On Friday 08 June 2012 15:17:41 Huw Wilkins wrote: > Hi Launchpad, > > I've been looking at how we can make some changes to our UI, but I'm > hitting a bit of a problem. > > If we want to do anything significant to our UI we want to do it under a > feature flag. However, once I use a feature flag I very quickly end up > having to maintain two sets of HTML and CSS or I end up hacking extra > layers of code on top of existing HTML/CSS instead of being able to > write it cleanly from the start. > > This becomes very apparent if we want to re-skin Launchpad were there > are potentially hundreds of places that would need to be feature > flagged. That means a lot of duplication and the new skin would be > written on top of the existing HTML/CSS structure. > > Does anyone have any suggestions about how we could approach this problem?
I don't think there's an easy solution to your problem. Last time we re-skinned we just froze regular development for a while and everyone mucked in to do it quickly as possible before we released the re- skinned site. Urgent maintenance fixes were just cowboyed IIRC. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
