Hi!
I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week,
Wednesday, 2-August-2017 at 1800 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to see
your demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished production
material, or even just a telling of something you've been studying
recently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordings
of previous events, please visit the following page:
<http://goog_1968694156/>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
And if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase,
here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks!
*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcaseopen source tech projects
from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and
Technology teams. *
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on August 2nd at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. *
*There’s more info on MediaWiki, and on Etherpad, which is where we take
notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode
chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here). Links to video will
become available at these locations shortly before the event.*
*Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
working across the open source tech community: language detection,
numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
things.*
*If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see
you at CREDIT.*
*YOURNAME*
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Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
If you are an extension maintainer, or are interested in helping out, your help
with the following task would be appreciated:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172146
As per T165149, the contract of Title::getTalkPage changes to throw an exception
if called on a page in a namespace that does not have a talk namespace associated.
All calls to Title::getTalkPage must either be changed to
getTalkPageIfDefined(), or they must first check canHaveTalkPage(). These checks
can be omitted only for the User namespace, since user pages can always have
talk pages. Note that some of the below may be calls to User::getTalkPage
instead; those also don't need checks, since users can always have talk pages.
Offending calls to getTalkPage() should be removed from all extensions. They
MUST be removed from all extensions deployed on the Wikimedia cluster before
merging Icee208dc.
Below is a list of extensions with potentially offending calls to
getTalkNamespace(). Please go through them, and tick them off in the phabricator
task once the fix has been merged. If you made a patch bit it is not merged yet,
you can link to it in the respective line of the task description.
[] ArticleComments
[] ArticleFeedbackv5
[] BlueSpiceExtensions
[] BlueSpiceFoundation
[] CommentPages
[] ConfirmAccount
[] ConventionExtension
[] DumpHTML
[] Duplicator
[] EditSubpages
[] EducationProgram
[] Favorites
[] FlaggedRevs
[] Flow
[] GoogleNewsSitemap
[] InterwikiIntegration
[] LiquidThreads
[] News
[] ReaderFeedback
[] WatchSubpages
[] WikiLove
[] WikibaseQualityConstraints
[] Wikidata
[] XMLContentExtension
[] CologneBlue
[] Nimbus
[] Tempo
For a more detailed list, see the phabricator task.
--
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Please note that we've upgraded the version of npm used in the Wikimedia
continuous integration infrastructure. This means that CI should be more
consistent with developers' local set-ups, and lets us test in a more
normal environment. This change will only affect node-based CI tasks, like
the standard eslint/stylelint/jsonlint/banana tasks.
This is a breaking change for npm, as it will no longer silently install
peer dependencies – you need to specify them manually. If your repo was
previously warning about peer dependencies, it may now no longer work,
though we think we've fixed these. If you have this situation, you can fix
it by adding the appropriate peer dependencies to your repo's package.json
file, and if you can't work out how to fix it feel free to ask me or others
in IRC; #wikimedia-releng is normally best.
Thanks all!
--
James D. Forrester
Lead Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester at wikimedia.org
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> |
@jdforrester
http://www.technollama.co.uk/us-court-declares-gpl-is-a-contract :
[...]
In a strong declaration that online open source licences are contracts,
the court declares:
“Defendant contends that Plaintiff’s reliance on the unsigned GNU
GPL fails to plausibly demonstrate mutual assent, that is, the
existence of a contract. Not so. The GNU GPL, which is attached to
the complaint, provides that the Ghostscript user agrees to its
terms if the user does not obtain a commercial license. Plaintiff
alleges that Defendant used Ghostscript, did not obtain a commercial
license, and represented publicly that its use of Ghostscript was
licensed under the GNL GPU. These allegations sufficiently plead the
existence of a contract.”
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2017-07): 432
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2017-07): 888
Task authors in (2017-07): 499
Users who have closed tasks in (2017-07): 280
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2017-07): 293
Tasks created in (2017-07): 2776
Tasks closed in (2017-07): 2267
Open and stalled tasks in total: 35168
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 25
Needs Triage: 295
High: 532
Normal: 720
Low: 966
Lowest: 946
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
Active Differential users (any activity) in (2017-07): 24
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on iridium at Tue Aug 1 00:00:23 UTC 2017)