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Do you somehow think that Phabricator/Phorge is a bit weird? Wonderful!
Join our table and let's improve Phorge by at least 0.1 % this day.
Or, we can at least have a decent epic fail, but not alone this time.
A team of people who specialize in random yelling will help you channel any negative anger into something incredibly positive and constructive: a Task into upstream Phorge, and, ideally, finalize that into a patch, and, ideally, land that. Wow!
Anonymized testimonials
- Luigi: «Before on secure.phabricator.com I couldn't even say hello or rescue any friend, I was off the castle. Then I joined Phorge and proposed a Super-Mario®-like sound for Workboard drag & drop and... it's still there pending for review after 9 months (like this patch blocked by governments: https://we.phorge.it/D25079 ) - But, I proposed 100+ other patches and they approved them all! so well, in Phorge they are good people. Don't join this project if you want patches related to 1-Up or Coins. But good for all the rest! Right? It's-a-me-Luigi!»
- Pinuccio: «I work all the damn day on Phabricator/Phorge for a large organization that starts with W and ends with ikimedia Foundation and BELIEVE ME there were some things I wanted to change over the years and now I CAN DO IT - HONEST THAT'S GOOD - WE CAN DO IT. IT'S BEAUTIFUL - WOW!!!! - I HAVE 4 SECONDS LEFT OF RECORDING AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN: IT'S BEAUT. * click *»
- ... (add yourself here)
Activities Corner
Phorge has creative space for nice Wikimedian activities.
Example activities in Phorge:
- Triaging
- https://we.phorge.it/T15081 · Figure out if there are patches from Wikimedia's fork that are desirable to upstream in Phorge
- T107254: Closed tickets in Bugzilla migrated without a closing date
- https://we.phorge.it/tag/affects-wikimedia/
- https://we.phorge.it/maniphest/
- ...
- Code Review
- Testing Last Features
More bonus activities involving Phorge:
- How-to setup a local Phorge
- a trip into the "Five whys" interrogation
- a Free coin for the Arcanist command line gamebox - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arcanist_command_arc_anoid_-_winner.png
- ...
And finally:
Post-Event Activity Report
🫠 Maximum Effort 🔝 leading to Minimum Result ⏬ Ranking
This ranking is dedicated to giving a prize to small things that required exaggerated human effort.
Please edit this section do add interesting things to be mentioned. No requirement. Just add in the list and talk about that.
Here the ranking "Maximum Effort 🔝 · Minimum Result ⏬",
Starting from the last position (that is, the maximum result):
[10th position] 🦊 A Wild Foxy Token Appeared in WMF
T364239: Add fox icon / badge to Phabricator
Just when we concluded our Code Boost, we stopped working. And, wow! and a Foxy Token appeared! 🦊
That was the MOST SURPRISING contribution ever, since really, we have done NOTHING for that! So this is the last place in our ranking "maximum effort, minimum result" since we did not make any effort. We just ate a doughnut, and this thing happened.
To try the foxy fox, open this fox-generator in another tab, and CLICK ON THAT FOXY FOX 🦊 - NOW: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/token/give/PHID-TASK-nuog7n7fqceaw7jbfd3j/
We have done literally nothing to make it ↑↑↑ happen! Minimum effort (zero effort), maximum result! Bravissimi! Grazie @taavi!
[9th position] 🦄 Phorge Stickers
For the FOSDEM 2024 we have done some crowdfounding and we arrived at 100 USD, and we invested this dirty money to produce stickers.
Unfortunately, this operation killed a bit our planet, so it's considered maximum effort, minimum result. They have also landed to Wikimedia Hackaton in Tallinn, just with extra planet killing flavor.
The design deserves a mention since it's literally the re-creation of a Phorge user interface, with the "indigo" Phorge color. If you have one sticker, keep that like a treasure, since 40 human-hours were invested in that design, and since nobody will give you back your planet.
Anyway, some people feel that stickers have brought in new contributors and thus have been somehow helpful. So, it is not at the top of this ranking Maximum Effort 🔝 · Minimum Result ⏬.
[8th position+ 💣 Cryptic Exception Messages in Saved Queries
Have you ever seen (since 2019) cryptic exception when listing things, while logged out? Like this one? Uh?
Just 5 years later, this situation is now triaged and we have - at least - a couple of possible approaches and patches! Well done!
Trust us, too many resources and too many human beings were involved to troubleshoot and fix this. Still needing more code review. This is the reason of this position of our ranking.
Who could better than this? Uh?
[XXXth position] (Still Calculating the ranking position)
Have you ever uploaded a profile picture image in Phabricator/Phorge? Uh? Have you ever tried to delete your picture? :D
Thanks to albertoleoncio who reported this tricky issue in May 2023:
With great surprise, our GDPR-experts told to Alberto that "Phorge should be easily allow people to delete your stuff". Fortunately, Phorge was covering that deletion workflow, with this incredibly scaring but powerful feature (please look at that, trust me):
https://we.phorge.it/rP985eb26c7e32cdc19536769def6ab037645100fb
Well, we have really not time to explain (it's a way to say that we have not understood how to fix that) but we proposed a fix for that!! And no, it's absolutely not complete to cover the original need of Alberto, but it's still something. So, still in a good position of maximum effort, minimum result:
[3rd position] (Still Calculating the ranking position)
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[1st position] "Access Denied: Restricted File" strings concatenated without whitespace
Have you ever seen such super-scarying warning, maybe since 2021, when you do not have enough permissions to do something? Have you ever noticed that there is a typo? That is, sentences have not one small space separators between them. Have you noticed? Uh? Uh?
T293378: "Access Denied: Restricted File" strings concatenated without whitespace
That was upstream in April 2023:
Then a contributor proposed a patch but disappeared because it was extremely difficult to introduce that space in a secure way, but then other engineers joined, investing an incredible amount of time, to propose the definitive and secure one-line edit. Yes, we just introduced a space, a single space " ", in a safe way \o/
🎉 🏅 Well done, small cute space! This little space received a standing ovation during the wmhack final presentation {{citation needed}} and so here the 1st place 🏅