Re: [Wikitech-l] Taking out the garbage

2013-04-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
On 04/03/2013 02:02 AM, Chad wrote: > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Chad wrote: >> I've now run this on mediawiki/core, and the repo went from 3.0G down to >> ~620M on disk. >> > > I copy+pasted this wrong. This is actually 323M on disk. To give you an > idea of the kind of savings we're lookin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Taking out the garbage

2013-04-02 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Chad wrote: > This is actually 323M on disk. Wow. Bravo. That is truly an extraordinary improvement. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] Taking out the garbage

2013-04-02 Thread Chad
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Chad wrote: > I've now run this on mediawiki/core, and the repo went from 3.0G down to > ~620M on disk. > I copy+pasted this wrong. This is actually 323M on disk. To give you an idea of the kind of savings we're looking at for fetch & clone, here's my test clone I

[Wikitech-l] Taking out the garbage

2013-04-02 Thread Chad
Hi all, tl;dr: I've cleaned up the mediawiki/core repo, and performance for fetch/clone operations should be noticeably faster. So, due to some recent upgrades in Gerrit, we've now got GC support in JGit as a result. Gerrit supports this functionality, which will greatly reduce the size of our re

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
This is awesome!!! Thanks Jon :) And no, I didn't look at the code, too scared :) On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > I feel very dirty having done this but I made a chrome extension that > autoexpands all comments and adds a comment count next to unexpanded older > patchsets. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread Jon Robson
I feel very dirty having done this but I made a chrome extension that autoexpands all comments and adds a comment count next to unexpanded older patchsets. The code's horrible but it works - feel free to try it out: https://github.com/jdlrobson/gerrit-be-nice-to-me I suspect the best long term s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
Christian Aistleitner wrote: >while I do not want to discourage discussion of those items on >wikitech-l, I nevertheless filed them in bugzilla, so we can keep >track of the issues / solutions. This is wonderful. Thank you for filing these bugs, Christian. I'll take a look at them now. MZMcBride

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement

2013-04-02 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 04/02/2013 05:30 PM, Brad Jorsch wrote: > Slightly related here, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/57067/ > should be included in 1.21. Very related. Thanks for pointing this out. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/57198/ If anyone else is aware of similar bug fixes that should go into 1.21,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement

2013-04-02 Thread Brad Jorsch
Slightly related here, https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/57067/ should be included in 1.21. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: New Beta release of Wikimedia Commons App!

2013-04-02 Thread Yuvi Panda
Since I don't think anyone reads mobile-l. -- Forwarded message -- From: Yuvi Panda Date: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:53 AM Subject: New Beta release of Wikimedia Commons App! To: mobile-l Hello! New beta release of commons app went out today! Features of v1.0 beta 6 include: ##

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile caching improvements are coming

2013-04-02 Thread Max Semenik
On 02.04.2013, 20:16 Mark wrote: > I've been pondering a bit about the two options for serving mobile > ResourceLoader requests with Varnish: on the bits caches or on the > mobile caches. I don't fully like either option to be honest. On one > hand I'd like to keep mobile device detection off our

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement

2013-04-02 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 04/02/2013 12:27 PM, OQ wrote: > Is the large read-only textbox on the final install screen normal or not? "Normal" in that I saw it as well during my quick sanity check of the tarball, but I think it deserves a bug. Please file one: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWi

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.21.0rc1 -- Help test 1.21 and update the announcement

2013-04-02 Thread OQ
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: > I've just finished preparing the first release candidate for MediaWiki > 1.21 and I'd like your help testing it before the final release. > > Please download the release candidate and test it. If you find any bugs > please report them

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mobile caching improvements are coming

2013-04-02 Thread Mark Bergsma
Hi Max, On Mar 29, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Max Semenik wrote: > Hi, we at the mobile team are currently working on improving our > current hit rate, publishing the half-implemented plan here for review: > == Proposed strategy == > * We don't vary pages on X-Device anymore. > * Because we still need

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread Luke Welling WMF
For my own changes I have a workflow that's a little clunky, but works for me. I'll comment or mark done on every comment, so if I see the same number of drafts as comments, I know I've addressed them all. The workflow I have not found is a way to efficiently re-review other people's changes that

[Wikitech-l] Bugday today (16:30 - 20:30UTC) on Skin and page rendering issues

2013-04-02 Thread Andre Klapper
i.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130402 For more information on Triaging in general, check out https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage Looking forward to seeing you there! andre [1] Timezone converter: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread Chad
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:03 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Would it be possible to have Gerrit import a JavaScript page from > MediaWiki.org (e.g., "MediaWiki:Gerrit.js")? This might allow dedicated > users to override some of the default behavior (such as the block-level > comment auto-collapsing) or add

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
Antoine Musso wrote: >Le 02/04/13 04:39, MZMcBride a écrit : >> I'm concerned that Gerrit actively discourages discussion currently. > >So do not use it? We have lists, wiki and private emails. > > [...] > >I would prefer having all the code and implementations discussion where >the code is, aka

[Wikitech-l] Proposal: Wikitech contributors

2013-04-02 Thread Quim Gil
I have been drafting a proposal to attract new contributors, help them settle in, and connect them to interesting tasks. It turns out that many of these problems are not unique to new contributors. We suffer them as well and we are just used to them. The proposal has evolved into a deeper rest

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread Christian Aistleitner
Hi, while I do not want to discourage discussion of those items on wikitech-l, I nevertheless filed them in bugzilla, so we can keep track of the issues / solutions. On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:39:50PM -0400, MZMcBride wrote: > * auto-collapsing all comments except the most recent; https://bugzil

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: > > Le 02/04/13 04:39, MZMcBride a écrit : > > I'm concerned that Gerrit actively discourages discussion currently. > > So do not use it? We have lists, wiki and private emails. Private email would be even worse... I'm surprised you even though

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 02/04/13 04:39, MZMcBride a écrit : > I'm concerned that Gerrit actively discourages discussion currently. So do not use it? We have lists, wiki and private emails. > I see a few issues: > > * auto-collapsing all comments except the most recent; > * no reply feature or support for quoting (si