Hi all,
here is our update on last weeks blocker email. Most of them are very
small, besides the well known gorrilas in the gerrit...
== Ongoing from last week ==
* Changeset <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/14084/>, bug
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38705> about adding
ll_local to the languagelinks table: as per discussion, there's a -2
from Tim Starling and further comments which were answered by Jeroen.
Awaiting either further reply by Tim, or a merge. Development of core
parts of our Phase I functionality is blocked by this, and not having
this merged is causing hassle for people that want to setup their own
working Wikidata repo-client install.
* Changeset <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/14295/>, bug
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38705> about handling
sites: Wikidata could benefit from some refactoring of the
interlanguage and interwiki link handling in core. The idea is to
migrate from the "interwiki" table to the new "Sites" facility. RobLa
mentioned that Chad seems to be working in a similar direction, but
haven't seen comments there. Besides that there were a few comments
going back and forth. A Postgres-compatibility is being requested by
saper, which will soon be added, but the question is are there any
further issues that prevent us from merging?
* Merging the Wikidata branch (ContentHandler) is still in discussion,
see <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38622>. Daniel
Kinzler hopes to have the discussion here on wikitech-l about this.
Right now there seems a bit of a confusion due to Gerrit (if you look
at the bug comments), but otherwise ongoing.
== New in the list ==
* Changeset <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/8924/>,
'usecheckboxes' option implemented for HTMLMultiSelectField. Helps us
with displaying some preferences nicely with a scrollable
multiselect-list. Hanging around for a while and needs review and
merge. Some discussion last week.
* New hook 'AfterFinalPageOutput' which is called at the end of
OutputPage::output() <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/14303/>: Got
a little stuck and is required by the STTLanguage extension. (in
parallel, this is in the Wikidata branch of core already, but would be
removed from there if accepted here).
* Linker::link() handles strings in $query parameter properly now,
changeset: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/14301/>. Some concerns
were raised whether this should be fixed in other places instead.
Fixing this in all other places and especially testing it there could
be rather expensive. This is required by the STTLanguage extension. If
this isn't fixed, the function might fail in some places, e.g. on the
latest changes page. (in parallel, this is in the Wikidata branch of
core already, but would be removed from there if accepted here)
* A change to the skin that will allow us to add the description of an
item: changeset <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/17073/>. There
discussion and development is ongoing.
I hope this helps,
Cheers,
Denny
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