User:^demon

Chad Horohoe Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation A proud member of the unicorn cabal since June 2, 2008.

About me Hi, I'm Chad and I'm a developer here at MediaWiki (my commits). I also helped compile our song list.

My work Right now, I'm focused on helping us migrate from Subversion to Git. I also do a lot of miscellaneous backend work on MediaWiki. Disclaimer: Although I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account do not necessarily represent the actions or views of the Foundation unless expressly stated otherwise. For example, edits to articles or uploads of other media are done in my individual, personal capacity unless otherwise stated.

Contact me E-mail: chadwikimedia.org IRC: ^demon

My office

Yes, it's Windows :(

I don't currently work in the SF office. I'm the sole member of the Richmond office. Indeed, the office doubles as my bedroom :)

Current projects

Git conversion

• [edit status] • [add new]
  2013-04-monthly:
  We deployed a first iteration of a Bugzilla integration plugin, which provides notifications to Bugzilla when changes are made in Gerrit. We’ve increased the memory allocated to Gerrit, as well as deployed a couple of other stability fixes; both of these changes should provide some minor performance and stability improvements to users. Finally, we’ve deployed a new version of Gerrit that includes superior garbage collection support. This drastically improved the compression of repositories on-disk, which has resulted in a wide range of improvements for all users for all operations, from cloning to pushing to commenting on changes.

My extensions

• InterwikiList
• StalkerLog

Soapboxing

JS This user dislikes Javascript. This user is also paranoid that there's a faction of people who want to rewrite all of MediaWiki in Javascript, and this is frightening to this user. SVN This user hates Subversion and wants a time machine to go back and convert MediaWiki to Git in 2008.

Stuff

I have a pretty bash prompt

• /Unloved extensions
• /Crappy config vars
• /Testing tests
• New-installer issues
• /2.0
• (other subpages I didn't bother listing)

Old stuff

• /maintenance-work branch - merged
• Extension:NoMoveUserpages - now a core right
• PasswordStrength - deemed to be crap :p
• SubstAll - ugh
• MWReleases - proof of concept, deleted
• RemoveRedlinks - I got rid of this