Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-28 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
27 Октябрь 2012 г. 23:20:39 пользователь Chad (innocentkil...@gmail.com) написал: Not to mention varnish/squid. Varnish author on SPDY: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1327235/varnish-author-suggests-spdy-should-be-viewed-as-a-prototype The author of Varnish, Poul-Henning

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
Yeah, I have to agree on this one. I was never a particular fan of SPDY. Yes, HTTP needs a reworking, but only the concepts behind SPDY are good, not its actual implementation. I'd sooner implement some sort of WebSocket interface for MW, such as having the server push load.php resources over a

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-28 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:22:04 -0700, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I have to agree on this one. I was never a particular fan of SPDY. Yes, HTTP needs a reworking, but only the concepts behind SPDY are good, not its actual implementation. I'd sooner implement some sort of

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-28 Thread Tyler Romeo
Of course this is pretty much impossible with PHP. Of course this is pretty much impossible with PHP. No it's not. You use PHP's sockets functions, albeit PHP is probably not the most optimal language for setting up a websocket server. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-28 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Oct 28, 2012 1:54 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: Well, nginx didn't support this until fairly recently. We plan on testing this fairly soon. I upgraded one of the ssl boxes yesterday and re-pooled it. Once I'm confident it's not causing any issues I'll upgrade the rest and then we

Re: [Wikitech-l] SPDY?

2012-10-28 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 09:52:34PM +0300, Strainu wrote: Are there any plans for an SPDY [1] test on the Wikimedia servers? I'm currently doing some speed tests on a robot and I found out (not quite to my surprise) that it's much quicker to get whole pages (hundreds at a time) than to ask

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki interface for touchscreens

2012-10-28 Thread ENWP Pine
After reading the guide to Windows 8 and watching the video at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57541463/where-do-i-click-again-a-guide-to-windows-8/, I’m wondering if we’re doing anything to optimize the MediaWiki interface for touchscreens. Is there any work underway in this area? I hope

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki interface for touchscreens

2012-10-28 Thread Steven Walling
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: After reading the guide to Windows 8 and watching the video at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57541463/where-do-i-click-again-a-guide-to-windows-8/, I’m wondering if we’re doing anything to optimize the MediaWiki

[Wikitech-l] Bugzilla Weekly Report

2012-10-28 Thread reporter
MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for October 22, 2012 - October 29, 2012 Status changes this week Bugs NEW : 359 Bugs ASSIGNED : 55 Bugs REOPENED : 43 Bugs RESOLVED

[Wikitech-l] Switching to Timed Media Handler on Commons

2012-10-28 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, This is a fairly long email describing where we're at with Timed Media Handler, and what we plan for this week. The short version is: * We'll be deploying a few fixes tomorrow (Monday) * If all goes well, we'd like to deploy Timed Media Handler to Commons on Wednesday (9am PDT) *