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

2013-03-09 Thread Brian Wolff
On 3/8/13, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way that extension developers can get some sort of notice for breaking changes, e.g., https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/50138? Luckily my extension's JobQueue implementation hasn't been merged yet, but if it had I would have no idea

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

2013-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
Is there any way that extension developers can get some sort of notice for breaking changes, e.g., https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/50138? Luckily my extension's JobQueue implementation hasn't been merged yet, but if it had I would have no idea that it had been broken by the core. *--* *Tyler Romeo*

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

2013-03-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Partly related: to be fair, Aaron asked comments about release notes and announcements some months ago (although in that case for schema changes) but there was none. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064630.html Nemo ___

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

2013-03-08 Thread Tyler Romeo
True, but schema changes are not as bad because they won't cause fatal errors in PHP. At the very least if a schema change occurs your wiki will still be operational. --Tyler Romeo On Mar 8, 2013 4:26 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Partly related: to be fair, Aaron asked

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

2013-03-08 Thread Thomas Gries
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45915 I think, we should use Twitter in addition to the mailinglist. I am not a fan of all new tools, but many OSS projects (owncloud, mailvelope) post their breaking news there. We do not (yet). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

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

2013-03-08 Thread Chad
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45915 I think, we should use Twitter in addition to the mailinglist. I am not a fan of all new tools, but many OSS projects (owncloud, mailvelope) post their breaking news there.

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

2013-03-08 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 09.03.2013 00:04, schrieb Chad: I think, we should use Twitter in addition to the mailinglist. You're joking, right? -Chad Why do you think I am joking ? Major changes can be signalled there - or did I miss something ? ___ Wikitech-l mailing