Hi all! It has been a couple of weeks since the initial email. Thanks to all who asked and commented, please continue to do so over email, phabricator [1], or on the wiki talk page [2].
We will proceed to create phabricator #epic tasks and flesh them out in preparation for the upcoming FY, based on the documentation on-wiki. Expect more updates to come before starting the work, and some technical blog posts about related work. Thanks! [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/67/ [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Over the next fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation Readers Web team will > be making technical improvements to the mobile web codebases > (MobileFrontend and MinervaNeue). > > The project, which we’re calling ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend & > MinervaNeue frontend architecture’, contained in Output 2.7 of the Platform > Evolution CDP [1], is currently in its specification and planning stages. > The outcomes of the project are: > > 1. Improve developer experience (on-boarding, maintenance, development) > 2. Reduce technical debt and make production improvements > 3. Separate presentation and logic > 4. Make Minerva and MobileFrontend better citizens of the MediaWiki > ecosystem > > MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue, which power the Wikimedia mobile sites, make > heavy use of client-side UIs with templates, CSS and JavaScript. Over the > past eight years of developing a mobile-first wiki experience we have > learnt and frontend technology has evolved. We will improve and modernize > the code bases to continue supporting our mobile web users in the future. > Please see Outcomes 1, 2 and 3 in the wiki page for more detail. > > Minerva will become an independent skin without a dependency on > MobileFrontend, and vice versa. Please see Outcome 4 in the wiki page for > more detail. > > Please visit the project page on MediaWiki.org to learn more about the > outcomes and outputs, and share your questions. [2] > > N.B. This project is distinct from “Output 3.1: Contribution tools on > mobile web via an existing mediawiki skin” [3], described in the FY > 2018-2019 plan. > > _____________________ > Joaquin Oltra Hernandez > Senior Software Engineer, Readers Web > > [1]: https://wikifarm.wmflabs.org/platformevolution/index.php/ > Plan:FY18-19/2/7 > [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/ > Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture > [3]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ > Annual_Plan/2018-2019/Audiences#Outcome_3:_Mobile_Contributing > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
