Wikitech-l October 2019

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Quibble 0.0.36 released
by Antoine Musso 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hello, I have cut a new version of Quibble — version 0.0.36. This will roll out to all CI jobs this week. Two new features are now present: * Quibble sets up a wiki against which to run tests. It can now override configuration set by the MediaWiki installer, which we have done for two items: ** This wiki now allows file uploading ($wgEnableUploads = true), which unblocks people writing integration tests for uploading. – T190829 and T199939 ** This wiki now has $wgSecretKey set (to the value 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'), which unblocks people writing integration tests for the job queue. – T230340 * After each test stage, Quibble will report how long it took. The sole bug fix is that errors were previously ignored when processing git clones in parallel. Any errors are now properly raised. T233143 We also now generate and publish a changelog! This means that you can discover more minor new features and miscellaneous changes via: https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html I will progressively upgrade the CI jobs over the next few days. The new Docker images are: docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/releng/quibble-coverage:0.0.36 docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/releng/quibble-fresnel:0.0.36 docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/releng/quibble-stretch:0.0.36 docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/releng/quibble-stretch-bundle:0.0.36 docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/releng/quibble-stretch-php70:0.0.36 docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/releng/quibble-stretch-php71:0.0.36 docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/releng/quibble-stretch-php72:0.0.36 docker-registry.discovery.wmnet/releng/quibble-stretch-php73:0.0.36 Thank you to Adam Wight, Daniel Kinzler, James Forrester, and Kosta Harlan. -- Antoine "hashar" Musso && James Forrester

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Security and maintenance release: 1.31.4 / 1.32.4 / 1.33.1
by Sam Reed 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

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Live Incident: Tools.wmflabs.org
by RhinosF1 - 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Hello all, Please note that all tools.wmflabs.org tools are currently down. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234834 for live updates. Thanks, RhinosF1 FOSS Developer -- Thanks, RhinosF1 Mediawiki System Administrator Miraheze

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Dropping PHPUnit 4 support
by Daimona 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Hello all, Following our migration away from HHVM, we're now also requiring PHPUnit 6+ [0]. Previously, we were allowing PHPUnit 4 as an option, but that version was EOLed in February 2017 [1]. MediaWiki core provides a backward/forward-compatible layer [2] to allow working with both versions. However, that trait will be emptied and removed soon, partly because we want to move to PHPUnit 8. Hence, if you have a local install of PHPUnit 4, you won't be able to use it anymore. I also invite you to check whether any of your repos has an explicit PHPUnit dependency in composer.json [3]. If it does, you can now remove PHPUnit 4 from it. Thank you for your collaboration! [0] - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/426058/ [1] - https://phpunit.de/supported-versions.html [2] - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/e26299b1d14feb341ff5752696f… [3] - List of repos that do have it: https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/search/?q=%22phpunit%5C%2Fphpunit%22%3A&i=no… -- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daimona_Eaytoy "Daimona" is not my real name -- he/him

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Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019: Open commenting period around themes and sessions
by Rachel Farrand 04 Oct '19

04 Oct '19

Hello! We are holding a week long public commenting period (ending 11 October) on the proposals for themes and sessions for the Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019>which will be taking place in Atlanta, Georgia USA this November and will centered around Developer Productivity. Everyone is welcome to review the plan proposal created by our Program Committee <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019#Program_…> and provide feedback and suggestions. All proposals can be found here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234085 Thank you! -- Rachel Farrand Senior Program Manager Events Team Wikimedia Foundation

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MediaWiki development images now published from deployment pipeline
by Brennen Bearnes 04 Oct '19

04 Oct '19

Hey all, Just a quick announcement that we (Release Engineering) are now publishing Docker images[0] for mediawiki/core from Zuul's postmerge pipeline. At present, the image built from the most recent merge to master is always tagged "dev". These images are intended for use with local-charts[1], and make some assumptions specific to that environment. I hope to make them more generally usable in the long run. Images are built from specifications in .pipeline/config.yaml[2] and .pipeline/blubber.yaml[3]. Please let me know if you have any concerns or questions! [0]. https://tools.wmflabs.org/dockerregistry/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/tags/ [1]. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/releng/local-charts/ [2]. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/master/.pip… [3]. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/master/.pip… Thanks, -- Brennen

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Announcing: First Quarterly Technical Community Newsletter!
by Sarah R 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hi Everyone, We’re happy to announce the launch of the brand new quarterly Technical Community Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter>. The newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Developer Advocacy Team. It aims to share highlights, news, and information of interest from and about the Wikimedia technical community. The First Edition of the Technical Community Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2019/October> launches today! Find out more about what technical contributors have been up to this past quarter, upcoming conferences & calls for papers, and how to get involved. Like all good things, the first edition starts as a prototype. Some ideas we had in mind for additional sections/categories are “Tool of the Season”, “Wikimedia in numbers” (i.e. around code review, new developer accounts, etc). Ideas about what you would like to see and highlights you would like to share are welcome <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Community_Newsletter>! Subscribe to the Technical Community Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/Subscribe>, if you'd like to keep up with essential updates and information. Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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TechCom Radar 2019-10-02
by Alexandra Paskulin 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hi all, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Approved: Drop IE6 and IE7 basic compatibility and security support <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232563>. This RFC removes IE6 and IE7 from "basic" support in the MediaWiki compatibility table. * Discussed: Core REST API namespace and version < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232485>. This RFC proposes a namespace and version policy for routes in the MediaWiki REST API. * Discussed: Section header "share" link < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T18691>. This RFC aims to make it easier for readers to share links to sections on wiki pages. * Discussed: Serve Main Page of Wikimedia wikis from a consistent URL <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120085>. This RFC proposes serving a wiki’s main page from the domain root. The configuration option has been merged as disabled by default, and discussion with stakeholders is ongoing. * No IRC meeting next week. You can also find our meeting minutes at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes> See also the TechCom RFC board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>. If you prefer you can subscribe to our newsletter here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:TechCom_Radar> Best, - Alex -- Alex Paskulin Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation

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WebTestCase
by Jeroen De Dauw 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hey, Does MediaWiki have something similar to Symfony's WebTestCase? ( https://symfony.com/doc/current/testing.html#functional-tests) I want to write some integration tests in the form of "does web page /wiki/MyWikiPage contain HTML snippet XYZ". Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw | www.EntropyWins.wtf <https://EntropyWins.wtf> | www.Professional.Wiki <https://Professional.Wiki> Entrepreneur | Software Crafter | Speaker | Open Souce and Wikimedia contributor ~=[,,_,,]:3

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503 Backend fetch failed
by Bináris 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hi folks, I got this message while running a bot: Result: 503 Backend fetch failed I know HTTP 503 message, but I never got it during botwork. I restarted it successfully. Is this normal? -- Bináris

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