[Wikitech-l] BagOStuff::modifySimpleRelayEvent removed from MediaWiki 1.33

2019-03-08 Thread Aaron Schulz
The modifySimpleRelayEvent() method was narrowly intended (and only usable) for use with a WANObjectCache that uses EventRelayer. The later dependency has since been removed from WANObjectCache. It was part of an experimental approach for relaying object cache purges accross WMF datacenters, which

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread bawolff
"tracked" does not mean someone is planning to work on it. This could be for a lot of reasons, maybe the bug is unclear, maybe its not obvious what a good way to fix is, maybe nobody cares (This sounds harsh, but the simple truth is, different things have different people caring about them, and som

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread John Erling Blad
> Also should be on the list: Sometimes bugs have a known fix that isn't > being rolled out, in favour of a larger more fundamental restructuring > (demanding even more resources). Yes, I've seen a lot of cookie licking. It makes it hard to solve even simple bugs.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread Alex Monk
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 18:04, Strainu wrote: > Several things: > * the bug backlog has been steadily increasing in all phabricator reports I > have seen (I don't read them all, so some decreases might have occurred > occasionally, but the trend is there) > * feature development is prioritized over

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread Andre Klapper
On Fri, 2019-03-08 at 20:03 +0200, Strainu wrote: > * after Andre stopped being bug wrangler {{Citation needed}} andre -- Andre Klapper | ak...@gmx.net https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org ht

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread Strainu
Pe vineri, 8 martie 2019, Amir Sarabadani a scris: > Hey, > I'm not WMF so I'm not the best one to answer the question but I think your > statement is overgeneralizing. Some teams have more resource constraints > than the other ones and treating all of WMF as a big monolith doesn't seem > to be a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread David Barratt
> > So if only wikiworld were for profit, then it wouldn't be > resource-constrained? > You don't have to be for-profit to have a self-sustaining business model. But you do have to have a problem (or a need), with a solution, that customers are willing to pay for to solve. Even if you give the sof

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread Dennis During
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 9:04 AM Amir Sarabadani wrote: " Everything is open-source and as non-profit, there's always resource constraint." So if only wikiworld were for profit, then it wouldn't be resource-constrained? Therein could lie the solution of all problems, not just those of wikiworld.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread Amir Sarabadani
Hey, I'm not WMF so I'm not the best one to answer the question but I think your statement is overgeneralizing. Some teams have more resource constraints than the other ones and treating all of WMF as a big monolith doesn't seem to be a good approach. I think you should be more precise and give a m

[Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

2019-03-08 Thread John Erling Blad
The backlog for bugs are pretty large (that is an understatement), even for bugs with know fixes and available patches. Is there any real plan to start fixing them? Shall I keep telling the community the bugs are "tracked"? /jeblad ___ Wikitech-l mailin