Wikitech-l April 2013

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New git-review version revives year-old bug
by Roan Kattouw 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

About a year ago, we were struggling with a git-review bug that caused lots of bogus warnings to appear. When running "git review", you'd get a warning saying you're about to submit multiple commits, followed by a list of lots of other people's commits that have already been merged. I fixed this in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/6741/ last year. This bug is now back in the latest release of git-review that came out over the weekend. I complained about this at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/20450/ , which is the change that reintroduced the broken behavior. We are suffering from it disproportionately because we have defaultrebase=0 set on most of our projects, and the bug only triggers when rebasing is disabled (using either that setting or the -R flag). The workaround is the same as last year: if git-review complains and you see bogus commits in the list, respond "no" to abort, run "git fetch gerrit", then rerun git-review. This will ensure git-review has an up-to-date view of the remote master. Roan

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Motivation for working on a free software project
by Luis Miguel Sinusía 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hello, I'm a student of a master in free software in Spain. For performing a academic work, I ask for your cooperation by answering the following questions: 1. - In what ways began collaborating in an open source project? 2. - What is your motivation to participate in a free software project: social motivation, technological, economic, etc? 3. - In their collaborations, which is the project you found more motivated? 4. - What do you think is the main reason that generally has the other contributors? 5. - Do you think your participation in open source projects will help improve your future career? 6. - Do you think in the future continue to work on open source projects? or in Spanish: 1.- ¿De que manera comenzó a colaborar en un proyecto de software libre? 2.- ¿Cual es su motivacion para participar en un proyecto de software libre: motivacion social, tecnologica, economica, etc? 3.- Dentro de sus colaboraciones, ¿en que proyecto se ha encontrado más motivado? 4.- ¿Cual cree que es la principal motivación que en general tiene el resto de colaboradores? 5.- ¿Cree que su participación en proyectos de software libre le ayudara a mejorar su futuro profesional? 6.- ¿Piensa en un futuro seguir colaborando en proyectos de software libre? In advance, thank you very much.

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Sponsoring travel to Wikimedia Hackathon
by Quim Gil 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi, you have probably heard about Wikimedia Hackathon 24-26 May in Amsterdam (Netherlands) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 There are about 100 participants registered, and we have some room for more. Registration is free but you need to sign up. There is also some travel sponsorship budget left after a first round of approvals. If your free software contributions and your Wikimedia love is more valuable than the money you have in the bank, you can just register and apply for scholarship. Please include public URLs where we can see your open source licensed contributions (code, pixels, wise words...). A CV alone won't cut it, no matter how many avatars appear to endorse your skills. Hurry up! The organizers are reviewing applications as they come. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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test gossip
by Sumana Harihareswara 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

A few things I learned recently by gossiping with WMF quality assurance people: We're deploying fresh code to the beta cluster ~50 times a day, or maybe even more often! https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:merged+project:%255Emediawiki.*+-… shows merged code to MediaWiki core & extensions -- on every merge or every few minutes, we update the code on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ and all the other beta cluster sites. So right now, beta is the best target for automated browser tests, but because of some configuration issues, http://test2.wikipedia.org/ is the best target for manual/exploratory testing. When you're writing automated browser tests (good setup instructions: https://github.com/wikimedia/qa-browsertests ), "feature files" are a plain-English communication tool; step definitions are where the magic happens. So, in features/ , there's step_definitions/ with .rb files, each corresponding to a feature file. Look through those for some idea of the neat stuff we can do these days. If you want ideas for useful automated browser tests to write, try looking at recently fixed bugs. That way we'll catch regressions. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: Commons App v1.0 beta6 released
by Yuvi Panda 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Spamming wikitech-l, which might possibly care more than mobile-l. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:43 AM Subject: Commons App v1.0 beta6 released To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello! New beta release of commons app went out today! Features of v1.0 beta 7 include: - Added opt out from EventLogging - Remove {{Uncategorized}} template after adding categories - Be more consistent and proactive in syncing modifications (adding categories) - Add a minimal About page - Add option to send feedback via email from within the app - i18n updates There is no major new feature, just a bunch of bug fixes and minor features. Bug reports welcome at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Commons%20App (pick the Android component). The apps team uses Trello to organize our work, you can look at the board for our current iteration at https://trello.com/board/sprint-6/5162461b43476994540002ba Pull requests welcome at https://github.com/wikimedia/android-commons Thank you! This mail brought to you by the vague feeling that this list feels lonely and has abandonment issues. -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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Proposing topics for Tech Talks and meetups
by Quim Gil 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi, We have sorted out the calendar of Tech Talks and Wikipedia Engineering meetups, dancing to the rhythm marked by the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting: 1st Thursday of the month: Metrics meeting. 2nd Thursday: Wikipedia Engineering meetup. 3rd Thursday: Tech Talk. This is now reflected at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar Please propose topics you are missing or would like to see discussed in more detail. We will do our best finding speakers and slots. Proposing topics via email is fine, but it's even better if you do it at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Meetings -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Temporarily disabling l10n update
by Rob Lanphier 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi folks, We've had at least a couple of site outages which we believe are due to l10nupdate. The root cause is identified in a fairly old ResourceLoader bug that seems to be biting us a little harder than it normally does: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27320 Disabling l10nupdate means that changes from Translatewiki.net will not propagate to our websites as quickly as they normally do. Depending on how long it takes us to fix this, it could be multiple days. Brad Jorsch is going to take a closer look at this issue today/tomorrow, and hopefully identify the root cause. If he's able to find the cause quickly, we may not need to disrupt the service, but we're going to plan for the worst here. Thanks (in advance) for your patience! Rob

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A new project - Wikicards
by Gaurav Chawla 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hello, I am Gaurav Chawla, an undergraduate student at IIT Roorkee, India. I am applying for this year's Google Summer of Code as a developer for Wikimedia. For the past few days, I have been researching about any new improvement or extension in funtionality that can be introduced to this awesome wiki and finally came up with this idea: WikIcards - small information cards. I have drafted a project proposal with full description of WikIcards and also a sample structure of it at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Grv99 I have also filed it as an extension request (Bug 46970) at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46970 I request you to go through this new project and give your suggestions and feedback. You can give the feedback on the bug report. Alternatively, you can also add your suggestions at "Suggestions section" near the end of the project proposal page. Please comment on its feasibility too. Hoping for a good response. Thank you. Regards, Gaurav Chawla

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WMF Engineering Roadmap updates 4/10
by Greg Grossmeier 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Here are the highlights of the WMF Engineering roadmap updates for today focusing on major activities in April: Mobile * iOS upload app delayed due to appstore snafu * Community testing around Mobile this month Ops * build out for ULSFO datacenter, RFP for hardware in progress Platform * Redis JobQueue * (finish) review/fixing of Score and Vipscaler extensions Language * TranslateUX improvements are out * IE fixes will be rolled out today (4/10) Full details at: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoizbfxc5g6KdE… (shorturl: http://goo.gl/7611Q ) Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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OpenID: Mozilla bridges their PERSONA with OpenID and OAuth
by Thomas Gries 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

For those being interested: "Mozilla Persona is an open authentication system that lets you implement sign-in on your site in an afternoon. Today, Persona Beta 2 was released, including a feature called "Identity Bridging" that lets hundreds of millions of users sign into sites supporting Persona with no new username and no new password. The announcement video gives you a good overview of the Beta 2 release.." See https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/persona-beta-2-launch/ and our https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34565 and our https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID

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