Thanks for the detailed write up Mark. --tomasz
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > For this week's triage, I worked with Tomasz Finc and Patrick Reilly > to focus on the new MobileFrontend extension. I also held it a few > hours earlier and, as a result had participation from developers > farther east. > > Tomasz was especially interested in getting participation from non-WMF > developers and as an incentive, he went through the bugs and tagged > the easy ones that would be a good starting point for developers > interested in starting work on the MobileFrontend. You can see the > complete list of bugs in this week's etherpad here: http://hexm.de/5x > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/24359 Adding an "e-mail to friends" link > to MobileFrontend > > Bryan suggested this one was similar to requests that had been made > on the main site in the past and I initially closed as such -- a > duplicate of "mail this article to someone feature" like Bug #227. > > Both Tomasz and MzMcBride objected, though, and re-opened the bug. > > Part of Brion's concern for WONTFIXing 227 was that it "opens extra > spamming opportunities" which I'm concerned with as well. I updated > the bug with some steps we should take to minimize spamming > concerns. > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/22659 Give projects the opportunity to > add mobile specific JS/CSS > > Amir showed up to ask about device-specific CSS and making them > available to wiki admins (e.g. Mediawiki:Android.css). Patrick said > that right now their were only two hard-coded CSS style-sheets > (.../iphone.css and .../android.css). I updated the bug with the > requested information. > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30118 Custom project icon in > MobileFrontend extension > > John Du Hart saw this bug in the list and volunteered to take it > on. As of Thursday night, it looks like he has gotten pretty far > along if not complete. > > http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28515 - Dynamic fonts support in mobile > gateway > > Amir raised the issue of webfonts for mobile. He also pointed out > that many mobile devices don't support web fonts at all. While > Santosh has done a lot of work on the webfonts extension, this > doesn't help. Amir speculated that the the webfonts extension could > render images of the page with the proper fonts and send the images > to the phone. We'll need to work on with Santosh on this. > > After this we got people testing the Mobile frontend bugs that had > already been entered. Tomasz and and Patrick used the opportunity to > have people with different handhelds test the bugs. It is my impression > that there is a bit more variety with mobile devices right now then > there is with desktops, so this was a great opportunity to test the new > mobile site on a variety of devices and confirm problems or fixes. > After passing around the OptIn link (http://tinyurl.com/woptin) Tomasz > asked people to check out the following bugs: > > http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28181 - Request for Kindle to be > redirected to the mobile site > > This was one that we didn't get to test, but I'll be sure to request > that Kindle owners (and users of other mobile devices) show up for > our next mobile triage. We'll need you! > > http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30293 - "View this page on regular > Wikipedia" disables mobile redirect > > While testing this bug, we didn't see it and closed the bug. > However, I discovered https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30458 "mobile > link to view images site is flaky" and got someone else to confirm > it. > > http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30356 - New gateway has broken layout for > opera mini > > After some testing -- Thanks, Niklas! -- This looked like an > intermittent problem since we couldn't reproduce it. > > We hope to do one of these mobile triages every month and, for future > ones it would be awesome if we could have Kindles, iPads, and maybe > even Nooks a well as Blackberries, Androids, iPhones and even Nokia > phones. > > Thanks for all the help this time! > > Mark. > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
