Hi Denny,
Thanks for the update! More inline...
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Denny Vrandečić
<denny.vrandecic(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
== Ongoing from last week ==
[...]
* Changeset
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/14295/>, bug
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38705> about handling
sites: Wikidata could benefit from some refactoring of the
interlanguage and interwiki link handling in core. The idea is to
migrate from the "interwiki" table to the new "Sites" facility.
RobLa
mentioned that Chad seems to be working in a similar direction, but
haven't seen comments there. Besides that there were a few comments
going back and forth. A Postgres-compatibility is being requested by
saper, which will soon be added, but the question is are there any
further issues that prevent us from merging?
This one probably deserves its own thread on the list, which you all
probably shouldn't wait for me to start (please don't reply to this
without changing the subject)
* Merging the Wikidata branch (ContentHandler) is
still in discussion,
see <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38622>. Daniel
Kinzler hopes to have the discussion here on wikitech-l about this.
Right now there seems a bit of a confusion due to Gerrit (if you look
at the bug comments), but otherwise ongoing.
Looking forward to the discussion. I spoke with Tim last night about
this one, so I'm glad things are moving now. I'm a little dismayed
that it was possible to scramble Gerrit like it was.
== New in the list ==
* Changeset <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/8924/>,
'usecheckboxes' option implemented for HTMLMultiSelectField. Helps us
with displaying some preferences nicely with a scrollable
multiselect-list. Hanging around for a while and needs review and
merge. Some discussion last week.
Andrew totally cookie-licked this one, which I just pointed out to him
in person. You have my blessing to set up a cron job to remind him to
follow through :-)
* New hook 'AfterFinalPageOutput' which is
called at the end of
OutputPage::output() <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/14303/>: Got
a little stuck and is required by the STTLanguage extension. (in
parallel, this is in the Wikidata branch of core already, but would be
removed from there if accepted here).
Looks like there's a -1 on this one as of this writing.
* Linker::link() handles strings in $query parameter
properly now,
changeset: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/14301/>. Some concerns
were raised whether this should be fixed in other places instead.
Fixing this in all other places and especially testing it there could
be rather expensive. This is required by the STTLanguage extension. If
this isn't fixed, the function might fail in some places, e.g. on the
latest changes page. (in parallel, this is in the Wikidata branch of
core already, but would be removed from there if accepted here)
If you all are blocked, the short term fix is to fix your usage of
this API, but not worry about enforcing the array convention
everywhere. If you have code that takes this variable as input,
that's probably where the backwards-compatibility cruft should
temporarily go.
What would be a better core change is a test there marking use of
string as deprecated, so that we can start cleaning up the deprecation
warnings.
* A change to the skin that will allow us to add the
description of an
item: changeset <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/17073/>. There
discussion and development is ongoing.
Okee doke.
Rob