2010/5/18 Ilmari Karonen <[email protected]>:
> The problem here is Wikimedia sites.  If you leave the debug mode off
> and serve fully minified scripts on WMF sites, the hundreds if not
> thousands of people who develop user/site scripts for them will have a
> very hard time debugging anything that involves interactions with the
> minified code.  If you turn debug mode on permanently, you lose most of
> the benefit of having a minifier to begin with (Wikimedia being the
> single biggest user of MediaWiki).
>
I have recently configured test.wikipedia.org to pull all of its
JS/CSS locally rather than from bits.wikimedia.org (for better
isolation) and serve all UsabilityInitiative JS/CSS in raw, multi-file
format (rather than combined and minified, which we use on 'real'
wikis); all of this is to aid testing. The script loader could also be
configured to serve its JS minified on normal wikis and unminified on
testwiki.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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