wikitech-l] We're in: GSoC 2014 and FOSS OPW round 8

2014-02-25 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Rahul Maliakkal wrote: > Great work Quim again!!! > > Regards, > Rahul > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Harsh Kothari > wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] SpecialPage::getTitle deprecated?!

2014-03-01 Thread Tyler Romeo
o inherit ContextSource (or hopefully have it as a trait once we move to 5.4), but it was impossible to do that since SpecialPage decided to implement getTitle() differently. -- Tyler Romeo Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Compute

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
e is to be more communicative with other developers, especially when you are negating their changes or decisions. Thanks in advance, *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
have to take into account extensions that incorrectly rely on its interface, and a breakage in a deployed extension should result in an undeployment and a fix to that extension, not a revert of the core patch. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Cla

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
f thing that gets people fired at other companies. But apparently I'm the only person that thinks this, so the WMF can feel free to do what it wants. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
rging this patch). So to summarize, #3 is obviously not an option. For #2, are we supposed to block core development, and let this bug persist indefinitely, because of a much less serious bug in an extension? That really only leaves #1, but apparently the vast minority of opponents of the original patch

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-06 Thread Tyler Romeo
as any timing issue to consider here, I would say after a few days we'd have to reach a solution. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
general rule is > to do changes in master before cherry-picking to the branch. > What you're saying is that the software development process for MediaWiki is so tightly coupled with the operations deployment process, that development has to be held up because of problems in operations.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
gt; I think some of the things mentioned here are good solution. The biggest problem here is that this patch was launched almost completely untested. It should have been caught long before it was put into production. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
esponsibility of the operations team to ensure stability. Having to revert something because that's the only way production will be stable is not a proper workflow. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
rsion, are they expected to revert it within hours so that the WMF operations team can redeploy? Or will the operations team actually test new releases first, and refuse to update until things start working again? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Cl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
things like this happening. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
change get deployed if it "broke" tests? *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
k? > Yep. Hence the reason I think maybe we should work on something like the stuff mentioned in this thread. Maybe we should be running the mobile tests before deployment or something. I'm not sure what the exact solution is, but I think that would be a step in the right direction. *--

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
#x27;s been repeated multiple times, but I'll say it again: it is disputed as to whether account creation was "broken". It is just a question of design and user experience. No functionality was actually broken. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Clas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit Commit Wars

2014-03-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
read for an explanation of how it is disputed as to whether this patch broke anything. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vagrant Cloud

2014-03-14 Thread Tyler Romeo
13/06/openstack-docker-manage-linux-containers-with-nova/ *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > But, obviously not as well integrated. > > -- > Sent from my phone, plea

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating systems & MediaWiki - is this summary right?

2014-03-30 Thread Tyler Romeo
least, does not give the opportunity for a screwup like this. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Nuria Ruiz wrote: > >> is > >>vulnerable, if something is set to "1234 onClick=doSome

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki on Google App Engine

2014-04-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
administration. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] SSL Cert Change?

2014-04-10 Thread Tyler Romeo
Probably due to the Heartbleed issue. There's another thread on this mailing list explaining that WMF has reset all user tokens and is reissuing SSL certificates. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science

Re: [Wikitech-l] Config class and 1.23

2014-04-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
I agree. I was going to attempt to fix the newest patch, but until the semester ends I won't have a lot of time (and it seems neither does the current patch owner). *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Config class and 1.23

2014-04-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
Legoktm's patch when it's finished and merged. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] dnschain

2014-04-29 Thread Tyler Romeo
ion of "mitm_and_store_in_database". Also, fun to note that the entire application is written in CoffeeScript. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:41 AM, James Salsman wrote: > Would someone please

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

2014-05-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
For example, Erlang with Cowboy is supposed to be a good socket.ioimplementation, and it is truly parallel, but I've never worked with it so I cannot say for sure. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Help! Phabricator and our code review process

2014-05-05 Thread Tyler Romeo
conflicts? What is the rebase process? It's not that I'm opposed to the new system. I'm just confused as to what the new workflow would actually be. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Quim

Re: [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-07 Thread Tyler Romeo
r position as moderator rather than a regular user. This idea could be applied to edits in core, and maybe posts in Flow. WMF employees in a special user group could make an edit, and then press a button on the history page to highlight that as an "official" edit. *-- * *Tyler Romeo*

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:47 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > > On Friday, May 16, 2014, Petr Bena wrote: > > > >> Yes. Support as ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] Login to Wikimedia Phabricator with a GitHub/Google/etc account?

2014-05-17 Thread Tyler Romeo
le account, because it's what I use for everything. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.)

2014-05-20 Thread Tyler Romeo
staying on the topic that you brought up, I do agree with keeping skins in a separate directory than extensions. It implies a bit of control on our part concerning how skins need to be structured, whereas if they were extensions, we cannot place any requirements on the structure. *-- * *Tyle

Re: [Wikitech-l] Square bounding boxes + typesafe enums

2014-05-21 Thread Tyler Romeo
alongside MediaWiki. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding external libraries to core (SwiftMailer)

2014-05-27 Thread Tyler Romeo
This may be true, but like I mentioned during the IRC RFC discussion on third-party components, it’s a case-by-case decision, and I think in this case, SwiftMailer is a fairly reliable library and definitely much better than what we have implemented now. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF From: Tony

Re: [Wikitech-l] deleting config directory confusion

2014-05-31 Thread Tyler Romeo
delete it optionally for purpose X? You can use the config script to perform database upgrades later on if you upgrade MediaWiki versions. Most people just use the command line update.php instead, but for some people this is not an option. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF

Re: [Wikitech-l] new auth/debug/Zero RfCs, + adding more office hours

2014-06-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
me problem, it should be split up accordingly. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

2014-06-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
can be *slightly* easier. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

2014-06-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
be used in the way it was shoe-horned into MediaWiki. I’m not going to re-explain this every time because it is in multiple places on Bugzilla and in this mailing list. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

2014-06-04 Thread Tyler Romeo
concerning it. --  Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using AMPGpg ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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