[Wikitech-l] Are you planning a hackathon in 2013? Please let us know.

jHi all, a reminder to chapters and volunteers around the world -- if you're planning a hackathon, please let us know beforehand by adding it to this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_developer_meetings Consistent with Sue's recommendations to the Board, Wikimedia Foundation will sp

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preparing concise, readable release notes for 1.21

On 11/10/2012 08:44 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Finally, we should perhaps also add some information on the main > extensions, especially the ones bundled in the release? Ah! I forgot about these. And since they are included now and contain a lot of what is considered (by many) to be "core"

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

On Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: > I am following the instructions, but it does not want to install mysql. The solution was to make all required packages depend on the apt-get update task. There's a pull request on GitHub with the fix if anyone wants to review

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preparing concise, readable release notes for 1.21

Thanks Mark for opening this discussion, it's very useful. Indeed, by reading https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20 one would think that nobody has been done in 1.20, except perhaps some localisation work. :p I also agree that https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18 is a good exa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Preparing concise, readable release notes for 1.21

On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 20:07 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > One idea I had was scanning the changes in RELEASE-NOTES on a, say, > weekly basis and updating the current MediaWiki_X.xx page. > > Another was asking code reviewers to somehow flag commits in Gerrit as a > signal for a volunteer (li

[Wikitech-l] Preparing concise, readable release notes for 1.21

In putting together the tarball for 1.20, I had some trouble with creating an announcement for the release that captured the really significant changes that third party users of MediaWiki should know about. I hope that I can work with the developers to make this announcement for 1.21 more informat

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

Quim, thanks for writing that. I am happy about the conversations that are happening about this, and I'm finding people's thoughts and input useful. There have been (and are being) lots of face-to-face conversations as well as the ones on the lists and in other venues: it's all good. There is of c

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki + Vagrant

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Patrick Reilly wrote: > Done and done... Hi, I am following the instructions, but it does not want to install mysql. Virtualbox 4.2.4 $ vagrant -v Vagrant version 1.0.5 $ git clone https://github.com/atdt/wmf-vagrant.