Re: [Wikitech-l] New, lower traffic, announcements only email list for Wikimedia developers

2012-06-29 Thread Platonides
On 30/06/12 07:23, Gregory Varnum wrote: > wikitech-announce will be used for occasional announcements on both MediaWiki > and broader Wikimedia developer related news items How does the new wikitech-announce compare with the existing wikitech-ambassadors? They both seem to have a similar scope/c

Re: [Wikitech-l] New, lower traffic, announcements only email list for Wikimedia developers

2012-06-29 Thread Krinkle
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Greetings, > > Following discussions with Wikimedia developers more on the "fringe" and > not as engaged in frequent IRC or mailing list conversations, the request > for an announcements only mailing list came up. I wanted to let folks know

[Wikitech-l] New, lower traffic, announcements only email list for Wikimedia developers

2012-06-29 Thread Gregory Varnum
Greetings, Following discussions with Wikimedia developers more on the "fringe" and not as engaged in frequent IRC or mailing list conversations, the request for an announcements only mailing list came up. I wanted to let folks know that this list has been created and is ready for membership:

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Krinkle
On Jun 29, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > >> >> Timo proposed a system where we would have a common configuration >> directory, and one for production and another one for labs. Much like how >> /etc/php5/ is organized on Debian syst

Re: [Wikitech-l] Today's git master

2012-06-29 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Platonides wrote: > On 29/06/12 22:41, Marcin Cieslak wrote: >> $ git reset --hard >> HEAD is now at de13c31 Actually we have many contributors >> $ >> >> Chad, you made my day:) >> >> //Saper > > Great commit! > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/13449 > Glad you e

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical hurdles for enabling $wgHtml5 on Wikimedia sites?

2012-06-29 Thread MZMcBride
Rob Lanphier wrote: > Assuming we can either get these fixed, or agree they aren't blockers, > I say we set a date and go. Should we plan on sometime in July (say a > week or two after Wikimania)? Your e-mail was unclear to me. It's difficult to tell whether you just looked at the blockers of bug

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 29/06/12 18:36, Petr Bena wrote: > But that's a lot of hand work, if we really do this, we won't use > gerrit at all, we just copy paste code from diffs by hand and insert > it to some extra files. I would rather volunteer to sync branches > rather than this creep work. What hand work are you r

Re: [Wikitech-l] Today's git master

2012-06-29 Thread Platonides
On 29/06/12 22:41, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > $ git reset --hard > HEAD is now at de13c31 Actually we have many contributors > $ > > Chad, you made my day:) > > //Saper Great commit! https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/13449 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] StripState and ampersands?

2012-06-29 Thread Platonides
On 29/06/12 21:42, Daniel Barrett wrote: >> How can I prevent this conversion so ampersands (and presumably other >> special characters) are preserved? > > Followup up my own question: StripState is not relevant here. It's the fact > that it's a parser tag extension. Simply returning "&" in the

[Wikitech-l] Barkeep code review tool

2012-06-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
As seen on IRC: https://github.com/ooyala/barkeep/wiki/Comparing-Barkeep-to-other-code-review-tools //Saper ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Today's git master

2012-06-29 Thread Marcin Cieslak
$ git reset --hard HEAD is now at de13c31 Actually we have many contributors $ Chad, you made my day:) //Saper ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Ampersands and markerType=nowiki? (was RE: StripState and ampersands?)

2012-06-29 Thread Daniel Barrett
In a parser tag callback, if I change this: function myCallback($input, $argv, $parser) { return '&'; } to this: function myCallback($input, $argv, $parser) { return array('&', 'markerType' => 'nowiki'); } shouldn't the second one cause a plain ampersand to be rendered, rather

Re: [Wikitech-l] StripState and ampersands?

2012-06-29 Thread Daniel Barrett
> How can I prevent this conversion so ampersands (and presumably other special > characters) are preserved? Followup up my own question: StripState is not relevant here. It's the fact that it's a parser tag extension. Simply returning "&" in the callback will produce "&". Is there a way to sup

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Matt Walker joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer

2012-06-29 Thread Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation
Ah hah! And the Tulsa cabal increases by one more! Another step on our (long term...very long term) goal toward world domination, scheduled for the year 2320. Unless we get distracted. Hey, what's that shiny thing over there?... Welcome, Matt! PB --- Philippe Beaud

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: Matt Walker joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer

2012-06-29 Thread James Alexander
WELCOME MATT! On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Terry Chay wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matt Walker has joined > the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer. > > Before joining us, Matt was a software engineer at Rockwell Collins > Control

[Wikitech-l] StripState and ampersands?

2012-06-29 Thread Daniel Barrett
I have a parser tag extension that calls $parser->insertStripItem() to add some text to StripState: function myCallback($input, $argv, $parser) { return $parser->insertStripState("this is a & test"); } When the text renders on the wiki page, however, all ampersands have been conve

[Wikitech-l] Announcement: Matt Walker joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer

2012-06-29 Thread Terry Chay
Hello everyone, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matt Walker has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer. Before joining us, Matt was a software engineer at Rockwell Collins Control Technologies developing “a DO-178B level A qualified Real-Time

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical hurdles for enabling $wgHtml5 on Wikimedia sites?

2012-06-29 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Helder, Thanks for posting this to VPT, and relaying things back here. Comments inline... On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Helder . wrote: > Anomie pointed out on enwiki's Village Pump[1] the problem with the > Cite extension mentioned on > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27478

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Can we create a new branch which would be speedily merged when changes > were done to it, so that we could check out on labs and apply the > change there in order to test if patches submitted by devs works ok? > Thanks to Antoine we use the same

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Petr Bena
But that's a lot of hand work, if we really do this, we won't use gerrit at all, we just copy paste code from diffs by hand and insert it to some extra files. I would rather volunteer to sync branches rather than this creep work. On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Petr Bena w

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Antoine Musso
Petr Bena wrote: > Can we create a new branch which would be speedily merged when changes > were done to it, so that we could check out on labs and apply the > change there in order to test if patches submitted by devs works ok? > Thanks to Antoine we use the same repository on beta project, but >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making language selection sticky

2012-06-29 Thread Daniel Werner
Just stumbled over the "GetLocalURL::Internal" (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/GetLocalURL::Internal) hook which was introduced in MW 1.19. This works pretty fine, just doesn't work for page content but that can be done with the linker. It works for pretty much everything else though, e

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Petr Bena
Imagine: Some guy wants to deploy extension to Jamaican wikiversity and test it on labs for 2 months before deploying to production. He create a patch of config files and submit to gerrit. We merge it to test and extension is immediately deployed on beta. Another guy wants to test configuration c

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Petr Bena
If we are testing multiple items in same moment, replacing one test with another is actually problem. That's what we need to somehow merge right now. I hoped that gerrit could do it for us. And we test multiple items there almost all time :) On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Krinkle wrote: > On J

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Krinkle
On Jun 29, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Current idea: > > someone submit a config change > this change is merged to testing branch > we git pull on labs > people test if change works ok and submit review to gerrit > we merge to master branch or reject it > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:07

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Petr Bena
Current idea: someone submit a config change this change is merged to testing branch we git pull on labs people test if change works ok and submit review to gerrit we merge to master branch or reject it On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > Yes but that would probably overwrite

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Petr Bena
Yes but that would probably overwrite any previous tests On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Krinkle wrote: > On Jun 29, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Chad wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >>> Can we create a new branch which would be speedily merged when changes >>> were done to i

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Krinkle
On Jun 29, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Chad wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Petr Bena wrote: >> Can we create a new branch which would be speedily merged when changes >> were done to it, so that we could check out on labs and apply the >> change there in order to test if patches submitted by devs

Re: [Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Can we create a new branch which would be speedily merged when changes > were done to it, so that we could check out on labs and apply the > change there in order to test if patches submitted by devs works ok? > Thanks to Antoine we use the same

[Wikitech-l] New branch "testing" in operations/mediawiki-config

2012-06-29 Thread Petr Bena
Can we create a new branch which would be speedily merged when changes were done to it, so that we could check out on labs and apply the change there in order to test if patches submitted by devs works ok? Thanks to Antoine we use the same repository on beta project, but right now it's really hard