Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor roadmap - extensibility within MediaWiki?

2016-01-22 Thread Eran Rosenthal
Good question (and no good answer) and I think it address to the weakest point of VE documentation - it doesn't have enough code examples, or high view documentation. (the best answer you can get may be https://doc.wikimedia.org/VisualEditor/master/#!/api/mw.libs.ve-method-addPlugin ) My advice

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor roadmap - extensibility within MediaWiki?

2016-01-22 Thread Marielle Volz
I found Eran's gadget tutorial to be the most helpful piece of documentation for getting a plug-in up and running quickly: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Gadgets For converting a gadget to an extension, as others have mentioned, looking at actual extensions were the most helpful.

[Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-22 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, Those with a keen eye will notice that I filed T124255 , which calls for renaming #MediaWIki-RfCs in Phab to "#ArchCom-RfC". This would be a boring Phab administrivia email if it was simply that. The reason I want the rename: ArchCom is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-22 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Alex Monk wrote: > To clarify - are you saying this ([deploying increasingly excellent > software on the Wikimedia production cluster in a consensus-oriented > manner]) is the actual current scope of ArchCom, or are you advocating for > a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Last call on RFC: drop PHP 5.3/5.4 support

2016-01-22 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > This is a last call for new arguments and facts related to the > proposal to drop PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 support in MediaWiki core git master. > > If you have anything new to say about this issue, please comment on > the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-22 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Alex Monk wrote: > > > To clarify - are you saying this ([deploying increasingly excellent > > software on the Wikimedia production cluster in a consensus-oriented >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-22 Thread Alex Monk
To clarify - are you saying this is the actual current scope of ArchCom, or are you advocating for a change in scope? On 22 January 2016 at 22:03, Rob Lanphier wrote: > ArchCom is the mechanism we hope to ensure > we build and deploy increasingly excellent software on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-22 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hi Rob, "@Robla-WMF : Can you please clarify the first sentence "We now MediaWiki-RfCs and RfC, which now greatly complicates being able to rename "mediawiki-rfcs" " ... in this https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124255 ? " Cheers, Scott On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Rob Lanphier

Re: [Wikitech-l] Scope of ArchCom

2016-01-22 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:58 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Perhaps you could elaborate on the "WMF TechOps" aspect a bit, either here > in email or on the Phab ticket. It seems that some of the tasks currently > tagged as "RfCs" are actually not ArchCom RfCs (they are >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Modern module loading needing code review

2016-01-22 Thread Legoktm
Hi, On 01/21/2016 10:01 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > As part of the work of the frontend standards group > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/260071/ adds require and > module.exports to MediaWiki ResourceLoader. This will make it easier > to share code outside MediaWiki and with nodejs systems as