Packing for Berlin
I’ll be attending the Developer’s Workshop in Berlin next month. I’m looking forward to meeting some new faces and spending a few days neck deep in MediaWiki internals. I’ve got a couple of things I’m planning to bring with me that I think people will like.
IdeaTorrent
People keep kicking around the idea of using IdeaTorrent for tracking enhancements to MediaWiki. I’d like to give it a shot so I’m in the process of setting up an instance of it for the Wikimedia community to play with. Hoping to have this ready by Berlin (if their website will stop going down!).
New-installer
In whatever shape it’s in, I plan to show off the new-installer branch to MediaWiki. This is a huge overhaul of not only the installation process itself, but the backend supporting it. I’ve also managed to sneak a long-overdue schema abstraction in, which should help with database maintenance in the future. I would like to have this in a slightly more workable state by Berlin, but I’ll be showcasing what I have nonetheless.
Git Transition/Code Review/Bug Tracking
People like Git. Some people think we should move to Git and rid ourselves of Subversion. I’m of mixed opinions, but I’m always open to trying new things. I’ve been working with Ævar to get a working Git copy of our Subversion repository with all of the metadata intact (or as much as we can preserve). People also are looking at alternatives to using CodeReview/Bugzilla for our tracking systems for code and bugs/enhancements. I’m hoping to have an instance of Gerrit up and running by Berlin as well, so people can toy with that and see what they think.
YAYYYYY someone listened to me!
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@Chad
I set up an ideatorrent a while back when the usability initiative requested one. It is pretty much ready for use, but authentication is still an issue (one we’ll hopefully be solving soon). Local authentication is available, but no central auth.
We just switched servers recently, and I didn’t bring ideatorrent over with it just yet, so I’ll get it up in a day or two, and post the address.
@Ryan: Roan had told me you had IdeaTorrent going right after I blogged about this, just hadn’t had a chance to track you down and talk about it yet. If you’ve already got something going, we can always use that
@Mike.lifeguard: It’s been painless, but thanks.
[...] a wider developer audience, and getting some feedback. It’s also going to be great to see how Chad’s new installer, and Ævar’s mapping stuff is going (to name two projects off the top of my [...]
@Chad: I still haven’t gotten a chance to move it over. I’ll make that one of my priorities this Friday. Ideatorrent is actually one of the reasons I’ll want to talk about OpenID in Berlin.
@Chad: I’ve moved the ideatorrent over. You can either create a local account, or use OpenID to log in. Here’s the link:
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/en-idea/