Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:52:02 +0200 Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's easy enough: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Special:Version > > So we're on 1.12alpha (r31813) > > Now what that actually *means* is a whole different question :-) I > don't know mediawiki nearly well enough

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Magnus Hagander wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane escribió: We saw this type of thing happen more than once on the CommitFest:March page, if memory serves. Apparently there is something very broken about the copy of mediawiki we are using --- would som

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane escribió: > >> We saw this type of thing happen more than once on the > >> CommitFest:March page, if memory serves. Apparently there is > >> something very broken about the copy of mediawiki we are using --- > >> would someo

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Gregory Stark
"Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had a look into the history on the CommitFest page. It looks like > Alvaro unintentionally clobbered the previous five edits, which went > back about four hours. I've restored those changes now, but it is > definitely worrying that such a drastic re

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:35:41 -0400 Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Lane escribió: > > "Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had a look into the history on the CommitFest page. It looks > > > like Alvaro unintentionally clobbered the previous five edits, > > > which we

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane escribió: >> We saw this type of thing happen more than once on the CommitFest:March >> page, if memory serves. Apparently there is something very broken about >> the copy of mediawiki we are using --- would someone look into that? > Hmm, perh

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane escribió: > "Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I had a look into the history on the CommitFest page. It looks like > > Alvaro unintentionally clobbered the previous five edits, which went > > back about four hours. I've restored those changes now, but it is > > definitely wor

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Brendan Jurd escribió: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Alvaro Herrera > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Perhaps what's going on is that the software does not check that the > > version I read is the most recent one :-( so if two of us edit the page > > at the same time, the one committing

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had a look into the history on the CommitFest page. It looks like > Alvaro unintentionally clobbered the previous five edits, which went > back about four hours. I've restored those changes now, but it is > definitely worrying that such a drastic reg

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Mittwoch, April 23, 2008 03:17:54 +1000 Brendan Jurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had a look into the history on the CommitFest page. It looks like Alvaro unintentionally clobbered the previous five edits, which went back about four hours. I've restored those changes now, but it is defin

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Brendan Jurd
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps what's going on is that the software does not check that the > version I read is the most recent one :-( so if two of us edit the page > at the same time, the one committing last is going to stomp on the > c

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:59:43 +1000 "Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the information at the above link, the wiki should let > you know about concurrent edit conflicts and give you an opportunity > to resolve them before attempting to commit your changes again. > > Not sure

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Brendan Jurd
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bernd Helmle wrote: > >> It seems changes to the commit fest wiki pages are going to be > >> overwritten accidently when editing the page concurrently. At least, this > >> occured to me as i accidently removed entries done

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bernd Helmle wrote: >> It seems changes to the commit fest wiki pages are going to be >> overwritten accidently when editing the page concurrently. At least, this >> occured to me as i accidently removed entries done by Laurenz Albe and my >> changes

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Bernd Helmle wrote: >> It seems changes to the commit fest wiki pages are going to be >> overwritten accidently when editing the page concurrently. At least, >> this occured to me as i accidently removed entries done by Laurenz >> Albe and my changes were overwritt

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bernd Helmle wrote: > It seems changes to the commit fest wiki pages are going to be > overwritten accidently when editing the page concurrently. At least, this > occured to me as i accidently removed entries done by Laurenz Albe and my > changes were overwritten by Alvaro Herrera again. > >

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest Wiki page annoyance

2008-04-22 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bernd Helmle wrote: It seems changes to the commit fest wiki pages are going to be overwritten accidently when editing the page concurrently. At least, this occured to me as i accidently removed entries done by Laurenz Albe and my changes were overwritten by Alvaro Herrera again. So dev