Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-07 Thread MZMcBride
Rob Lanphier wrote: >Jeroen let me know offlist that he's not interested in writing an RFC in >this area, so I'm wondering if there are any other takers for Composer use >in MediaWiki. > >I think there may be multiple RFCs to consider: >1. Composer as a means of MediaWiki extension management >2.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.22.0 released

2013-12-07 Thread Quim Gil
On 12/06/2013 03:02 PM, Markus Glaser wrote: > Dear all, > > I am happy to announce the availability of the first stable release > of the new MediaWiki 1.22 release series. \o/ Please help spreading the news: https://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/409186823462608897 https://plus.google.com/10347

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please use sitenotice when a new version of software is deployed

2013-12-07 Thread MZMcBride
K. Peachey wrote: >People that are interested in the version will more than likely already >know about [[Special:Version]], if they want the added onscreen [clutter] >presence they could whip up a gadget or something to pull it from the API. Any wiki wanting to use a site notice to display version

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.22.0 released

2013-12-07 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 07/12/13 00:02, Markus Glaser a écrit : > I am happy to announce the availability of the first stable release > of the new MediaWiki 1.22 release series. Congratulations to everyone that edited the main landing page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22 :-] -- Antoine "hashar" Mu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Please use sitenotice when a new version of software is deployed

2013-12-07 Thread Helder .
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 5:19 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > People that are interested in the version will more than likely already > know about [[Special:Version]], if they want the added onscreen [clutter] > presence they could whip up a gadget or something to pull it from the API. > > > On Sat, Dec 7,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Making MediaWiki extensions installable via Composer

2013-12-07 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Is adding Composer support orthogonal to the idea of making it trivial to > install MediaWiki extensions? > It is not. Strictly speaking one thing did get past the "wouldn't it be nice > if" stage. It used to be possible to install PHPUnit and run our > tests with that simply by runnin

[Wikitech-l] MessageBuilder interface

2013-12-07 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, A while back I created a properly segregated interface for turning message keys into messages. Since I've seen someone create almost the exact same thing, and now ended up needing such an interface in another project as well, I decided to put this into its own little library. https://github.

[Wikitech-l] Known issues in 1.22.0

2013-12-07 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
There were a few issues whose fixes didn't make it into 1.22.0, but we should be able to address them within a couple of weeks. I've been making a list of the issues that should be fixed in 1.22.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Known_issues Please feel free to suggest additions to

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 1.22.0 released

2013-12-07 Thread Quim Gil
On 12/07/2013 01:38 AM, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 07/12/13 00:02, Markus Glaser a écrit : >> I am happy to announce the availability of the first stable release >> of the new MediaWiki 1.22 release series. > > Congratulations to everyone that edited the main landing page: > > https://www.mediaw

[Wikitech-l] Preferences not being saved on MW 1.22 when using shared databaes

2013-12-07 Thread Jack Phoenix
Hi all, We at ShoutWiki (http://www.shoutwiki.com/) updated from MediaWiki 1.21 to MediaWiki 1.22 earlier today. The upgrade went mostly smoothly, save for some smaller issues, but afterwards we ran into one major issue: user preferences are not being saved. When a user updates their preferences