Re: [Wikitech-l] Sprint to 1.17

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Starling
On 19/02/11 16:10, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: In any case, we would like to get these bugs need to be fixed before we begin putting a 1.17 tarball together. That's an important milestone for me personally since I want to start working on the 1.18 release sooner rather than later. I don't

[Wikitech-l] fss_prep_replace implemented in Python/Perl

2011-02-20 Thread Ryan Chan
I an not sure if it is the right place to ask this. I got the source of fss_prep_replace at http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/extensions/FastStringSearch/fss.c But are there any Perl or Python implementations? Thanks. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

[Wikitech-l] Proposal: Force private wikis to use HTTPS

2011-02-20 Thread ChrisiPK
Hey everyone, for a few weeks now, I have been using a Firefox extension which automatically redirects me to the secure.wikimedia.org server when visiting a Wikimedia site. Unfortunately, this does not work for all wikis, e.g. the OTRS wiki is not included in the redirect rule set. At first, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] fss_prep_replace implemented in Python/Perl

2011-02-20 Thread Platonides
Ryan Chan wrote: I an not sure if it is the right place to ask this. I got the source of fss_prep_replace at http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/extensions/FastStringSearch/fss.c But are there any Perl or Python implementations? Thanks. The original source is

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On 02/16/2011 04:48 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: K Who cares about wether or not a bit of whitespace changed ? My argument exactly. Every couple weeks I do $ svn diff -r BASE:HEAD RELEASE-NOTES and if all looks safe, I then do $ svn update You aren't running trunk in production, right? Right?

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One of the reasons why trunk is of such high quality is because it is used on translatewiki.net. Quite regularly you will find one of its developers, Raymond Nikerabbit and Siebrand to name the most obvious ones reverting code. For translatewiki.net there is a compelling reason; we localise

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Ryan Lane
You aren't running trunk in production, right? Right? And what's wrong with that? One of the nice things about the MediaWiki development process is that our trunk generally *is* usable.  Sure, every one in a while someone fails to test their code properly before committing and breaks

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 15 February 2011 22:43, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Release Notes will be corrected and formatted to make it appropriate for release, nothing is going to change it. The standard is for 80 (or is it 72) characters wide and it will be corrected if theres errors. This is just

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Chad
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 February 2011 22:43, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Release Notes will be corrected and formatted to make it appropriate for release, nothing is going to change it. The standard is for 80 (or is it

[Wikitech-l] OT: Word-wrap

2011-02-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com On 15 February 2011 22:43, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Release Notes will be corrected and formatted to make it appropriate for release, nothing is going to change it. The standard is for 80 (or is it

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 20 February 2011 19:06, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 February 2011 22:43, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Release Notes will be corrected and formatted to make it appropriate for release,

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Chad
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Can we please stop this thread already? Starting a thread about whitespace was stupid, and continuing to discuss it is equally stupid. It seems to me that making commits to change whitespace that, from what I can

Re: [Wikitech-l] OT: Word-wrap

2011-02-20 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 20 February 2011 19:09, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Why are we imposing such an outdated rule? CLIs and text editors got the ability to automatically wrap text several decades ago. In fact, they *lost* the ability to automatically wrap text. They thought that was an acceptable

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
Platonides wrote: CORS does seem to be the way to go. I have drafted a new proposal below which attempts to fix several bug in our way of doing central login. Two questions and a comment about this. First, would this impede the ability to switch to an AJAX login interface in the future?

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommendation to revert global login checkbox from CentralAuth login form

2011-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:46 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: If there's a way to improve the general login workflow (AJAX, CORS, whatever), I'd like to see that implemented before this checkbox is ripped out. Doesn't seem hard. Why don't we set an extra cookie

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-20 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On 02/20/2011 09:53 PM, MZMcBride wrote: Platonides wrote: CORS does seem to be the way to go. I have drafted a new proposal below which attempts to fix several bug in our way of doing central login. Two questions and a comment about this. First, would this impede the ability to switch to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-20 Thread Platonides
MZMcBride wrote: Platonides wrote: CORS does seem to be the way to go. I have drafted a new proposal below which attempts to fix several bug in our way of doing central login. Two questions and a comment about this. First, would this impede the ability to switch to an AJAX login interface

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changing CentralAuth login - New proposal

2011-02-20 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On 02/20/2011 11:52 PM, Platonides wrote: MZMcBride wrote: Second, would this impede the ability to remove the you've been logged in screen? Aryeh mentioned an idea that would allow MediaWiki to remove this horrible workflow interrupter.[2] You may have noticed that I included a horrible

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Platonides
Ryan Lane wrote: I don't think we should encourage people to run trunk in production. We should encourage people to run release candidates in production, and possibly betas for those that know the software *really* well. We should likely encourage people to run trunk on their live testing

[Wikitech-l] HTTPS revisited

2011-02-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
This thread at LWN seems like it might have some information which would be interesting to those people who might be charged, down the road, with the SSLizing of Wikimedia: http://lwn.net/Articles/428594/ In particular, it discusses SSL session-caching across a cluster, which I hadn't realized

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com Ryan Lane wrote: I don't think we should encourage people to run trunk in production. We should encourage people to run release candidates in production, and possibly betas for those that know the software *really* well.

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Platonides
Jay Ashworth wrote: should be possible != is a good idea. Just sayin' Cheers, -- jra Specially when we are not there yet ;) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com Jay Ashworth wrote: should be possible != is a good idea. Just sayin' Specially when we are not there yet ;) Best time to take policy decisions with large potential impact, no? :-) Cheers, -- jra

Re: [Wikitech-l] stop changing the whitespace in RELEASE-NOTES please

2011-02-20 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think we should encourage people to run trunk in production. I think we should encourage people to run trunk in production *if* they're planning on keeping up with it, will report or fix problems, and are aware that

Re: [Wikitech-l] fss_prep_replace implemented in Python/Perl

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Starling
On 20/02/11 21:23, Ryan Chan wrote: I an not sure if it is the right place to ask this. I got the source of fss_prep_replace at http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/extensions/FastStringSearch/fss.c But are there any Perl or Python implementations? FastStringSearch has an implementation of