Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread Thomas
I support strongly Chad comment. The motivation of most of volunteers like me is to see their code deployed. There are a lot of extensions like ProofreadPage that have been written and are maintained without nearly any help from the WMF Feature department. If you assert something like

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Summary: Mobilize Wikidata

2013-10-04 Thread Pragun Bhutani
Hello all! It's been an absolute pleasure working with this community for GSoC 2013. I've had a really good experience and it was really nice to get to know you all. I've written a blog post to summarize my experience over this summer as well as discuss my plans for the project in the future.

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Summary: Mobilize Wikidata

2013-10-04 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Pragun Bhutani pragu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! It's been an absolute pleasure working with this community for GSoC 2013. I've had a really good experience and it was really nice to get to know you all. I've written a blog post to summarize my experience

Re: [Wikitech-l] File cache + HTTPS question

2013-10-04 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/04/2013 12:45 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: However, the answer to why not support keep support for both is pretty clear. It's another code path to maintain, and that means more work (meaning less time to work on other stuff), and potentially more bugs. You're right. We need to make sure

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread Brion Vibber
Can someone summarize this thread? As far as I can tell someone has invented a requirement that all features be blessed by the WMF Features team, and I'm pretty sure that can't be right. Can it? -- brion On Oct 3, 2013 12:27 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am posting this to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 10/04/2013 12:34 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: Can someone summarize this thread? As far as I can tell someone has invented a requirement that all features be blessed by the WMF Features team If that is the case, I would certainly like that spelled out. Mark.

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.22 Release Plan talk on 9 Oct

2013-10-04 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, you are invited to join the next Tech Talk: MediaWiki 1.22 Release Plan with Mark Hershberger and Markus Glaser Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 19:00 UTC, 1 h http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131009T19p1=1440 Google Hangout for active participants YouTube stream

[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Summary - Language Coverage Matrix Dashboard

2013-10-04 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi Everyone *Four months of constant coding and excitement comes to an end - I still can’t believe I am saying this. While I am really really happy with how these times went - how fast, how satisfying, how perfectly awesome it went. It is just still hard to believe that it has ended - time flies,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:34:10 +0200, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Can someone summarize this thread? As far as I can tell someone has invented a requirement that all features be blessed by the WMF Features team, and I'm pretty sure that can't be right. Can it? The way I understand

Re: [Wikitech-l] [EE] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread Erik Moeller
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: Can someone summarize this thread? As far as I can tell someone has invented a requirement that all features be blessed by the WMF Features team, and I'm pretty sure that can't be right. Can it? Of course not. I think

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Terry Chay tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: We still eventually want to reach the point where the criteria is not the amalgam of rules above but a simpler one based on intent, expertise-sharing and consensus-building: If any engineering department or community

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread Brion Vibber
So I asked Erik offline for some clarification on this thread, since a number of people seem worried. To summarize: * there is no existing or planned rule that WMF Features dept must sign off on all extensions prior to deployment * there is no existing or planned rule that WMF Features dept must

[Wikitech-l] Deployment Highlights - Week of October 7th

2013-10-04 Thread Greg Grossmeier
Hello! You know the drill. Full schedule: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_October_7th == Monday == * VisualEditor turned on by default for the following 26 wikis for all users: Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Estonian (et),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 35306: Global (to a wiki farm or family) message delivery (thoughts)

2013-10-04 Thread MZMcBride
Brion Vibber wrote: Can someone summarize this thread? As far as I can tell someone has invented a requirement that all features be blessed by the WMF Features team, and I'm pretty sure that can't be right. Can it? MassMessage is a utility, not a feature. :-) I think Terry, quite reasonably, was

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2013 Summary: Mobilize Wikidata

2013-10-04 Thread Pragun Bhutani
Thank you Lydia! I'm looking forward to it as well. I'm taking this week to join a few classes here and there, but I'll see you on IRC on Monday. :) On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Pragun Bhutani