Hi all,
If you write, maintain or are otherwise active in development, and directly or indirectly make use of MediaWiki, then you should subscribe to:
mediawiki-api-announce@lists.wikimedia.org
That is a mailing list that only brings important announcements for developers that use MediaWiki as an API.
Note that this list is not limited to API as "api.php" but about MediaWiki as a application programming interface (API) in general.
Subjects that have announcements on that list:
* Important changes in database schema (columns or tables added, removed or changed in such a way that you should change your queries. Think for example of the addition of rev_deleted, queries should most likely query for rev_deleted=0 now).
* Changes in the JavaScript API (methods being deprecated or removed in the mediawiki.js library etc. as well as upgrades of third-party libraries that ship with MediaWiki, such as jQuery).
* Major changes to the HTML layout (such as the change for the sidebar id to #mw-panel)
* Hooks in MediaWiki PHP. Mostly for extension developers. Changes or deprecation of hooks.
* And last but not least, the api.php itself. All major changes.
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Although time will learn how the list is used, to readers and writers of this list:
"All subjects should clearly indicate what needs changing and when!"
For example "Vector skin sidebar html ID changes to '#mw-panel' in 1.17".
Also, whenever Wikimedia has scheduled a deployment of revision(s) or entire branches that expose any change that was previously announced, a new mail should be sent here to remind/summarize upcoming changes (since gadgets should/can't be changed until the new version is deployed but new versions can be prepared or tested in advance)
Hope to see you soon on mediawiki-api-announce@lists.wikimedia.org :)
Please reply-to to wikitech to keep discussions about this central.
-- Krinkle
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
If you write, maintain or are otherwise active in development, and directly or indirectly make use of MediaWiki, then you should subscribe to:
mediawiki-api-announce@lists.wikimedia.org
That is a mailing list that only brings important announcements for developers that use MediaWiki as an API.
Note that this list is not limited to API as "api.php" but about MediaWiki as a application programming interface (API) in general.
Ah, what? Maybe you should've discussed this before you announced it to every mailing list on the planet?
Although time will learn how the list is used, to readers and writers of this list:
"All subjects should clearly indicate what needs changing and when!"
For example "Vector skin sidebar html ID changes to '#mw-panel' in 1.17".
Also, whenever Wikimedia has scheduled a deployment of revision(s) or entire branches that expose any change that was previously announced, a new mail should be sent here to remind/summarize upcoming changes (since gadgets should/can't be changed until the new version is deployed but new versions can be prepared or tested in advance)
Hope to see you soon on mediawiki-api-announce@lists.wikimedia.org :)
Good luck with that. I'm the list admin of the api-announce list and I am the only person that can post to it right now. I don't mind changing this if we agree to broaden the list's scope, but "agree" is the key word here. There was zero discussion, just a unilateral declaration.
Roan
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
Good luck with that. I'm the list admin of the api-announce list and I am the only person that can post to it right now. I don't mind changing this if we agree to broaden the list's scope, but "agree" is the key word here. There was zero discussion, just a unilateral declaration.
Ah yeah, if there was a discussion I definitely missed it.
-Chad
Krinkle wrote:
If you write, maintain or are otherwise active in development, and directly or indirectly make use of MediaWiki, then you should subscribe to:
mediawiki-api-announce@lists.wikimedia.org
That is a mailing list that only brings important announcements for developers that use MediaWiki as an API.
Note that this list is not limited to API as "api.php" but about MediaWiki as a application programming interface (API) in general.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce
If you're asking people to sign up for a mailing list, it's generally nice to link them to a form where they can do so. ;-)
MZMcBride
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org