Hey Devs,
I'm Lakmal ,a final year undergraduate in University of Moratuwa ,Sri Lanka
who is interested about participating in GSoc 2012 summer programme with
WikiMedia Foundation . I already downloaded, and installed mediawiki and
hoping to start with some small
bugs<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bug>to make my self
familiar with the code base.
After going through the suggested idea list from the community ,I developed
a good interest in the above mentioned project where the final outcome
would be set of plugins for MediaWiki to communicate with common photo
management APIs ( Etc ,iPhoto ,Lightroom ..) .
I would be grateful if one of you can fill me up with the current status of
this project idea . In the sense I would like to know whether someone is
already working on this or this is sill open for an enthusiast to start
working on :) .
I believe this is the right mailing list to ask this question ,if not I
apologize and would expect someone to direct me to the correct place .
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Thanks & Kind Regards
Lakmal Padmakumara
Undergraduate
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of Moratuwa
Sri Lanka
http://srilankatechnology.blogspot.com/
Hey,
I'm wondering about two things:
* When will we finally drop 5.2.x support?
* Can we have isolated components in core that require 5.3?
It's been one and a half years since the PHP guys dropped support for
5.2.x. What's still keeping us from doing so? Would dropping it in 1.20
work? That'll likely be in more then half a year from now, so over 2 years
since PHP dropped support, which seems to be a very reasonable
compatibility timespan (esp if you consider 5.3 will have been available
for 3 years at that point). Personally I have not noticed the need for
5.2.x support in a while. 4 of my 6 last extensions require 5.3, and I only
had a single person complain to me about this (which was over half a year
ago IIRC). So it seems to me that people upgrading their wiki software have
5.3 already or have no problem with upgrading it.
My second question is about isolated utilities in core. With isolated I
mean that although they might be using core, core does not use them. Can we
at this point introduce such utilities that require 5.3, assuming there is
good reason to have these utilities and that they cannot be made to work
(sanely) with 5.2.x?
Cheers
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Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
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Hi all,
As some of you are probably aware, we've got a test repository converting
phase3 to git up and running on gerrit. You should be able to clone by
`git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/test/mediawiki/core.git`
Couple of caveats (things I'm gonna try and fix):
* Permissions aren't sorted yet, so it's only supporting anonymous clones,
no pushing yet.
* The revision graph is crazy. svn:mergeinfo is unreliable and we're pretty
much unable to build a cohesive history without a *lot* of manual labor. Right
now I'm thinking of just dropping the mergeinfo so the branches look like linear
graphs cherry picking from master. Not perfect, but less annoying than now.
But yay progress! Clone it. Try it out, see what works (and what doesn't).
I'll try to get the permissions sorted later today so we can go ahead and
try some test pushes (and merges).
Things we still need to do:
* Make a git-setup like we've done for the other git repos. This will setup your
environment/hooks/etc for you.
* Figure out our WMF branching/deployment strategy, since we're very SVN-
centric right now with this.
Thanks for any input, guys.
-Chad
If you're looking for an extension name, here are some possibilities:
MobileAccess
MobileDisplay
MobileView
Mobilize (a little play on words there)
-Yaron
Greetings,
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the
software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest
version.
The upgrade will happen in several stages over the month, starting this week.
You can still help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid
disruption and breakage.
More information:
* Announcement on the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/11/mediawiki-1-19-deployment/
* The announcement in other languages:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Deployment_announcement
Thank you for your understanding.
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation