Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

I was wrong about Support_desk being permenantly semi-protected. It was temporarily semi-protected for 3 days, but that's been lifted now. Regardless of spam concerns, point still stands that it seems bad form to semi-protect the venue where newbies are supposed to ask for help. Not that i have

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

Neither project:support_desk nor project:current_issues is really meant for that purpose - support desk is mainly for user and (external) sysadmin support. And current_issues is the village pump of mediawiki.org (the website not the software) Honestly, I kind of think that lqt was better than

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

Hear hear to being able to properly search past conversations. I know it's not the fashionably geek thing to say, but I must admit that I always find mailing lists to be incredibly annoying, compared to forums. Not only is searching completely separate from reading, even browsing old topics is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Max Semenik wrote: > Who's gonna maintain this installation? > The current status is explained at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse#Maintenance This is a proposal coming from the Technical Collaboration team and we have more or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

Who's gonna maintain this installation? On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Niharika Kohli wrote: > I'd like to add that having Discourse will provide the one thing IRC > channels and mailing lists fail to - search capabilities. If you hangout on > the #mediawiki IRC channel,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

I'd like to add that having Discourse will provide the one thing IRC channels and mailing lists fail to - search capabilities. If you hangout on the #mediawiki IRC channel, you have probably noticed that we get a lot of repeat questions all the time. This would save everyone time and effort. Not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

Hi, I have expanded https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discourse#One_place_to_seek_developer_support https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk is the only channel whose main purpose is to provide support. The volunteers maintaining are the ones to decide about its future. There is no rush

[Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-announce] Security release: 1.29.2 / 1.28.3 / 1.27.4

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki 1.29.2, 1.28.3 and 1.27.4! These releases fix nine security issues in core and one related issue in the vendor folder. Download links are given at the end of this email. Patches will be pushed to gerrit after this email is sent, and will land

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for a developer support channel

Brian Wolff wrote: >On Friday, November 17, 2017, Quim Gil wrote: >> The Technical Collaboration team proposes the creation of a developer >> support channel focusing on newcomers, as part of our Onboarding New >> Developer program. We are proposing to create a site based on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thoughts for handy features

As it happens, the yearly feature wishlist collection process is taking proposals right now; you might want to check it out. [0] On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:15 PM, John Elliot V wrote: > 1. For links to articles in sections on the same page it would be really > handy if we had