Re: [Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-20 Thread Max Semenik
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > 1. Is the release cadence is more important (i.e. reverting features > if they pose a schedule risk) or is shipping a set of features is > important (i.e. slipping the date if one of the predetermined feature > isn't ready)? For example, as

[Wikitech-l] Release process

2010-10-20 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, There have been a number of calls to make the release process more predictable (or maybe just faster). There are plenty of examples of projects that have very predictable release schedules, such as the GNOME project or the Ubuntu Linux distribution. It's not at all unreasonable to e

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-20 Thread Platonides
Marco Schuster wrote: >> In your case, I would append ctype=text/javascript to the query string, >> so it >> a) Looks more like something that will give out javascript. >> b) Forces it to use the long style. > Nope, appending parameters works also in the short form: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Rohde
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: >> It seems like an awful lot of trouble to teach every software author >> that they need to follow a particular convention just so the stats >> engine will work as intended.  It would seem like it would be much >> simpler to teach the stats en

Re: [Wikitech-l] using parserTests code for selenium test framework

2010-10-20 Thread Benedikt Kaempgen
Hi, Automatic testing with a clean database sounds good, the scheme looks reasonable. Will it be possible to have cleaning of separate databases, used by extensions, added, also? In the context of wiki identification, I was wondering: At the moment I am mainly testing SMW instances having the sel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Selenium Framework - test run configuration data

2010-10-20 Thread Benedikt Kaempgen
Hi, The selenium framework configuration using a config file [1] is much clearer now. Thanks. Regards, Benedikt [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SeleniumFramework#Configure_Selenium_using_a_c onfiguration_file -- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Institut für Angewandte Informatik un

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-20 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > will still return the same results, wouldn't it make more sense to > teach the stat's logger to ignore both?  Or is there a reason that we > actually want to track one and not the other? Pretty URLs are for being pretty URLs (e.g. in your address bar). That leads to very easy assumption, th

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration between staff and volunteers: a two-way street

2010-10-20 Thread Domas Mituzas
... > +4,294,967,295 see what you did to poor Roan, in this "always be positive" environment this is the only way he can write -1. Domas ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convention for logged vs not-logged page requests

2010-10-20 Thread Roan Kattouw
2010/10/19 Robert Rohde : > It seems like an awful lot of trouble to teach every software author > that they need to follow a particular convention just so the stats > engine will work as intended.  It would seem like it would be much > simpler to teach the stats engine to simply detect and ignore