[Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam updates

[Shiju Alex]

>
> I am not sure whether it is really required to post these changes
> every week here, because not every one is interested in reading the
> code changes. I hope the code review page helps to find out all the
> changes for an extension/component
>

That is true. Community is definitely NOT interested to know the technical
details of all the updates.

But these type of changes (like the change in shortcut key) which affect
the typing habit of users needs to be communicated to commuity (here Indic
wikimedians), at least in this list.

How you know


On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Santhosh Thottingal <
santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Shortcut key on Mac :- Refer bug[1] for details, in summary the shortcut
> key
> > is now dynamic based on browser / OS combination so that the shortcut
> works.
> > Control+G is new shortcut on Mac largely. This was done during Hackathon.
> > //Surprise surprise, more Indic users on mac :)
>
> Small correction, this fix was not done during hackathon, but before
> that. And for Opera in OSX, shortcut is control+command+m.
>
> > There are more bugs reported by others and the software keeps changing,
> so
> > If you want to follow Narayam in close detail, subscribe to the feed[3].
> >
> > i18n team,
> > Some of us know, you push i18n patches every Monday. Can you also give a
> > feed for recent changes in patch *every week*, so we could see if
> something
> > relevant to us changed in the patch and test so that we may not miss any
> > regression caused and be quick to report issues. I know wikitech wiki has
> > the logs somewhere on deployment(forgot now), but a plain text feed will
> > help and save much time for many folks.
>
>
> We post the i18n deployment notes in Mediaiwiki-i18n list , one or two
> days before deployment.
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
>
> Gerard blogs about the deployment , see
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/12/going-live-december-12-2011/ and
> he plans to do this blog post for every deployment.
>
> If anybody is interested particularly in some extension, they can
> follow all the commits to that path in subversion For eg:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Code/MediaWiki&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fextensions%2FWebFonts
> gives all the code changes happened in webfonts.
>
> I am not sure whether it is really required to post these changes
> every week here, because not every one is interested in reading the
> code changes. I hope the code review page helps to find out all the
> changes for an extension/component
>
> Another way to find out planned revisions for i18ndeploy is looking at
> this tag:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/tag/i18ndeploy
>
> > To those communities which don't have any input method solution :-
> > Please invest some time, the returns are really great. Juniad / i18n team
> > will help you get Narayam.
>
> Happy to help.
>
> -Santhosh
>
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