Gerrit activity feeds :: a design and infrastructure sneak peak

Gerrit provides nice views by changes, but doesn’t offer synthetic and consolidated views. Activity feeds will be timelines to offer these views; What are the users’ last activities (commits, patchsets, merges) on Gerrit? What’s going on on the mediawiki/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki repository? Here the homepage dashboard: And here the wireframe of the project activity feed: About the […]

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Tools

This week, I’m preparing a site to host some tools and web services. It will be built on the top of: Foundation from Zurb to get a responsive design; Pluton, as a flexible content web engine; Scripts to interact with Gerrit in real-time and generate activity feeds. Here a snapshot the design I prepared, called […]

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Minimal SQL schema for Keruald and Pluton

I’m creating a new site for tools (see next post) built on the top of Keruald/Pluton. This is the opportunity to refresh the SQL schema. It supports 16 777 215 users account, is IPv6 and salted password compliant. Here the new minimal SQL schema for MySQL:

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How to use TclSOAP 1.6.7 in 2013

TclSOAP is a library to create or consume SOAP WebServices. It also allows to consume XML-RPC stuff. Unfortunately, strange versionning choices (it search precises versions of the dom TCL package, and of course, these versions bumped with the years) broke the package require mechanism. This patch solves that and allows you to use it:

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Get the Wikimedia configuration on IRC

If you’re on Freenode #wikimedia-tech or #mediawiki, you can query the Wikimedia site configuration. This is an alternative to browse this 12 227 lines file. Usage: .config <configuration variable> <local project> [key…] 06:36:48 < Dereckson> .config wmgEnableLandingCheck 06:36:49 <Daeghrefn> false If the configuration value is an array, you can dump it: 06:28:47 <+Dereckson> .config wgExtraNamespaces […]

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OPW office hours: Mon Wed Thu Fri 14:00 PST

During the Outreach Program for Women, I’m scheduling office hours each Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 14:00 (pacific time) / 22:00 (UTC) / 23:00 (CET). I’ll be available on Freenode #wikimedia-dev for my mentoree, and by extension to any people needing help on the following topics: General PHP language questions Git repository Gerrit code […]

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Valspeak

The valspeak is a variant of American English spoken in California. Let me rewrite that correctly: The valspeak is ya know, like, a variant of American English, fer shure, spoken in California. In 1986, someone asks on the net.sources newsgroup the source of a small software to make this kind of conversion. To celebrate the […]

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