Re: [Wikitech-l] Please fix the PHP unit tests

2012-10-08 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 05/10/12 21:40, Daniel Friesen wrote: > The same case probably goes for a number of our other config variables. > > There are a few places where we go and swap out the value of a config > variable and then reset it. > Last one I saw was wgHtml5 in HtmlTests. However even that is almost > never

Re: [Wikitech-l] First open tech meeting with video broadcast - 10/18

2012-10-08 Thread Dan Andreescu
I'm using Google Hangouts on Ubuntu and I can help anyone that's having a problem. It works out of the box on Windows and OS X as far as I know. On Ubuntu, I found it easier to set up with Chrome than with Chromium but it's possible with both and other browsers. As far as the profile requirement

Re: [Wikitech-l] First open tech meeting with video broadcast - 10/18

2012-10-08 Thread Chad
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > As far as the profile requirement, it does require you to "upgrade" your > google account to a google plus account. Most of us have google accounts > through our wikimedia.org google mail and the required pieces of > information for a google

Re: [Wikitech-l] First open tech meeting with video broadcast - 10/18

2012-10-08 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Chad wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Dan Andreescu > wrote: >> As far as the profile requirement, it does require you to "upgrade" your >> google account to a google plus account. Most of us have google accounts >> through our wikimedia.org google mail

[Wikitech-l] Merging the ContentHandler into master

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi all! As discussed last week with Rob, I have no prepared a merge request that introduces the ContentHandler into MediaWiki core. This is a major building block for the Wikidata project. I hope the merge will be completed soon, since this will grow stale fast. The merge request is here: https:/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Andre Klapper starts 8 October as WMF Bug Wrangler

2012-10-08 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 14:22 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I am delighted to announce that October 8th will be Andre Klapper's > first day as Wikimedia Foundation's Bug Wrangler. [0] Thanks Sumana and everybody for the warm welcome! In the next days I'll start with my list of stuff to look

[Wikitech-l] "Latest" md5sums of dumps

2012-10-08 Thread Zachary Harris
It is a bit confusing that http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20121001/enwiki-20121001-md5sums.txt has newer hash values that aren't in http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-md5sums.txt. I'm guessing that the "latest" md5sums files get updated only at the end of a cycle when all

[Wikitech-l] WebPlatform.org

2012-10-08 Thread MZMcBride
This may be of general interest to this list. --- A number of leading browser vendors and other tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, HP, Nokia, Mozilla, Opera and the W3C, just announced the launch of the Web Platform Docs project at WebPlatform.org. The project aim

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebPlatform.org

2012-10-08 Thread Chad
Indeed, we're actually hosting some Git repos for the project :) -Chad On Oct 8, 2012 4:16 PM, "MZMcBride" wrote: > This may be of general interest to this list. > > --- > A number of leading browser vendors and other tech companies, including > Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, HP, Nok

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebPlatform.org

2012-10-08 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Chad wrote: > Indeed, we're actually hosting some Git repos for the project :) > We'll be pushing a few more in soonish, too. - Ryan ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebPlatform.org

2012-10-08 Thread Quim Gil
On 10/08/2012 03:02 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Chad wrote: Indeed, we're actually hosting some Git repos for the project :) We'll be pushing a few more in soonish, too. Can you explain? I find this project amazing (converging and optimizing documentation effort a

Re: [Wikitech-l] WebPlatform.org

2012-10-08 Thread Ryan Lane
> Can you explain? I find this project amazing (converging and optimizing > documentation effort as opposed to keep building a dozen chapels and why not > starting a new, flashy one?). And I'm very happy to see that MediaWiki has > been put into use! > > If the Wikimedia Foundation has got a signif

[Wikitech-l] Prefs removal

2012-10-08 Thread Erik Moeller
Some thoughts on: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Core_user_preferences and associated patchsets: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27259/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27258/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27257/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/27197/ https://ge

Re: [Wikitech-l] Prefs removal

2012-10-08 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: > I'm 100% in favor of de-cluttering prefs. IMO this ought to be done on > the basis of proper metrics of current usage, so that we actually > understand who is using these options today and why. Some of the RFC is also trying to focus on the history of some of these user prefe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Prefs removal

2012-10-08 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Some of the RFC is also trying to focus on the history of some of these user > preferences. A lot of these preferences are very old and pre-date the > Gadgets extension, for example. Some of them would make more sense > implemented differently (c