Has this been implemented in the recently released ver. 1.20.0 ? john foster On Nov 20, 2012 3:25 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" <[email protected]> wrote:
> MatmaRex (Bartosz Dziewoski) recently rewrote the CologneBlue skin for > better compatibility with modern MediaWiki standards -- see > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:merged+project:mediawiki/core+branch:master+topic:cologneblue-rewrite,n,z > . In case you're interested, here's what he learned: > > "The things I learned are really mostly applicable to rewriting > cologneblue again ;) (or maybe other legacy skins). One big gotcha was > documented in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/29422/ , another was a > tiny little bug i fixed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/26819/ , > last one was https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/26808/ - and I'd say > that's it. All or most of the ugly things there were probably caused by > lack of a standardised interface like the SkinTemplate, so every skin > had to reimplement basic stuff like navigation. And then we have code > duplication, and it all being reimplemented slightly differently in > SkinTemplate, and legacy skins not supporting new hooks, because nobody > cared. But that's the usual story." > > Anyone else trying to rewrite old MediaWiki skins? Any lessons learned? > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
