IANAL, but you might want to take a look at how the vlc people handled this kind of problems - i remember a huge rewrite effort from their part, but no link on hand, sorry.
Strainu
"Mr. Donald J. Fortier II" technical_13@yahoo.com a scris:
A little additional information on topic 1 -- The pull request including the changes that this contributor to the script made can be viewed at https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/pull/54/files if it is of any interest. Thanks.
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1. Fwd: afch licensing question (Steven Walling) 2. Re: Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea? (Antoine Musso) 3. Re: MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features (Željko Filipin) 4. Re: Fwd: afch licensing question (Denny Vrandečić) 5. Job posting: frontend dev (JavaScript) at Wikimedia Deutschland (Lydia Pintscher) 6. Re: MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features (Ori Livneh)
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:36:43 -0700 From: Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: afch licensing question Message-ID: CAMryOMXWs7QYrtKCfMUUEVTzKsK-mrV1EijNBT=zxLB0Q6nv0Q@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Forwarding, with permission.
For background the "AFC Helper" script is one that assists English Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which currently is severely backlogged.
Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the question of gadget/userscript licensing?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mr. Donald J. Fortier II technical_13@yahoo.com Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM Subject: afch licensing question To: "swalling@wikimedia.org" swalling@wikimedia.org
Per the discussion on https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/61 one of the previous contributors to the project refuses to agree to relicense AFCH under the MIT license. Right now, the script is licensed under CC-BY-SA/GFDL, as it was originally coded on-wiki (per [[Wikipedia:Copyright]] -- all text-based contributions). This came about due to some confusion that can be seen https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/60. So, we are unsure as to where to go from here. If we replace any code contributed to the project by the person that refuses to agree, can we dissolve any requirements to get him to agree? Is there enough contribution from him to actually worry about it as he hasn't actually written any functions, just converted some stuff from old school JavaScript to jQuery? Any advice/assistance on this would be appreciated.
-- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:09:30 +0200 From: Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Killing 1.XXwmfYY branches -- another idea? Message-ID: l20q3g$55i$1@ger.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Le 26/09/13 00:46, Chad a écrit :
What's actually the problem with expanding branches?
To me at least, it makes it harder to see what's actually deployed at a given time. Try `git branch -r` on core. We're at 86 branches now...that's 172 if you've got two remotes. It's only going to get worse and it'll be progressively harder to spot what's important.
We could simply delete the old branches after a few deployment cycles. If we want to keep the reference for history purposes, would tagging the tip of it be enough ?
If you find yourself struggling to find out the last 2 wmf branches, you can write a tiny script to sort and filter the branches, keeping only the last two.
-- Antoine "hashar" Musso
Message: 3 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:52:38 +0200 From: Željko Filipin zfilipin@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features Message-ID: CABfBeAr+=eBUMSTfHEMJrHGVE77rBngryhQeoyPcoxZqDh589A@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hi Ori,
Is there a reason for having Guest Additions Version 4.1.12 in the VM instead of 4.2?
$ vagrant up (...) [default] VM booted and ready for use! [default] The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can cause things such as shared folders to not work properly. If you see shared folder errors, please update the guest additions within the virtual machine and reload your VM.
Guest Additions Version: 4.1.12 VirtualBox Version: 4.2 [default] Setting hostname... (...)
I will file a bug in Bugzilla if that is something you can fix.
Željko
Message: 4 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:57:06 +0200 From: Denny Vrandečić denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: afch licensing question Message-ID: CANnnRRtO5dCNkPnQeVCEsob6pUU-RofazJP+z981DOj7BMiNYQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
CC-BY-SA/GFDL is in the same spirit as GPL, which is an obviously acceptable license for WMF (since MediaWiki is written in it).
Can you explain the need to relicense it under MIT?
2013/9/26 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org
Forwarding, with permission.
For background the "AFC Helper" script is one that assists English Wikipedians reviewing pages in the Articles for Creation queue, which currently is severely backlogged.
Any thoughts on the licensing issue, from folks with experience on the question of gadget/userscript licensing?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mr. Donald J. Fortier II technical_13@yahoo.com Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:30 PM Subject: afch licensing question To: "swalling@wikimedia.org" swalling@wikimedia.org
Per the discussion on https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/61 one of the previous contributors to the project refuses to agree to relicense AFCH under the MIT license. Right now, the script is licensed under CC-BY-SA/GFDL, as it was originally coded on-wiki (per [[Wikipedia:Copyright]] -- all text-based contributions). This came about due to some confusion that can be seen https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/60. So, we are unsure as to where to go from here. If we replace any code contributed to the project by the person that refuses to agree, can we dissolve any requirements to get him to agree? Is there enough contribution from him to actually worry about it as he hasn't actually written any functions, just converted some stuff from old school JavaScript to jQuery? Any advice/assistance on this would be appreciated.
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Message: 5 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:52:59 +0200 From: Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de To: wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Job posting: frontend dev (JavaScript) at Wikimedia Deutschland Message-ID: CABfqUgJpiiM_W=Snszhpr+xaPqeQ5W3j-3+a9idk+6w__0Rk1g@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Heya folks :)
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Message: 6 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:26:55 -0700 From: Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant: new features Message-ID: CAHXK4BzssgamHU9fixo4aUV0JU+9PRZuHwMWz4vhESbgr9qg5Q@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Željko Filipin zfilipin@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi Ori,
Is there a reason for having Guest Additions Version 4.1.12 in the VM instead of 4.2?
It's what Canonical's Vagrant image provides, and it's because that's the version that is packaged for Precise. (Remember, guest additions run on the guest.) You can update to the latest version by running 'update-guest-additions' in the VM.
I'll take the opportunity to remind folks who use Vagrant to send some positive feedback to Canonical. The Vagrant image they provide is part of a beta program they have not yet committed to supporting permanently.
Per http://blog.utlemming.org/2013/01/vagrant-cloud-images.html "For those who use Vagrant, your feedback is essential. Please feel free to send feedback via the ubuntu-cloud@lists.ubuntu.com mailing list."
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