Since several people gave me some very positive feedback about last weekend's sprint to fix the tarball blockers for 1.17, I'm going to have a new sprint to fix the 1.17 blockers. Before we get started, though, let me give some recognition to the people who have fixed bugs this past week:
27440 Special:Types non-functional on 1.17 Jeroen De Dauw (SMW bug that probably shouldn't have been a tarball blocker, but, hey!, thanks Jeroen!) 27506 <gallery> is printed in 1 file per row Krinkle 27607 Special:NewPages only showing last 24 hours since 1.17 Derk-Jan Hartman closed it WORKSFORME
There were also two bugs that, after investigation, are no longer tarball blockers:
27474 [[#_foo|bar]] renders with href="#foo" , breaking Cite anchors configuration issue 27571 GRAMMAR rules from $wgGrammarForms don't work with fallback-language Niklas Laxström told me he couldn't reproduce this one or track it down
And now, the still-outstanding blocker bugs. A couple of bugs have been added, but I think that overall we're making good progress. First, the bugs related to the new installer that Tim mentioned last week. Since the installer will be the first exposure many people have to 1.17 and the code is all new, I think these deserve special attention.
12070 After Installation MySQL was blocked 26481 New installer doesn't fill in the $*Key values some times 26612 Regression: Postgres cannot install 26937 Deleted file path not visible when going back to page=Options 27579 Chrome saves config as LocalSettings.php.php
Chad made some real progress on the Postgres installer (26612) and I said that I would take care of the remaining issue in, but I haven't had a chance yet. Chad and Platonides have been working on 12070. Meanwhile, 26481, 26937, and 27579 look pretty easy. I expect we could have all this taken care of this weekend.
If the UI is your thing but the installer bugs don't grab you, have a look at these:
27023 once dom ready mediawiki.loader.using issues callback before modules are ready 27490 RTL ui in LTR wiki is LTR aligned 27540 width of <gallery> always 100% 27566 New wikilink window grows in width each time when opened in Chrome 27577 Gallery perrow width is overestimated 27679 Ugly encoding in red file links containing an ampersand 27693 Doing double bar in image link inside table changed behaviour
Finally, a couple more bugs if you none of the above whets your appetite:
27403 Disabled preferences are taken into account anyway 27473 Apostrophe in linktrail breaks bolded links
I haven't included one blocker in the list because I think P.Copp's javascript minimizer fixes it. However, his contribution hasn't been installed yet, so there may still be room to try your hand:
27528 JS minification still outputs incorrect javascript for some input
If you're going to try your hand at any of these, I suggest you post a comment to wikitech-l so we have an idea of what you're doing.
Note that if any of these don't excite you, you should check out #27339 blockers: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=27339&hide_reso...
Some of these require shell access, but some are bugs with MediaWiki extensions used on Wikimedia.
As always, if you need help figuring something out or tracking down one of these bugs, ask on #mediawiki on freenode.
Happy hacking!
Mark.