I support moving it to an extension and enabling it on deployed sites as to
avoid an disruption in service for the users of the skin.

- Trevor


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:

> > It might be easier to revamp the skin system if there were fewer skins to
> > port.
>
> Touché.
>
> So.. so 2 questions
> 1) would anyone have any objections to moving it out of core and into
> its own extension?
> 2) would anyone have any objections for turning it off on Wikimedia wikis
>
> FWIW, having a single skin in core would actually be a good thing for
> skin development. Currently writing a skin outside core is difficult -
> I found this in the development of the mobile skin. Having a leaner
> codebase in core would actually encourage better organisation to make
> things. skinStyles is a great example - if your skin is not in core,
> you can't use it.
>
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