On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:07:29 +0100, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:

I also understand that there are plans to refactor it to be sensibly
organised with the right functionality in the right place. (Though I
have no idea if there is actually anyone assigned to such a task.)

Is this the case? If not, what is? What's the present and future of Vector?

There are plans, yes, and things are even starting to be getting done. See 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45051 . And feel free to help :)

I sort of voluntarily assigned myself to it. As in, I want it done, and 
probably no one will unless I get on this myself, so I started working in it. 
I'm mostly fighting the footer cleanup thing right now (which is still disabled 
by default), the rest is free to take (there is a breakdown on the bug).

My plan for the extension is to leave only the disabled features no one was 
using anyway in it, and just let it stay like this. It'll probably be disabled 
on WMF servers once all the features that are actually in use are ported.


The trouble with Vector is that, as I understand it, it's an odd
melange of extension and skin, with functionality that should be in
one being in the other, both ways.

Yes, but really, much worse problem is the hardcore CSS hackery used to get it 
to look pretty in IE6 and FF2. Cleaning this up would make it much easier to 
customize the skin, but I don't see a way to do it without dropping support (or 
at least breaking some rendering a bit), and I don't see this getting any WMF 
support :)


--
Matma Rex

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