[Wikitech-l] AWS usage

2015-10-06 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Is AWS (Amazon Web Services) being used by Wikimedia directly; US Foundation, or by other affiliates? While trawling around for AWS related tasks, I saw on T74501 that Sage Ross' team was using AWS late last year, perhaps only temporarily due to the bug. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74501 (I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical expertise needed for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

2015-10-06 Thread Pine W
I would mention that in your comments. Pinging Siko to see if she wants to share a grantmaker's perspective. (Siko is dealing with some of the fallout from Wikimaniagate, so I'm not sure if she will respond.) Pine On Oct 6, 2015 9:10 PM, "Brian Wolff" wrote: > I feel that way about all of them,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical expertise needed for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

2015-10-06 Thread Brian Wolff
I feel that way about all of them, except maybe StrepHit and Vietnamese categories (Pan-Scandinavian lang is on the border imo) I feel like the only things really being assessed here is the reputation of the author, if the funding is orders of magnitude off-base, if the goal is remotely in scope o

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical expertise needed for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

2015-10-06 Thread Pine W
Disclaimer: I was a founding member of IEGCom, for a time I was one of its coordinators, and I currently have a grant proposal for this round of IEGs. Comment: if you think that a proposal needs further development before funding it, please say so on that proposal's talk page. When I was on the Co

Re: [Wikitech-l] Technical expertise needed for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

2015-10-06 Thread Brian Wolff
On 10/6/15, Chris Schilling wrote: > Hey folks, > > Applicants for the current round of Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) have > submitted many proposals that involve new tools, bot tasks, and other > technical elements. I’ve provided the list of these proposals and brief > descriptions below. >

[Wikitech-l] Technical expertise needed for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

2015-10-06 Thread Chris Schilling
Hey folks, Applicants for the current round of Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) have submitted many proposals that involve new tools, bot tasks, and other technical elements. I’ve provided the list of these proposals and brief descriptions below. Your feedback in these technical proposals is r

[Wikitech-l] Search API @ Developer Summit

2015-10-06 Thread Tomasz Finc
The Discovery team is planning on running a session about the search api at the dev summit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113540 and we'd love your feedback about what we should cover. Please comment on the phab task and let us know thanks to those who already have --tomasz _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

2015-10-06 Thread Daniel Barrett
MZMcBride writes: >It also seems worthwhile to note that "Special:Search" already has an >advanced profile/tab where users can select arbitrary namespaces to search. Technically that is true, but I suspect that 95% of the time, 95% of users care only about the main namespace. Filter by category,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [QA] #Beta-Cluster is now #Beta-Cluster-infrastructure and now there's #Beta-Cluster-reproducible

2015-10-06 Thread Greg Grossmeier
> > > > > How about "#unbreak-before-it-hits-production"? > > > Or even better #unbreak-pre-production. Not bad. My only concern: There might be tasks that are filed in #whatever-we-call-this that are of this type: Valid issue, but not one worthy of blocking deployment. So, we could still hav

Re: [Wikitech-l] [QA] #Beta-Cluster is now #Beta-Cluster-infrastructure and now there's #Beta-Cluster-reproducible

2015-10-06 Thread Jamison Lofthouse
> > > How about "#unbreak-before-it-hits-production"? Or even better #unbreak-pre-production. -- Negative24 www.jdloft.com On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > NB: #Beta-Cluster-reproducible isn't the best name in the world, and > > we're o

Re: [Wikitech-l] [QA] #Beta-Cluster is now #Beta-Cluster-infrastructure and now there's #Beta-Cluster-reproducible

2015-10-06 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
> NB: #Beta-Cluster-reproducible isn't the best name in the world, and > we're open to better/additional names if you have them, but we went with > what made sense for now and can change it later. Naming is hard. How about "#unbreak-before-it-hits-production"? Seriously. Once it does hit product