Re: Phabricator improvements

Thanks for your work on this, Andre & co!

In the tradition of only providing feedback when something is wrong:

I notice that now there is some pretty useless CSS that has been added in
the "Activity" box on the main page, that truncates basically every single
task title: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F70292620

I don't see any good reason not to show the whole title, even if it is
super long. It's a website, not a classified section in a newspaper…
Is that something we can disable/override locally, or is it better to
report that upstream with Phorge?

tor. 25. sep. 2025 kl. 18:49 skrev Andre Klapper <[email protected]>:

> I am excited to announce that this is an exciting announcement.
>
> Today the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team deployed a larger software
> upgrade of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org
>
> You now better enjoy
>  * Performance improvements:
>     - Global fulltext Search ignores data of uninstalled Phab apps
>     - Embedded full size image files are lazy loaded
>     - Using DNS preconnect for our separate file domain
>     - Faster rendering of Project Burndown tabular reports
>  * Search user interface:
>     - "Advanced Search" renamed to Global Search and application search
>     - Global Search Scope dropdown: "Current Application" replaced by the
>       actual app name; no more such option when the app does not support
>       global fulltext search
>     - Maniphest Task Search does not anymore show unused "Packages" and
>       "Owners" when using typeahead in the "Subscribers" search field
>     - Ctrl+Return in text boxes opens search results in a new tab
>  * User Profile pages:
>     - New "Authored Tasks" one-click menu item in sidebar
>     - Less ambiguous menu item names in sidebar
>     - Support for images in WebP format as avatars
>     - (admins only): One-click menu item to view Activity Log of user
>     - (admins only): User's Two-Factor Auth status shown on profile page
>  * Project Workboards:
>     - Those numbers in workboard column headers have now tooltips
>     - Archived projects are now strike-through in navigation breadcrumbs
>     - Automated Column Triggers: Allow setting the user who performs the
>       move as task assignee
>     - Thinner scrollbars in Firefox on Windows
>     - Importing columns: No more crash when typeahead querying projects
>       and search string is not a project name prefix
>     - The "Move Tasks" action now requires "Can Bulk Edit Tasks" rights
>  * Herald automated actions:
>     - New condition "Acting user's projects" available
>     - No more "Unknown Object (????)" for custom field values in editor
>  * General text input:
>     - No more text suddenly disappearing when writing {{#something:}}
>     - Stripped surrounding whitespace when entering project or task titles
>     - Support for "size=thumb" parameter when embedding video files
>  * Conduit API:
>     - Support search select fields as constraints, e.g. "Group By" in
>       maniphest.search, project status in project.search, status and
>       hosted in diffusion.repository.search
>     - Improved documentation of types in transaction.search
>  * User Preferences:
>     - Email: No more useless "Audits" section (we uninstalled that app)
>     - External Accounts: Shows tooltips for buttons
>     - Multi-Factor Auth: Explains consequences of adding a second factor
>  * Projects:
>     - Profile images: Show maximum picture dimensions at uploading
>     - No more "set this color to Red" message editing archived projects
>     - No more 404 error on URLs with an alternative hashtag of a milestone
>  * Project Report Charts:
>     - Rotated x-axis labels for better readability
>     - Improved line colors
>  * Files:
>     - Support rendering images in WebP format
>     - List of uploads includes the timestamp, not only the date
>  * Mobile: Support zooming on pages (e.g. when looking at image files)
>  * Mobile: Detection of Firefox on Android (to adjust content width)
>  * Tokens: Allow filtering given tokens by token types
>  * Wikibugs IRC bot: Report the color of milestones correctly
>  * (admins only) Allow changing email of bot and mailing list accounts
>  * Numerous crasher fixes
>  * Some accessibility improvements (ARIA labels, titles, etc)
>  * Cleaner CSS (less noise in your browser's Developer Tools' console)
>
> Our Downstream dependency trees of tasks are at
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386558 and
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393840
>
> I'd like to thank the Wikimedians BlankEclair, mainframe98, MatmaRex,
> pppery, taavi, valerio.bozzolan, xtex, who contributed patches to the
> upstream project at https://we.phorge.it. (Hope I forgot nobody?)
>
> As usual, if you have comments or questions about Phab, please bring
> them up on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help !
>
> Cheers,
> andre (on behalf of the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team)
>
> --
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