[Wikitech-l] Query-string normalization enabled on MediaWiki.org

Hello, A short while ago, the SRE Traffic team enabled query-string normalization for MediaWiki.org. This means that the caching layer (Varnish, specifically) now rewrites the query string portion of request URLs, so that query paramete

[Wikitech-l] Re: Request: Help with Fresh

I haven't tested these because I don't have a Windows machine handy. You can try one of the following: Option A: Replace '/usr/local/bin' in the invocation with '/usr/bin', which does exist in git bash. Option B: 1) Run: echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc mkdir -p /usr/local

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 7:13 PM MZMcBride wrote: > If I had written "Why did you do that?!" instead of "What the fuck.", do > you > think I would have had my Phabricator account disabled for a week? > No, but asking "are you for real?" would have been similarly problematic in my view. The distinc

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:48 PM bawolff wrote: > MZMcbride (and any other individual contributor) is at a power > disadvantage here relative to how the foundation is an organized > group Have you *been* on the receiving end of an MZMcBride diatribe? I was, when barely two months into my role as

[Wikitech-l] ResistanceManual.org looking for co-maintainers

Resistance Manual is a guide for organizing resistance to the policies of the Trump administration in the United States. The site is running MediaWiki 1.28, and its admins are looking for help maintaining the site. The main page says to reac

Re: [Wikitech-l] Where has mw.log gone again?

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Strainu wrote: > > > Back when preprocessor optimization data was displayed on the preview > > page, one could see the output of mw.log and mw.logObject calls in the > > LUA code there. Right now, I

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki pingback

What proportion of MediaWiki installations run on 32-bit systems? How much memory is available to a typical MediaWiki install? How often is the Oracle database backend used? These are the kinds of questions that come up whenever we debate changes that impact compatibility. More often than not, the

[Wikitech-l] Please use HTTPS, not HTTP, to access RCStream

If you have a client that connects to RCStream , please take a moment to make sure that you are using a secure connection. Are you connecting to ' http://stream.wikimedia.org/rc' or '//stream.wikimedia.org/rc'? If so, the only thing you need to change i

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] The train will resume tomorrow (was Re: All wikis reverted to wmf.8 last night due to T119736)

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119736 - "Could not find local user > data for {Username}@{wiki}" > > > > There was an order of magnitude increase in the rate of those errors > > that started on July 7th. > > > > Investigation and

[Wikitech-l] DNS, TLS change for RCStream (stream.wikimedia.org)

== What is happening? == Secure connections to RCStream[1] currently use an SSL/TLS certificate[2] specific to stream.wikimedia.org. To streamline certificate management, we are moving RCStream behind our misc caching cluster, which will allow us to use the wildcard certificate[3] for *.wikimedia.o

[Wikitech-l] Update from the Perf Team

Hello, Here's what the performance team has been up to. == Dashboards & instrumentation == We spent time instrumenting software and curating displays of performance data. We have several new dashboards to share with you: * Global edit rate and save failures (new) https://grafana.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > It might be worthwhile to ask the authors why they chose CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 > instead of a free license (like MIT, Apache, GPL or AGPL). If we > approach them respectfully, we might convince them to learn more about > our ideals, and change the

[Wikitech-l] Automatic image colorization

Colorization refers to the process of adding color to black-and-white photographs. This work was historically done by hand. These days, colorization is usually done digitally, with the support of specialized tooling. But it is s

Re: [Wikitech-l] Docs, use of, and admin privileges for wikimedia github project?

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Now, having something like wikimedia.github.io would be an excellent > idea. If somebody would do the design, loading up repos list and > displaying them with a nice structure - given that we actually have > pretty structured names already,

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, latency, & progressive enhancement

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Started as quick thoughts, turned into more of an essay, so I've posted the > bulk on mediawiki.org: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Brion_VIBBER/ResourceLoader_and_latency > > > tl;dr summary: > > On slow networks, latency in loading

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader, latency, & progressive enhancement

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Sunday, April 24, 2016, Daniel Friesen > wrote: > > > Tangentially related, Chrome plans to drop support for SPDY and go > > HTTP/2 only this year, Edge already dropped support for SPDY, and other > > browsers may too. > > So before this

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Risker wrote: > I sympathize with your concern, Ori. I suspect, however, that it shows a > fundamental misunderstanding of why the Teahouse works when other processes > (several of which have included cute symbols) have been less effective. > > And the reason is:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Ryan Lane wrote: > To be totally honest, I think this is a great idea, but it should use > emojis. Github added this for PRs and messages for instance, and it's > amazingly helpful: > > > https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comme

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feelings

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Legoktm wrote: > Hi, > > It's well known that Wikipedia is facing threats from other social > networks and losing editors. While many of us spend time trying to make > Wikipedia different, we need to be cognizant that what other social > networks are doing is work

Re: [Wikitech-l] X-Wikimedia-Debug, your new secret side-kick

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Isn't there a recommendation not to use the X- prefix for any new headers? > There is, but there is a clear existing convention for using the X- prefix in Wikimedia-specific headers, so I think local consistency trumps the IETF recommendat

[Wikitech-l] X-Wikimedia-Debug, your new secret side-kick

Hey all, I'm writing to let you know of a cool new facility for debugging MediaWiki code on the Wikimedia production cluster -- the X-Wikimedia-Debug HTTP header. By setting this header on requests to Wikimedia wikis, you can: - Bypass the

Re: [Wikitech-l] limited presence

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > ive had a small accident with skiing. ill be fine, but because of it my > participation will be low for some while and though i am reading along with > some things, any answers will like be terse

[Wikitech-l] New PHP profiling tool available on WMF cluster

Hello, I set up XHGui on the Wikimedia Foundation's production cluster: https://performance.wikimedia.org/xhgui/ XHGui is a web application for browsing and analyzing PHP profiling data collected via the XHProf hierarchical profiler. It's now available on the Wikimedia Foundation's production cl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Mass migration to new syntax - PRO or CON?

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Now that we target PHP 5.5, some people are itching to make use of some new > language features, like the new array syntax, e.g. > . > > Mass changes like this, or similar changes relating to codi

[Wikitech-l] Update to syntax highlighting extension adds support for more languages

Terminfo ("terminfo") - Terraform ("terraform", "tf") - Thrift ("thrift") - TrafficScript ("trafficscript", "rts") - Turtle ("turtle") - TypeScript ("typescript") - X10 ("xten", "x10") - XML+Mako ("xml+mako") - cADL ("cadl") J and BNF were previously supported by mapping them to other languages with close-enough syntax: Objective-J and Extended BNF, respectively. Each of those now has a dedicated lexer, so the highlighted output should hew more closely to the language definition. For more information on SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi and Pygments, see: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi - http://pygments.org/ Ori Livneh Perf Team ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Close test2wiki?

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi Ori, > > Thanks for bringing this seemingly vestigial weirdness to our attention. > As you say, it should be documented better. > > As I'm reading this, you are still making the case that we should still > shut this down. Sorry, I shoul

Re: [Wikitech-l] Close test2wiki?

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > Il 28/01/2016 02:30, Dan Garry ha scritto: > >> On 27 January 2016 at 17:16, Legoktm wrote: >> >> Especially when debugging and testing cross-wiki features, it is >>> extremely useful to have two test wikis to use. MassMessage, >>> GlobalCs

[Wikitech-l] Close test2wiki?

The setup of test2.wikipedia.org is no longer meaningfully different from test.wikipedia.org. Is there a good reason for keeping test2? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Proposal regarding the future of X-Wikimedia-Debug and testwiki

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Mukunda Modell wrote: > I think it would be very useful to have a way to, in addition to > cache-busting, also force the request to be served from the pre-production > branch rather that the current production branch. This way changes on the > prod+1 branch can b

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Announcing mediawiki-containers, a Docker-based MediaWiki installer

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote: > I am writing to announce mediawiki-containers [1], a simple installer for > MediaWiki with VisualEditor, Parsoid, RESTBase and other services, using > Linux containers. > This is very nice work -- kudos. Is it too soon to envision running t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Update from the Wikimedia Performance Team

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > > > Improving future-proof maintainability by taking thumbnail code out of > > MediaWiki-Core and using a service instead to perform thumbnail > operatio

[Wikitech-l] Update from the Wikimedia Performance Team

Hello, This is the first monthly report from the Wikimedia Performance Team. The purpose of these reports is to showcase our work, track our progress, and spark conversation. ## Who we are ## As the Wikimedia Foundation’s Performance Team, we want to create value for readers and editors by makin

Re: [Wikitech-l] "Try the free Wikipedia app" banners

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: > We appear to be running a banner campaign on the mobile web site, driving > people to download the mobile app: > Just in time! http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/death-to-app-install-inte

Re: [Wikitech-l] New RFC: better JS minification

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Jérémie Roquet wrote: > Has the RFC been abandonned because of lack of interest? > Speaking for myself: at the time the RFC was written, I was skeptical that the benefits would be worth incurring a dependency on an external service (or the requirement of shelling

[Wikitech-l] "Try the free Wikipedia app" banners

We appear to be running a banner campaign on the mobile web site, driving people to download the mobile app: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/?banner=Aug2015_app_banner_2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/?banner=Aug2015_app_banner_1 Campaign definition: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=

Re: [Wikitech-l] How to serve up subtitles

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > As part of Brion's and mine struggle for better A/V support on Wikipedia, I > have concluded that our current support for subtitles is rather... > improvised. > > Currently all our SRT files are referenced f

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:35 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 1:30 PM, John Mark Vandenberg > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Over the course of the next two days, a major u

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > Il 29/06/2015 20:01, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) ha scritto: > >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: >> >> Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the >>> SyntaxHighlight_GeSH

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Parsoid announcement: Main roundtrip quality target achieved

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote: > Hello everyone, > > On behalf of the parsing team, here is an update about Parsoid, the > bidirectional wikitext <-> HTML parser that supports Visual Editor, Flow, > and Content Translation. > > Subbu. > > --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Aran wrote: > Also for those that prefer the client to do the work I recently made an > extension to use the highlight.js module at highlightjs.org. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HighlightJS This is very nice, and may be a target for a future migrat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > >https://people.wikimedia.org/~ori/geshi_changes.txt > > What about languages that aren't listed in your "Supported" or > "Unsupported" lists? They'll continue to work as before. ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:30 PM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > Ugh, is there a way to configure pygments to have fallbacks for > languages which are substantially based on another? e.g. xpp is > basically java, and looks quite good when I tested it on betalabs. I > am sure that Pygments has so

Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > I use the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi MediaWiki extension on a few non-Wikimedia > wikis. If I just run "git pull" in the extension's directory in a few > days, is that sufficient? Almost. There are updated instructions in https://github.com/wikimed

[Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes

Hello, Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the lexical analysis and output formatting of code, for another library, called Pygments. T

[Wikitech-l] Timo Tijhof joining the performance team

Hi all, I am delighted to announce that Timo Tijhof (Krinkle) is joining the Wikimedia Foundation's performance team. Over the past several years, Timo has made many important contributions to MediaWiki performance. Though he has been highly active across the stack, his impact on front-end perfor

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > a parse of the Barack Obama article. > A parse of *English Wikipedia's* Barack Obama article. I am trying, I am trying... :) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedi

[Wikitech-l] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective highlights MediaWiki gains

Facebook's HHVM team just completed their first performance lockdown, which they spent focusing on the performance of open-source PHP frameworks under HHVM. The achievement which they chose to highlight in their blog posts is a gain of 19% in their MediaWiki performance benchmark, which is – you gu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia iOS, now Swift enabled!

Cool! The wmf:// NSURLProtocol work looks pretty neat as well. On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Brian Gerstle wrote: > If you want to write some Swift in the main Wikipedia iOS app project, > please work off the "swift" branch. > > Happy hacking! > > Brian > > -- > EN Wikipedia user page: https:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Multimedia team?

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 10/05/15 07:06, Brian Wolff wrote: > > People have been talking about vr for a long time. I think there is more > > pressing concerns (e.g. video). I suspect VR will stay in the video game > > realm or gimmick realm for a while yet > > Ma

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC and Outreachy results out!

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Niharika Kohli wrote: > Hello everyone! > > After a long and intense selection process, Google and GNOME Foundation > have finally announced the list of GSoC and Outreachy selects for the > current round. I'm pleased to announce we have 9 interns for GSoC and 1 fo

[Wikitech-l] "For the Sake of Simplicity"

From http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=362327 : That software systems are getting bigger and more pervasive is testament that we can at times muster the wherewithal to manage the inherent complexity of constructing large systems. At other times, however, it simply supports the view

Re: [Wikitech-l] client-side HTML templating now in core

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > MediaWiki core now has built-in support for using Mustache HTML templates > from your client-side Javascript code. You can also use the same templates > on the server-side with the TemplateParser class. > > Documentation: > > https://www.media

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moritz Muehlenhoff joins as Ops Security Engineer

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Mark Bergsma wrote: > > He used to be a > frequent visitor of film festivals such as the San Sebastian festival, > but with the baby around home theatre has become more prevalent. :-) > Prediction: you are about to become a very discerning critic of Disney movies :

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lua module for simple molar mass calculations

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Brenton Horne wrote: > Thanks, I have also posted this question on Stackoverflow ( > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29377097/lua-module- > for-calculating-the-molar-mass-of-chemical-compounds) someone with Lua > skills but not so much with MediaWiki Lua templa

[Wikitech-l] Flame graphs in Chrome / Chromium

Hello, The timeline and flame graph features of Chrome's DevTools have been very useful for us as we work to understand and improve the performance of VisualEditor. Someone asked me today about how we use these tools, so I recorded a short (3-minute) screencast. It unfortunately cut off near the e

Re: [Wikitech-l] From Node.js to Go

(Sorry, this was meant for wikitech-l.) On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > We should do the same, IMO. > http://bowery.io/posts/Nodejs-to-Golang-Bowery/ > ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Dev Summit debrief: SOA proliferation through specification

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:30 PM, James Douglas wrote: > Howdy all, > > It was a pleasure chatting with you at this year's Developer Summit[1] > about how we might give SOA a shot in the arm by creating (and building > from) specifications. > > The slides are available on the RESTBase project pag

Re: [Wikitech-l] All Hands On Deck!

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:11 AM, wrote: > Oh what a day! Which began when perforce > a visitor from afar began to exhort > us to look far afield, to travel and visit > learn brand new things, uncover, elicit > stories of users far from our homes! > And so we set out, bravely to roam: > perhaps te

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki 2.0 (was Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Daniel Friesen wrote: > > Any such discussion should probably start with this: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_2.0 The page is an outline of a plan. It sounds pretty good to me. Whatever happened to that initiative? Did it just fizzle out, or were the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > Committee members are skeptical of many of the current ideas floating > around at the moment, and have their own ideas about what things should be > priorities, but have no expectation that those ideas will be considered for > resourcing. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: No more Architecture Committee?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > On the leadership front, let me throw out a hypothetical: should we > have MediaWiki 2.0, where we start with an empty repository and build > up? If so, who makes that decision? If not, what is our alternative > vision? Who is going to de

Re: [Wikitech-l] S Page debuts as Technical Writer

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > It is an honor to announce that S Page[1] has moved from the Collaboration > (Flow) team to join the WMF Engineering Community team as a Technical > Writer[2]. We were really lucky to find such a great combination of English > communication skills

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader module wrapping

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > I am experimenting with catching Javascript errors with raven.js [1] (see > the JS error logging RfC [2] for background; see T1345 [3] for a prototype > for JS error logging). For various reasons, Javascript does not have a > reliable way to i

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki flame graphs

I'm writing to draw your attention to a newly-available resource for performance analysis: flame graphs of MediaWiki code. http://performance.wikimedia.org/xenon/svgs/ Flame graphs are a visualization of application stack traces. Each application server on the Wikimedia cluster has a software ti

Re: [Wikitech-l] ANN: WikiMedia recent changes DDP API

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Mitar wrote: > > Hi! > > I made a a Meteor DDP API to the stream of recent changes on all > WikiMedia wikis. Now you can simply use DDP.connect on in your Meteor > application to connect to stream of changes on Wikipedia. :-) > > http://wikimedia.meteor.com/ > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Phabricator migration part II: Replacing gitblit with Diffusion

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:15 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Chad wrote: > >On Fri Nov 28 2014 at 2:41:00 PM Bartosz Dziewoński > >wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:02:39 +0100, Merlijn van Deen > >> wrote (roughly): > >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1287943 > >> > >> I definitely

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Architecture Committee updates

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Hey all -- > > Announcement time! > > The MediaWiki Architecture Committee has added two members by provisional > internal consensus: > * Roan Kattouw, Wikimedia Foundation (visual editor & core) > * Daniel Kinzler, Wikimedia Deutschland > C

Re: [Wikitech-l] FOSS OPW Mentor Contact

gram, > but > > I > > > am having some trouble getting in contact with the mentor for my chose > > > project - Ori Livneh <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ori.livneh>. > I > > > have idled on IRC for quite a while trying to get in co

Re: [Wikitech-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:57 AM, This, that and the other < at.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > Only once that issue is fixed, and the API is running via HHVM, will I be > able > to get excited... > You may be able to get excited now. :) ___ Wikitech-l mail

[Wikitech-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

(apologies for cross-posting) I'm happy to announce that HHVM is available on all Wikimedia wikis for intrepid beta testers. HHVM, you'll recall, is an alternative runtime for PHP that provides substantial performance improvements over the standard PHP interpreter. Simply put: HHVM is software tha

[Wikitech-l] +2 in mediawiki/core for Kevin Israel

Kevin Israel (User:PleaseStand) now has +2 in mediawiki/core, following a successful nomination by MZMcBride[1]. Congratulations! :) [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Gerrit/Project_ownership&oldid=1072656 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wiki

[Wikitech-l] HHVM status update

Hello, Here's a quick status update about the rollout of HHVM. * Since migrating test.wikipedia.org to HHVM exactly one week ago, we've had just one segfault (reported upstream: < https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/3438>). That's very good. * Giuseppe shared some benchmarks in an e-mail to w

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Migrating test.wikipedia.org to HHVM

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Giuseppe Lavagetto wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/08/14 14:36, Ori Livneh wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Ori Livneh > <mailto:o...@wikimedia.org>> wrote: > > > > On either

Re: [Wikitech-l] Migrating test.wikipedia.org to HHVM

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > On either Thursday or Friday of this week, Giuseppe Lavagetto (of the > Wikimedia TechOps team) and I are planning to migrate < > https://test.wikipedia.org/> (testwiki) to HHVM. [sni

[Wikitech-l] Migrating test.wikipedia.org to HHVM

(apologies for cross-posting) On either Thursday or Friday of this week, Giuseppe Lavagetto (of the Wikimedia TechOps team) and I are planning to migrate < https://test.wikipedia.org/> (testwiki) to HHVM. The way testwiki is configured makes it a natural next step on the path leading from the Beta

[Wikitech-l] Brief Labs outage

(Apologies for cross-posting.) We've been noticing an issue with lock-ups on the beta cluster application servers for the past few days. It happens about once or twice a day. It just happened again on both application servers, and I'd really like to try and get to the bottom of things this time.

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant is going Trusty

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Ori Livneh wrote: > I'm writing to communicate an upcoming major change in MediaWiki-Vagrant. > In the coming week, I'm going to upgrade the base image from Precise > Pangolin to Trusty Tahr, the latest version from Canonical. > This just l

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant is going Trusty

I'm writing to communicate an upcoming major change in MediaWiki-Vagrant. In the coming week, I'm going to upgrade the base image from Precise Pangolin to Trusty Tahr, the latest version from Canonical. Trusty integrates many new open-source software components, many of them specifically targeting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Composer to manage libraries for mediawiki/core on Jenkins and Foundation cluster

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:37 PM, James HK wrote: > > That is just the unfortunate truth. We are > > not going to misuse libraries and hack together MediaWiki just so > extension > > installation can be *slightly* easier. > > This sort of behaviour towards non-WMF extension developers is > interest

Re: [Wikitech-l] 404 errors

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:34 PM, ENWP Pine wrote: > Hi, I'm getting some 404 errors consistently when trying to load some > English Wikipedia articles. Other pages load ok. Did something break? > TL;DR: A package update went badly. Nitty-gritty postmortem: At 20:25 (all times UTC), change Ie5a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployments of new, radically different default features

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Rainer Rillke wrote: > As some people do not care a lot for beta features or new features, do > not read the mailing lists and overlook main discussion forums or are > just unable to understand English, they were surprised and confused and > wondered how they could

Re: [Wikitech-l] What should be the recommended / supported way to do skins? (A proposal.)

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > > tl;dr Let's start putting all skins files in a single directory, and let's > use a grown-up structure with one class per file + separate init code for > them. Okay? > Sounds good to me. I agree with Tyler that there's more to wish for,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW-Vagrant improvements at the Zürich Hackathon

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Bryan Davis wrote: > > >> All in all it felt like a very fruitful hack session, and we're closer > >> than ever to having a ready-to-go developer instance that mimics our > >> production environment. Big thanks to everyone involved in making our > work > >> succes

Re: [Wikitech-l] Advice needed for MediaWiki-Vagrant problem

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Ori Livneh wrote: > Vagrant 1.6 changed the order of steps Vagrant performs on initialization: > it now evaluates the project's Vagrantfile after loading plugins and > parsing command-line arguments. This means that the various subcommands >

[Wikitech-l] Advice needed for MediaWiki-Vagrant problem

Vagrant 1.6 changed the order of steps Vagrant performs on initialization: it now evaluates the project's Vagrantfile after loading plugins and parsing command-line arguments. This means that the various subcommands provide for role management no longer work, since the relevant plugins are loaded f

Re: [Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > Just wondering, but has any performance testing been done on different > socket.io implementations? IIRC, Python is pretty good, so I definitely > approve, but I'm wondering if there are other implementations are are more > performant (specific

[Wikitech-l] recent changes stream

Hi, Gerrit change Id819246a9 proposes an implementation for a recent changes stream broadcast via socket.io, an abstraction layer over WebSockets that also provides long polling as a fallback for older browsers. Comment on < https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131040/> or the mailing list. Thanks,

[Wikitech-l] Minding pull-requests on GitHub

I just stumbled across , a small but useful contribution to core from an HHVM developer. It has gone unnoticed for two months, which is a bit sad. Is there a way to accept pull-requests from GitHub? According to < https://github.com/wikimedia/me

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Erwin Dokter wrote: > On 08-04-2014 00:45, Steven Walling wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jon Robson wrote: >> >> I noticed from Kaldari's notes [1] that "Open sans" was rejected based >>> on language support and install base. >>> >> > > >> A similar

[Wikitech-l] Update on HHVM

Hi! This is a quick heads-up about the status of HHVM migration, and what the MediaWiki Core team is working on. There are three challenges that we have to solve before we can run HHVM in production: * We need good packages. The packages provided by Facebook have some deep issues that need to be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Webfonts

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote: > There have recently been questions whether WMF is able to serve > webfonts. Some people think that because of the issues that led to > disabling webfonts by default in Universal Language Selector (ULS), > WMF is not ready to consider webfon

[Wikitech-l] Vagrant Cloud

Vagrant Cloud is a new service from Hashicorp that strives to make it easy to share Vagrant boxes and to collaborate on provisioned instances together. It's in very early beta, but I have started poking around a little, and it looks interesting. I don't quite know yet how it will work with our exte

Re: [Wikitech-l] RFC on PHP profiling

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Chad wrote: > I'm starting a new RFC to discuss ways we can improve our PHP profiling. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Better_PHP_profiling > > Please feel free to help expand and/or comment on the talk page if you've > got ideas :) > Apro

Re: [Wikitech-l] Latest Snowden docs & MediaWiki

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Philip Neustrom wrote: > The latest Snowden docs have some great screenshots of the NSA-internal > MediaWiki installation Snowden is alleged to have obtained a lot of his > material from: > > > https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-rev

[Wikitech-l] Core unit tests passing under HHVM 2.4

Core's unit tests are passing integration tests on Travis CI under the latest release of HHVM: https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/builds/18445085 --- Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > > * The drop occurred because ResourceLoaderLanguageDataModule had a bug > in its mtime computation, causing it to recache all the time; module > storage greatly dampened the impact of that bug. This is true, and it was a confounding factor i

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant can run MediaWiki under HHVM!

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote: > Do you know where I can find these hhvm-nightly packages if I want to > try them out on my own? > > Last time I tested hhvm on translatewiki.net, there were fastcgi > parameter passing problems which blocked further testing there. > -Nikl

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant can run MediaWiki under HHVM!

r report. Three cheers for Erik B., and for Facebook's Paul Tarjan, whose recent packaging work makes this possible. [0]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105834/ --- Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikitech-l] MacOS (OSX) developers / tech people with mac needed for huggle packaging

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hi, > > Huggle 3 is slowly getting near to first release, and I have yet set > up some built environment for early beta versions. 1 for windows on > one of my own windows boxens (using NSIS and MinGW) which I use to > release beta version packag

Re: [Wikitech-l] Module storage is coming

sure. I hadn't thought of that. It's definitely worth a shot. Let's run another short experiment to compare the two. --- Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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