Greetings all,
I'm pleased to announce that Andre Engles has decided to join the Mobile
team as our data analyst contractor. In this role he'll provide the mobile
team with key metrics to guide our software development efforts. He'll be
working closely with Diederik, Phil, Erick Zachte, me, and others to
standardize, automate, and expand our growing analytics needs.
For those that don't know ... Andre is one of the 'oldest' Wikipedians (in
terms of years on the site). His first edits on Wikipedia were from March
2001 (two things to show how early: 1. That's before the first
slashdotting; 2. English Wikipedia several years ago had a list of the
oldest still active editors, He was at number 8. Number 7 was Jimbo). Apart
from being an editor and sysop he has also been active as both an operator
and a programmer of bots (still active as an operator, but only very
little as a programmer nowadays), and has Steward rights. He also helped in
the creation of Wikimedia Commons.
Apart from Wikipedia, he is active in various open content projects. These
include PGDP (Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders) and
Openstreetmap; recently has done similar things in the area of Dutch
etymology.
Andre studied mathematics, got his PhD in computer science. His last job
was at C-Content, which is a company working in search engines. For them he
mostly did harvesting and search request analysis. Before that he worked
for the R&D department of Ericsson Netherlands.
He just celebrated his 40th birthday, and is (and always have been) single,
living in the city of ´s-Hertogenbosch. His free time is mostly spent
behind his computer, either with the above mentioned projects or playing
games. Apart from that he's an avid Go player, having reached the grade of
3 dan.
I'm really honored to bring on such a long time community member to the
Mobile team.
Please join me in welcoming Andre!
--tomasz
This (general) problem (see below) has been fixed in r108758
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/108758
Aaron, thanks!
original problem report was:
When I run
php update.php --conf path-to-my-LocalSettings.php
to upgrade from 1.15.1 MediaWiki to trunk, I get this reproducible
message at the end
( after having set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; )
Populating img_sha1 field
FSFile::__construct given storage path
`mwstore://local-backend/local-public/a/a1/afilenname.jpg`.
Backtrace:
#0 /srv/phase3/includes/filerepo/file/File.php(1637):
FSFile->__construct('mwstore://local...'
#1 /srv/phase3/maintenance/populateImageSha1.php(97):
File::sha1Base36('mwstore://local...')
#2 /srv/phase3/maintenance/Maintenance.php(1277):
PopulateImageSha1->doDBUpdates()
#3 /srv/phase3/maintenance/populateImageSha1.php(46):
LoggedUpdateMaintenance->execute()
#4 /srv/phase3/maintenance/update.php(128): PopulateImageSha1->execute()
#5 /srv/phase3/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(105):
UpdateMediaWiki->execute()
#6 /srv/phase3/maintenance/update.php(151): require_once('/srv/...')
#7 {main}
Is there a known problem with the update.php updater regarding the
img_sha1 calculation,
or another problem what has to do with mwstore:// ?
Hi all,
in the new tradition of posting little gadget ideas and requests here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget_kitchen/Requests#Automatic_updates_to_…
This would be helpful for pages which use bug templates like
[[mw:Template:Tracked]] to inform users about the status of bugs they
care about. If it's useful and efficient, we could promote it to
default gadget or site script.
Any takers? :)
Cheers,
Erik
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
MrBlueSky now has core and extensions access and aims on working on
"Core and extensions: small bugfixes and enhancements, adding and
updating documentation (comments), writing unit-tests. In general: small
things that need to be done."
Welcome, MrBlueSky!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Robert Vogel (rvogel, User:Osnard) is a web developer at Hallo Welt! and
works on WindowsAzureSDK, WindowsAzureStorage, ClientSyntaxHighlighter,
BibManager, and (probably soon) PagedTiffHandler. He's receiving
extensions access.
Welcome, Robert!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Welcome Andre! Great to have you on the engineering team finally!
--
Alolita Sharma
----- Reply message -----
From: "Roan Kattouw" <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Andre Engels
Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2012 5:46 am
On 1/12/12, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Andre Engles has decided to join the Mobile
> team as our data analyst contractor. In this role he'll provide the mobile
> team with key metrics to guide our software development efforts. He'll be
> working closely with Diederik, Phil, Erick Zachte, me, and others to
> standardize, automate, and expand our growing analytics needs.
>
Yay, another Dutchman :) . The Dutch cabal is taking over, slowly but
surely, I tell you.
Welcome, Andre!
Roan
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When I run
php update.php --conf path-to-my-LocalSettings.php
to upgrade from 1.15.1 MediaWiki to trunk, I get this reproducible
message at the end
( after having set $wgShowExceptionDetails = true; )
Populating img_sha1 field
FSFile::__construct given storage path
`mwstore://local-backend/local-public/a/a1/afilenname.jpg`.
Backtrace:
#0 /srv/phase3/includes/filerepo/file/File.php(1637):
FSFile->__construct('mwstore://local...'
#1 /srv/phase3/maintenance/populateImageSha1.php(97):
File::sha1Base36('mwstore://local...')
#2 /srv/phase3/maintenance/Maintenance.php(1277):
PopulateImageSha1->doDBUpdates()
#3 /srv/phase3/maintenance/populateImageSha1.php(46):
LoggedUpdateMaintenance->execute()
#4 /srv/phase3/maintenance/update.php(128): PopulateImageSha1->execute()
#5 /srv/phase3/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(105):
UpdateMediaWiki->execute()
#6 /srv/phase3/maintenance/update.php(151): require_once('/srv/...')
#7 {main}
Is there a known problem with the update.php updater regarding the
img_sha1 calculation,
or another problem what has to do with mwstore:// ?
With the code tree currently slushed, now is a good time to find and fix
bugs BEFORE they end up in front of innocent users.
A couple of volunteers, John du Hart and Petr Bena, have been working
diligently to get a deployment cluster going in the new Wikimedia Labs.
I've already shown this to some people and we've shaken out a few
problems, but we also need people working to fix the problems found so
far and get this ready for a bigger test.
Please check out the cluster. If you're more inclined to fix problems
then to find them, then you'll want to watch
http://labs.wikimedia.deployment.wmflabs.org/wiki/Problem_reports. You
can see that I've already put Rob Moen's gadget from last week to use
for tracking bug reports. Thanks, Rob!
Don't expect a lot of problem reports right away since this hasn't been
very widely announced -- we have some bits that we still want to get
ironed out before we do a really big announcement.
A quick overview of the areas we want to fix before that big
announcement:
http://en.wikipedia.deployment.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Search
One of the things we hope to get working tomorrow with Oren Bochman,
another volunteer, is the search backend.
http://commons.wikimedia.deployment.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard
I also need help with the UploadWizard instance in Commons on the
deployment cluster. The javascript console doesn't show any errors,
but the spinner doesn't go away either.
http://labs.wikimedia.deployment.wmflabs.org/wiki/Test_cases
If you're more interested in helping us create test cases and test
plans for people who want a bit more structure in their approach to
testing the 1.19 software then this is the page for you. Many
thanks to Sumana for her ideas from the 1.18 deployment that I used
here.
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/DeploymentPrep
There are a few miscellaneous items more on the Operations side that
any volunteer can help out with. If you think you can help out in
one of these areas, stop by #wikimedia-labs on Freenode and talk to
me (hexmode), Petr (petan) or John (johnduhart). Thanks to the
infrastructure that Wikimedia Labs provides, this deployment test is
almost entirely driven by volunteers, so your help makes a
difference.
Please do look around, fix problems, and we'll svn-up on a
semi-regular basis.
Thanks for any help and don't forget to check it out:
http://deployment.wmflabs.org/
Mark.
To coordinate efforts occurring in Labs, and to be able to
send/receive announcements, I've created a new labs-l list. If you are
a labs member, or are interested in the work going on there, please
subscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
- Ryan