The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, Dec 6th, 2019
Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
Hope to talk to you in a week!
*Note that our January Office Hours will be on January 8th.*
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-5 / EST
All,
Over the US holiday weekend, PHP 7.4.0 final was released, and so I've made
it available in Wikimedia CI as an experimental job.[0]
Although it will generally work as a drop-in replacement for PHP 7.3.x
testing, because of the breadth and depth of our code bases it's likely
that there will be some issues; there are already some known problems with
MediaWiki core and extensions.[1]
If you and other owners of your codebase wants to enable PHP74, you can run
'check experimental' on a patch in gerrit to see if it passes already.
If it does pass, enabling it is pretty trivial (e.g. for Parsoid it worked
immediately[2]) – just file a quite Phabricator task on
#Continuous-Integration-Config[3] and we'll get it done. If your codebase
doesn't work in PHP74 yet, drop into #wikimedia-dev or #wikimedia-tech IRC
and there are a number of us that'd be happy to help.
If you have any questions or concerns, please shout out so I can help get
them fixed for you.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236132
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233012
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/554110
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1208/
Yours,
--
*James D. Forrester* (he/him <http://pronoun.is/he> or they/themself
<http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself>)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Google Code-in 2019 just started:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2019
You might have seen the previous email about it:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-November/092802.html
In the next seven weeks, many young people are going to make their
first contributions to Wikimedia. Expect many questions on IRC and
on mailing lists by newcomers who have never used IRC or lists
before. Your help and patience is welcome to provide a helping hand.
Thanks to all mentors who have already registered & provided tasks.
If you have not become a mentor yet, please consider it:
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
and ask if something is unclear.
Thank you again for giving young contributors the opportunity to learn
about and work on all aspects of Free & Open Source Software projects.
Cheers,
andre
--
Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Hi all,
Here are the minutes from last week's TechCom meeting:
* Approved after last call beginning on October 23: ParallelMaintenance
helper class for
multi-process maintenance scripts <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201970>.
This RFC
proposes a helper class for maintenance scripts that fork into multiple
processes.
* Last call for comments: Where to implement Desktop Improvements project
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234907>. This RFC proposes implementing
broad UI
changes to the desktop interface of Wikimedia projects by modifying the
existing Vector skin.
This RFC will be approved as proposed if no concerns remain unaddressed by
December 11.
* Resumed activity: Partial opt-out method for CSP <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208188>.
Brian Wolff is working on this again, comments welcome.
* Discussion ongoing: Amendments to the Gerrit Privilege policy
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237618>. Trying to reach consensus on
granting
+2 rights on unmaintained extensions, comments welcome.
* Discussion ongoing: OpenGraph descriptions in wiki pages
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213505>. Discussion revolves around how
this
interacts with the web cache layer. Touches on several cans of worms.
* No public RFC meeting this week.
* No public RFC meeting next week.
You can also find our meeting minutes at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/Minutes>
See also the TechCom RFC board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-rfcs/>.
If you prefer you can subscribe to our newsletter here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:TechCom_Radar>
Thanks,
- Alex
--
Alex Paskulin
Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation
Good evening(good morning) everyone. I named Fokou Joel Bertrand, I am a
computer engineer(in fact I am still learning in the computer engineering
field, second year) in university of Buea (Faculty of Engineering and
Technology - departement of Computer Engineering) in Cameroon. I have a lot
of experiences in the web development(Frond-end). I develop very well in
JavaScript, HTML5/CSS3. Please I'd wish to be a part of yours to propose
some ideas to the amazing devopment of your organization. So I wish to know
how to process from now given that I and a new person here. On that, I'm
really expecting help from you. Thank you very much.
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2019-11): 431
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2019-11): 1031
Task authors in (2019-11): 551
Users who have closed tasks in (2019-11): 309
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2019-11): 320
Tasks created in (2019-11): 2452
Tasks closed in (2019-11): 2008
Open and stalled tasks in total: 43632
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 30
Needs Triage: 532
High: 1013
Normal: 1159
Low: 1629
Lowest: 1631
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
Active Differential users (any activity) in (2019-11): 5
To see the names of the most active task authors:
* Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/
* Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar
* Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs
* See the author names in the "Submitters" panel
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on phab1003 at Sun Dec 1 00:00:26 UTC 2019)