FYI for wikitech-l as well.
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From: Alexandros Kosiaris <akosiaris(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: OTRS major version upgrade on Monday September 14th 2020
To: Private list for OTRS adminstrators
<otrs-admins(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <otrs-en-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
This is to inform you that the upgrade of OTRS to 6.0.29 is now
complete. The migration has gone well and thankfully has finished on
time. The backlog of incoming emails seem to have arrived at the
system as expected and new tickets have been created. I 've validated
the various functionalities that I had planned to validate and
everything seems to be in order (have a look in T187984 if you are
interested in the technical details) https://ticket.wikimedia.org is
now available again for normal use.
As before, bugs that may have arisen due to the upgrade should be
filed under the OTRS project in phabricator, preferably under the OTRS
6 column.
Thank you for your patience,
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 2:20 PM Alexandros Kosiaris
<akosiaris(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is to let you know that per
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187984#6433997 on September 14th
> 2020 a 48 hour maintenance window for OTRS from 5.0 to 6.0 will begin.
> While this is an unusually large time window, the migration process
> from 5.0 to 6.0 is rather slow. We have looked into optimizing it, but
> at the end preferred to stick with the software developers
> recommendations.
>
> During the maintenance window the system will be completely offline. That means:
>
> * No access over the web to the interface
> * No scheduled jobs of any kind will be run
> * Email will not be delivered but rather backlogged. It will not be
> lost as our MX systems will accept them and put them in the queue.
> Once the system is back to being fully functional, the emails will
> flow into the system.
>
> We will have a rollback plan ready of course, just in case the
> migration goes awry. We already have tested it but something might
> arise anyway.
>
> I am sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.
>
> --
> Alexandros Kosiaris
> Principal Site Reliability Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
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Alexandros Kosiaris
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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Alexandros Kosiaris
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
*** Discover the future of knowledge sharing ***
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24.11. – 26.11.2020, online
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Hello MediaWiki maintainers, software developers, consultants, researchers!
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the SMWCon in fall 2020 will be held online and free of charge. [0]
On three days there will be talks, tutorials and hackathons around the topics
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[0] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2020
The 1.36.0-wmf.9 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0].
The new version is deployed to nowhere at all, including not even on
testwikis, but can proceed no further until these issues are resolved:
* T262900 Rebuilding l10n cache fails for train - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262900
Once this issue is resolved train can get moving at all.
Thank you for your help resolving these issues!
-- Your humble train toiler
[0]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257977
[1]. <https://versions.toolforge.org/>
Hello everyone,
I was a Google Summer of Code student working on the task ‘Upgrade
WebdriverIO to the latest version for all repositories’ [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247844].
While I was trying to upgrade Wikibase and other Wikibase related
repositories I noticed that these repositories have wdio-wikibase as a
dependancy. However, wdio-wikibase uses WebdriverIO v5 which causes a few
test specs to fail. For more details see: [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261218].
I’ve created a patch to solve the issue. It would be great if someone can
review it!
(Link to the PR: https://github.com/wmde/wdio-wikibase/pull/25)
Thank you,
Vidhi Mody
This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting
on Wednesday. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review,
please let us know by replying to this email. However, please keep
discussion about individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets.
Activity since Monday 2020-08-31 on the following boards:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/
Committee inbox:
* RFC: Parsoid Extension API <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260714>
- see TechCom weekly digest 2020-09-02
Committee board activity: none
New RFCs: none
Phase progression: none
IRC meeting request: none
Other RFC activity:
* MediaWiki's anonymous edit token leaves wiki installations (incl.
Wikipedia) open to mass anonymous spam we can't block
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40417>
- dbarratt suggests to block anonymous POST requests with the Origin
header that contains a value that is not in the allowlist.
- Bawolff thinks it could work if done correctly.
- Niklas
The 1.36.0-wmf.8 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0].
The new version is deployed to groups 0,1[1], but can proceed no
further until these issues are resolved:
* skins.vector.styles.legacy sets hr{height:0}, hiding horizontal
rules - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262507
(fix being confirmed in beta)
Once these issues are resolved train can resume. If these issues are
resolved on a Friday the train will resume Monday.
Thank you for your help resolving these issues!
-- Your humble train toiler
[0]. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257976/>
[1]. <https://versions.toolforge.org/>
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Jeena Huneidi
Software Engineer, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
This email contains updates for September 9, 2020. For the HTML version,
see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2020-09-09
Cheers,
Deb
------------------------
*= 2020-09-09 =*
== Product ==
=== Web ===
* Updates:
** '''Summary''': moving the search header for Vue.js search.
** [[Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements|Desktop Improvements Project (Vector
/ DIP)]]:
*** [[phab:T260867|PrefUpdate captures user preference modifications at
registration]]
*** [[phab:T261686|Refinements to search box in site header]]
*** [[phab:T260412|[Spike 10hrs] Determine steps necessary for switch to
header-first DOM]]
*** [[phab:T259761|Reduce space between sidebar and content]]
*** [[phab:T259250|A/B test setup for search changes]]
*** [[phab:T249363|Move the existing search to the header in preparation
for Vue.js search development]]
*** [[phab:T252774|Checkbox and mediawiki.toc.styles styles should be
merged into a single ResourceLoader module]]
*** [[phab:T251544|Add user journey performance tests for Vector's Legacy
and Vue.js search]]
*** [[phab:T244392|Vue.js search case study]]:
**** See [[Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Vue.js case study/Status
log|weekly status updates]].
** Mobile website (MinervaNeue / MobileFrontend):
*** [[phab:T261971|TypeError: e.on is not a function. (In
'e.on("hide",(function(){e.emit("_om_hide")}))', 'e.on' is undefined)]]
*** [[phab:T259291|Image loader is not resilient (Uncaught Error:
'retryPath' must be set in options param. Received:)]]
*** [[phab:T258096|Regression: Nested references do not open if user clicks
on [ or ] (which are wrapped in span)]]
** Standardization
*** [[phab:T256897|Decide on and clean up naming of CSS classes identifying
menus in toolbars and the sidebar.]]
** Page Previews
*** [[phab:T259652| TypeError: u.abort is not a function]]
** Miscellaneous
*** [[phab:T262092|Update to user styles and scripts required: .menu,
.vectorTabs and .vectorMenu no longer supported]]
*** [[phab:T260519|ToggleSwitchWidget: widget has wrong role 'checkbox'
when it should be 'switch']]
*** [[phab:T259630|TypeError: results.error is undefined]]
*** [[phab:T258428|TypeError: element is undefined (getAccessKeyLabel)]]
*** [[phab:T258337|Advanced search doesn't handle removing template
name]][[phab:T260519|ToggleSwitchWidget: widget has wrong role 'checkbox'
when it should be 'switch']]
*** [[phab:T249167|Removing category filter in Advanced search shows
"[object Object]"]]
*** [[phab:T203023|skins.monobook.mobile.uls dependency doesn't do mobile?]]
*** [[phab:T262098|SkinMustache should provide standard portlet (menu)
data]]
*** [[phab:T235008|ExampleSkin should use SkinMustache]]
*** [[phab:T259912|Keyboard Tabbing Order for PopupWidget in
Reverse(shift-tabbing) is out-of-order]]
*** [[phab:T259906|Add 'volumeUp' icon in OOUI]]
*** [[phab:T253938|Future proof addPortletLink and work towards a standard
mw-portlet class for all menus across all skins]]
*** [[phab:T106244|URL encoded values using fallback 8-bit encoding
(invalid UTF-8) cause mediawiki.Uri to crash]]
--
deb tankersley (she/her)
sr program manager, engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
It does the same as the @ operator, except that it takes care to prevent a
very bad bug that existed before PHP 7. Details at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253461
If there are other issues or benefits, please write them on the task. The
overhead of AtEase is prerty minor, so really any benefit at all is likely
to tip the balance toward keeping it. But, in the event that there isn't
any, then perhaps we should slowly phase it out.
Best,
-- Timo
[---- Long mail - but only relevant to extension developers ----]
Greetings!
As some of you might know, on the Parsing Team [0], we are aspiring to
replace the core wikitext parser with Parsoid [1] on Wikimedia wikis late
next year and start to put to rest the two-parser ghost that has haunted us
for many years. In recent years, we achieved two major milestones along
the way: replace HTML4 tidy with HTML5 Remex [2], and port Parsoid from
Javascript to PHP [3].
Given that context, if you (help) maintain an extension that:
* uses a "parser hook" and/or
* uses the "parser API" (i.e. uses public properties / methods in
Parser.php, ParserOutput.php, ParserOptions.php, etc.)
please read on. If you don't fit that description, you can stop reading now!
Parsoid models and processes wikitext quite differently from the
core parser - all that Parsoid guarantees is that the rendering is largely
identical, not the specific process of generating the rendering. This
means that extensions that extend the behavior of the parser will need to
adapt to work with Parsoid instead to provide similar functionality. With
that in mind, we have been working to more clearly specify how extensions
need to adapt to the Parsoid regime.
PARSOID & EXTENSIONS:
At a high level, here are the questions we needed to answer, along with
some highly simplified answers:
1. How do extensions "hook" into Parsoid?
A. Extensions need to think in terms of transformations (convert this
to that) instead of parser pipeline events (at this point in the
pipeline, call this listener). An additional detail here is that
extensions cannot maintain global ordered state within extension code
since Parsoid doesn't guarantee handlers will be invoked in the same
order in which they showed up in page source. See the wiki [4] for
more details.
As for the mechanics of registration, Parsoid uses existing mechanisms
based on the extension.json file.
2. When the registered hook listeners are invoked by Parsoid, how do they
process any wikitext they need to process?
A. Parsoid provides all registered listeners with an API object to interact
with it. Direct use of Parsoid internals code is strongly discouraged
and will be enforced in various ways including via code review.
3. How is the extension's output assimilated into the page output?
A. The output is treated as a "fully-processed" page/DOM fragment (with
some caveats which will be clarified on wiki). It is appropriately
decorated with additional markup, and slotted into place into the page.
Extensions need not make any special efforts (aka strip state) to
protect it from the parsing pipeline.
Slides 8-12 of the August 12 2020 Tech Talk [7] goes over the differences.
Check the wiki [4] for more details of Parsoid's Extension API. It also
maps core parser hooks to Parsoid's extension functionality.
CURRENT STATUS:
We consider the current proposal to be in late draft stage. That said, as
we discover unsupported functionality, we will augment the set of hooks and
the Parsoid Extension API as needed.
While there are a wide variety of extensions in the MediaWiki universe
with varied use cases, our initial goal for the next year is just Wikimedia
wikis and hence extensions that are deployed on the Wikimedia wikis.
Once we are done with that, we will turn our attention to supporting
extension use cases in the wider MediaWiki universe. But, now is a
good time for all extension developers to study and review this API
and give us feedback.
Since the beginning of this year, we've refactored all of the extensions
we've written Parsoid versions of (Cite, Gallery, Poem, Pre, JSON) to
now strictly use the Parsoid Extension API without cheating by virtue
of being in the Parsoid codebase. So, this proposal is actually backed
by an implementation that is in production for Wikimedia wikis.
FEEDBACK:
Here is where you come in.
* If you maintain / develop an extension, please review the document
to see if your extension's use case is covered.
Ideally, leave your feedback on the Parsoid Extension API talk page [5]
since it helps keep it all in one place. Alternatively, you can also
leave questions / concerns / other feedback on the Phabricator task
we've filed for TechCom's RFC process [6].
* If you feel bold, start the process of updating your extensions *now*.
Note that your extension will need to operate with both the existing
core parser as well as Parsoid till such time we deprecate and stop
using the core parser.
There are known functionality gaps related to exposing ParserOutput
object and providing setFunctionHook functionality. If your extension
needs those, you should probably wait for us to fill that gap.
DOCS / MORE INFO / CONTACT:
* Check the wiki page [4] for docs and discuss on the talk page [5]
* Check the August 12, 2020 Tech Talk [7]
* Look at Parsoid code for extensions [8]
* Look at Parsoid docs for the Ext/ namespace [9]
* Talk to us on IRC in the #mediawiki-parsoid channel
* Email us at parsing-team(a)wikimedia.org
Thanks!
Subbu (on behalf of the Parsing Team).
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0. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Parser_Unification
2. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/09/tidy-html5-replacement/
3.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/02/12/parsoid-in-php-or-there-and-back-…
4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Extension_API
5. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Talk:Extension_API
6. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260714
7. Slides:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parsoid_%26_Extensions_August_2020_…
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1xPkERWCM
8. https://github.com/wikimedia/parsoid/tree/master/src/Ext
9. https://doc.wikimedia.org/Parsoid-PHP/master/
Hello,
This is Amir from the CoC committee. Currently, there are two open
amendment proposals that haven't had much progress in the past years and I
would like to close them or at least make some progress. One of them in
particular is really important.
There are two major issues with the current appeal process:
* According to the CoC, the appeal body is a team in WMF that doesn't exist
anymore (for years now) [1] People in this team (who all are still working
for WMF) have moved to other teams and some haven't done anything with
technical communities for years now. We need to find an appeal body to
replace this. One suggestion is to have CRC [2] and its successor review
these cases but WMF legal should give the green light on this. Any other
suggestion is more than welcome.
* It's not clear that the appeal body would have the authority to override
the outcome of cases or they are just advisory or they are peers (they need
to discuss until there's a consensus among both).
Given the confidential nature of TCoC cases, having a robust appeal body
ensures a fair and just environment for technical contributions. Please
take a look and participate in the discussion:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uay0vz6no8ayac3m
Thank you very much.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Relations/Community_health
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee
--
Amir (he/him)