[Wikitech-l] New committers

2010-02-11 Thread Tim Starling
Gabriel Wicke (gwicke): yes, *the* Gabriel Wicke, the man who wrote the MonoBook skin and introduced us to Squid. We are in his debt and he can work on whatever he wants. Nathanael Thompson (than4213): has some grand plans for rewriting the parser. We will see how it turns out in a branch. Gurch:

[Wikitech-l] OTRS for commit access requests

2010-02-11 Thread Tim Starling
So that I can respond to commit access requests in a more prompt and standardised manner, I've set up an OTRS queue: commit-access-reque...@wikimedia.org. I will get an email notification when new tickets are opened in it. It has the same permissions as the noc queue, but I imagine I'll be the only

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-11 Thread Tim Starling
emman...@engelhart.org wrote: > mwdumper is an almost mandatory tool to spread our content and for this > reason i wanted to > speak about that on the ML. You might have to be more specific than that. It doesn't seem like a mandatory tool to me. -- Tim Starling _

[Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-11 Thread emmanuel
Hi Almost one month ago I have reported a bug in mwdumper which seems to me to be critical. I simply can't user mwdumper with the itwiki XML dumps: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22137 I have extract the problematic part of the XML but until now I do not have had any remark abo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-11 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 02/11/2010 03:28 PM, Jack Phoenix wrote: > Skin system rewrite currently supports old, SkinTemplate/QuickTemplate-based > skins. For example, Vector uses SkinTemplate and QuickTemplate and it works > well -- but as noted earlier, it won't support some of the new features > (SkinAfterSidebar hook

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-11 Thread Jack Phoenix
Skin system rewrite currently supports old, SkinTemplate/QuickTemplate-based skins. For example, Vector uses SkinTemplate and QuickTemplate and it works well -- but as noted earlier, it won't support some of the new features (SkinAfterSidebar hook and whatever else we may add in the future) until i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-11 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Conrad Irwin wrote: > This is great, just one question though - will "old-style" skins still > be supported (for a few versions at least)? I have a dozen or so skins > that currently work, it would be an absolute nightmare if I have to > upgrade them all when Media

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-11 Thread Siebrand Mazeland
If this is merged after the 1.16 branching, and support for old skins would be dropped from 1.17 on, you'll be able to use the old skinning system up to EOL of 1.16 as a supported version, expected somewhere around March 2011 or a few months later. Should give you ample time to prepare for Media

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-11 Thread Conrad Irwin
On 02/11/2010 02:31 PM, Jack Phoenix wrote: > Wow, this sparked quite a discussion -- I'm pleased to hear that so many > people are interested in reworking MW's skin system to make it better! :-) > > As per Tim's request, I've created a branch for this in r62304 and applied > the initial patch in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skin system rewrite

2010-02-11 Thread Jack Phoenix
Wow, this sparked quite a discussion -- I'm pleased to hear that so many people are interested in reworking MW's skin system to make it better! :-) As per Tim's request, I've created a branch for this in r62304 and applied the initial patch in r62306. Feel free to check out the branch[1] and submi

Re: [Wikitech-l] confirm dfe03c58a0a....

2010-02-11 Thread Peter Kaminski
Tim Starling writes, > https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+filebug Thanks, Tim. After a quick look at the bug tracker and other docs, I can say the issue had been reported long ago (at least a decade), and was on its way to getting fixed a couple of years ago in Mailman 2.2. However, I'm not