Re: [Wikitech-l] HISTORY file and backports

2010-11-07 Thread Tim Starling
On 08/11/10 09:58, Platonides wrote: > The question was in the line of what to do with *trunk* HISTORY, for > which two older releases would include the fix. Thus the idea of a "Bug > fixes in 1.15.6 and 1.16.1" headline. The RELEASE-NOTES for 1.16.x will be copied into trunk immediately before th

Re: [Wikitech-l] HISTORY file and backports

2010-11-07 Thread Platonides
Tim Starling wrote: > On 08/11/10 04:28, Platonides wrote: >> * When merging to an earlier release, the RELEASE-NOTES go there. >> On release, the new section is added as a whole on the trunk HISTORY. > > This is more or less what I do at the moment. When I create a new > major version, I update t

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-11-07 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > I would like to thank Roan Kattouw for helping me to adapt my > Extension:WikiSync to use ResourceLoader. Before asking, I've spend some > hours trying to get it to work, unsuccessfully. One of key errors was > not so easy to guess: it turne

Re: [Wikitech-l] HISTORY file and backports

2010-11-07 Thread Tim Starling
On 08/11/10 04:28, Platonides wrote: > What should be the procedure when backporting? > * When merging to an earlier release, the RELEASE-NOTES go there, > and is added into trunk HISTORY file at the same time. It's hard enough to get people to update one file. > * When merging to an earlier rele

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, now in trunk!

2010-11-07 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
Hi! I would like to thank Roan Kattouw for helping me to adapt my Extension:WikiSync to use ResourceLoader. Before asking, I've spend some hours trying to get it to work, unsuccessfully. One of key errors was not so easy to guess: it turned out that browsers violate "self-closing" xml tags some

Re: [Wikitech-l] API vs data dumps

2010-11-07 Thread Alex Brollo
2010/11/7 Andrew Dunbar > On 14 October 2010 09:37, Alex Brollo wrote: > > Hi Alex. I have been doing something similar in Perl for a few years > for the English > Wiktionary. I've never been sure on the best way to store all the > index files I create > especially in code to share with other pe

[Wikitech-l] HISTORY file and backports

2010-11-07 Thread Platonides
Our release notes process is quite straight forward. New release notes go to RELEASE-NOTES file, and after releasing a new major version, they get moved into HISTORY and a clean RELEASE-NOTES is created. The linear history is easily preserved this way. However, there's a kind of changes which does

Re: [Wikitech-l] Backups

2010-11-07 Thread Eugene
Hi everyone, As far as I can tell from the http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Backup_procedures page, backups are still not sorted out.. Image backups are not available and even the AWS datasets haven't been updated as promised (http://aws.amazon.com/datasets/2506). Glancing at the Wikimedia foun

Re: [Wikitech-l] API vs data dumps

2010-11-07 Thread Andrew Dunbar
On 14 October 2010 09:37, Alex Brollo wrote: > 2010/10/13 Paul Houle > >> >>     Don't be intimidated by working with the data dumps.  If you've got >> an XML API that does streaming processing (I used .NET's XmlReader) and >> use the old unix trick of piping the output of bunzip2 into your >> pr