Hi everyone,
I’m extremely pleased to welcome Aaron Schulz to Wikimedia Foundation
as a full-time developer in Platform Engineering. Aaron is a
long-time MediaWiki developer, starting as a volunteer in 2007. He
quickly proved adept at working with the FlaggedRevs extension, so WMF
hired him as a student contractor to take on development, and is now
still the primary developer of the FlaggedRevs extension in use on
many of our larger wikis today. More recently, he volunteered a lot
of the initial work on IPv6 compliance, and has made many small fixes
and improvement in the MediaWiki core. Aaron has been so active in
MediaWiki in the past few years that 5,527 of the 95,732 revisions in
our main source code repository have his name on them.[1]
This summer, Aaron continued his student contractor work on our
software deployment infrastructure, working on the Heterogeneous
Deployment project, which we plan to use to roll out MediaWiki 1.18 in
a controlled manner in September. He's one of many developers who is
slogging away at reviewing code commits in anticipation of 1.18, and
will generally be working on operational and performance-oriented
projects.
Welcome, Aaron!
Rob
[1] See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/author/aaron
It looks like we've finally moved ahead of the curve with regard to
FIXMEs. Today, Sam Reedy (and others) plowed through some of them and
brought us up to where we need to be in order to deploy 1.18 in 3
weeks. We still need to keep up the pace, but we're in a better
position now.
There is one more area that we need to have work done, though, for 1.18
deployment and that is Bug #29068 ("Bugs to be fixed for 1.18 WMF
deployment"): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29068
In order to close this tracking bug we need to fix the following:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29246 -- API errors occasionally with
unknown error 231
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30192 -- Thumbnails of archived images
don't get deleted
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30352 -- jQuery.makeCollapsible.js should
support 'autocollapse', 'innercollapse' and 'outercollapse' options
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30384 -- extra newlines in nested
templates in tables [parser difference between 1.17 and 1.18]
Thanks for any help you can give on these bugs,
Mark.