Re: [Wikitech-l] switching to something better than irc.wikimedia.org

2013-03-01 Thread Chad
nt bot is retrieving the data from new xml feed > instead of directly from apaches. > There's been a request for years to provide this data with XMPP. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/17450 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30555 also seems related to the RFC. -Chad ___

[Wikitech-l] Updated Gerrit

2013-03-01 Thread Chad
Hi, We updated Gerrit this morning to 2.5.2-1506-g278aa9a. This is a minor update to fix a couple of issues we spotted in the previous upgrade. Downtime was less than 5 minutes. As always, please let me know or file a bug if you're having any problems.

[Wikitech-l] Reminder about the best way to link to bugs in commits

2013-03-01 Thread Chad
Change-Id: Ia90. """ So when you do this, you're able to search for "bug:1234" via Gerrit. By doing this, you're also removing it from the first line (which was our old habit, mostly from SVN days), providing you more

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder about the best way to link to bugs in commits

2013-03-01 Thread Chad
Well, that's true if you're only building release notes by copy+pasting the first line. If it's scripted, it's trivial to pull the bug # from the footer as well. And no, commit messages cannot be auto-generated by Gerrit, as that changes the sha1. -Chad On Fri, Mar 1, 2

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder about the best way to link to bugs in commits

2013-03-01 Thread Chad
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:45:14 -0800, Nischay Nahata > wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Chad wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This is a friendly reminder to everyone about the preferred

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reminder about the best way to link to bugs in commits

2013-03-02 Thread Chad
;ll go through a full change of putting the release notes together. Then if any other things are done before the release, you just submit another commit to it. See: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/39210/ and then https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/42790/ and https://gerrit-rev

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions meta repo problem with MaintenanceShell

2013-03-02 Thread Chad
bypassing review. (which makes sense if you look at the history) > Maybe not updating the parent repo is a gerrit bug. > The auto-updating submodule magic only works if you're pushing through Gerrit. Skip Gerrit, and you don't get the benefits of the magic submodules. -Chad

Re: [Wikitech-l] How do MS SQL users install MediaWiki?

2013-03-03 Thread Chad
o have people who want/use MSSQL, so I think taking the effort to keep it working is worthwhile--if someone's willing to commit. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-05 Thread Chad
defeats part of the point)--and I think that "web labels" idea is equally silly. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-05 Thread Chad
There's some upstream developers working on a github plugin. I was going to mention it once there was something worth showing (which there isn't yet). -Chad On Mar 5, 2013 9:39 AM, "Jon Robson" wrote: > I was wondering what the latest on this was (I can't seem to fin

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-06 Thread Chad
he vast majority of the list (and I've always been an advocate for the usefulness of this list). -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Seemingly proprietary Javascript

2013-03-06 Thread Chad
I care how our code is licensed (and headers are great for doing this), but wasting 60+ e-mails over where to include these licenses just to satisfy an overzealous tool...that's bikeshedding. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Editing wikipedia using google, openID or facebook

2013-03-07 Thread Chad
Those tags are arbitrary :( -Chad On Mar 7, 2013 12:09 PM, "Petr Bena" wrote: > ah ok I was confused by it being flagged stable > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > > > >> I just d

Re: [Wikitech-l] Github/Gerrit mirroring

2013-03-08 Thread Chad
ime (nor do I really see it as worth the effort). Getting Github PR into the Gerrit ecosystem is on the Gerrit roadmap, but we don't have a firm date just yet. I plan to announce this much more widely when we're close to that. -Chad

Re: [Wikitech-l] Some Sort of Notice for Breaking Changes

2013-03-08 Thread Chad
ews there. > We do not (yet). You're joking, right? -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nightly shallow clones of mediawiki/core

2013-03-10 Thread Chad
oved, things accidentally checked into ./extensions, etc. This could potentially greatly reduce object sizes and allow for tighter repacks. Major issue with history rewriting is everyone will have to reclone (all sha1s would change). I've not tested my theory yet. I'm open to any other ideas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Replacement for tagging in Gerrit

2013-03-12 Thread Chad
bugtracker. > I'd say the opposite is true--the vast majority of extensions in Gerrit *do use* bugzilla.wm.o. Granted, some may not, so having a tracker uri would also be nice (if not the default). -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Vague question re: future of Vector skin

2013-03-12 Thread Chad
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:24 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > I recently tripped across <https://wikitech-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/> which > is using an interesting skin, but I'm not sure which. > I believe this was based off twitter

Re: [Wikitech-l] Nightly shallow clones of mediawiki/core

2013-03-12 Thread Chad
nce regressions (and fixes) were introduced in the course of just 1.6.x.y. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC "How/whether MediaWiki could use ZendOptimizuerPlus" -- ZendOptimizerPlus, opcode cache, PHP 5.4, APC, memcache ???

2013-03-21 Thread Chad
g APC's shared memory caching. And since Zend Optimizer doesn't do shared memory functionality, there's no "support" that needs to be added anywhere (now, if they introduce such a feature, that's another story). -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC "How/whether MediaWiki could use ZendOptimizuerPlus" -- ZendOptimizerPlus, opcode cache, PHP 5.4, APC, memcache ???

2013-03-21 Thread Chad
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Thomas Gries wrote: > Am 21.03.2013 15:23, schrieb Chad: >> You're confusing opcode caching with shared memory caching. > thanks, as already mentioned, I anticipated that difference. >> Having the Zend >> Optimizer doesn't pr

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-02 Thread Chad
ntirely comfortable fetching it from MediaWiki.org on the fly--but we can host the code within Gerrit. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Taking out the garbage

2013-04-02 Thread Chad
y faster--a fresh clone should now only be limited by your bandwidth, not how fast Gerrit can serve the repo from disk. If you notice *any* problems with mediawiki/core, please let me know immediately. If everything looks good, we'll set this up as a cron to run weekly or something

Re: [Wikitech-l] Taking out the garbage

2013-04-02 Thread Chad
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Chad wrote: > I've now run this on mediawiki/core, and the repo went from 3.0G down to > ~620M on disk. > I copy+pasted this wrong. This is actually 323M on disk. To give you an idea of the kind of savings we're looking at for fetch & clone,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: Wikitech contributors

2013-04-03 Thread Chad
tion living on mw. > I totally support this. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing the Hooks class

2013-04-03 Thread Chad
; extensive, so switching to something more sane seems quite feasible. > It's like a global, only slower :D If you've got any better ideas, I'm all for it. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Taking out the garbage

2013-04-04 Thread Chad
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Chad wrote: > Hi all, > > tl;dr: I've cleaned up the mediawiki/core repo, and performance for > fetch/clone > operations should be noticeably faster. > I've now done this for all other repositories, so everyone should see the benef

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing the Hooks class

2013-04-04 Thread Chad
ve private variables, > allowing to hide implementation. > And variables inside a global function are also scoped, so they don't leak implementation either. The point is semi-valid for functions, though. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Removing the Hooks class

2013-04-04 Thread Chad
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Max Semenik wrote: > On 04.04.2013, 19:17 Chad wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Max Semenik wrote: >>> On 04.04.2013, 16:04 Tyler wrote: >>> >>>> I still fully maintain that entirely static classes is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Adding messages to cache for wfMessage() at runtime

2013-04-08 Thread Chad
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > // Some magic method to add the entire message map into message cache > messageCache->Add('custom-key1', $messageMap); > So, we used to have a $messagecache->add(), but it was removed after a very very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

2013-04-08 Thread Chad
rl+F/Ctrl+G to > search for the new reviewer's name. > > It's already filed as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46792 > This used to work, but the output format changed a couple of upgrades ago. The hook scripts for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins tests 'LOST'?

2013-04-08 Thread Chad
Yes, Jenkins is broken right now. -Chad On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Matthew Walker wrote: > Does anyone know what this means: > > mwext-CentralNotice-merge : LOST > > ... or why I'm getting: > "Please wait while Jenkins is getting ready to work > Your browser

Re: [Wikitech-l] Jenkins tests 'LOST'?

2013-04-08 Thread Chad
We found him. He was playing in the dirt. He's a very bad boy and has been punished. -Chad On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Jenkins is lost in the WMF network right now. Operations is in the process > of searching subnets, but if we can't him, he's like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

2013-04-12 Thread Chad
unicorn kills a > kitten :P > > Think of the kittens, don't blink ;) > Webkit doesn't support blink. Looks like Gecko may follow: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/04/09/1445233/gecko-may-drop-the-blink-tag So many kittens can now grow up ;-) -Chad _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-04-12 Thread Chad
s not match m/wiki/i. Please consider your > audience before spamming hundreds of recipients. > > Thanks. > He spammed a number of lists. I've put him on moderation. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Call for new list moderators

2013-04-19 Thread Chad
volunteer. I'll give it a couple of days for people to think about it and e-mail me, and I'll pick some people by late next week. Thanks, and have a good weekend :) -Chad [0] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-February/066320.html

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit slow to the point of being unusable today

2013-04-20 Thread Chad
We've also made a few improvements to Gerrit over the past week that should help with stability and performance. -Chad On Apr 20, 2013 10:26 AM, "MZMcBride" wrote: > Antoine Musso wrote: > >Le 11/04/13 00:12, Jon Robson a écrit : > >> Is anyone able to look in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Special Page or Action

2013-04-23 Thread Chad
lf. So is one approach preferred? > Special page, special page, special page. Actions suck. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Rethinking MobileFormatter / Skins

2013-04-23 Thread Chad
lead section for one article but in the third > section for another article this is bad from a user experience point > of view. > I believe (anecdotally) that it's more often used on meta-style pages (policy and discussion) where you want a couple of secti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Call for new list moderators

2013-04-25 Thread Chad
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Chad wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As you may have remembered reading. Huib--our longtime volunteer moderator > for mediawiki-l and wikitech-l--resigned from his positions back in > February[0]. > I let this slip longer than I should've, but I

Re: [Wikitech-l] File Licensing Guidelines

2013-04-26 Thread Chad
Look ma, I'm a lawyer! I'll note that yesterday I was a fireman. And an astronaut the day before. Isn't pretending fun? -Chad -Chad On Apr 26, 2013 7:25 AM, "Sumana Harihareswara" wrote: > Luis, the thread: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] File Licensing Guidelines

2013-04-26 Thread Chad
Sorry everyone, was trying to ease the tension. -Chad On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Cool it, Chad. > -Sumana > > On 04/26/2013 07:33 AM, Chad wrote: >> Look ma, I'm a lawyer! >> >> I'll note that yesterday I was a firema

Re: [Wikitech-l] retired services / Tampa cleanup

2013-04-26 Thread Chad
ech.wikimedia.org-2013-03-26 > I don't actually remember if I had completed the mirror but the size seems > reasonable so I may. :) > Um, what stuff was lost? The page histories were all imported, so stuff like the server admin log are there. -Chad ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs/PendingChanges in only specific pages (e.g. Biographies of living persons)

2013-04-26 Thread Chad
don't know of any WMF wiki that actually uses this, though. > This is actually the fundamental difference between FlaggedRevs and PendingChanges (even though they're the same extension). For the period of time that enwiki was using PendingChanges, it was in this configuration. -Chad

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Chad
What about the Drafts extension? -Chad On Apr 30, 2013 10:27 AM, "Bartosz Dziewoński" wrote: > Somebody tried to implement that in MediaWiki core about a year ago: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/**r/#/c/5130/<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/5130/>. > It turned out t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feature proposal: backups while editing articles

2013-04-30 Thread Chad
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:32:17 +0200, Chad wrote: > >> What about the Drafts extension? > > > It seems to be slightly different, saving the drafts server-side instead of > client-side, and apparently only on dem

Re: [Wikitech-l] Is there something like a gerrit/git "download" statistics overview page?

2013-05-07 Thread Chad
27;s no way in Gerrit either. I imagine like most hit counters (eg: MediaWiki), it'd be a huge drain on performance and caches mostly throw it off. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: New approach to release notes

2013-05-07 Thread Chad
ne. > As I said many times before, this isn't really necessary since JGit now supports recursive merges, it's just experimental so I hadn't turned it on. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC: New approach to release notes

2013-05-07 Thread Chad
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On Tue, 07 May 2013 21:00:05 +0200, Chad wrote: > >>> The current process for release notes is fine; we just need someone to >>> write >>> a custom merge driver for JGit to avoid the merge conflicts. Thi

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to get permission to view deleted revision information via API?

2013-05-08 Thread Chad
u don't have permission to view deleted revision > information" > } > } > For a personal wiki, this means you need the 'deletedhistory' and 'deletedtext' permissions (which is by default assigned t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

2013-05-08 Thread Chad
d eventually help > some. > We've got [[Git/Workflow]], [[Git/Tutorial]] and [[Git/Getting started]] (in decreasing order of complexity/depth), so I would be hesitant to add yet another howto page. Considering this is supposed to be quick-and-easy docs, I&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

2013-05-08 Thread Chad
Well, that was the point of [[Git/Getting started]] because the Workflow document sucks. -Chad On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Petr Bena wrote: > I was using these tutorials in past, and they were pretty complicated > for me to understand git. I don't say it should be cons

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

2013-05-08 Thread Chad
ping :) Just for comparison, when you're doing a `git push origin master` (a la Github), you're actually just typing the shorthand version of `git push origin refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master.` -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Switching database from mysql to Oracle

2013-05-09 Thread Chad
MSSQL support is completely unmaintained. -Chad On May 9, 2013 12:09 PM, "Beebe, Mary J" wrote: > Thanks for your very quick response. > > What about MSSQL? > > Thanks, > > Mary Beebe > Battelle - Charlottesville, VA > Office: 434- 951-2149 > > >

[Wikitech-l] Recursive merging enabled for Gerrit repositories

2013-05-09 Thread Chad
we can either get it fixed or turn the feature back off (if it's patently broken). Thanks! -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [RFC] Drop XHTML 1.1

2013-05-10 Thread Chad
Ye! -Chad On May 10, 2013 9:36 AM, "Brion Vibber" wrote: > Yes, kill it with fire! > > -- brion > On May 9, 2013 9:44 PM, "Daniel Friesen" > wrote: > > > This one will probably be more controversial than my RDFa 1.1 RFC. > > > > I

Re: [Wikitech-l] HipHop VM support: ArrayObject and filter_var()

2013-05-10 Thread Chad
eard HH didn't support them - is > it safe to assume that support for them is coming? > Yes. As I understood it yesterday, this is just about to land in master. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] HipHop VM support: ArrayObject and filter_var()

2013-05-10 Thread Chad
ndalone implementation of PHP and doesn't even really know about the php binary/libraries. > Suggestion: If such a policy is implemented, I'd be great to have a job > that checks for violations of it on our CI. > This is a very good idea, and something I'll take a stab at

Re: [Wikitech-l] HipHop VM support: ArrayObject and filter_var()

2013-05-11 Thread Chad
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > On 10.05.2013 17:58, Chad wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Jeroen De Dauw >> wrote: >>> >>> Hey, >>> >>> I can see why SPL might require extra work in HipHop to sup

Re: [Wikitech-l] New extension: Special:ExtensionStatus (opinions?)

2013-05-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:59 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Matthew Flaschen > wrote: >> Or set up some caching on Gitweb, so it's usable for this kind of thing. > > I believe Chad is planning on sending Gitweb to /dev/null/, in-turn > for a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Code style: overuse of Html::element()

2013-05-14 Thread Chad
ed an acceptable usage of static functions. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Job queue upgrade

2013-05-14 Thread Chad
Wouldn't a purge also create refreshlinks jobs? -Chad On May 14, 2013 1:19 PM, "Brian Wolff" wrote: > You can clear your job queue (run all jobs in it) by running > maintenance/runJobs.php and disabling user write access temporarily to > prevent new jobs from being cre

Re: [Wikitech-l] Tool for Google Summer of Code: Flower Dev Center

2013-05-16 Thread Chad
n plugins, etc. > This pretty much makes the whole proposal a non-starter. Perhaps we could look at it later once it's released under an OSI-approved license[0]. -Chad [0] http://opensource.org/licenses ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of MediaWiki's render action (parameter to index.php)

2013-05-18 Thread Chad
Yea, it's definitely being used. I've not heard of it causing problems, so this deprecation is news to me. -Chad On May 18, 2013 2:53 PM, "Bartosz Dziewoński" wrote: > Foreign file repo is using action=render to get file descriptions from a > remote wiki. (I think th

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of MediaWiki's render action (parameter to index.php)

2013-05-19 Thread Chad
Where was any discussion regarding this? Or pointers to where it's been causing problems. -Chad On May 19, 2013 11:35 AM, "Matthew Flaschen" wrote: > On 05/18/2013 03:40 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > > These two diffs explain what happened better than I could. I think this

Re: [Wikitech-l] State of MediaWiki's render action (parameter to index.php)

2013-05-20 Thread Chad
Deprecated means we don't use it and other people shouldn't either. I think you mean superseded, which an argument that can be made here. However, all I've seen is vague hand waving about performance concerns. -Chad On May 20, 2013 9:32 AM, "Tyler Romeo" wrote: > O

Re: [Wikitech-l] Loading MediaWiki from some script

2013-05-22 Thread Chad
Making entry points isn't straightforward (which is why I suggested maintenance), but it can be done. We really need to cleanup the bootstrap process. -Chad On May 22, 2013 8:48 AM, "Tyler Romeo" wrote: > What exactly do you mean by "load MediaWiki"? What's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Loading MediaWiki from some script

2013-05-22 Thread Chad
fix this. FWIW, the request routing stuff is neat, but it's probably overkill for what we're needing here. Incremental improvements can be made to the bootstraping if anyone is brave enough to play with Setup.php ;-) -Chad ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Speed v. Size

2013-05-29 Thread Chad
y items. > > So my question is if the byte reduction is really worth it, or if we would > rather have a 37% reduction in escaping speed? Sounds like you're comparing apples to oranges here. What happens to the speed when you change Html::element() an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Speed v. Size

2013-05-29 Thread Chad
rginally faster (like, half a ms), then the reduced output probably saves more in the long run. But without actual numbers we're really just guessing at possible micro-optimizations. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Skin system as a beta development environment

2013-05-30 Thread Chad
n about both? ;-) But you're right, using skins for this smells funny, and a dedicated "Turn on experimental features" option makes a lot more sense to me. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] New git-review lets you configure 'origin' as the gerrit remote

2013-05-31 Thread Chad
stall -U git-review". Then you need to create > a configuration file: either /etc/git-review/git-review.conf (system-wide) > or ~/.config/git-review/git-review.conf (user-specific). > Bummer we can't just use ~/.gitconfig, but hey, it's still an improvement :) -Chad _

Re: [Wikitech-l] migrating hooks doc to doxygen?

2013-06-04 Thread Chad
(now-misnamed) file is rather ugly. Not that the existing file isn't > also ugly, just less so. > I'm with Brad. Considering we document this in the tree and on mw.org, I'm not entirely sure what the benefit of having it done via Doxygen is. -Chad _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Just noticed GitBlit

2013-06-05 Thread Chad
;ve been updated already (if they're not, be bold ;-)). I'll be trying to fix the performance issue (lucene sucks) tomorrow, as well as setting up some redirects from the old gitweb urls. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Search documentation

2013-06-18 Thread Chad
eally a goal with this project as we'd never use it on WMF sites. Solr, while still an external dependency, at least doesn't require people to build and configure a basically undocumented WMF-specific system to have a sane search. -Chad ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP 5.4 (we wish)

2013-06-19 Thread Chad
;t have to wait till April 2017 when that LTS > goes EOL before we can kill PHP 5.3. > I doubt it. I imagine we'll look to the new LTS when it comes out. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] New Version of the Flow Prototype Released

2013-07-13 Thread Chad
Well, it's not a product (yet), so there's no place in BZ to file bugs (yet). I assume any bugs or feedback could be provided in this thread though :) -Chad On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Brandon Harris wrote: > > This isn't a product, so there isn't a place

[Wikitech-l] Gerrit downtime - Thursday, July 18th

2013-07-16 Thread Chad
and going for 1 hour (until 15:00 UTC). Hopefully it won't take the full hour, but I'd like to be cautious :) If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here or e-mail me privately. Thanks for your understanding! -Chad ___ Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit downtime - Thursday, July 18th

2013-07-18 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Chad wrote: > Hi everyone, > > So, we've got a bad disk on the Gerrit box that needs to be swapped out. > This is going to > cause a little bit of downtime while we fix things up. Therefore, Gerrit > will be unavailable on > Thursday

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

2013-07-22 Thread Chad
hat extension that someone has installed. Sure you can grep mw/extensions, but that only goes so far. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-22 Thread Chad
You're not convincing me ;-) -Chad On Jul 22, 2013 9:06 AM, "C. Scott Ananian" wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Mark A. Hershberger >wrote: > > > On 07/22/2013 11:43 AM, Chad wrote: > > > Telling me it's like cpan just brings back awful awf

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-22 Thread Chad
g me it's like cpan just brings back awful awful memories... And a developer, please don't *require* me to use Composer. Don't want it, don't need it. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki extensions as core-like libraries: MediaWiki's fun new landmine for admins

2013-07-22 Thread Chad
> > Easier said than done. I've been fighting this fight for years and we're only about 3 globals closer to doing so. I'm totally in favor of getting rid of global scope usage, but let's please not trivialize the amount of work it will take to get there. -Chad __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-22 Thread Chad
ain, I'm usually the first to say "yes, kill the preference" but really we've got a dozen more screwed up preferences and this one is completely sane. I'll also mention it seems to have overwhelming support from both the community as well as some other developers. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Remove 'visualeditor-enable' from $wgHiddenPrefs

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
> This isn't a good analogy. Assuming we'd had visual editing since day 1, I would presume we wouldn't have had source editing...a better way would be to say "if we'd had VE since day one and we were trying to add source editing, would there be an

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
It's been flakey the past few days. I've been trying to get to the bottom of it. -Chad On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Derric Atzrott < datzr...@alizeepathology.com> wrote: > Afternoon, > > > > Anyone else having issues getting at Gitblit? I've not bee

Re: [Wikitech-l] !ask

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
[14:54] <^demon> !ask del [14:54] Successfully removed ask -Chad On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Yeah I agree. Whenever I see it used I cringe a little bit thinking about > how the other person is reading it. > > --Tyler Romeo > On Jul 23, 2013

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
pens quite often for the last days: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51769 > > Things should be much better since this afternoon. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gitblit down?

2013-07-23 Thread Chad
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:01 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Chad wrote: > > Things should be much better since this afternoon. > > > > You gave into the server kittehs demands for fresher tuna? > > I blocked silly Chinese and Korean web spi

[Wikitech-l] Git migration: complete

2013-07-26 Thread Chad
your patience, help, bug reports, blood, sweat, tears, firstborn children...whatever you gave to this monumental effort over the past year and a half. I'm thinking of switching to Source Safe next year because migrations are so fun ;-) -Chad ___ Wikitech

Re: [Wikitech-l] python vs php

2013-07-27 Thread Chad
e tool you feel most comfortable with because for all practical purposes it won't matter at all. That being said, there's some things that each language may excel at, so picking the right tool for the task at hand is important. And no matter the tool,

Re: [Wikitech-l] python vs php

2013-07-27 Thread Chad
ho knows how it's gonna look like in few years > given this python-epidemy :)) > > It was designed to do that from the get go. It's not Personal Home Page for nothing ;-) -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikitech-l] On your python vs php talk

2013-07-28 Thread Chad
go back to watching silly cat videos or whatever else you like to do in your spare time. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] python vs php

2013-07-28 Thread Chad
quot; language should be suitable to build OS. > Perhaps Zend VM could be "beefed up" itself to make PHP the same class as > Java. And on that note, this thread (like the other one) has run its course. Like that one, I recommend everyone going back to y

Re: [Wikitech-l] Voting disabled in bugzilla for some products

2013-07-28 Thread Chad
in Monday morning Prague > time, but I just figured I'd mention this quickly. > I've always been in favor of getting rid of voting entirely since developers don't use it for judging anything. Tried to once before, but people seem to like using it for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Voting disabled in bugzilla for some products

2013-07-29 Thread Chad
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 29/07/13 16:09, Chad wrote: > > I've always been in favor of getting rid of voting entirely since > developers > > don't use it for judging anything. Tried to once before, but people seem > to > > like

Re: [Wikitech-l] no TLS 1.1 and 1.2 support

2013-07-29 Thread Chad
s://en.wikipedia.org > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=en.wikipedia.org > > We do better than the check site itself ;-) https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ssllabs.com -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] GMail sending lots of WIkimedia mail to spam again

2013-08-07 Thread Chad
from outside. > > > Is there anywhere they're actually listening? That's really not > something Google is good at. > I decided to not care about the problem very much since I assumed Google wouldn't either. -Chad ___ W

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

2013-08-10 Thread Chad
this :( > > We fixed this Thursday or Friday? https://git.wikimedia.org/robots.txt WFM. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] git.wikimedia.org dead?

2013-08-12 Thread Chad
> >> > >> > >> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:51:15PM +0200, rupert THURNER wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> As chad points out, its being served now > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> it's plura

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