We're still a few months from a release of 1.21, but I'd like to start thinking about what we can tell the users of MediaWiki about it.
In that vein, what changes or features have you been working on? I'll spend some time looking over the commit messages, but often those don't give the sort of "big picture" that end users of MW could benefit from.
If you would rather update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21 yourself, feel free. Otherwise, I'll try to update that page with user visible changes and improvements that third party users of MW could benefit from.
In a side note: I'm not very good with visual presentation. If anyone wants to take on that bit of the release notes, watch the page and chime in where you think you can help.
Mark.
Well, the account creation API is still pending. If I'm lucky it'll be merged by the 1.21 release. :P I also have a change pending that redoes the password recovery system so that it uses tokens rather than temporary passwords.
Other than that, I'm still working on a centralized authentication/authorization system, but I don't think it'll be ready for this release (hopefully it can get in the next release alongside the password hashing rewrite).
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On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.orgwrote:
We're still a few months from a release of 1.21, but I'd like to start thinking about what we can tell the users of MediaWiki about it.
In that vein, what changes or features have you been working on? I'll spend some time looking over the commit messages, but often those don't give the sort of "big picture" that end users of MW could benefit from.
If you would rather update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21 yourself, feel free. Otherwise, I'll try to update that page with user visible changes and improvements that third party users of MW could benefit from.
In a side note: I'm not very good with visual presentation. If anyone wants to take on that bit of the release notes, watch the page and chime in where you think you can help.
Mark.
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On 01/09/2013 02:59 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
Well, the account creation API is still pending. If I'm lucky it'll be merged by the 1.21 release. :P I also have a change pending that redoes the password recovery system so that it uses tokens rather than temporary passwords.
Do you have the relevant changes tagged in Gerrit so that I can link to them?
Other than that, I'm still working on a centralized authentication/authorization system, but I don't think it'll be ready for this release (hopefully it can get in the next release alongside the password hashing rewrite).
Excellent!
Do you have the relevant changes tagged in Gerrit so that I can link to them?
Not sure what you mean by tagged, but here's the change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/18127
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On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.orgwrote:
On 01/09/2013 02:59 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
Well, the account creation API is still pending. If I'm lucky it'll be merged by the 1.21 release. :P I also have a change pending that redoes
the
password recovery system so that it uses tokens rather than temporary passwords.
Do you have the relevant changes tagged in Gerrit so that I can link to them?
Other than that, I'm still working on a centralized authentication/authorization system, but I don't think it'll be ready for this release (hopefully it can get in the next release alongside the password hashing rewrite).
Excellent!
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On 01/09/2013 07:04 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
Do you have the relevant changes tagged in Gerrit so that I can link to them?
Not sure what you mean by tagged, but here's the change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/18127
Sorry. I meant "do you have a topic set for these changes" but I used the more convention "tagged" instead of gerrit-speak "topic".
Thank you!
On 01/09/2013 02:03 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
We're still a few months from a release of 1.21, but I'd like to start thinking about what we can tell the users of MediaWiki about it.
In that vein, what changes or features have you been working on? I'll spend some time looking over the commit messages, but often those don't give the sort of "big picture" that end users of MW could benefit from.
I'm on the Editor Engagement Experiments team, which mostly works on extensions. However, I am proposing and working on changes for core where it makes sense. One particular core change I have pending is extending mediawiki.jqueryMsg to support wikilinks and the int: magic word.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/41808/
There are also a few other smaller ones, and bugs that are just in the idea stage.
Matt Flaschen
On 01/09/2013 06:29 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
One particular core change I have pending is extending mediawiki.jqueryMsg to support wikilinks and the int: magic word.
Thanks! I've added this and Tyler Romeo's changes to the 1.21 page.
I think I understand Tyler's changes better as an end user than I understand why Javascript developers would be interested in your changes, but that is probably because I've only just begun to work with MediaWiki's JavaScript.
Do you have a couple of sentences that would help me and other developers understand this better? Or, if your job was to advertise this, how would you promote it?
On 01/09/2013 08:44 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Do you have a couple of sentences that would help me and other developers understand this better? Or, if your job was to advertise this, how would you promote it?
Tired of all your MediaWiki i18n messages showing on the JavaScript side as wikitext? Parse them with jqueryMsg, now with wikilinks and int: transclusion support!
Matt Flaschen
On 01/09/2013 10:27 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Tired of all your MediaWiki i18n messages showing on the JavaScript side as wikitext? Parse them with jqueryMsg, now with wikilinks and int: transclusion support!
This is awesome. Short blurbs like this would make the release notes much easier to read -- as long as they were backed up with more substantial information.
As I work on the release notes page, I'll see if I can't get more of these.
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