IANAL, but you might want to take a look at how the vlc people handled this kind of
problems - i remember a huge rewrite effort from their part, but no link on hand, sorry.
Strainu
"Mr. Donald J. Fortier II" <technical_13(a)yahoo.com> a scris:
>A little additional information on topic 1 -- The pull request including the changes
that this contributor to the script made can be viewed at
https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/pull/54/files if it is of any interest. Thanks.
>
>
>
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> 1. Fwd: afch licensing question (Steven Walling)
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> 3. Re: MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features (Željko Filipin)
> 4. Re: Fwd: afch licensing question (Denny Vrandečić)
> 5. Job posting: frontend dev (JavaScript) at Wikimedia
> Deutschland (Lydia Pintscher)
> 6. Re: MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features (Ori Livneh)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:36:43 -0700
>From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
>To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: afch licensing question
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>Forwarding, with permission.
>
>For background the "AFC Helper" script is one that assists English
>Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which
>currently is severely backlogged.
>
>Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the
>question of gadget/userscript licensing?
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Mr. Donald J. Fortier II <technical_13(a)yahoo.com>
>Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM
>Subject: afch licensing question
>To: "swalling(a)wikimedia.org" <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
>
>
>Per the discussion on
https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/61 one of the
>previous contributors to the project refuses to agree to relicense AFCH
>under the MIT license. Right now, the script is licensed under
>CC-BY-SA/GFDL, as it was originally coded on-wiki (per
>[[Wikipedia:Copyright]] -- all text-based contributions). This came about
>due to some confusion that can be seen
>https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/60. So, we are unsure as to where to
>go from here. If we replace any code contributed to the project by the
>person that refuses to agree, can we dissolve any requirements to get him
>to agree? Is there enough contribution from him to actually worry about it
>as he hasn't actually written any functions, just converted some stuff from
>old school JavaScript to jQuery? Any advice/assistance on this would be
>appreciated.
>
>
>
>--
>Steven Walling,
>Product Manager
>https://wikimediafoundation.org/
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:09:30 +0200
>From: Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr>
>To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea?
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>Le 26/09/13 00:46, Chad a écrit :
>>> >
>>> > What's actually the problem with expanding branches?
>>> >
>> To me at least, it makes it harder to see what's actually deployed at
>> a given time. Try `git branch -r` on core. We're at 86 branches
now...that's
>> 172 if you've got two remotes. It's only going to get worse and it'll
be
>> progressively harder to spot what's important.
>
>We could simply delete the old branches after a few deployment cycles.
>If we want to keep the reference for history purposes, would tagging the
>tip of it be enough ?
>
>If you find yourself struggling to find out the last 2 wmf branches, you
>can write a tiny script to sort and filter the branches, keeping only
>the last two.
>
>--
>Antoine "hashar" Musso
>
>
>
>
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>
>Message: 3
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:52:38 +0200
>From: Željko Filipin <zfilipin(a)wikimedia.org>
>To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features
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>Hi Ori,
>
>Is there a reason for having Guest Additions Version 4.1.12 in the VM
>instead of 4.2?
>
>$ vagrant up
>(...)
>[default] VM booted and ready for use!
>[default] The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version
>of
>VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can
>cause things such as shared folders to not work properly. If you see
>shared folder errors, please update the guest additions within the
>virtual machine and reload your VM.
>
>Guest Additions Version: 4.1.12
>VirtualBox Version: 4.2
>[default] Setting hostname...
>(...)
>
>I will file a bug in Bugzilla if that is something you can fix.
>
>Željko
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 4
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:57:06 +0200
>From: Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrandecic(a)wikimedia.de>
>To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: afch licensing question
>Message-ID:
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>CC-BY-SA/GFDL is in the same spirit as GPL, which is an obviously
>acceptable license for WMF (since MediaWiki is written in it).
>
>Can you explain the need to relicense it under MIT?
>
>
>2013/9/26 Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
>
>> Forwarding, with permission.
>>
>> For background the "AFC Helper" script is one that assists English
>> Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which
>> currently is severely backlogged.
>>
>> Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the
>> question of gadget/userscript licensing?
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Mr. Donald J. Fortier II <technical_13(a)yahoo.com>
>> Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM
>> Subject: afch licensing question
>> To: "swalling(a)wikimedia.org" <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> Per the discussion on
https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/61 one of the
>> previous contributors to the project refuses to agree to relicense AFCH
>> under the MIT license. Right now, the script is licensed under
>> CC-BY-SA/GFDL, as it was originally coded on-wiki (per
>> [[Wikipedia:Copyright]] -- all text-based contributions). This came about
>> due to some confusion that can be seen
>>
https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/60. So, we are unsure as to where to
>> go from here. If we replace any code contributed to the project by the
>> person that refuses to agree, can we dissolve any requirements to get him
>> to agree? Is there enough contribution from him to actually worry about it
>> as he hasn't actually written any functions, just converted some stuff from
>> old school JavaScript to jQuery? Any advice/assistance on this would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steven Walling,
>> Product Manager
>>
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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>Message: 5
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:52:59 +0200
>From: Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
>To: wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
> mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>Subject: [Wikitech-l] Job posting: frontend dev (JavaScript) at
> Wikimedia Deutschland
>Message-ID:
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>Heya folks :)
>
>Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer to work on
>all kinds of frontend-related things on exciting projects like
>Wikidata in a very cool team. If you're currently looking for a job
>and have the necessary skills please apply. You can find details at
>https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_(f/m)_focus_on_Frontend_Development_with_JavaScript
>Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
>
>Cheers
>Lydia
>
>--
>Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
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>
>Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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>10963 Berlin
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>
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>
>Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
>unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
>Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
>
>
>
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>Message: 6
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:26:55 -0700
>From: Ori Livneh <ori(a)wikimedia.org>
>To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features
>Message-ID:
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>On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
>
>> Hi Ori,
>>
>> Is there a reason for having Guest Additions Version 4.1.12 in the VM
>> instead of 4.2?
>>
>
>It's what Canonical's Vagrant image provides, and it's because that's
the
>version that is packaged for Precise. (Remember, guest additions run on the
>guest.) You can update to the latest version by running
>'update-guest-additions' in the VM.
>
>I'll take the opportunity to remind folks who use Vagrant to send some
>positive feedback to Canonical. The Vagrant image they provide is part of a
>beta program they have not yet committed to supporting permanently.
>
>Per
http://blog.utlemming.org/2013/01/vagrant-cloud-images.html
>"For those who use Vagrant, your feedback is essential. Please feel free to
>send feedback via the ubuntu-cloud(a)lists.ubuntu.com mailing list."
>
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