[Wikitech-l] Help me to avoid local patches

2014-02-10 Thread Niklas Laxström
On one of my wikifarms I only have one local patch to MediaWiki core left. I'm hoping to have that merged as well, so let me bring this to your attention: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98078/ On a related note, I'm using html templates and I am in need of a way to deliver them with resource

[Wikitech-l] Testing changes to the Math extension before they get live at wikipedia

2014-02-10 Thread Moritz Schubotz
Dear all, recently some changes were merged to Wikipedia that broke some math rendering for almost 2 days. I'm highly interested to avoid that this will happen again. As a reaction my goal is to develop the changes in a new branch called math2_0_0 that get's reviewed according to the WMF

[Wikitech-l] Faidon Liambotis promoted to Principal Operations Engineer

2014-02-10 Thread Mark Bergsma
I'm pleased to announce that Faidon Liambotis has been promoted to Principal Operations Engineer. From the very first week he was hired, Faidon has expressed great interest in understanding and improving the complete infrastructure stack of the Wikimedia Foundation, covering not only the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Faidon Liambotis promoted to Principal Operations Engineer

2014-02-10 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
Awesome! Congratulations! On Feb 10, 2014 2:48 PM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Faidon Liambotis has been promoted to Principal Operations Engineer. From the very first week he was hired, Faidon has expressed great interest in understanding and improving

Re: [Wikitech-l] InstantClick

2014-02-10 Thread Dan Andreescu
Hi, Today, I heard about a JavaScript library called InstantClick (http://instantclick.io/). Basically, it's based on the principle that latency is responsible for a lot of the Web's slowness. It also considers that there are about 250ms between hovering over and clicking on a link.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Testing changes to the Math extension before they get live at wikipedia

2014-02-10 Thread Chris McMahon
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Moritz Schubotz phy...@physikerwelt.dewrote: Dear all, recently some changes were merged to Wikipedia that broke some math rendering for almost 2 days. I'm highly interested to avoid that this will happen again. On 27 January an automated test on beta labs

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

2014-02-10 Thread Erik Bernhardson
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.dewrote: Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Can we maybe add this into Jenkins somehow? It'd be kind of nice if we could make sure from now on that no patches break unit tests in HHVM. To get HHVM we first need a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Faidon Liambotis promoted to Principal Operations Engineer

2014-02-10 Thread Ryan Lane
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Faidon Liambotis has been promoted to Principal Operations Engineer. Definitely deserved and far too late in coming! Congrats Faidon, you do great work and you're an awesome person to work

Re: [Wikitech-l] ResourceLoader timing

2014-02-10 Thread Trevor Parscal
Steffen, ResourceLoader guarantees the order of module execution if there are dependencies, such that child always comes after parent, which always comes after grandparent in a dependency chain. Due to the concatenation of modules in the order requested, it's unlikely that modules will be

[Wikitech-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Outage report - Feb 6th - Math

2014-02-10 Thread Greg Grossmeier
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:25 PM Subject: Outage report - Feb 6th - Math To: Development and Operations engineers engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikitech-l] Proposal for Zürich Hackathon - getting close to a production-like Vagrant instance

2014-02-10 Thread Arthur Richards
A few of us have been discussing how awesome it would be to use MediaWiki-Vagrant[1] to create a portable production-like environment. This would give Mediawiki engineers a common ground from which to develop core code and/or extensions, and by coming close to mimicking Wikimedia's production

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for Zürich Hackathon - getting close to a production-like Vagrant instance

2014-02-10 Thread Pavel Astakhov
aren't you lost this links? :-) 1 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant 2 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014 11.02.2014 06:13, Arthur Richards пишет: A few of us have been discussing how awesome it would be to use MediaWiki-Vagrant[1] to create a portable

[Wikitech-l] RFC discussion Friday 14 Feb: TitleValue

2014-02-10 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
This week, we're mostly discussing the TitleValue RFC - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Summit_2014/TitleValue and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/TitleValue have more information. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-02-14says that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Faidon Liambotis promoted to Principal Operations Engineer

2014-02-10 Thread MZMcBride
Ryan Lane wrote: Congrats Faidon, you do great work and you're an awesome person to work with. What he said. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l