On 11 March 2014 13:17, Isarra Yos <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/03/14 19:21, Jon Robson 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > Aye, it should be an extension. All the skins should probably be > extensions - I'd argue that even the default one should be implemented as > an extension. Ship it with the main tarball, have it included by default, > but keep it as an extension so it's all still modular. It would make > working with them so much easier. >
+1 J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
