User:Hashar

Antoine Musso

Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

If in doubt, delete. ~Erwin Walsh

About me

Long time volunteer, I have discovered Wikipedia in October 2002 after following a link from a Usenet signature. I have been working at the foundation since October 2011. I am really addicted to menthols http://imgur.com/bcHv0

My work

Since I have started I am the lead for our Continuous Integration platform and I am the maintainer for Gerrit. Early on I have bootstrapped the Beta Cluster. You can see my commits in :

Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Contact me

hashar on Libera.Chat IRC network
<a rel="me" href="https://wikis.world/@hashar">Mastodon</a>
Email me

[ /Bugs in need of attention | /Documentation ideas | /Bugzilla CSS | /.vimrc | /cli-js ]

My .plan updated from time to time (this is mostly from 2007 and is probably outdated).

From 2010:
- merge in http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/ShowHide/code.js (irc: Dantman)
- review OCAML math
- list obsoletes MediaWiki installations
: - review upgrade documentation
: - create a standard warning mail
: - build list with google
: - set up a tracking system
- get ride of 1.5 upgrade. Update the upgrade doc.
- WebRequest router
- Colorized logs (in option)
- Fix up the fuzzy terminal on tail -f log
- Figures out the Parser madness and makes it lighter (read: more functions!).
- Port AjaxQueryPage from js/Extension to JQuery and then merge in core.
From 2009 roughly:
- Finish syslog integration
- automatic welcome
- enhance the reference extension
- investigate mozilla switch
From 2007 roughly:
- rewrite Parser::doHeadings();
- write Skin:: methods to generate user css/js URL
-- update SkinTemplate to uses them
-- finish implementation of SpecialMy(script|style) (#6908)

Use ack which is better than grep! http://betterthangrep.com/

phpfind let me grep a branch for something :O)

#!/bin/bash
find -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.*(php|inc)' -exec fgrep -Hn "$1" {} \;

Quoting a DBA:

<xxx>	mysql is not a *R*DBMS
<xxx>	it is a transactional key value storage with an SQL interface

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