An update on MediaWiki 1.31 in Debian
Following the MediaWiki 1.31.1 security release, I was finally able to update the Debian package to 1.31 LTS in preparation for the Debian Buster release.
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Writing a new MediaWiki tarball release script
Last week's security release of MediaWiki 1.27.5 / 1.29.3 / 1.30.1 / 1.31.1 mentioned a small hint of a new release script being used for this release. Chad came up with the concept/architecture of the new script, I wrote most of the code, and Reedy did the actual release, providing…
Goodbye PHPStorm, hello Atom
I've been using the JetBrains IDE PHPStorm ever since I really got started in MediaWiki development in 2013. Its symbol analysis and autocomplete is fantastic, and the built-in inspections generally caught most coding issues while you were still writing the code. But, it's also non-free software, which has always made…
Introducing CoverMe: find the most called MediaWiki code lacking test coverage
CoverMe, hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge Test coverage is a useful metric, but it can be difficult to figure out exactly where to start. That's where CoverMe is useful - it sorts functions by how often they're called on Wikimedia production servers, and then displays their coverage status. Try it out!…
New tool: Wikimedia APT browser
I've created a new tool to make it easier for humans to browse Wikimedia's APT repository: apt.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia's servers run Debian (Ubuntu is nearly phased out), and for the most part use the standard packages that Debian provides. But in some cases we use software that isn't in the official…
MassMessage hits 1,000 commits
The MassMessage MediaWiki extension hit 1,000 commits today, following an update of the localization messages for the Russian language. MassMessage replaced a Toolserver bot that allowed sending a message to all Wikimedia wikis, by integrating it into MediaWiki and using the job queue. We also added some nice features like…