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New major release soon
by Petr Bena 23 May '18

23 May '18

Hi, Huggle 3.4.0 will release in few days I guess and it would be nice to have some beta testing done before it happens, there is number of major changes: == Modular design == Huggle is no longer 1 monolithic binary, but a set of libraries, that is needed for future new designs of apps build on top of huggle core (bots) or new UI (phones?) That will not be visible to end users other than that it could cause some issues with packaging or distribution, so installers need to be verified if they work properly == New scripting == Python support was removed entirely and replaced with JS extension system - it's now possible to very easily write JS extensions to Huggle, I will write more docs on wiki, but for now menu Scripting -> Manager -> New will show you a template extension, it's possible to create extensions right in Huggle. This is a very important and probably biggest change in 3.4.0 == Lot of refactoring of existing code and large amount of bugfixes == There was lot of weird old code that was refactored to work better and many bugs related to this code fixed, but it's also possible that new bugs were introduced? == No more Qt4 == It's deprecated and no longer supported, shouldn't be a big deal. == Better support for MacOS == Lot of code was refactored to work way better on Macs == Packaging related: 3rd libraries upgrade == New Huggle ships with newer yaml and Qt library versions, will be probably shipped with Qt 5.10 or 5.11 on most platforms If you want to help with testing, you can either build huggle from source code on Linux, or download nightly build for Windows here: https://petr.insw.cz/huggle/nightly/huggle3.zip Don't forget to open phabricator task for any issue you may find!

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Roadmap for Huggle 3.4
by Petr Bena 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

Hello, Hackathon in Barcelona is coming next month, and there are some things I would like to get implemented into next major Huggle update: * Drop for support of Qt4 Qt5 has been around for long time and Qt6 is coming. Nearly every OS is already supporting Qt5 these days. If there is any substantial need to still support Qt4, please let me know, but I believe that it's not really needed. * Drop existing Python engine Huggle supports extensions created in Python language, but this feature was never very popular, or widely used. Let's drop it. * Implement JS engine through Qt5+ QJSEngine New scripting backend that could be used to allow people create their own extensions to Huggle. Qt5 supports quite powerfull scripting engine that can be easily implemented. I would like to focus on these 3 things during the hackathon. If you have any opinions on this topic, please let me know! Also, if you are attending hackathon this year and want to participate, you are welcome, just find me there!

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Huggle 3.3.5 critical update
by Petr Bena 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

Hi, I just released new version of Huggle, about 2 days since last release because I found that IRC feed in last version was broken due to update of libirc. Now it works OK, but version 3.3.4 may stop working when XmlRcs provider breaks as it falls back to defunct IRC feed. This seriously impacts the functionality of whole Huggle, this new version fixes the problem.

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Huggle 3.3.4 released
by Petr Bena 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hi, I just released Huggle 3.3.4, there was about 92 commits made since last release, mostly very minor changes, like some GCI localization related tasks and some minor bug fixes. This release for Windows was compiled using MSVC 2015 unlike previous builds, which were created using MSVC 2013. That means I also had to upgrade vcredist packages and I have no idea if it's going to work without any issues. (I don't know why but my MSVC2013 compiler stopped supporting c++11 after some updates, so I decided to switch to newer compiler). This change made the windows installation packages larger by almost 10MB. Other OS shouldn't have any issues. Packages for MacOS will be built by Rich Smith later. Thank you

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Google Code-in: Get your tasks for young contributors prepared!
by Andre Klapper 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take place from Nov28 to Jan17 and is not only about coding tasks. While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted: * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has small design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Also note that "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant" etc) and "generic" tasks are very welcome (e.g. "Choose & fix 2 PHP7 issues from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336 "). Because we will need hundreds of tasks. :) And we also have more than 400 unassigned open 'easy' tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R Would you be willing to mentor some of those in your area? Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and please ask if you have any questions! For some achievements from last round, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/03/google-code-in/ Thanks!, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Portable development environment for Huggle (Ubuntu VM)
by Petr Bena 30 Sep '17

30 Sep '17

Hi, In order to make life easier for newbies, or people who don't want to struggle with setup of development environment so that they can compile Huggle, which is essential for contribution, I created this portable VM that is based on Ubuntu and has complete dev environment preinstalled, with all dependencies. You can try it here: http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle.ova (3GB) I am going to prepare some how-to for people who don't know much about linux, but if you do, you will find it very easy to use. Huggle is preinstalled together with source code, link is on Desktop. If you open QtCreator (link in side bar) you can just click open last project and you will get to preconfigured IDE for Huggle development. You can simply hit build all to compile everything, run in debug mode and so on... Let me know if you had any questions or suggestions. You can also track this https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177145

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Huggle 3.3.0
by Petr Bena 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hi all, I would like to announce that Huggle 3.3.0 was just released. This is again a major update, which most notably comes with support for new YAML format that we decided to use instead of old custom format. As of now, YAML format is used for global and project config, example of new config page is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle/Config.yaml Most of wikis except for test and english wikipedia don't have new format yet, so Huggle will show a warning while logging there, but it will still work with no issues. This new format is much better as it comes with syntax checks, highlighting, is a standard and support many features that old format didn't support, such as dictionaries, vectors and so on. Other than that there is lot of less major new features (my most favorite - auto-relogin in case session becomes invalid), auto-advance to last revision of currently displayed page in case someone else modified it, tips and several bug fixes, most notably the one announced today, that older verrsions of Huggle didn't sign some of welcome templates. That is fixed now. It's strongly recommended to update to this version as soon as possible. MacOS users will need to wait a bit, I need to poke someone who has Mac and can build the release version. Thanks

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Someone with Mac who can test this?
by Petr Bena 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

There is user on enwiki who has this problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle/Feedback#Blank_edit_summaries Can someone with a Mac try out Huggle 3.2.0 link here: https://github.com/huggle/huggle3-qt-lx/releases/download/3.2.0/huggle_3.2.… I would like to know if this bug affects every mac, or just this guy. Thanks

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Review of YAML code
by Petr Bena 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

Hi, There is quite a major pull request: https://github.com/huggle/huggle3-qt-lx/pull/222/files If anyone wants to take a look before it gets merged, review, comment or suggest improvements, now it's your time. If there is no feedback I will merge it.

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Major change in wiki configuration for Huggle
by Petr Bena 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Hi, In future, we will switch to completely new system of on-wiki configuration. This will be a major change from dev point of view as we are going to use standardised YAML format for on-wiki configuration. I already started drafting new config, you can see https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle/Config.yaml for already working version of new config. This new format will allow for great many new features, most notable we will finally have ability to properly escape any string, which wasn't possible as of now. This format has strict parser which will throw errors in case there are syntax errors and thus making syntax mistake will no longer be easily unnoticed. It is also properly supported by syntax highlighter so the config pages will be easier to read. Old format will be deprecated, but still supported for some time. This means, we have a chance to rework completely whole project configuration page, which is kinda messy right now, and do it right. Final format and structure is not yet decided, so NOW it is time to suggest changes and improvements. If you have idea about anything or don't like how something work with current Huggle project configuration, now it's time to fix it!

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