I’ve been wondering for a while how it’d be setting up a package on Packagist from Wikimedia’s GitLab… turns out it’s incredibly simple, and we now have wikimedia/toolforge-skeleton added and working! There’s still more to be done on it, but hopefully it’ll make it super quick to bootstrap the development of new PHP tools.

I’ve made a little Symfony tool for generating CLI usage documentation in Readme files: https://github.com/samwilson/console-readme-generator

So far I’ve not added it to many projects, but will do so. I mostly want to use it as a CI step to help keep Readme docs up to date with changes in Console commands.

Here’s an example of the output: https://github.com/wikimedia/ws-export/#cli-usage

It’s the middle of the morning here, but that doesn’t matter. I’m attempting to add tags to Twyne (I’d link that, but still haven’t implemented hyperlinks in my Sam-flavoured Markdown). It’s going fine, it’s not a complicated thing to do really, but I’m bumping skulls with Doctrine ORM. I’ve used it before for a couple of projects, but not for a while, and I’d forgotten how frustrating it is to be poking at DQL or a query builder and trying to make it work — when the equivalent SQL is simple and easy! I wouldn’t mind if this was something complicated, but ordering by the count of a joined table shouldn’t take an hour to figure out.